Family Pool House Pt 2

PART 2:

Dad, as he always did, arrived in style. He arrived in a brand new Cadillac that took up most of the one side of the driveway. Then he laid on the horn until we all came outside, then made a big show of walking around the car, before opening the passenger door to help someone out.

“Everyone, this is Amanda” he exclaimed, “the love of my life.” Amanda was something to behold. Immediately, I could tell she was young. She seemed shy and just sort of half waved at all of us as Dad did introductions. She was short. Maybe my height. But damn did she have curves. Her black hair was long, curly, and seemed like it was thick as a jungle. Maybe I stared to long because Dad fake punched me in the shoulder.

“She’s something, isn’t she?” he asked.

“Yeah dad, how old is she?”

“I just bought her 3 weeks ago. V8 power. I could spin the tires up the block if I wanted to.”

“Huh?” I looked confused.

“The car Keith. 3 weeks.” He said firmly.

“Oh..yeah, nice car” was all I could muster.

Dad moved over to mom for an awkward hug while Amanda came over to Katie and I to say hi.

Katie and I helped Amanda get the bags while Dad was going on and on to my Grandpa about no hard feelings, and this is best for everyone, and life goes on. They had a lot of luggage compared to my Grandparents. I had to make 2 trips while Katie and Amanda made 1 each. After the second trip back in I sat down on the edge of the bed to catch my breath.

“Katie said you gave up your room for us. Thank you. I’m sorry, I did tell your Dad we should stay at a hotel.” Amanda said. “I hope this doesn’t put you out too much.”

She was soft spoken and gentle. She looked and acted much younger than dad.

“It’s no problem. I’m glad to help. There aren’t many hotels around here anyway. There’s one by 37 on the way to Corpus Christi but it’s a dumpy looking tourist type motel. They don’t even have a pool” I announced.

“Yeah your Dad mentioned the pool.” Immediately I hoped she would use the pool. I’d love to see her change out there.

“C’mon, I’ll show you.” I was eager. “We have a pool house that has a changing area with towels and a dryer. I was 5 steps ahead of her already. “Here I’ll show you.”

“Ok” I could tell it wasn’t the 1st thing she wanted to do or see but she humored me.

We went out the sliding kitchen door and down the steps of the patio.