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any room for you and me to share. Rex refuses to sleep with his brother so I’m going to stay in here with him. The only other option is for you to sleep on the couch which…” she doesn’t need to finish because we are all aware of what we walked into.
    Well this just sucks, so much for trying to stay clear of Knox. No way can that happen now that I have to share his room with him. I’m going to have to play this cool for now and figure something out later when we go to bed. “It’s fine. I think Knox can behave himself, right?” I look over at Knox who is, of course, smiling cockily at me.
    He reaches up and rubs the back of his neck, “I’m pretty sure I can behave myself but can you?”
    “You’re not my type stud.” I say with a wink.
    Knox walks out of the room laughing.
    Summer flops back on the bed, “I’m so sorry I dragged you down here Jas. I needed to get away but I thought this would have been fun for us. Now I feel like I trapped you.”
    I lie back on the bed next to Summer and grab her hand, “Don’t worry about it. I know you didn’t do this on purpose. It’s fine, we’re supposed to be down here relaxing.”
    She turns her head in my direction, “Are you really going to be ok with this?”
    I muster a smile, “I’ll be fine.”
    I really wasn’t sure if I would be but I wasn’t going to add this on top of everything else she has going on lately. I talked myself into going on this vacation so there is no one else to blame but myself.
    Rex has been quiet the whole time, I sit up and he’s looking at me. “What the hell have you done with Jasmine?”
    I reach around and grab a pillow off the bed and throw it at him. “Asshole,”
    He catches it, and snuggles it to his chest while laughing.
     

     
    Knox ran out to the store to pick up burgers for the grill, he insists on cooking when all of us told him to just order a pizza. He drove ten hours today, one would think he’s exhausted but he says he’s fine.
    The couple I met earlier is Tanner and Rhea. They’ve known Knox and Rex since they were all in diapers. Tanner is Knox’s age, twenty-six, and Rhea is my age, twenty-two. Tanner is the only guy in their small knit group that has a girlfriend and he takes a lot of shit from the guys about it. Rhea just sits back and laughs at them all, she’s really laid back and doesn’t seem to have a care in the world, and Tanner is just the same.
    While Knox is out at the store and Summer and Rex are up in his room I take a stroll down to the beach to watch the sunset. It’s absolutely breathtaking. It’s peaceful, no city noises, no awful subway smells. The only noises are the seagulls squawking and the waves crashing. I take a seat in the warm sand and bury my feet. The sun is just touching starting to touch the ocean. I close my eyes and take everything in but my peace is disturbed by Cade minutes later.
    “Yo JJ,” He yells.
    Sighing, I turn towards his voice, and yell, “Yeah?”
    “Knox is back, he said to get your fine ass in the kitchen where you belong.” He’s laughing and I know he’s only joking around.
    I stand, brush the sand off and make my way back, missing the ending of a perfect sunset.
    Knox is out on the huge deck that’s off the kitchen, standing shirtless at the grill. My mouth goes dry. Yeah, there is no way that I can sleep in his room, it just can’t happen.
    “You need help?” I ask.
    He smiles, “Yeah. Come over here.”
    I go over to where he is standing, he puts down the lid on the grill, turns towards me and starts to lean in. I’m stunned, my feet rooted to the deck. My brain is screaming at me to take a step back. He places a kiss on my cheek, very softly. Actually, I’m not even sure you can call it a kiss, more like his lips brushed my cheek.
    He whispers in my ear, “You can’t wear those shorts again.”
    I’m dumbfounded.
    He pulls back and intently looks into my eyes, “That perfect ass of yours is out on display and it’s going