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    He frowned at me, shook his head and stepped around me. “Beat it, Danny.”
    “Come on, kid. I’m just having fun.”
    I rolled my eyes, and wondered if I could trust this new guy. “You’re being an asshole.”
    The new guy snatched my bikini top from Danny. “Back to the party.”
    “I don’t take orders from you, Gael. Get your scrawny ass out of my way.” Danny squared his shoulders.
    So his name was Gael?
    As in, Gael Cortez?
    “I’m not a kid anymore, and I’m pretty sure I can take you since you’re so drunk.” Gael crossed his arms and planted his feet. “Go on, back to the party.”
    Danny cursed and spun around, staggering through the bushes up to the pool deck.
    I watched him, feeling a hell of a lot better. “Thanks.”
    Gael handed me my bikini top and turned his back. “I suggest you sober up and go home.”
    “I’m not drunk.” I had my top on in a flash. “You can turn around.”
    “I’ve never seen you around here before.” He said it like an accusation, and turned, scowling at me. I’m guessing he wasn’t as friendly as his brothers.
    “I’m staying with my Aunt Lou for the summer.” I was not going to take a step back like I was scared of this guy. So I stuck my hands on my hips in a classic wonder woman pose. I’d read in a magazine that standing that way would make me feel more confident…and I think it was working. “She’s on the other side of the island.”
    His expression softened the teeniest bit. “Oh, you must be Summer.”
    “Yeah,” I stuck out my hand for him to shake. Bold. Brave. That was me. “Celso told me about you. He said you’d be at the party. How come I didn’t see you there?”
    He shrugged. “I’ve been hiding in the shed. I’m not into the party scene.”
    He had the right idea. It’d been fun, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to go to another party like that, ever. “This was the first party I’ve ever been to.”
    “You weren’t missing out.” He started past me, and I wondered where he was headed, when I spied a small shed behind the trees to my left.
    “You aren’t kidding. You were really hiding in a shed.” I followed him inside, and was surprised to find it cool from a small air conditioner. There was a couch on one side, and a workbench on the other. It was covered in wires and computer parts. “What is all this?”
    “My shed is where I get to work on my computers and play video games sometimes.” He sat down at the workbench and dug into the bits and wires that I didn’t know anything about.
    “What are you doing?” I asked, moving closer to look over his shoulder. He had very steady hands. Big. Strong. Steady. With muscles.
    Okay, so he was just as good looking as Celso. Maybe even better looking. And he was smart. Things were looking up. Unless he had a girlfriend. If that was case, I might as well be like Lou and live alone with a cat. At least for the rest of the summer.
    “Playing with a few things I found in a junk pile at school. They think this stuff is useless, but it works fine with a little help. I’m also building a new computer.”
    From my short time in his shed, I decided he wasn’t anything like this brothers. I wasn’t intimidated by the look of him in the way I was with Damian, and I wasn’t embarrassed like I had been with Celso, but the vibe he was giving off of annoyance really rubbed me the wrong way. Clearly he did not want company. So why was I being so nosy and bothering him? “I guess it must be hard…”
    He glanced up from the magnifying glass and frowned. “What?”
    “Being the baby of the family?” I shrugged. “It was hard for me. My sister and brother always treated me like the baby.”
    He snorted. “Yeah, well it’s not my brothers, it’s their friends. The hardest part is being the brain of the family…why the hell am I sharing this with you?”
    “You needed someone to talk to?” I asked. Or it could be that people just liked to tell me things. I really