Soon his hand collided with my wrist. My heart began to pound as I turned around. “Wait up! You walk so fast” he said. I politely smiled. “So a...ter we emailed all day Friday did you really think I wasn’t going to look for you in class today?” “I don’t know, Matt. I didn’t really think about it” I replied. That was a lie. I thought about him all weekend. His dark brown eyes. His short, messy, black hair. The small diamond studs in his ears. I couldn’t get him out of my mind. I looked back up. .. I'll make you pay for the shit you've put this family through..." Oh come on ... as if you didn't act like that every day of your high school life..." Get out..." What?!" Get out. With that attitude, there is no way I am going to even consider buying you a bathing suit ... or maybe even taking you to St. Barts!"Everyone who was anyone was going to St. Barts over winter vacation. Thanksgiving was spent either at home, country homes, etc. The clique's families saved the islands and other. Coming up for air, disappointed, Charles turned more toward shore, intending to dive again to look around, he saw her.Hair plastered to her head and neck and shoulders, the mermaid was grinning not thirty feet away. She glanced up at the high cliffs from where he had dived, then back to him, and her shoulders shook as she giggled to herself. Excited, Charles swam towards her, his face reflecting her innocent curiosity now. Well, perhaps not completely innocent. She was no less naked, and this. Veronica pushed away from the kitchen counter and sauntered towards her step-son, “Because there’s only one way to tell if a man is gay, and it doesn’t work if his pants are on. Quit stalling.”Unsure of what his step-mother had in mind, Colin continued to hesitate nervously.“Just do it, Colin,” Veronica teased. “What’s the worst thing that could happen? I see your privates?” She winked, “Don’t worry - nothing I haven’t seen before.”Colin exhaled and tentatively began unfastening the button of.