Sing for Their Supper - 54

  

A few moments later, Roma smiled again. The kids don't realize I'm close enough to listen. What she heard this time, with some amusement, was Ricky softly saying to Sam, "Good thing it's cold or I might be in trouble."

 

"What do you mean, might be? Get your mind on swimming, not what comes afterward."

 

"That place in the trees?" Ricky asked, looking innocently at Sam.

 

"You have to ask?"

 

Roma was quite certain they had been there before, which didn't bother her in the least. They're adults, or nearly so. What they do is nobody's business but their own.

 

*****

 

DJ heard Sam and Ricky, too, and he was having the same thoughts about Evie, although he didn't voice them. He wanted to, but he was afraid of how she'd reply.

 

"You're supposed to be swimming, not staring at me," Evie said, getting out of the water.

 

"I like watching you. You're beautiful."

 

"Am not," she replied self-consciously.

 

"You are to me."

 

"DJ…"

 

"Well, you are." He wrapped his arms around her. "You're also freezing."

 

"The water's cold." She looked at him, smiling. "And you're nice and warm because you haven't gone in, yet."

 

He gazed at her then kissed her softly. "To warm you up," he whispered against her lips.

 

"It did that," she murmured, kissing him back. When the kiss ended, she grinned widely. "Delbert Jarvis and Evangeline, kissing in a tree…"

 

"I think it's sitting in a tree, which we aren't."

 

"But we are kissing. I like that." She did it again, blushing when Roma laughed as she said "Get a room, you two," from behind them.

 

DJ turned red, muttering, "Nosy woman."

 

"Me?" Roma replied innocently.

 

"Yeah. You. Come on, Evie, let's swim before she broadcasts this to the whole world."

 

"I think they already know," Roma said, waving her hand toward the group in the water. Everyone was looking at them.

 

"Oh, God," DJ whispered, then defiantly told them, "So, I like Evie. Deal."

 

"We can tell," Ricky called out, giving a thumbs-up. "Not a damned thing wrong with that."

 

"No, there isn't," Evie said as she and DJ walked into the lake. "Not one damned thing."