Christina couldn’t wait to get out of the house, it was too hot. The summer nights heat was killing her, and she was sure that she was going to have another restless night.

Christina’s father was a well to do rancher. Being made of money Christina knew that she could have anything that she wanted. She always got what she wanted but lately she had been going down to the creek in the middle of the night when it was too hot. Not liking the air-conditioned home that she lived in because it was too cold.

She waited for her father to fall asleep that night as she always had done before. Making sure that she didn’t get caught.

Christina put her blonde hair up in a ponytail. Her blue eyes were glimmering, it was more of a challenge for her to get out and see if she could get away with it.

Being twenty years old and able to do what she wanted because she was spoiled, she had her father wrapped around her finger since she was a baby she knew there was going to be hell to pay if she was caught sneaking in and out of the house.

Hearing her father snoring from the den she went upstairs to her room, the only way to sneak out was to leave her bedroom door open and go down the rose fence that had been put up against the house since she was little.

Christina shut her bedroom door quietly, making sure she didn’t make a noise. She snuck across her room, opening her bedroom window she lowered herself out until she could grab a hold of the strong fence that had been holding her the past few nights.

She was glad that the moon was shining brightly so that she didn’t have to worry about taking a flashlight with her, it was an extra thing to carry and she didn’t have the extra hands when she had to grab a hold of the fence.

There had been a few times when she almost fell if it wasn’t for latching on as tightly as she had missing her footing as she headed down and scratched herself as she pressed her body against the fence.

When Christina was down on the ground she looked at the house, not seeing a single light on, not seeing any signs to get back up the fence she turned away from the house.

She didn’t believe in running away from the house, she was wearing a pair of night shorts and a button up matching shirt. Short sleeved and it was still too hot outside.

Once she was sure that she wasn’t going to get caught she looked across the road she could see the lake calling her name silently. It was beckoning to her to come swim and cool off from the summer nights heat.

She jogged towards the lake. It wasn’t the first time or the last time that she was going to go there. It was surrounded by woods other than being able to see the house from a safe distance she wasn’t worried about anyone spying on her.

During the day she admired the mountains that set up above the trees and the lake. Always telling herself that she was going to go for a hike, but she never did. She always found herself too busy or she didn’t want to waste her time and energy for bugs and sweating when she was already hot enough and complaining about it.

Christina went over to the far side of the lake where she could barely see the house in case her father decided to come out for a stroll as he did often but never to the lake because there was nothing for him to see.

Christina had a big smile on her face when she saw the water, going over to her favorite rock she listened but didn’t hear anything but crickets and frogs. The summer time sounds that mother nature produced.

Slowly Christina slid out of her shorts, hanging them on a tree limb and she began to unbutton her shirt she heard something that startled her.

“Stop, you’re going to hear the branches, you’re going to hear noises it’s the woods.” She muttered to herself.

As soon as she unbuttoned her shirt she placed it gently on the limb next to her shorts. They were silk, and she knew that she was going to get into trouble if she didn’t take care of her things. She didn’t like her things ruined. One thing she loved were clothes. Her clothes.

Slowly she got into the water, gasping slightly as the cool water began to surround her she quickly went under and came back up laughing. Her voice echoed off the trees, but she didn’t care. There was nothing to worry about. She was by herself. It was only her enjoying the cool water as began to swim back and forth from the rock out to the middle of the lake and back again.