Chapter 25

I sluggishly woke up and stretched as I sat up in my bed. I then yawned and internally debated on going back to sleep. I wasn’t exactly sure why I was so tired, but I was. I don’t know which side won the debate, but I found myself walking to the bathroom to take a leak. I flushed the toilet and then washed and dried my hands before making my way out to the porch. Mom was already there, no surprise, with a coffee cup in hand and a warm, loving smile on her face.

“Good morning, Sam. You look like you could fall back asleep any minute.”

I tried to hold back another yawn, but I failed, and Mom giggled.

“I almost went back to bed when I got up.” I gave her a weak smile. “I’m still thinking about it, honestly.”

“If you’re that tired, then go back to bed.”

“You sure? We usually ... you know.” I blushed nervously.

She giggled again and nodded, “Yes, we do. Go back to bed, maybe later today, okay?”

I yawned again and nodded. I lethargically shuffled back to my bed and fell face first into my pillow and started snoring.

When I cracked my eyes open this time, the cabin was bright, and the sun was well on its way up into the sky. I threw my covers off of me and jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom, I had to pee again and bad. When I finished in the bathroom, I ran through the cabin and noticed that no one was there. I half expected to see Mom on the porch swing waiting for me, but she was gone.

I had no idea where I would find Jenny, Sara, and Jeremy. I rushed back inside to see if Sara had possibly left me a note, but when I looked, there was nothing. My first thought was to try the hot springs. It was maybe an hour or so before lunch, so I might catch them down there. When I got to the edge of the water, a lot of people were having a great time but none of them were who I was looking for. A couple people must have recognized me and waved. I waved back and then turned towards the pool. If they weren’t in the hot spring, they had to be in the pool.

I got to the pool, and I looked towards the diving boards thinking they would be there again, especially after yesterday’s display. Nope, they weren’t there. They weren’t in the shallow end or the hot tub either. I started walking back to the cabin empty handed and pouting when the sauna door burst open, and everyone came walking out laughing. They were all deep red in color and a shiny layer of sweat dripped down their bodies.

Jenny saw me first, “Hey, there you are,” she said, her tone sweet and loving.

The twins both waved when they saw me.

“What’s up, dude?” Jeremy asked, a smile on his face. “Sara said she tried to get you up this morning, but you just groaned and rolled over. We were in the sauna all morning.” He looked down at himself then glanced at the girls. “We might have stayed a little too long, though.” He started laughing.

“Let’s go to the pool and cool off,” one of the twins announced.

I just laughed and agreed. All six of us made our way to the pool and we each ran the last couple steps and dove into the deep end, just away from where the divers would enter the water. There were no splash wars today, or corner tag, not even chicken battles. We all just hung out in the water. When we got tired of treading water, we all moved to the edge. I threw my arms on to the edge of the pool and crossed them with my elbows holding me up in the water. Everyone followed my lead and the next thing you know all six of us were laughing or giggling as we just lounged on the wall of the pool. Today looked like it was going to be a hang out day, and I was just fine with that.

When we got hungry, we had some PB&J sandwiches at the park benches. The twins told Sara and Jenny that they wanted to hang out tomorrow, just the girls. I felt jealous for a moment until Jeremy turned and gave me a big smile.

“Looks like it’s me and you tomorrow, dude.” He pushed my shoulder, which I wasn’t ready for and tumbled into the water. “We’ll have fun tomorrow. Guy stuff, you know.”

After I got my elbow back up on the wall, I turned and nodded to him. I wasn’t sure what we were going to do that we hadn’t been doing already, but I was fine with it. I still wanted to hang out with the girls, but a guys’ day could be fun.

In the afternoon, we did in fact end up playing corner tag when a couple other kids asked us to play since there weren’t enough people for the game to be fun. We all readily agreed, and everyone was laughing and splashing around having a great time when I got out of the pool and said it was time for me to go back for dinner. The day had flown by, probably because I had slept half of it away, but I was still hungry.

Sara pulled herself out of the water and the two of us waved goodbye to our friends and headed back to the cabin. It was just then as we walked that I realized there were only five days left, soon to be four as today was almost over. I admonished myself for sleeping and wasting half the day. Though at the same time, it did make the day seem to go by faster which made my time with Jenny that much sooner.

“Are you excited?” Sara asked out of seemingly nowhere.

“Huh, excited for what, dinner?”

“No, you dufus. I meant, are you excited for when you and Jenny have sex?”

“Oh! Of course, I am excited, aren’t you?” I didn’t realize what I had said until I had already said it. Sara looked at me and a sorrowful look crossed her face for a moment before she smiled.

“Yeah, it’s going to be so cool to watch it.” There was excitement in her voice, but I could feel the reluctance in her voice as well. “As long as she is done with her period anyways. It would be gross if she was still bleeding.” I couldn’t help but grimace at that thought.

“Does that mean you don’t want to?”

Sara didn’t answer me, instead she gave me a flat look that was neither mad nor sad, but the wheels were definitely turning in her head. Before I got a chance to bring it up again, we were already walking onto the front porch where mom and dad were rocking on the porch swing. Sara and I froze as we both saw Mom, sitting in Dads lap, her legs wrapped around him and in the middle of a deep, extremely passionate kiss. That kiss seemed to go on forever until finally they came up for breath and Mom turned and saw us standing there as still as statues.

“Oh, hey there you two. Your Dad and I were just taking care of some ... things.” She blushed a deep crimson when she said “things.”