Chapter 152

• She seemed to melt into him for a few seconds and he could feel the memories coming back to him. He'd known it wasn't love back then, when they dated in high school, but that didn't mean that he didn't really care about her. After a few long quiet moments, broken only by the sounds of his sisters getting settled on the deck and divesting themselves of what little remained of their clothing, Mike and Emily pulled apart and headed towards the deck.
• Mike nearly tripped as he finally spotted his four sisters lounging in their respective chairs. Danni reached over to the small cabinet they kept on the deck to keep necessities, and pulled out a fresh tube of sunscreen. She fought to maintain her grin as Emma took the tube from her hand and moved towards Beth, who lowered the back portion of the chair and laid down on it. Popping the top, Emma squirted some into her hand and began to slowly rub Beth's leg, moving upwards as slowly as possible, deliberately taking her time. She massaged slowly up one leg and across Beth's lower back and down the other leg.
• Mike fought to focus on Emily as they both sat down in chairs next to an umbrella table. He groaned as he noticed that the chair he'd chosen faced his four sisters. He briefly wondered if something in his head had nudged him towards that particular chair. He had a flash of a picture in his head, a miniature version of himself, locked in a room and banging his fists on a window. Emma distracted him at that point, however, and the image was gone in a split second. He watched as his twin took Beth's foot and began to rub it, moving from it to her ankle up to her calf, and finally her thigh, her fingers moving to the insides of Beth's leg.