Falling in fire (Erik Menendez)

Bitches & Beaches

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"Kimberly!" I hear shouts from behind me as I try to buy a coffee in the airport. I turn quickly to see four familiar faces run towards me. Jazz reaches me first and engulfs me in a massive hug. Anna reached me next with Mandy following swiftly with Kate strolling along last.

I take my coffee and all four of the girls order one. We go over collect our bags. We then sit in the cafe for a bit, while we wait for the taxi. "So, what's life like over here!" Anna asks excitedly. "It's great, I grabbed a few bits and pieces for the house. Everyone I work with is great, well apart from the bloke that thinks Sienna and I shouldn't be working because we are girls and too young. Other than that it's been amazing." I tell them "who's Sienna." Mandy asks. "Oh my new friend I met on set." I tell them. "Ohhh look at you mixing with your crew mates." Jazz says laughing, Anna, Kate and I join in laughing. I look to Mandy and she has a bit of a sour look on her face. "Someone's jealous." Anna says jokingly. "How am I jealous?!" Mandy snaps back quickly.

The taxi arrives and we load everyone's bags. I get in the front, Mandy, Anna, Kate in the middle and Jazz I'm the very back seats with all the bags. We drive back to my place. I pay for the taxi and we all go inside. The girls all look around. "Ah Kim, your bed is so nice!" Kate says. "Ye I love it." I tell her.

"So what does everyone want to do today?" I ask. "Well it's already 6, wanna just get food and sweets and stay in. Then we can go shopping for furniture and that tomorrow?" Kate suggests and we all agree.

We head to the TGI Friday's that is walking distance from my house. We all go in and take seats at a table. All the girls get big burger meals and I get a kids chicken tenders and chips with a vanilla milkshake. The girls all mess around about me getting a kids meal but I need to keep space for a massive dessert. I could not live with myself if I couldn't finish my dessert.

We finish our dinner and desserts, we pay and leave. We walk to the local Walgreens and get loads of sweets and face masks. We also pick up a few blankets. When we get home we set up a little make shift bed for Jazz and Kate. Anna and Mandy are staying in my bed with me. We all put on face masks, eat sweets and talk about the latest gossip in LA and Ireland.

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The sun rises and we all wake up. We get ready in nice summer outfits to match the California weather. We go to loads of furniture shops place orders for all new furniture and stuff. We take the small stuff with us and the big stuff is all coming in delivery. We go out for food and go back to mine to set up the furniture that we brought home with us. We went to bed in the same conditions we did last night.

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Today we were going to just have fun, go beach, food and maybe even a bit of site seeing. We all get into our fun and colorful swimsuits. I wear my bikini top with denim shorts and a short white cardigan. I pack a bag of food and stuff we bought in Walgreens yesterday. We get a taxi to the Santa Monica beach. All five of us walk along the beach looking for a good place to sit. Anna and I walk up to a shop and buy 5 beach towels. When we get back we lay them down and leave all our belongings on them. Mandy and Kate stay at the towels and Sunbathe. Anna, Jazz and I all take off our clothes, so we are just in our swim suits and bikinis. We all run down to the water. "You go in first!" Jazz shouts to me and I jump in. The two girls both following behind me. "Oh it's not even cold." Anna admits. "Well maybe because we are in Los Angeles, not Ireland." I tell her and we laugh.

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We played a few games with another group of boys and girls our age. They had a big colorful beach ball, we all hit it back and forward to each other. If you dropped it you were out. After a good while we decide to get out of the water. Anna, Jazz and I walk up to Mandy and Kate. We all lie down on the empty towels. We sunbathe for a while. The boredom soon grows upon me. "Can we please go to the pier now?!" I beg. "Ye this is getting boring." Jazz supports. "No I need to work on my tan." Mandy says. "You're ginger you will burn and go straight back to the color of Casper the ghost." I tell her. "Well no I'm not going!" She says. I look at the other three girls and make signals asking do they want to come. All three of them nod excitedly. "Ok, then you stay here alone because all of us are going." I say with a smirk. She jolts up "well someone needs to stay with me, Jazz?" I look at Jazz and her being the push over she is "ok". "No Jazz isn't, she has a life of her own, stay here by yourself or realize the fact that your not the only one in this world." I say and we all get up. Mandy let's out a dramatic sigh "fine!". We all pack up and head to the pier.

Jazz and I are like children in a playground, we run around and play games. All five of us stand in front a shack like structure, with 3 bean bags each. The buzzer goes and each of us fire the bean bags at empty milk bottles. Me being me, I obviously won. I took a large teddy bear with me.

After messing around for a while, it soon reached 4pm and we were all feeling a bit peckish. We all decided upon going to a small milkshake diner close by. As the five of us burst through the door, a bell rings. I look around the shop and see that it's close to empty. There is only 4 other people in the shop, 4 boys all seated in a booth to the left of us.