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by Ms. Carla Krae


  Dad

  Okay, guess she wasn’t needed. New diet? Fighting cancer required specific food? Well, whatever worked. If eating powdered duck bills upside-down would kill the cancer, she’d feed it to Mom herself.

  Beth left her own note about spending a few hours with a friend, grabbed her stuff, and left the house, using the sidewalk to get to Jacob’s this time. His door was unlocked.

  “So?” he asked.

  “They weren’t there.”

  “Lucky me.” He turned off the TV.

  She followed him to the garage where his mother’s car was stored. “Aren’t you going to lock the front door?”

  “I’ll do it after I move the car. Have to put the lock on the garage, anyway.” He pushed the garage door up. There was no automatic opener. He opened the passenger door for her. “Hold that,” he said, and dropped a padlock on her lap.

  He backed the car to the end of the driveway, locked both doors, and pulled onto the street once it was clear, then tuned the radio to his favorite local rock station.

  It was a half-hour drive to the beach he’d chosen, one of the little places you took stairs down to with some tide pools and a bit of sand. The only other person there was a diver going into the water just as they took to the stairs. The air was at least ten degrees cooler than inland and smelled fresher than at the sunbathing beaches. Though Beth wasn’t really a swimmer, the peace of the waves always called to her.

  Jacob sat on the last step to take his boots and socks off. She sat two steps above him and pulled her camera out of her bag. He continued stripping down to a pair of black swim trunks. “Join me?”

  She shook her head. “I don’t do the ocean.”

  He shrugged and stood on the sand. “Your loss, love.” He took off at a run and dove into the waves, coming up again where the water was armpit high.

  He was gorgeous wet in general, and here the sun was making his eyes crystal blue and glowing like beacons. She raised the camera to her eye and zoomed the lens on his face, now in profile. He dove into the waves again. The water was gentle today, not even making peaks. She wondered if he could see the diver under there.

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