Double Blaze

The sound of excited whoops and yells filled the area as the final bell rang signaling the beginning of summer break. Tony rushed past his locker and out into the muggy late afternoon sunlight. It was a perfect day for swimming. He turned with a grin as Jamal, Tony’s best friend called out across the courtyard and jogged toward him.

“Yo Tony, you bring your gear with you?”

Tony let his left hand fall and patted his overstuffed duffel.

Jamal gave a single nod of the head and turned to look back at the school. “So where’s Anna? She’s coming, right?”

Tony fought back a grimace. “You know girls, man. She’s probably standing around with the rest of them doing their makeup or something.”

“But she’s coming, right?” Jamal wouldn’t relent.

“Yeah. She’s coming. Sabrina too and Wil and Jeremy.”

“I heard Sabrina talking to one of the other girls. Apparently her step dad let her buy a bikini this summer.” Jamal grinned wickedly at the thought.

Tony rolled his eyes and looked back toward the school where Anna and Sabrina were making their way slowly toward them with Will and Jeremy not too far behind. “About time.” Tony muttered under his breath.

“Yo, dude you know your sister is gonna get a boyfriend sooner or later, right? You really gotta let off this whole over protective big brother thing. I mean ya’lls the same age. Like five minutes apart or something right?”

“Two and I’m not over protective.”

Jamal turned and stared at Tony before shaking his head. “Dude you look like you just sucked on a lime right now.”

“It’s just the thought of Sabrina in a bikini.”

The other boy’s jaw gaped open dumbly for a full minute. “What? Why? Sabrina’s hot, man!”

Tony shrugged one shoulder then turned as the others caught up and began walking toward home. Luckily with the girls present, Jamal dropped the topic for the time being but Tony was sure he’d only heard the beginning of Jamal’s tirade.

An hour later, Tony and Anna’s mother dropped them all off at the lake. “You kids have fun! You’ve got three hours to play while Rick and I pack. I’ll be back at seven on the dot. You’d all better be right here ready and waiting when I get back. Got it?”

Tony and Anna sighed and answered in unison. “Yes mom.” Both rolling their eyes.

Jamal leaned over and whispered to Wil “Dude it’s so creepy when they do that.”

All three of their friends laughed and Tony punched Jamal in the shoulder as he ran past toward the beach which just made the others laugh even louder.

Tony kicked off his sneakers and pulled off his shirt, laying it down on top of his sneakers to try to keep the sand off of it as much as possible. He was half way through tugging his jeans off when Sabrina leaned up against his side, all skin and very little cloth between them.

“Hey Tony?” She asked in her pouty voice.

“Mm?”

“Would you do my back? I don’t want to get burnt.” She asked before shoving a bottle of water resistant suntan lotion in his face.

“Why don’t you ask Jamal? He’s dying to get his hands all over you.”

“Or anyone else, for that matter.” She huffed. “Fine. I’ll have Anna do it. I just thought you might want to be a gentleman is all.”

Tony shrugged and kicked his jeans off. “Well. I don’t.”

Sabrina stared at him in startled disbelief, her mouth in a little moue of dissatisfaction.

Tony couldn’t help but let his eyes travel over her. She really was hot. Thick wavy black hair done up in a long braid and naturally tanned skin. She probably didn’t even really need suntan lotion. She’d have to be outside for ages to actually burn probably.

Her new hot pink bikini hardly covered anything at all. It was probably even a size too small. The little triangles of the top only barely covered the tiny mounds where her breasts were just starting to grow. A matching triangle covered her crotch, but outlined everything. The material was some sort of shiny stuff that seemed to mold to her flesh like a second skin.

He looked away from Sabrina and over at Anna and he couldn’t help but smile a little bit as he watched her tiptoe toward the water in her black one piece with her beach towel wrapped around her like a cape that fell down to her ankles. The only thing that poked out above the towel was her wild wavy red hair, so completely opposite of her demeanor.

Tony could feel Sabrina’s eyes on him. He turned to look at her and caught her looking him over from head to toe just as he’d done to her previously. He got his looks from their father, dark everywhere Anna was light.

He’d found his love for weight lifting when he was eleven and now, two years later, his body had filled out better than any of the other boys. He had biceps and a six pack to show for it even though he was still on the lean side, his dad assured him that he’d fill out more fully in a few years if he kept at it.

Suddenly he felt self-conscious and he crossed his arms over his stomach and stared at Sabrina. “What?”

“Nothing. I’ll get Anna to do it.” She turned and hurried over toward Anna and there was nothing but a string disappearing between her butt cheeks.

Tony shook his head. “Geez.” He muttered, flushing faintly and looking over toward his three friends and all eyes were fixated on Sabrina, all three of them with stupid grins on their faces.

Tony took a second look and tried to figure out why it didn’t affect him the same way. Giving his head another shake, he lay his jeans down on top of his shirt and ran toward the water, diving in with a big splash that made both girls squeal and dart back away from the water for safety.

From the water, Tony watched as Anna looked dubiously toward Jamal, Wil and Jeremy while she tucked her beach towel carefully around her torso, tucking the corner in under her arm like she’d just gotten out of the shower then took the bottle of suntan lotion from Sabrina and began rubbing it on the other girl’s back.

Tony’s shorts tightened and he frowned, turning and diving down under the water, then began to swim as hard as he could toward the buoys that marked out the swimming area. The others came to splash around and play in the shallows. Tony came to push his body, enjoying the resistance of the water and the feel of his muscles burning after a few hours of pushing himself that way.

Two hours flew by while Tony continued his laps back and forth across the swimming area. When he finally began to feel his muscles throbbing in complaint, he made his way back toward the shallows and came up out of the water, running his fingers through his hair and wiping water out of his eyes. His sister was nowhere in sight. “Hey where’s Anna?” He asked the others.

The group looked around and all three boys shrugged dismissively. Sabrina spoke up. “She went up to the bathroom a while ago.”

Tony looked around and frowned. The swimming area had been abandoned when they’d first gotten here but now it was packed. “Hmm. I’ll be back.” Without waiting for a response, he made his way back to shore and grabbed his beach towel, throwing it over his shoulder without drying off and began to walk toward the restrooms.

“Anna you in there?” He called into the grate by the women’s room and waited. Inside he could hear talking and he called again. “Anna?” But there was no answer.

A minute or two later, a woman came out carrying a toddler on her hip with another girl about four or five years old following behind. The woman offered Tony a smile. “Sorry it’s empty in there.”

Tony smiled and offered the woman his thanks and then began looking around the restroom building for any sign of his sister. About a hundred yards away from the bathroom he saw something laying on the ground. It looked like Anna’s beach towel.

Tony broke into a run and grabbed it up off of the ground, then looked around as panic began to well up in his chest. He stood there frozen for a moment as he studied the surrounding area for any other clues where she could have gone. To his right he heard a muffled cry and a soft thud.

He took off at a run through the trees toward the sounds and about five hundred yards away the trees thinned out and a dirty old RV came into view. It was one of the more secluded camp sites in the area and he could just make out an old man trying to wrangle something through the door of the RV.

The old man grunted and nearly fell to one knee but Tony couldn’t see what had caused it.