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with her character on a video game.
                My dad mistakenly takes this squealing as Buzz
falling, so he slows down. She reels herself into the boat to let someone else
have a chance on the water, but I can see her trying to hide her beaming pride.
She ’ s been wanting to learn tricks on the water for a
while, and her dare-deviled self just broke the ice.

 
    3 Bianca Ferrari
     
    Once the summer ends and three weeks into their freshman year of
high school, the boys have homecoming, and I feel like Ross Gellar as I sit in
the background watching them take pictures with their dates. I may or may not
be making bunny ears and sticking my tongue out behind the line of moms trying
to take pictures, but I have to do something to get the boys to look like they
care, even if it is at my expense. The whole group consists of Rex, Skyler, and
Benny and a few of the neighbor boys Evan Smith and Tommy Buschman. Each of the
boys have a date, but all I can focus on is Skyler ’ s. She ’ s blue eyed and fake blonde with way too much makeup on and
wearing way too high of heels. Standing next to Skyler, she does need some kind
of lift since he hit his growth spurt over the summer, but she can barely
stand, let alone walk, in them. He knows this girl from his private school he
went to for elementary and middle school, but I can’t say that I’ve ever met
her. None of us ever bring random friends to the cabin, and when we’re at home
we’re pretty much always together, plus or minus a few people depending on what
we’re doing. To be honest, I’m a little jealous of his hand awkwardly shaking
as he grazes her hip, but I don’t think he’s going to marry this girl so I won’t
let that feeling destroy me.
                The moms agree they have enough pictures of the boys
and their dates and then insist on a sibling photoshoot. I was unaware that
this would be happening, even though I should have assumed my mom would make
this request. I ’ m in a shoeless in a Cubs t-shirt and a Rockette ’ s hat as we stand outside on the
deck. At first I think we ’ re going to do a boring
find-your-window type of picture, but all of a sudden Rex grabs my shoulders as
Skyler lifts my legs so I ’ m completely horizontal. Skyler
is trying to tickle me, and I ’ m trying equally as hard to
calm the goosebumps creeping throughout my entire body so he won ’ t
notice. He totally does once they reach my legs. To make things more awkward,
he winks at me in between a few of the snapshots, which gives the moms an
opportunity for candid photos. Of him flirting with me. In front of our moms,
siblings, and his date. I swear his whole goal in life is to kill me.
                As they are all about to pile into our moms ’ SUVs and vans so they can drive them to school for the dance,
Benny stops me in the hallway.
                “You okay?” he asks me. Why does he care? Oh, yeah… my
brother is the evil twin, not Benny. During their Rocket baseball playing
days, Rex and Benny were mistaken for twins all the time; even I agree with the
majority that I can see it. The three of us have very similar eyes and hair
color, and the two of them have nearly identical noses and jaw structures.
Because of that, Benny is nothing more than a brotherly figure to me. It ’ s weird because he and Tiffany look like they are two different
nationalities, him Italian and her German, so he seems more like my brother
than hers.
                “Yeah, I ’ m fine.
Why? ” I tell him, trying to avert my eyes from his handsome composure.
For a moment h e doesn ’ t look like the
little third baseman that can pass as my brother ’ s twin
anymore. The tie and dress pants temporarily give him a whole new appearance.
In normal clothes they still look like little kids.
                “Cuz you were glaring at Skyler ’ s
date in between mocking our moms during pictures,” he chuckles, tapping the
brim of my