It was my first week back home from school for the summer and I was already bored. Sure, college was tough and there were classes and tests and homework but there was also always stuff to do and as I lounged out on my little plastic flotation device... thing in our pool in the backyard, I began to fear that this was exactly how my summer was gonna be going.
This past year had been kind of a rough one. My girlfriend Monica and I had broken up over spring break, having been together since eighth grade. We were that couple you saw in high school where you never saw the one without the other and they practically blended into one person. I realize that couple probably annoyed the shit out of you, and Monica and I certainly did that to all our single friends but... you know, we were happy. When college came last fall we thought that even though our schools were a four hour drive apart we'd make it. I mean, if any couple could do the long distance we figured it would be us. It worked for a little while, we'd drive up to each other's schools when we could, but eventually come March of this year we realized we were only kidding ourselves and ended it.
It's weird to be alone for the first time after having been with someone so long. I mean, not only was she the first girl I'd slept with, she was the first girl I'd *kissed*. After the break up I went to a few frat parties and hooked up with a few girls (nothing past second base) but it didn't end up making me feel all that much better. I thought I'd be looking forward to some time home, but it turned out that wasn't helping as much as I thought.
My misery with interrupted by the ringing of my cell phone which sat on the nearby patio table. With a sigh I jumped off my floaty water bed thing (seriously, what do you call those?) and answered it, knowing perfectly well it'd just be my best friend (and college roommate) Nick. It was.
"Hey Matt, what are you doing?"
I shrugged, "Not really anything, just hanging out in the pool."
"Cool. Can I come over? I just saw my Dad get out of the hedge clippers and I have this sneaking suspicion he's going to try to get me to help him."
I chuckled, "Sure man. I could use some company."
"Oh, you're not still whining about Monica are you?"
"Dude, I'm not whining..."
"You're majorly whining," I heard Nick groan, "Seriously, Matt, what's wrong with you? You're nineteen years old, there's every fucking girl on the planet out there for you. Don't get me wrong, man, Monica was hot, but... you guys first slept together when you were what, sixteen? Everything after that it's just three years of wasted time."
"Such a sentimentalist, Nick. I'll see you in a few."
Nick lived only a block away so he was here within the next five minutes and we spent the next hour or so just chilling in the pool. Nick was trying to get me energized about the possibilities before me now that I was single by discussing at length his various sexual exploits (which I didn't really need restated for me, as I said... we were roommates.)
"So, seriously, Matt, here's what we're going to do. Tomorrow night Ryan Fisher's having a party at his place for all the people from our senior class as a kind of reunion thing, and I know for a fact there's going to be some hot girls there. I mean, dude, what about Karen Fitzgerald? Remember her from AP Calc? Was she hot or what? And I totally remember her being into you."
"Karen? She was such a ditz."
Nick rolled his eyes, "Well, I didn't realize IQ was a must in this situation."
"I just like girls with a bit more substance to them. You know, like Monica. I like someone I can have a future with."
"Oh, okay, well what about Amber Piemetti? She'll be there. She goes to school with us at BC so that's something you can pursue."
I shook my head, "Nah, man, remember? You introduced us and I almost hooked up with her at Harrison's party the week before finals."
"Well why did you only *almost* hook up with her?"
I gave Nick a look, "'Cause she has herpes, Nick!"
"How do you know?"
"She told me."
"Oh... well... how was I supposed to know that?"
"You gave them to her!"
Nick gave a half-smile, "Well, hey, it was her birthday."
Before I could respond, probably to inform Nick about how disgusting he was the kitchen door slid open and my little sister, Kim walked out in flip-flops and a big pink towel wrapped around her. Kim was a year younger than me and had a lot of graduation parties she'd been going to this week and so I'd barely seen her since I came home.
"Hey, how long are you guys going to be using the pool?"
"I don't know. A while?" I answered.
Kim sighed, "Well, can you hurry up? I'm going out in a few hours and I've been wanting to use the pool all day. You never do anything at night anyway, why don't you use it after I'm done?"
At this I was a little offended, "Hey, I do stuff at night."
"Yeah," Nick backed me up, "Tomorrow night we're going to Ryan Fisher's party."
Kim raised her eyebrows, "Oh really?"
I glared at her, "Why do you look so surprised? You don't think I go to parties? I go to parties all the time!"
Kim laughed, "Oh, no, no, I would never doubt that you're a major partier, Matt" she gave me a sarcastic wink, "I just thought it would be awkward for you 'cause I'm sure Monica'll be there."
Shit. That thought hadn't even occurred to me. Monica was friends with everyone, of course she was gonna be there. "Yeah, uh, Nick? I don't think I'm gonna go tomorrow night."
Nick gave Kim a look, "Nice going. Don't you ever want your brother to get over her? Just for that, we're not leaving the pool."
"Whatever. Then I'm coming in."
As she unwrapped her pink towel I felt Nick nudging me in the side.
"What?"
"Dude, when did your sister get so hot?" he hissed at me.
I looked up at her and couldn't deny I was pretty impressed. She wore a fairly skimpy two piece pink bikini and had a body that could only be described as tight. I knew she did cheerleading and stuff but didn't realize it would have given her that much of a workout 'cause every inch of her body was toned and... well... hot. Her breasts were nicely shaped and perky and if my amateur eye had to put a cup size to them, I'd settle on 34 B. As she took off her rubber band and let her long blonde hair down as she slowly sauntered in to the water I wasn't quite sure what to think. Had she always been like this? I mean, I knew she was cute but I mean, I had seen her just a few months ago and I didn't remember her looking like this. Of course what I had seen her in had probably not been so revealing.
Finally I realized I had to say something in response to what Nick said but all I could come up with was "Shut up."
We splashed around in the pool for a bit. Eventually we were playing, kind of as a game that all three of us were fighting for my plastic floating raft thing and anytime anyone would get on it, one of the other two would push them off. Eventually there was a time where Kim was on it and I sort of flipped up the raft from underneath her 'cause both to sink into the water. When she came up she was clutching the raft behind her and swimming with her feet towards the other side of the pool. I followed her over and kind of pushed her up against the wall of the pool with my body as I reached around trying to grab the raft. Kim laughed and screamed as my torso and pelvis kind of held her in place while I reached for the raft. Her reaction seemed to be that of the typical younger sister being tormented by her brother, and at first mine was the same, but then I started realizing how good her wet skin was feeling against my hands as I grabbed for the raft. Finally with a bit of horror I realized my body had been responding to the situation as well and that I was rock hard. I kind of jumped back.
"Alright, you can have it. I think I'm getting out."
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea." I looked over and saw Nick with an eyebrow raised and his arms crossed at the shallow end of the pool. My stomach lurched, in all the fun with Kim I completely forgot he was there.
"Matt, how about we go out and get something to eat and leave the pool to Kim?" Nick suggested with a look that suggested that what he really wanted to do was ask me what the fuck that was all about
"Uh, yeah, okay," I said, "Let me just dry off."
Fifteen minutes later I was sitting at a McDonald's booth undergoing a serious grilling by Nick.
"Dude, what the hell was that?"
"What?"
"Um... you were pretty much fucking your sister there in the pool."
I tried to brush it aside, "If what I was doing is the kind of fucking you've been up to then maybe you're not quite the player you think you are."