Chapter 35: Staying InsideAugust 5.
Our distance from each other didn’t last as long as I thought it would.
“Will you come out and swim in the pool with me?” Tacoma asked, finding me in the kitchen as I sliced a variety of melons for a fruit salad. I was preparing a lunch for the both of us, although I didn’t think he would eat anything I made since he acted as if he hated me. The salad was something cool and refreshing, something chilled to keep my mind off the exhausting heat.
I lifted my head and stared at him in the doorway separating the hot outside from the icy inside. He wore his trunks and nothing more; a look I had gotten used to, and enjoyed. “No, thank you. If I play, it will be in here.”
“Afraid of the sun, are you?”
“Yes. It’s poison.”
“You should come out and watch me s
