me laugh.
Mom rolls her eyes. “Come on,” she agrees.
All four of us go into the kitchen and get busy taking out all the meat and veggies for the grill. Mrs. Young gets to work on making the deviled eggs while Mom gets started on the potato salad. Preston is just drunk and being stupid while the rest of us are hard at work.
“Piper!” he whisper-yells my name.
I turn to look at him and he’s holding a long piece of sausage down by his groin. “Who am I?” he snickers, motioning toward the door where Calvin is.
I laugh loudly. I can’t help it. I may be maturing, but I’m not so mature that I can’t laugh at a good dick joke.
My mom turns to see what he’s doing and she tries grabbing the sausage away from him. “Piper, your mom is grabbing my sausage!” Preston exclaims.
That only makes me laugh harder.
“Boy, let that thing go. We don’t touch the meat with our bare hands,” his mom tries, but again, our minds are in the gutter and we can’t take anything seriously.
My mom and his mom end up stealing the sausage and chasing him out of the kitchen. They don’t stop until he’s diving into the pool. With my job done, I grab a frozen margarita the moms made and take it outside to get back in my donut floatie.
“Where’s Calvin? He still with the dads?” I ask Preston as he floats alongside me.
He nods. “Yeah, and I smell that skunk again if you know what I mean.” He smiles wide.
I feel my eyes stretch, and at the same time, we both jump off our floaties and run toward the garage. The garage door is open and all three of them are passing around a joint. Calvin takes a hit and coughs hard. His face turns beet red and his eyes water.
“Caught ya!” I yell, running through the garage.
The dads don’t give a shit that they’ve been caught. They take a hit and pass the joint. Calvin, on the other hand, has become paranoid.
He waves the smoke away and points at the dads. “They made me do it, Piper! You know me. I don’t smoke weed. EVEN IF IT IS LEGAL NOW!” When he says the last part, he leans in toward our dads, his eyes wide.
I laugh and hook my arm around his. “It’s fine, but I think you’ve had enough.” I start leading him through the garage and back toward the pool. “Thanks a lot, Dad!”
“Anytime, honey,” he responds like the smartass he is.
“You want to get in the pool and cool off?” I ask Calvin.
“I think I’d drown.”
“Yeah, you probably shouldn’t do that. How about food? Want me to get you something to eat?”
He opens his mouth and closes it several times, making a smacking sound. “My tongue is so thick! Why is it so thick?”
I laugh as I sit him down in a chair beside the pool. “I’ll get you a drink.” As I walk past Preston in the pool, I point at Calvin. “Preston, watch him!”
I go inside and grab a bottle of water, then take it back outside. I find Calvin staring up at the sky, looking confused.
“What’s wrong, baby?” I ask, bending down and handing him the water.
“I don’t understand. It’s sunny with not a cloud in sight. Where the hell is the rain coming from?”
I look up. “What rain?”
Preston busts out laughing as he holds up the Super Soaker. “This is too much fun,” he says with a shit-eating grin.
Calvin sucks down the water in record time and ends up taking a little catnap in the chair. That gives me a little alone time with Preston to see what he really thinks about Calvin and me being together.
“Are you upset by the news?” I ask, bumping my shoulder against his as we sit on the side of the pool with our feet in.
“Nah. I mean, I was shocked, but after that wore off, I was actually kind of happy. I mean it. You’re the best woman I’ve ever known, other than my mom of course. And my brother is a great guy. He’s smart and hard-working. I know he’ll take care of you and treat you right. I really couldn’t ask for more.”
I smile at his words. “And hey, maybe we’ll be doing this ourselves someday. Raising our kids together just like our parents did. We could live next door or across the street from each other. Deal?”
He smiles and hooks my pinkie with