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nice
meeting you, Summer.”
    “ It was nice
meeting you, too.” I put my hand up with a wave and watched as
she turned and walked over to an attractive younger man.
    “ That's her
boyfriend,” Jonah chimed in, nodding his head in their
direction. “He's really cool; I like him a lot.”
    “ That's good that
you like him. I'm sure you would beat up any creep that didn't treat
her well,” I joked.
    “ Yeah that's for
sure. She's like a sister to me. I'm an only child and so is she, so
we grew up more like a brother and sister instead of cousins.”
He paused for a moment and looked over in the direction that Lou was
last. “Lou's her dad, actually.”
    “ Oh, that's
cool.” I didn’t see any resemblance at all between Jen
and Lou. It was hard to believe that such a beautiful, classy looking
girl could come from a big, messy guy like Lou.
    “ Yeah.” He
stood silent for a moment before motioning to the ice chest. “Would
you like a soda or something? We have hot dogs too if you want.”
    As much as I wanted a
hot dog, I felt too nervous to eat. And besides, I didn’t want
to end up with ketchup all over my face in front of him. “Uh,
I'll take a soda for now, thanks.”
    He bent over and opened
the lid to the chest, grabbing out an ice cold soda. When he handed
it to me the tips of his fingers grazed mine and sent a spark of
warmth throughout my body; I didn't want it to stop.
    My eyes ravaged over
him as he reached down and picked his beer up from the sand. He was
such a spectacle, especially in the flickering light of the bonfire.
    “ Hello,” a
loud woman shouted exuberantly toward us, breaking me away from my
drooling.
    “ Oh jeez,”
Jonah moaned with a chuckle.
    The short, fair skinned
woman reached out and enveloped me in a hug. “Now who is this
beautiful creature?”
    “ Summer, this is
my mom, Susan.”
    She pulled back from
her hug and looked me over. “You were right, Jonah, she really
is a beauty.”
    Jonah's eyes widened
with shock at her statement. “Okay Mom, we'll see you later. Go
find Lou,” he said as he raised his beer and motioned in his
uncles direction.
    “ Okay, okay; I
can take a hint. It was nice meeting you, dear.”
    “ It was nice
meeting you, too.”
    Jonah shot her an
embarrassed smirk as he playfully shooed her away with his can of
brew. I couldn't help but blush at the thought of him talking to his
mom about me. And when he glanced over at me, it looked like he was
blushing, too.
    “ My mom's kind of
crazy.”
    I giggled in agreement.
“Yeah, my mom's the same way. And she's a big hugger as well.”
    “ Yeah, she goes a
little overboard. Sorry about that.”
    “ No harm done.”
I didn't know much about his mom but I already liked her; she seemed
to have a really good personality.
    I watched Jonah take
another drink from his beer as he stared over at the bonfire. The
glow from the hot flames danced around on his skin, illuminating the
stubble of his five o'clock shadow and displaying the masculine
contours of his face.
    “ Do you want to
sit down closer to the fire?” he suggested as he looked over,
almost catching me in my admiration. “It's pretty chilly out
here.”
    “ Yeah, that
sounds like a good idea.” I took a few steps toward the flames
and sat down, crossing my legs over the flame-warmed sand. Jonah sat
down next to me, bending his legs and resting his arms on his knees.
    “ I'm not used to
this cold,” I shivered.
    He looked over at me
curiously. “You aren't from here?”
    “ No, I'm from
Arizona.”
    “ Arizona,”
he marveled, “that's a big difference from here.”
    “ Yeah, I know. It
was really hard for me to get used to the change in the weather. When
I first moved down, around the time that I met you, it was summertime
and it was cloudy and misty. There were a lot of days where it was
really cold outside.”
    Jonah watched me as I
spoke and listened closely to each word as I said it; he made me feel
like he was really interested in