My Country Romeo

Chapter Five

CHAPTER FIVE

I slowly slipped my cardigan and romper off of my body and into a pile on the dirt ground. I took my wedges off one by one and put my straightened hair in a messy bun. A navy blue lace push-up bra and matching underwear. Great. 

I looked for Mia behind me, but she had already stripped into her pink bra and underwear and was joining Luke's friend in the creek. 

And there he was. Luke. 

He whistled. At me? Who knows. I raked my eyes down his oh-so-sexy body. Damn. 

"Like whatcha see?" He asked. Jerkface. 

"Yeah, but ya know, there is always room for improvement, Luke," I told him, trying not to smirk. 

He smiled, but I knew he was then unsure of himself for once. I liked this. Us. I liked being friends, and I liked him. 

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This was it. I was about to plummet to my death! No, thank you. Everyone was in the water but me. Everyone had swung off of the rope swing and landed in the dirty water of the creek. No way in hell I could do this. 

I started to back up when Mia yelled, “Get in, ya big fat ass!” 

Everyone laughed. Even Luke. Double jerk face. I gave her the finger and she blew me a kiss. I looked at all of the faces in the water looking up at me. There was Luke, Mia, and two other boys I didn’t recognize. I drew in my breath and gripped the rope as if it were my lifeline. Which technically, it might have been. Lovely. I saw my life flash before my eyes as I hit the cold top of the water. I waited to see a bright white light or flaming red torches and whatnot, but nothing happened. Before I knew it, my head surfaced and I was bobbing in the water. I opened my eyes and gasped for some well-needed air. Mia clapped and Luke grinned like the Cheshire cat. He was SO cute! 

As much as I could think about Luke and his cuteness forever, it was time for me to lay on the sandbar and chill out there. 

Mia and the boys came and sat around me. I propped my elbows up along with my eyebrows. Mia gave me a look. 

“What?” I asked. 

She gave me the same look. 

“Rope swings aint my thing. Get over it” 

She looked away and that was the end of it. We all dried off after ten minutes or so, and I was getting tired. I rested my head on my forearms and closed my eyes. After a few minutes, someone got up and smacked my ass in the process. My eyes flew open to see who I would be personally killing, and I was not surprised that it was Luke. Okay, well, maybe I was a little. A little bright light went off in my head. I was a genius. 

Luke had already started walking over to the creek again and his smirk was fading. I slowly made my move towards him, careful for him to not see me. I had my chance. I used all of my bicep muscle to rip his navy with pink eagle boxers down. He froze. I fell back with laughter. So did everyone else. 

He looked from them and back to me. He reached down and pulled his boxers back up. But not before I got a peek at what was underneath… mother of God. Sweet Jesus. 

He was coming closer to me. He had a mischevious glint in his beautiful green eyes. Shit. I stood up to run but he grabbed me. Dammnit! He grabbed my waist and lifted me up, almost if I weighed nothing. Shiiiiiiiittt. With one swift move, we plummeted into the cool water together. Before I could gasp for air, I was already swimming away from him. Or where I thought he was, anyways. I spotted a large tree and swam to behind it. Then I waited. Nothing. No sign of him.