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cheek.
    “Come for a swim,” he whispered as his
nose brushed across my cheek. I felt his hand beside mine, and he worked his
fingers through to lace with my own. His leg nudged mine. “I’ll race you. I’ll
even give you a head start.” He smelt of beer and something else‒perhaps
that was sex. His lips touched my neck, and I leaned into his touch without
really meaning too. The thumping of the music, mixed with the hazy drunkenness
made me want to be reckless and wild.
    We staggered to our feet together,
clinging onto each other for balance as we dragged our feet through the sand
toward the water. I saw Katrin sitting by the fire, her head turned in our
direction, but it was too dark to see whatever expression sat on her face. But
she was gone from my thoughts quickly as my feet hit the water.
    Joseph’s hand had released mine, and he
dived under clumsily. I followed suit, equally lacking grace. It took a lot of
effort to make a single stroke, and I felt like I was going nowhere fast. It
hit me then that maybe it was a mistake to go swimming when I was drunk because
nothing seemed to work quite right. My feet couldn’t touch the bottom, and I
managed to roll onto my back and float. The night sky was so pretty; stars and
the moon shone above me and for just a moment I marveled at their beauty.
    But then I started to sink and began to
thrash my arms and legs to stay afloat. Joseph’s strong arm came out of
seemingly nowhere and wrapped around my chest, pulling me through the water.
Then the platform was there, and I reached for the ladder, managing to hook my
hands and legs onto it.
    But Joseph turned me around to face him.
He crowded into me, bumping me against the ladder. He placed my hands around
his neck as his held onto the ladder on either side of me, keeping us both up.
I latched my legs around his waist because it seemed the most natural thing to
do.
    I kissed him first. I kissed the water
off the side of his mouth before moving down to kiss the water from his neck.
He went rigid underneath me, and I swear, above the sound of the lapping of the
water against our skin, I heard him moan. Then his hand brought my face up, so
my lips met his and we kissed in a frenzy of moving tongues and sucking lips.
    Somehow we made it up the ladder and
onto the security of the platform. His hands were in my hair, but mine wandered
all down his body and pulled him to me tightly. Then he was on his back, and I
was on top, kissing his mouth like I couldn’t get enough. I felt his hands
squeeze my ass, caress my back, and it felt nice. All of it felt nice.
    But then my eyes felt heavy. As I kissed
down his throat to his collarbone, it seemed a good place to rest my head that
suddenly was too hard to hold up properly.
     And that’s where I fell asleep.
    I woke up in the morning in the same
spot, right on top of Joseph. The sun burned my eyes and hurt my head as I
managed to roll off him. Remembering the night before, my hands instantly went
to my bikini bottoms in a moment of panic, but they were safely in their proper
place.
    “Morning,” Joseph murmured, rolling over
onto his side to face me.
    I looked around me before rubbing my
eyes against the bright sunlight. “We slept out here?”
    “You passed out here. On top of
me. I didn’t really have a choice but to stay.” He sat up, rubbing the back of
his head which must have been sore from the hard wood he’d slept on.
    “Sorry.” I was blushing and quickly
leaned over the side to splash cool lake water over my face so he wouldn’t see.
    “No problem.”
    He came up behind me where I kneeled,
and his arms came around my waist as he pressed against me.
    I stiffened. “What’s that?”
    He shifted slightly, so his arms stayed
in place, but the rest of his body was distanced from me.
    “Sorry. I always wake up with morning
wood.” A swift kiss was delivered to the side of my neck before he let me go. “I
guess the moment from the night before has passed? You left