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but misjudged how close he was to the dock. The jet ski hit the edge of the wooden platform at a such a high speed that Eamon went airborne before landing on the wooden planks. When I got to him, I saw that his leg was full of splinters and cuts.
     
    The son of a bitch just laughed, even though Delia’s friend was screaming that Eamon had broken her dock.
     
    Even with the feisty look in her eyes, I expected Delia to freak from the blood. Instead, she kneeled beside him and pulled off the tissue paper thin tank top she wore over her bikini top. She used the shirt to dab the blood that was slowly dripping from his cuts.
     
    “ Am I going to live?” he joked.
     
    “ You’re lucky I’m not going to have to pull splinters out of your ass. What the hell was that stunt?” Delia asked him.
     
    “ I’m so sorry. We’ll fix the dock,” I said before Eamon could answer, though I wanted to laugh at her serious tone with Eamon. I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. The sun kissed shoulders dotted with tiny freckles. Her eyes were a shade of gray I’d never seen before.
     
    And Jesus Christ that tiny top that left just enough to the imagination and had me wanting to take her right there, that instant. I had seen girls wearing much less, but this girl was something else.
     
    She shrugged. “Don’t worry about it.” Her friend started to protest but the narrowing of Delia’s eyes told her to let it go.
     
    “ Are you going to be okay to walk? My car isn’t far,” Delia said. “We really need to get this cleaned up. You should get it checked out at the hospital.”
     
    “ Bull shit,” Eamon said. “I’m going to pass on the hospital, but why don’t you lovely ladies let us take you out for a drink?”
     
    “ I don’t think so,” Delia’s friend said. Her arms were crossed tightly across her chest in annoyance, which only meant Eamon was going to push even harder to get her to go out with us. The bigger the challenge, the more he’d want her.
     
    Delia and I had locked eyes minutes ago and she hadn’t released me yet.
     
    “ Yeah, we’d better not,” she finally said.
     
    I felt myself deflate. I didn’t know what else to say, so I decided I’d better just help Eamon up and get us out of there. When I reached down to offer him my hand, she was so close that I could feel the heat radiating off of her sun drenched skin. I would’ve given my left arm to touch her right then.
     
    “ Look, we’ll get this fixed up tomorrow,” I said. She leaned in. I held my breath.
     
    “ Meet me back here after midnight,” she whispered.
     

     

 
    DOUBLE EDGE
     

     
    The way you looked at me
     
    Love
     
    Mistrust
     
    The way you sounded to me
     
    Distant
     
    Caring
     
    The way you held me
     
    Horrible
     
    Wonderful
     
    The way you left me
     
    The way I left you
     
    In one way
     
    It’s the same
     

     
    I’ll never be Whitman, that’s for dang sure.
     

Six Delia
     

     
    There’s a clatter of voices, and a group of people I know comes in the door of the diner, but already I’m pushing hard to remember names. How does a single year cause near-amnesia? Nelson, Rachel, Kelly…It’s amazing how much they’ve all changed in a year, or maybe that’s me. No asking, no questioning—the booth in front of me and behind me are now filled. Tobin’s gone silent.
     
    I’m still confused. Is it losing his brother that’s making him so stoic? I figured the next time I saw Tobin, he’d chew me a new one. Maybe he doesn’t care enough anymore to even be angry. That thought hurts me in a way that it shouldn’t. Not for a girl in love with someone else.
     
    “ Hey, y’all!” Rachel says. “It’s like prom flashback, right? Cause we’re all dressed up.”
     
    Tobin shifts his weight and looks like he’d love to throw a peppershaker across the room. I want to smack her.
     
    “ Oh.” She touches Tobin’s shoulder from behind him. “I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking. I