I wrote the first draft of this story in three days, which is by a very large margin the fastest I've ever written a story for Liteoritca. I published it on 8/26/15 for the 2015 Summer Lovin' contest. It's a short, fun story.
I took this and all my other stories down in January 2023. I'm republishing it now as it was originally published with the exception of this intro.
"Dylan is grounded for two weeks."
"Grounded? Isn't he a bit old to be grounded?"
"Mom found a bag of pot in his room and she went nuts. She wanted to turn it over to the cops to teach him a lesson. Dad came up with the idea of grounding Dylan instead. He can't go anywhere and none of his friends can come over. He's got a long list of projects to do around the house."
I sighed. I had been looking forward to talking with Alex, but my sister Emily was embarrassing me in front of her long-time best friend. I continued brushing our pool and pretended to not hear my sister talking.
Alex was a tall, thin beauty with shoulder-length light brown hair. This was my favorite time of year to talk with her. She was incredibly smart and incredibly driven. Saturday, she would graduate valedictorian from my sister's school. During the school year, she didn't give boys the time of day. Once school was over, she flirted like crazy until she found a boyfriend. I enjoyed flirting with her. Because she was so smart, she was great at word play and could keep up a constant stream of innuendo and double entendres.
Alex walked over to me.
"Not the best start to your summer, Dylan?"
"I would consider you being here a good start."
Alex smiled. "Let me really give you a good start." She grabbed the bottom of her T-shirt and slowly pulled it up, exposing her long sexy stomach. A little higher and her small red bikini top came into view. She flashed me a smile when I mimicked a wolf whistle. She pulled her shirt off then turned around. The back of the bikini top was two strings. She slowly slid down her shorts, revealing a thong bikini bottom and her small ass. Alex ran regularly to keep in shape. She shook her ass at me as continued sliding her shorts all the way down.
"Down boy, don't you have some pool brushing to do?"
I had forgotten the pool while watching the show Alex gave me. I glanced at my sister Emily. She was applying sunscreen and giving me a disgusted look. My sister was good looking as well - dark brown hair that tumbled down past her shoulders, dark brown eyes, long dark lashes, a pretty face and a body with many appealing curves. She was wearing a white bikini that I considered on the skimpy side, though it had a lot more material than Alex's.
"So Dylan's going to be our pool boy today?" smirked Alex.
"I'm almost done here, then I've other chores." I had already mowed the front and back yards, and pulling weeds was next on the hit parade.
"I've always wanted a pool boy," said Alex as she gave me a sexy pout.
I continued talking with Alex, acting the straight man to her constant flirting. Emily had told me a few summers back that flirting was how Alex blew off steam after the school year and she got upset when a guy took the flirting to mean that it was open season to hit on her. Alex liked being in control of her relationships. Emily was laying out on one of the four chaise lounges and listened with amusement to our banter.
Emily had invited her three best friends to spend the day hanging out around our pool. They were off from school because seniors didn't have to take finals. They had tomorrow off too, then would do some pre-graduation events on Friday and graduate from high school on Saturday. I had done the same last year.
Emily got a text, checked it, and announced that Dakota was here. She went into the house to let her in.
Alex said to me in a sultry voice, "Be a good pool boy and I'll make it worth your while."
I smiled and continued brushing. Worth my while? That sounded hot, but I knew she was just flirting.
Emily's friend Dakota came out to the pool and Alex left me to join them. My sister happily told Dakota about my being grounded. I smiled to myself because Emily didn't know the whole story. Mom had indeed freaked out when she found the bag of pot, and she really had almost called the cops to "teach me a lesson."
Yeah, a couple of years in jail and a criminal record would make a great lesson.
Fortunately, Dad had been there to calm her down. Dad pulled me aside and told me he didn't consider that I smoked pot a big deal. "I smoked pot at your age." However, he had been very disappointed by my bringing pot into the house. "Cities can try to seize the house when cops find pot. Pot doesn't have the owner's name written on it and you put all of us at risk by bringing it home." Dad then had told me if I accepted the punishment and did a good job on the projects around the house, that he would pay me for the work.
"Jesus, you were stupid," Dakota said to me. That was Dakota - she said whatever she thought.
I shrugged. I had been stupid. "Why aren't you guys laying out at your pool?" Dakota's parents had money and their house was much nicer than ours. They had given her a Beemer convertible for her sixteenth birthday.
"The pump and some other equipment are out. The parts are on order. The repair company will come out next week to fix it."
I nodded and went back to work. I brushed some sections twice so I could be around when Dakota stripped down to her bikini. Dakota took off her shirt and shorts to reveal a bright orange bikini. She also had bright orange fingernails and toenails. Impressive color coordination. Dakota had a very toned body as she had played on the school's volleyball team. Dakota was average height like Emily. She had blond hair cut short and a perfect smile. Sadly, her nose was too big so she wasn't as good-looking as the other girls. Still, I would leap at the chance of going out with her, but I doubted that I have a chance - she seemed only interested in guys who had cars at least as nice as hers.
I finished cleaning the pool, dove in to cool off and was putting the pool things away when Faith arrived.
"Hi, Faith!" I said with genuine enthusiasm.
Of Emily's three best friends, I liked Faith the best. All of them were smart and good-looking. However, Faith was very sweet and mature and made me feel good every time I talked with her. Nothing got her excited or angry. The few times I had had big fights with Emily, I had called Faith for advice on how to patch things up. I had never had a chance to date Faith as she had been dating the same guy for the last three years. He was finishing his junior year in college. Faith was a little on the short side without much in the way of curves. Her black hair came down almost to her waist. She had a really cute face that made her look a few years younger than eighteen.
I toweled off and headed into the house as Emily once again told the story of my being grounded. I hadn't stuck around for the reveal of Faith's bikini as she wasn't the type of girl that I felt good about ogling.
As I reached for the door handle, I heard Alex's voice. "Pool boy! Could you get us some drinks?"
I ignored her and went inside. I got out a pitcher of lemonade and poured myself a glass. I thought about something else Dad had told me. "Emily dated this football player for a while and she hasn't been the same since. She's not the happy, bubbly girl she's always been. Your mom and I have tried to find out what's wrong, but she always denies that there's a problem. While you're home, do what you can to make her happy." I had only been home a few days from college, but I had noticed the change and it made me sad. I loved Emily. Yes, we fought like every other brother and sister, but for the most part we got along very well.
Drinks? What the hell. Hopefully if I brought out drinks for her friends, it would make Emily happy. I pulled out five plastic cups, filled them with lemonade and took them out the pool.
"Lemonade!" I announced to the delight of the girls. As I gave Faith hers, I checked out her bikini - it was a blue one with a conservative cut.
The girls were sitting or lying on chaise lounges. I was left with a chair. I mainly listened as I drank my glass of lemonade. Whenever I said anything, Alex would twist it into an innuendo, much to the other girls' delight. Alex's chaise lounge was next to my chair and beyond her were Emily, Dakota and Faith.
"Have fun! I'm off to pull weeds."