Love's Destiny (Love Trilogy #2) by Tracey Smith Read Free Book Online Page A

hadn’t really tried to go anywhere lately and I wondered if she would have been just as lenient if I was going alone.
    Destiny held my hand as we walked down the street. Her hand felt warm and soft in mine. I led her to a music store that was a couple blocks away and helped her pick out a few CD’s that I thought she might like, she even picked out a classical CD for me. She said I needed to expand my musical library. I laughed but humored her request even though I knew I’d never listen to it. She held my hand again as we walked back toward my apartment and I couldn’t help but notice a few guys looking at me enviously.
    “Ready to go swimming?” she asked as soon as we got back to my apartment.
    “Is this what you call doing nothing?” I laughed.
    “Come on, you do remember how to swim don’t you?” she taunted.
    “I could swim circles around you.” I challenged.
    “We’ll see about that.” She laughed as she went into my room to change into her suit.
    I grabbed mine and changed in the bathroom. I was ready in less than five minutes. I waited another five before knocking on the bedroom door.
    “Chickening out?” I asked through the door.
    “Couldn’t find my suit.” She called back “But I’ve got it now. I’ll meet you down by the pool.”
    I grabbed a couple towels and headed down to the pool to wait for her. As I sat on the edge of the pool I wondered why I had never come down here before. It was a nice pool, and I used to love to swim. I used to love to do a lot of things. I guess I just stopped doing anything once we moved here. It was kind of nice to be doing something again.
    “Are you ready to get beat by a girl?” I heard Destiny’s voice from behind me.
    I got up and turned around to face her. All of the anxiety I had felt that night in the parking lot of the concert hall came back with full force. I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. Destiny stood in front of me wearing a tiny little hot pink bikini and I couldn’t take my eyes off her. She was beautiful. It was much easier to think of her as my childhood friend when she was wearing her baggy sweats. Right now she was a beautiful seventeen year old girl and suddenly my palms were sweating. She had stopped just a few feet away from me and she was staring at me too.
    “I thought you said you were out of shape?” she asked staring at my chest.
    “I said I was out of practice, not out of shape.” I said a little embarrassed.
    “Those weights are doing you some good.” She said still looking me over. Now I was the one blushing.
    “Last one in is a rotten egg!” She yelled as she ran past me and dove into the pool.
    I waited for her to surface and then I cannon balled right next to her. When I came up she was waiting for me and grabbed my shoulders dunking my head under the water. I grabbed her by the waist and pushed my feet against the bottom of the pool propelling myself up and throwing her into the air. She came down with a huge splash. We were both laughing so hard we had to stop horsing around because we’d both swallowed a mouth full of water.
    After we caught our breaths Destiny challenged me to a race. Three laps and whoever won got to sleep in my bed tonight. By the third lap I was a good body length ahead of her so I slowed down to let her win. It wouldn’t be right to make her sleep on the couch. Although I regretted throwing the race once she started getting a little cocky.
    “Did the big muscle man get beat by a girl?” she teased.
    I wondered if she really thought I had big muscles.
    “You just got lucky.” I told her, but I didn’t tell her I let her win.
    We swam for several hours sometimes racing, sometimes playing around and other times just floating on our backs looking up at the clouds. For a while it was easy to forget I was swimming with a gorgeous girl and just think of her as my friend Destiny. Until she got out of the pool.
    She had a great tan that really stood out against her hot pink bikini.