He pushed me into this room to get changed and it's like a small school gym locker. It smells like it too but the smell burns a bit in my nose almost like chlorine. Chlorine. Pool. We are going swimming. I quickly open the plastic bag Ana gave me. Please don't be a bikini. I pull out two small pieces of fabric in an emerald green. A bikini. Shit. I hate showing my scar.
I get into the bikini and walk to the mirror. It's really revealing but I feel better knowing Ana picked it out for me rather than one of the men. I wonder who the father of Ana's baby is. I think it might be Max he seemed so happy but I can't be sure. I run my hands down my sides and trace the long scar on the side and back of my torso. I have so many freckles that scar is so visible on my pale skin.
I wander to the back of the room. Max said there was a door back here that I had to go through. After some wandering, I found it. When I pulled it open, warm air rushed to my face along with the stench of chlorine. The pool was larger than I thought it would be and square. I hadn't expected a pool at all but I wasn't expecting a large one either. On the far end of the room was a hot tub with all four men sitting in it.
As they stared I felt really exposed but I had nothing to cover up with. Max waved and I returned it. What should I do? Should I walk over there? Should I just go swim? I look at the pool. I have to swim before I get into a hot tub otherwise the water will be freezing. I walk over to the edge of the pool. 6ft on this side and it looked like 12 or 15 on the other. I dive in. The rush of the cold water felt amazing. I felt like the cloud that has been in my head for the past few days, disappeared and now there is a brilliant blue sky. I swim to the other side of the pool. To where the guys were.
"Impressive." I look to who gave me the compliment. Alek. "I didn't know you could swim like that."
"Well, if her father made her keep up boxing of course he put her in swim lessons." Lev chimed elbowing Alek.
"What do you think of your surprise, Princess?" Max looks at me with hopeful eyes. I couldn't help but smile. I pulled my body against the edge of the pool to obscure it from view. I really don't like bikinis. Rurik audibly sighs and gets out of the pool. He reaches out his hand for me to grab.
"Come on, Kenna. I know you're uncomfortable because of your scar. We'll cover you up with a towel until Ana comes with a one-piece swimsuit."
"We aren't going to ask Ana for another swimsuit." All eyes are brought to Max who is now standing in the hot tub. "We need to quit making Ana run errands for us all the time." The confusion is spread across all of the men's faces.
"Why can't we ask my sister to run errands for us?" Lev seemed the most confused out of all of them.
"She is busy. She is trying to raise Amos and she doesn't need to babysit us while she has even more stuff going on." Max defended his statement firmly.
"Even more stuff? What else does she have going on, Max?" Alek asked this and Max froze. He obviously didn't know if this information was free to share. "Max?" This was much more of a warning.
"Ana and Ben are having another baby." The shock was evident on their faces. Though Rurik was the first to speak up.
"Is she certain? Why didn't I know about this? I'm the head doctor here. I should've been alerted." Rurik seemed upset that he found out this was.
"Fucking Borisov. Of course, they are having another one. I can't believe she didn't tell me! I'm her fucking twin brother." Lev leans back in the pool mildly effected by the news. Ben? Borisov? It can't be. I put the name together.
"Ben Borisov? You mean that your sister married Bumbling Ben Borisov?" All of the men look at me before bursting into laughter.
"Fuck. I forgot we called him that!" Alek was laughing so hard tears were coming out of his eyes. He was also one of the first to calm down. "Yeah, Kenna, Ana married Borisov." Rurik turned back and reached out his hand again to help me out of the water. I reach up to grab it and just before I do, his eyes widen and he goes falling in over top of me. Behind where he was standing is Max with a goofy grin on his face. Before I could realize what was happening Lev picked up Max and jumped into the pool. Rurik guards my body with his while Max and Lev wrestle in the water.
