It was Friday, and Jesse Anderson waited, fretfully, on the front fender of his rebuilt 1980 Camaro for his twin sister to finish cheerleading tryouts. It was their senior year of high school and the tryouts where more of a formality for her then anything else. Since doing gymnastics since kindergarten and being on the cheerleading squad since junior high, she was there more to help the new girls learn the routines, and weed out the ones that couldn't cut it.
He was worried because his sister should have been out about 10 minutes ago, and he needed to get to work. Jesse worked at the YMCA as a lifeguard, which suited him well. He didn't like any sport that didn't involve water. But since most of the schools in the area didn't have pools or swim/diving teams, his only option for competition was at the YMCA. So being a lifeguard there let him have access to the pool for free, and also kept him in shape.
Jesse's sister, Jaime, was finally exiting the school, with her best-friend Mandy Williams in tow, who also was a senior cheerleader. Mandy hated being called Mandy, by everyone preferring Amanda, but seemed to tolerate it from Jaime, and by default, Jesse.
Mandy was Jaime's friend since doing gymnastics together in kindergarten, always on the same team, always inseparable. They even started doing cheerleading together in junior high after Mandy had to stop doing gymnastics since her body was developing because of puberty, and her breasts were getting in the way to much for her to do well.
Jesse had to admit, the two girls were two of the best looking in the school. His sister was the taller of the two at 5'7", and had an athletic build that most of the girls in the school envied. Jesse had that similar build, at 5'11". He was skinny, but not too skinny. He had a swimmer's body. Both had dark brown hair, though his sister insisted on having burgundy highlights in her hair, which Jesse always though fit her fiery mentality.
When they were younger, their family always kidded that they had an outlaw for kids, with the play on there names being "Jesse James". While they both were rebellious and defiant, Jesse was more subdued, and knew when to stop, while his sister was the one always getting into trouble with her crazy stunts. If Jaime was the envy of all of the girls in the school, then Mandy was the envy of all of the guys. At 5'6", just barely shorter than Jaime, Mandy had longer legs than Jaime, and her breasts were a pair of gravity defying breasts that every guy in the school wanted to get there hands on. Although the rumors going around were that more then a few had. With her long honey blonde hair and crystal blue eye, she was a walking wet dream. Even Jesse has to force his eyes away from her, or risk embarrassing himself with a growing problem in his pants.
Both of them were walking to him still in there athletic shorts and sports bra. Mandy's threatening to burst open from the strain her breast put on it. They looked like two uniform softball halves with an M&M perfectly positioned in the middle, held within the confines of the cloth. He knew something was up and his sister was the cause of it by the smirk on her faces. The two of them were talking to each other, and finally acknowledged him when they were almost to him.
"Hey bro!"
"Hey sis, Hey Mandy."
Mandy noticeably rolled her eyes at the unwelcome name. Having chided him more times then he would care to count; she had long ago stopped trying to get here to call her by her full name.
"Hey, Mandy's ride is already late, and we figured that since you're already here you could give her a ride home. We already called here ride and said not to worry about it."
Jesse Flipped upon hearing this. "What! I have to get to work after dropping you off, and Mandy lives on the other side of town, I'm definitely going to be late now!"
"Don't worry; we'll make it up to you." Jaime said, as they started getting into his car, with Jamie in the back and Mandy in the front, since she would be getting out first.
"Yeah, just like you said you would make it up to me for missing States last year. Or like you said you would make it up to me for breaking my bike the year before that."
"Oh please, you've been to the state swim meet, two years before that. When have you ever come to a football game, or a basketball game to watch us cheer? And as for the bike, you already had the Camaro at the time."
"I was still rebuilding the Camaro! You know, I'm only doing this as a favor to mom, not to you, I shouldn't have to take your friends home too."
Jesse drove to Mandy's house, knowing the way from having dropped his sister off here plenty of times. Mandy's house was a larger house, almost bordering on "mansion". Mandy's father worked with the twin's father, but was higher up in the chain of command. Mandy's mom worked as well, but more because she wanted to, rather then needing to. The twin's parents were well off as well, with their mother only working part-time to help with the budget.
The arguing continued after Mandy had been dropped off, and Jaime was left at their home. Jesse used a few of the back roads that he knew he could speed on and made it to the Y only 15 minutes late. After a brief discussion with his boss, Jesse went to about his duties.
The rest of the weekend was normal for Jesse. He has swim practice on Saturday and Sunday morning, and he worked at the Y in the afternoon at the front desk rather than a Lifeguard on Saturday not wanting to put to much strain on his body after practicing. Jaime had a party on Saturday, and an early date on Sunday. Jesse usually didn't attend the parties with Jaime, and he was grateful for not having to deal with her on Sunday. The quite of not having her in the house helped him get his homework done faster.
Even though both brother and sister were known for their athletics, it was Jesse who was the studious one, known for his intelligence at school. Jaime was more willing to skate by her academics, accepting the Bs with the occasional A interspersed.
On Monday, Jesse was again at the school waiting on his sister, she was late again, but this time, Jesse didn't care, he had the day off, and the rest of the week he was scheduled earlier shifts at the Y, so he wasn't able to pick her up, their mother would do that.
Again, Jaime walked out with Mandy at her side. Whatever his sister had planned, he knew his arguments weren't going to tread water. "Not again."
"Please! Do you know how many guys would kill to have me or Mandy in their car? Beside, she's coming over to our house. We're going to go swimming in the pool before dinner, and then mom is going to drive her home."
"Fine, just get in."
This time Mandy sat in the back seat, while Jaime was in the front. Both of them talked non-stop on the way to the twin's house about boys, the cheerleading tryouts that were finishing up this week, and other stuff that Jesse had no interest in. Jesse did manage to get a couple of quick glances at Mandy in his rear-view mirror.
When they got home, the girls went strait up stairs to change into their bikinis and go swimming, while Jesse went to go do his homework, while waiting for dinner. The screaming, laughing and splashing from the backyard pool kept making Jesse think he was working at the Y.
Finally, about an hour later, his mother told him to go out back and get the girls for dinner. He relented and went to get them.
As he exited the door to the backyard, Jesse heard a noise that made his stomach drop. He had heard the sound before, as a lifeguard at the Y. He knew that one of the two girls tried to dive from the board, but somehow didn't entirely clear the board. Jesse, upon instinct, ran to the pool.
He had is shirt, and shoes off by the time he got there to assess the situation. His sister was swimming from the deep end of the pool to the shallow Oblivious to anything outside of the pool, but Mandy was in the deep end, and didn't seem to be moving to the surface. Jesse knew that his pants would only get in the way, so he stripped to his boxers quickly and jumped in for Mandy.
In the water he saw her arms moving and air escaping here lungs, and she tried to scream underwater. Jesse grabbed her under her arms and swam her to the surface. After breaking the surface, Mandy was able to get air, but that also allowed her to scream her pain. Jesse now had one hand around her, using the other to get her to the edge of the pool, where by now; Jaime was waiting to help get Mandy out of the water.
