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you know that my name is Bianca, not
Buzz,” I snicker. I actually love that I have a nickname that only Skyler uses.
Usually when someone uses my full name it’s to yell at me. Being identified as
Buzz makes me feel tough, but he was teasing me and I wanted to give it right
back to him.
                 “Stay away from the fucking lake,” Skyler adds,
piercing his eyes into me so I understand that nothing has changed from my antagonizing. He ’ s sexy when he ’ s
mad.
     
                Obviously this just makes me want to go out on the
lake even more, and I thought he was smart enough to know that. It ’ s in my nature. So after everyone goes to bed that first night,
I sneak out the backdoor and down to the dock. I look up at the house to make
sure no one ’ s watching me before I start up the jet-ski
and head towards the high dive on the other side of the lake. There ’ s no wake allowed after sunset, so I slowly glide across the
water until I arrive and throw the anchor down. I swim the short distance
between my jet-ski and the diving block in the darkness and climb up the tall
ladder that ’ s probably three stories high.
                All I ’ ve
wanted to do all summer is jump off this high dive in the middle of the night.
No one would ever let me do it, so I have always planned on sneaking out and
doing it alone. It ’ s a rush I can ’ t
explain to anyone. I just want to feel something, and jumping off this high
dive during the day with my family and a bunch of strangers around just doesn ’ t do it for me.
                As my toes curl over the edge of the board with my
eyes closed, I hear someone yell, “What the fuck do you think you ’re
doing? ”
                I look out into the water and see Skyler standing on
another one of our jet-skis close to mine. Of course it ’ s
Skyler. He ’ s the only fifteen year old I know that swears
that much.“None of your business,” I snarl from above. He might be
standing up, but I have the higher ground.
                “If you wanted to come out here, why didn ’ t you just ask me?” he questions half nicely. I think he ’ s more upset that I didn ’ t ask him to go
on this adventure with me than me actually disobeying his earlier order.
                “Because you were mad at me,” I call down to him.
                “ Buzz … I just don’ t
want you getting any ideas. I know you ’ re crazy enough
without being with guys like that,” he explains. Shaking his head, he motions
his hand towards the water below me. “You gonna jump or what?”
                “Maybe? What ’ s the rush?” I
tease. I ’ ve jumped off this high dive dozens of times -
all during daylight with people surrounding me. The rush is going to be doing
it totally alone in the darkness. I ’ m not trying to
impress anyone; I just want to do it for myself. Even at thirteen I don ’ t care what anyone thinks about me, even Skyler.
                “I kind of wanted to go to bed, sweetheart,” he
chuckles. Sweetheart.
                “ I don’ t need a babysitter. Go
to bed then,” I suggest.
                “And miss this plunge? No way,” he taunts. “C ’ mon, B. Do I have to come up there and join you?”
                “No. I wanted to do this alone,” I snap. His head falls
to release the playful eye contact we just had, and I kind of feel guilty but
only for a second. After all, he horned in on my solo adventure without my
permission.
                “Fine. I ’ ll leave you to drown,”
Skyler threatens, sitting back on his jet-ski.
                “Hey… now that you ’ re here you
might as well,” I suggest, hoping it makes up for my sass I just threw at him.
Okay so maybe I do care what he thinks… but only a little.
                “I ’ ll just watch.
I don ’ t want to get all wet. I ’