Simone Elkeles Quote

I don’t have a bathin’ suit, I tell them.Don’t worry, Brittany says. Doug probably has one in the pool house you can wear.In the pool house, Doug looks through a drawer searching for suits.There’s only two here. Doug picks up a skimpy Speedo and holds it out to me. This okay for you, big guy?That wouldn’t fit my right testicle. Why don’t you wear it and I’ll take this one, I say, reaching around Doug and grabbing a boxer-type suit. I notice the girls are gone. Where’d they go?To change. And to talk about us, I’m sure.In the small changing room as I strip and get into the suit, I think about my life back home. Here, in Lake Geneva, it’s easy to forget about home life for a while. Not having to worry about who’s got my back.When I step out of the changing room, Doug says, She’ll take a lot of shit by being with you, you know. People are already starting to talk.Listen, Douggie. I like that girl more than I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ about what other people think when I’m six feet under.Doug smiles and holds out his arms. Ah, Fuentes, I think we just had a male bonding moment. Wanna hug?Not on your life, white boy.Doug slaps me on the back, then we walk to the hot tub. Despite everything, I think we do have, if not a bonding, then at least an understanding. Either way, I’m still not hugging him.