they took to swimming together at jude 's family 's pool in cul-de-sac ritzville , and although she had started out sort of disliking jude because she thought he was uppity , she took a fancy to his muscles , which themselves had taken a fancy to the frequent exercise of swimming , and so more often than not they ended up in the pool and subsequently in the pool house without a speck of parental supervision because his mom was off campaigning for social justice and mosquito nets for africans and his dad was organizing corporate fun runs to eliminate diseases .