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point out.
    “No, I won’t.” She nudged her sunglasses back into place. “I’m just so adorable. I can do anything I want and never get in trouble.”
    Great. Just the type of person I wanted to be around all summer.
    I heard several screeches and turned back to the day-care kids who were scrambling up the steps to the slide.
    “No running!” I yelled down.
    But they kept coming at the speed of light.
    Wasn’t this summer going to be all about fun?

“Whitney really thinks she doesn’t have to do anything,” I told Caitlin when I met her for lunch.
    We were sitting on lounge chairs on the sandy deck at Tsunami.
    “Tell Sean,” Caitlin said, slathering sunblock on her legs.
    “I don’t want him to think I’m a whiner.”
    “What do you care what he thinks about you?”
    I couldn’t explain it. I’d sorta always cared what he thought. Maybe because he was older and I thought if he liked me,then maybe other guys would like me. I guess maybe I saw him as my litmus test. I don’t know. I probably knew him better than I knew any other guy — but still, I knew him hardly at all.
    I put my beach bag — a red one that I’d recently bought to match my red uniform — in my lap and started digging around for my soda. I popped the top, took a long swallow, and set it aside. I pulled out the small, insulated bag where I’d packed my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, along with a small tub of fruit. I hadn’t figured out yet how to make an interesting lunch. All my years in school, I’d been on the cafeteria plan. Mom thought it ensured I ate healthy. Ha!
    “Seriously,” Caitlin said. “He’s being paid to be the bad guy. Let him yell at her. It’s not fair to you if she’s not pulling her weight.”
    “I guess.” Not that there was a lot of weight to pull at Splash. Quite honestly, I could handle it by myself. But still …
    I glanced around and spotted Sean sitting at a table beneath an umbrella. “Although I’m really not sure my talking to him is going to do any good.”
    “Why not?” Caitlin asked.
    “Because he’s eating lunch with her.”
    Caitlin glanced over her shoulder. “That’s Whitney? That blond?”
    “Yeah.”
    “How many bleach strips does she use? I mean, really, have you ever seen teeth that white?”
    “You should see them when the sun bounces off them — or her gold watch. It’s blinding. I think the watch is a Cartier.”
    “No way.”
    “Looks like it.”
    “Why would she wear it to a water park?”
    “I don’t know, Caitlin. I can’t figure her out.”
    She studied them for a minute. “Looks like he’s actually talking to her. He’s smiling.I wonder if she’s the girl he’s been dreaming about.”
    “He talks to you about girls?”
    “No, but he doesn’t always close his door when he’s on the phone, and if I need to stop in the hallway and catch my breath on my way to my bedroom” — she shrugged — - “you know, sometimes I can’t help but hear things.”
    I laughed. She could be so outrageous. So without remorse. She was always spying on him, and then telling me what she’d found out.
    “Anyway, I heard him telling someone that a new cute babe was going to start working at the park this year. Sounded like maybe he was really interested. Maybe it’s her,” Caitlin said.
    Whitney laughed at something Sean said.
    “She seems to like him,” I muttered, wondering why it bothered me.
    “He can be pretty entertaining when he wants to be.” She twisted back around andlay back. “So you’re probably right. Complaining to him might not get you anywhere, but still you need to tell him. It’s his job.”
    “It’s not like it’s hard work or anything. It’s just the principle of the thing. You know?”
    “I hear you, girlfriend.”
    What was it about Whitney that he liked? Other than the fact that, as she so succinctly put it, she was adorable? I wasn’t hideous or anything, but I didn’t think I’d ever announce — especially to someone