“I guess I owe you an apology,” he said as we sat with our feet in the water. “For underestimating me?” I smirked at him and he nodded. “It was truly amazing watching you pass me. I run about two miles every morning, workout three times a week, eat very well, but you know what I think it is?” I laughed, “What?” “It’s that you’re a baby,” he smirked. “Me, a baby? You mean it’s that you’re an old man?” I splashed water up at him and giggled when he repeated my action. It was around 6 and the sun was starting to set and the bugs were buzzing in the distance, but sitting here with Preston, just hanging out with him... it was a calm I didn’t know I needed. I was so worried about everything I said around Dominic; worried that I teased him too far, worried that I made him mad, worried that

