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Submitted to Contest #292
Summer vacation that year comes with its usual symptoms. The sky is bright and blue and endless, the asphalt of the roads sizzles with heat and the days of the week begin to melt together and no longer bear any real meaning to Maya. Except, of course, for Tuesday. Tuesday is the day that she and her best friend Ally go down to the public pool so they can look at the lifeguard on duty. They don’t know his name or anything other than the fact that he’s very cute and a high school junior, which makes him, at max, four years older than them...
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