Spending A Summer with you.

Chapter One: Swimming And Trespassing

By Rose Love Me Or Hate Me

I probably would have met him sooner or later that summer, since my mother's rented cottages was right near his parents' mansion, but as it happened I met him that very first night. I could still remember when I saw him sitting there along in the late-summer darkness, and I guess I sensed even then that their was something very unsettling about Sesshoumaru Takahashi.

He was the kind of boy every girl in the world would fall in love with. Fall in love with, and then never get the courage to talk to, he seemed so unapproachable. I met him that first night while sneaking a swim in his pool. The moon was so bright that I remember being surprised by the crisp clear shadow I cast before me as I crept over the dark summer lawn.

Mother had taken me there earlier that day. We weren't really supposed to be their then either. But she had said that in broad daylight it didn't count as trespassing, especially since on one had arrived there yet for the summer. She had shown me the elaborate garden, the flower arranged in the patterns that seemed so natural yet must have been carefully thought out. The brick walkways, the smooth wooden deck. Even the weeping willows in the background seemed to have been carefully placed. The sun had glinted off the white gazebo. Behind us was the tennis court, and beyond the pool-its edge seeming to rise into the sky-was the bay, so blue I could have tasted it.

" I don't believe this," I had whisper to my mother." " This is outrageous. Can you imagine what it must be like to live in a place like this? Where are the owners?"

" Still in the city," she answer. "This is their summer place."

Summer place. I had walked over to the tremendous pool and placed the toe of my running shoes along its edge. In the daylight it had looked like a cool forest kind of pool, as if it had just appeared naturally. Along the side bubbles rose from a silent filter.

" It's heated, too, " Mother added, smiling at me. Playfully she had clasped my elbow and pretended she was going to push me in. I didn't laugh.

" But doesn't this make you depressed? To see that some people live like this?" I wave my arm around the hold scene. " I mean, couldn't you just die for this" It's not fair. You deserve a place like this, and not just for the weekend, or the summer, but for all the time."

" I make myself rich by making my want few," she quoted. " Beside a place like this is a lot of work and a lot of headache. You have got to vacuum the pool all the time with these trees around, varnish the deck every year, weed the garden, keep the birdbath full."

"Gimme a break," I moaned collapsing beside her on the bench. " I bet these people never do any of those things, they just pay someone to do them. " I didn't meet the caretaker, " she admitted, Tim an old nice guy. He told me I could do a few laps in the morning when no one was around. But that was last mouth, before the season. I kept worrying they'll be coming soon, so I haven't been coming over. No one here though," she remarked, looking toward the house, a large white Victorian with a porch that wrapped around the bay side. There wasn't a soul around.

That what's had given me the ideal to sneak over and use the pool myself, in the dark, once Mother'd gone off to one of hers meetings. In the light of the moon, I crept across the silver lawn, the large house looming dark, the frog singing in the bushes. I slipped off my clogs and placed them beside my towel at the edge of the pool. I was wearing my varsity-team bathing suit, an ugly blue-and-orange Olympic-type thing. As quietly as I could, without disturbing the surface, I slid into the water. It was as warm as the air, and I was buoyant and free. I sank into it letting it raise above my head. And kicking off from the side, I swam under the surface the full length of the pool. Reaching the other side, I caught my breath and began an easy crawl across the surface, one lap side craw, one lap breaststroke, back and forth, tiring myself, until at last I just hover near the deep end, treading water and smiling into the starry darkness. It was then that I saw him.

He was sitting quietly on the padded lawn chair right in front of me. His legs were crossed Indian fashion beneath him, and his wrists were resting on his knees like sone type guru's. His hair draped over his shoulder and shone white against his skin. " Are you through?" he asked. I kept treading water and watching him. " Scuse me?" I asked, stalling for time. " I said are you throught trespassing?"

" I guess I am," I said, searching for my towel. I swam over toward it, but my arms was so weak from my laps, I couldn't lift myself out of the water. I tried to hoist myself up two or three times, and then swam to the ladder and dragged myself out. The air suddenly felt very cool.

I reached for my towel, feeling ridiculous in my team bathing suit. He was wearing a pair of baggy white trunks that looked shimmery in the darkness. I rubbed myself down, trembling and chilly, feeling foolish.

"Are you one of the waitresses from the Pridley?" he ask coolly

The Pridley was the island exclusive hotel, where the sub-elite stayed, the wealthy summer islanders who didn't own summer house. I immediately got an attitude, even thought my dad had suggested that very thing to me. That I get a job their this summer.

" No," I answered just as coolly. " I staying with my mother in our cottage across the way."

"Across whatway?" he asked. He looked like he could be about seventeen or eighteen, about my age, yet he was lighting a cigarette as if he where an actress, or maybe a child pretending, and I could see in the match light a slight smirk spread across his face. I could even tell that he was a full flege demon. He shoot the match with manicured nails, and he blew a stream of smoke into the air and waited.

I motioned with my head toward our cottage. " That's my cottage," he stated.

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