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circles next to him on my back, the sun coming through the trees warming the skin on my face.
    “My awesomeness being too much for people.” He nods seriously. I laugh so hard I start sinking, I kick my legs down to right myself, but I just drop further. “You okay?” Keller asks sarcastically.
    “Yip.” I answer still laughing, I push my arms the opposite way, trying to pull myself back to the top of the water, but I'm laughing too much and I end up going around in demented circles as I get deeper in the water, then my head is under. It shocks me into taking a shallow breath at the same moment and I am coughing and going deeper down.
    A hand yanks on the back of my shirt hauling me to the surface. “You okay?” He asks seriously.
    I cough over the words that are trying to form in my mouth, so I point to my face as I cough trying to say yes, as tears squeeze out the corners of my eyes from the effort of coughing.
    Keller tows me to the side and helps me climb up the small bank where I threw my shoes. I lean over the side of the lake trying to get the last of the water out of my lungs.
    “You sure you're okay? You don't sound too good.” He gets down on his knees and peers up at my face. Which makes me laugh again, and cough, then I let out a massive hiccup. Keller promptly makes the same sound, teasing me.
    I look down at myself. “I think I'm too wet to get in your car.” I say trying to be serious, but I hiccup again as I say the last word.
    “Mmm.” He answers with his face screwed up, and does his fake hiccup sound again. “Probably. My car is very special to me. It's all old and crusty. Very important.”
    “This is your fault.” I say getting through without hiccupping, but now he's watching me for it. I breathe in long and deep.
    “How?” He says laughing while he watches me trying to control the squeaking sound that keeps beeping out of my chest as I try to force them to not come out. “I didn't push you in, that would have been so unkind, and I am extra kind to people called Reid.”
    “Only people called Reid?” I ask. Holding out my hand for him to pull me up. I don’t hear what he answers, my fingers have disappeared; they are inside of his. I can feel the cool hollow compared with the warmness of the sun out here.
    “You going to get up?” He asks when I freeze.
    “Yeah.” I breathe looking at his face, pulling my hand out of his smoothly so he doesn’t look down and see it. My body starts trembling as I force my legs to take steps toward the car. I have never melted into someone before. I didn’t know I could.
    “You sure you’re okay?” Keller asks concerned. “You look pale, how much water did you swallow?”
    “Not much, and I think I coughed it all back into the lake.” I laugh a bit hysterically as we walk back to his car. I circle it finding a sunny patch to lie down in, showing that there’s nothing wrong with me. It’s just my hands still shaking and I hide them by leaning my head into them on the ground. “It shouldn't take too long to dry off.” I look up at Keller standing right over me. “I can get in like this if you want.” I say, questioning his look.
    “No, you’re fine.”
    “Great, can you move that way?” I motion with my head not trusting my hands to not shake if I pull my head off them. “You’re in my sun and you're making shadows on me.” I smile up at him.
    He doesn't answer, just lies down next to me.
     
     

Chapter Four
     
    “No way.” I shout as I lurch to my feet, kicking Keller in the side. “Keller. Wake up. It's night time.”
    “Huh?” He cracks one eye open to look up at me. “What?”
    “Darkness.” I say, moving my arms around me. “I am dry, but that one good point is being overshadowed by the heavingly giant amounts of trouble I am going to be in when I get back to school.” I ramble looking toward the sinking sun, the lake is only an outline of darkness now. “Please tell me it's before six thirty.”
    He looks