‘This heat is going to kill me.’ She waded through the sea of boxes in the living room, carefully hopping over sorted piles of books, clothing, and assorted other random items that were just probably going to clutter up their new place. ‘Seriously, why the hell is it 100 degrees in here, when the A/C has been running for 4 hours continuously? And why am I stuck doing this all by myself? Forget this, I need to cool off.’

She dumped the first box out on the couch, and rummaged through the clothing. No swimsuit. She picked up the next, and proceeded to dump it on the couch as well. Again, no swimsuit. “Jesus.”  Three boxes later, she’d finally found her blue and green plaid bikini. She grabbed it and headed to the bathroom. She stripped off her clothes leaving them in a pile on the bathroom floor. She slipped on the bottoms, and as she tied the straps around her neck she admired herself in the mirror. She gathered her blonde hair into a ponytail and put it up. She turned sideways in the mirror. “Ugh. I need to get back to the gym…and to a tanning bed. I may be the palest person in L.A.”

On that note, she started to rummage in the cabinet under the sink. Shaving cream, body lotion, extra toothpaste, shampoo…no sunblock. ‘Just wonderful,’ she thought. ‘Guess I’ll look for a chair in the shade.’ She grabbed a bathroom towel and a pair of flip flops and headed back through the living room. She grabbed her keys off the rack by the door and as she closed the door, she turned the key dropping the deadbolt. She took the stairs the next 3 flights up to the 18th floor and exited the door to the roof. There were about 5 other people sitting around the pool in chairs. She walked toward the few chairs with partial shade and dropped her towel down on one. She slipped her sandals off and walked to edge of the pool. The sudden chill rushed over her body as she dove in head first. As she came up for air, she smoothed her golden tresses back and wiped away the chlorine tainted water that was stinging her eyes. ‘Wow, that feels great.’ She floated toward the shallow end treading water.