Separate THE BOYS AND GIRLS SWIM in separate pools because it became evident that stray sperm could break free, defy the chlorine and reach the eggs of the unsuspecting girl host. This was bad news for Mike as he looked at Marilyn over there in the girl pool. Her shoulders, wet and inviting. Worse part was, he knew she liked him back. She showed this in many different ways. One being the apple she once gave him during school lunch, so heart red it could have been a valentine. He would think about this as Billy Fredericks, early chest hair and butt crack out of his board shorts, cannonballed a hundred pounds of water out of the boys’ pool. Mike would be sure to tell Marilyn about how annoying this was, the way he did every night when they met in the back of her father’s van.
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