Stepbrother Untouchable
“Nate observes as our “short hike” goes into its second hour.
“I've been swimming in the pool pretty frequently, maybe that's it,” I reply, though really I think it's that the conversation hasn't stopped. We're high over the Potomac now, on a dirt trail that winds around large boulders. He was right—it is cooler under the trees, but it's still just as humid.
“Is that it?” I ask, pointing to a three-leaved plant at the base of a tree.
After telling Nate that I manage to get poison ivy every other... year, he’s made it his mission to teach me how to identify the rash-causing the plant.
“Not red enough. By this time of the summer, it'll be more red and oily-looking. And the edges of the leaves are too jagged,” he says as he bends over to look at it. A pair of female hikers approach us on the trail, headed the opposite direction. I watch them drink in Nate's shirtless, sweaty appearance and giggle to each other. As they pass, they smile flirtatiously at him, but he just politely smiles back before turning to me.MoreLess
“I've been swimming in the pool pretty frequently, maybe that's it,” I reply, though really I think it's that the conversation hasn't stopped. We're high over the Potomac now, on a dirt trail that winds around large boulders. He was right—it is cooler under the trees, but it's still just as humid.
“Is that it?” I ask, pointing to a three-leaved plant at the base of a tree.
After telling Nate that I manage to get poison ivy every other... year, he’s made it his mission to teach me how to identify the rash-causing the plant.
“Not red enough. By this time of the summer, it'll be more red and oily-looking. And the edges of the leaves are too jagged,” he says as he bends over to look at it. A pair of female hikers approach us on the trail, headed the opposite direction. I watch them drink in Nate's shirtless, sweaty appearance and giggle to each other. As they pass, they smile flirtatiously at him, but he just politely smiles back before turning to me.MoreLess
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