Emery [bxb]

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Em and I play beach volleyball while Aly and Madison look on. We end up jumping on top of each other and wrestling in the sand. It flies everywhere, clinging to our skin and getting in our hair and eyes and mouths. We're monkeying around, making animal noises as we tickle and grapple each other.

"Oooh, squeeze my balls," I gasp, laughing so hard my eyes are watering. That might also be the sand.

Emery pushes my face into the mud where the water crashes onto the shore.

"I'll squeeze your balls," he promises evilly, and delivers, too.

I laugh, roll over and kiss his back before standing up and pulling him to his feet. 

Later, we sit around a fire drinking beers.

"Not too much," Em warns me quietly. Don't want-"

"-cirrhosis of the liver," I supply.

"Exactly."

"Party-poopers," the girls decry, chugging their drinks.

"Normalize kissing your bro in front of his girlfriend," I tell the camera, leaning in to kiss Emery's cheek while Aly mimes a gagging motion.

I have to get tested again. I used a condom so obviously I'm still clean. But I just don't want to screw Emery over. You can never be too safe, is what I'm learning in medical school.