"Go on, Ginny!" He yells at me. "You can do it!" I look over my shoulder to see Dan, my older brother, giving me double thumbs up and grinning widely. I turn back around, shaking my head and smiling slightly. He's insane, I think to myself. He really is. Maybe I shouldn't have agreed to this. To late now, though. I scoot closer to the edge slowly, carefully looking over and at the water below. It looks calm, but I'm really high up, so I can't hear the rushing that I know is there.
Dan and I have this thing going on, trying to prove that one is better than the other. Since he jumped off the lower edge, I decided to go higher on the bridge. Good thing this lake is deep and wide, othewise I'd have to admit he's better and lose my man pride that everybody knows I have.
"Aw, c'mon Gin! Don't back out now!" Dan yells when he sees me backing up. All I do is slowly raise my left hand, flipping him off, to which he laughs at, along with some other chuckles that barely hit me with how far apart we are. That's new. I look over my shoulder again to see some of his friend have joined him, Dom among them. Great. Sexy Dom has come to see me fail. Dom is Dan's closest friend. He's tall, about 6' 2" and has dark hair, almost black with green eyes that sometimes look blue and he's always semi tan, even in the middle of the winter. Right now, it's just the beginning of July so he's REALLY tan. He smiles at me, flashing his bright white teeth. I smile back shyly, blushing.
Dan and I are both 17, fraternal twins, but Dom is almost 18. Dom's birthday is in November, while Dan and I just had our birthday in June. I walk to the edge again, braver this time, and jump off, doing a perfect dive that would've had the swim coach back at school jumping for joy. To bad I quit the swim team. As I get closer to the water, I turn around, so that I'm in a position to cannon ball.
"Woohoo!" I yell, right as I hit the water. I know not to open my eyes. Who knows whats in this water. Fish live in this lake. They go the bathroom in here. Grody! I swim up to the surface, breaking through and sort of jumping into the air, taking a quick, deep breath.
"You ok down there, Gin?" Nik, Dan's second best friend next to Dom asks. He's also pretty tall, about 6', and looks like the golden boy every mom and dad want. Golden hair, golden eyes, golden skin and perfectly muscled. He's smart, in all AP clases with perfect straight A's while barely trying. Nik is oly 3 months older than Dan and I. He annoys Dan because he's always flirting with me. I know he just wants to get in my pants, though, so I mainly ignore him when he does it. He is really sweet though. At times. Looking up at them I show them double thumbs up, grinning.
"C'mon guys! Waters great" And it really is. It's the best temperature. Not to warm, not to cold. Just right. I smile to myself, looking up at them. Only they weren't there. Ha. Wimps. Then I see a flash of blonde. Ah. They're taking they're shirts off and... Oh my. I blush, and look away. They must either have trunks on under their pants or in the car, cus none of them ever go swimming in just they're underwear.
Together, like a pack of wolves, they walk to the edge they were just on, which is the lower one, and stand there, looking down. I give them double thumbs up again, smiling. Nik jumps off first, and then Tyler follows him, both yelling and laughing. They both do a cannonball, so that means that a huge wave goes over me because of all the displace water or whatever. They pop up at the same time, laughing, then swim over to me.
