Dani woke up the next morning smiling. She was dreaming about Court, why was he on her mind all of the sudden? She jumped out of bed and put her bathing suit on underneath a shirt and some shorts. She cleaned up around her room and picked up all her laundry. She walked towards the kitchen and into the laundry room where she put her clothes into the big bucket and then filled it with water and soup. Her mama walked by and looked at her with shock, Dani didn't willingly do housework.
Court picked at the twigs as they burned to nothing; Marie and him were cleaning up the old farm after just moving back. He looked over at the twins who were shoving each other with the sticks.
"Rob, Dennis cut that jackassing around and bring those over here." Court shouted annoyed at them. They did as they were told. Court sighed feeling lonely, his friends didn't write. He put his rake away and decided that a swim would do him good.
After hanging up her laundry to dry, Dani headed down to the lake to go for a swim, hoping that Court would be there. As she got close she heard a noise and looked up to see Court. Dani ducked behind a bush and watched as he took off his pants to reveal his swim shorts. Dani smiled at this and watch as he jumped off the high dock into the water enthusiastically. Dani walked onto the high dock and looked down at him as he resurfaced from the water and looked up at her.
"Hey." Dani said with a smile.
"Hey yourself, come on in." Court said smirking up at her. Dani looked around feeling nervous about jumping in from the high dock and even just looking at him gave her butterflies. "Well are you just going to stand there all day or what?" Court said after a moment of silence. Dani looked back down at him.
"Come up and jump with me." Dani said smiling at him again.
"Alright." He said smiling back and swam towards the ladder to climb up to the dock. As he climbed up Dani took the time to take off her shirt, shorts, and shoes to reveal her purple bathing suit. Court looked at her and smirked.
"So you do own a bathing suit." He said walking up to her. She raised her eyebrows at him still smiling. Dani put out her hand and he held onto it as they walked to the edge of the deck. "Ready?" Court asked her.
"Sure." Dani replied looking at him then looking down.
"Just hold on okay?" He told her gripping her hand tighter.
"Okay." Dani said. Court counted to three and they jumped in together holding each other's hand. Dani screamed in delight as they fell into the water. The two of them resurfaced with Dani's arms around Courts neck. They laughed and just swam around for the afternoon.
Dani sat on her bed with her back to Maureen as she braided Dani's hair. As she say there she wondered if she should ask the question that she had been meaning to ask Maureen for awhile.
"Maureen what's it like to kiss a boy?" Dani questioned as she tried not to pull away from Maureen's hands.
"Depends on the boy, are you talking about anyone in particular?" Maureen asked with some amusement in her voice.
"Can't someone just ask a question around here?" Dani asked feeling a little annoyed. After a moment of awkward silence Dani spoke again. "I want to know how."
"Okay watch this." Maureen said and she brought the back of her hand up to her mouth to show her how to do it. Dani watched awkwardly as her sister kissed her hands, but after she was finished she tried it herself. She stopped quickly feeling kind of weird. "That's good, just keep practicing." Maureen said and returned to braiding Dani's hair.