I don’t know why I had thought this would be a good idea. Sara had been home after her freshman year in college for a month and wanted to have a pool party for her 19th birthday. I had planned on just going out for the day, but she thought her old friends would enjoying having me around since I used to ferry so many of them around during our group excursions.
Over the past few weeks, some of her friends had already come over to hang out with Sara and I had been a little surprised about how they had transformed in the 8 months or so since they had come to say their goodbyes before starting college. She had a core group of 4 girls who were over a lot, but I had done a good job avoiding them as much as possible. It had been an unseasonably cold start to the summer and I thought continuing this strategy would be relatively easy as I could barely make out their figures in the loose clothes they wore to keep away the chill.