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Gavin.  
    “Did you make the cupcakes?” Michael asked Kate as Gavin blew out his candles.
    “Actually Toni and Leah made them.  The last time I tried to bake something, half of my senior class ended up with food poisoning.”  
    “Yikes.”
    “Yeah.  It wasn’t pretty.  Fortunately for me, I didn’t eat any of it,” Kate grinned.  She snatched up two cupcakes and handed one to Michael.  He followed her to an isolated corner of the pool, where she sat down and dangled her feet in the water.  He followed suit.  “Well, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I’d say the party’s going well.  Wouldn’t you?”
    “Yeah, it’s been great,” Michael agreed.   “Though I’m not sure how I feel about your friend Alex.”
    “Yeah, he’s um... out there,” Kate remarked, glancing over at Alex, who looked like he was trying to balance a beer bottle on his head.   “He’s one of Gavin’s old college buddies, so I kind of had to invite him.”
    “You know, Gavin’s looking a lot better than he did last week,” Michael offered.
    “You think so?” Kate asked, taking a large bite out of her cupcake.  
    “Yeah.   Yeah, he really does.”  
    “I hope he’s getting better.   I don’t know what I’d do if anything happened to him.”
    “You know, I was talking to him up in the apartment.   I think he worries about you just as much as you worry about him,” Michael said.  
    “I know.   I wish he wouldn’t.  He doesn’t need to worry about me.  It’s just ever since the accident, my entire family has treated me like a china doll, like the slightest thing might break me.  Then of course, with Gavin being sick and the break-in, I feel like they’re just waiting for me to keel over,” Kate explained.  “I must sound like such a hypocrite to you after the way I fussed over Gavin.”
    “You’ve both had a hard couple of months.”
    “Yeah.  To be honest, they had it a lot worse than I did.  I don’t even remember the accident.”
    “You don’t?”
    “Nope.  But my parents and Gavin described it to me in such excruciatingly vivid detail that I might as well remember it.”
    “What happened?”
    “I was driving a road I drive almost every day, hit a patch of black ice, and drove straight into a tree.  Totaled my car and apparently wreaked some serious havoc on the poor tree.  I’m just thankful that I drove into it and not oncoming traffic.”
    “That wouldn’t have been good.   Not that your accident was good but... it’s good that no one else got hurt...” Michael rambled.  
    “Tell me about it.   I definitely wouldn’t want that on my conscience.” She finished her cupcake and licked the remaining frosting off her fingers.  “Well I don’t know about you, but I’m getting back in the pool.”  With that, she hopped off the edge of the pool and into the water.  Michael watched as she slipped beneath the pale blue waves, only to resurface a few seconds later.  “Come on,” she beckoned.
    “Oh, I’m not much of a swimmer,” he told her.  
    “You don’t have to be a swimmer.   This water is four feet deep.”  
    “Yeah, but it’s cold.”
    “If you don’t get in, I’m going to splash you.”
    “No you won’t.”   With a swift flip of her hand, Kate sent a shower of chlorine water raining down on Michael, who tried unsuccessfully to shield himself from the droplets.  “Oh, you asked for it.”  Michael tossed his shirt aside and heaved himself into the pool.  Kate grinned and dove underwater.  Before Michael knew it, she was halfway across the pool.
    “I was a lifeguard in college,” she explained upon seeing his stunned expression.  
    Before long, several others joined them in the pool.   At one point, Gavin ran up to his apartment and reappeared with an old, beat up volleyball.  Michael had only played volleyball once or twice, and never in a pool.  His lack of experience became apparent the first time the ball was lobbed to him.