it was 12:30 on a thursday, mid june. school was just dismissed for summer and all the students were packing into cars heading to the beach. all expect for dannielle. danny was packing into her car to take the two and a half hour car ride down to their cape house. every year, same routine. pack the car with all the necessities, take the drive, unpack all the necessities and sit at the beach staring into the sea.
dan didn't have an friends down the cape, she lived near the preppy bitches who rulled the beaches.
this was the first year that dan was eligible to get a job, a summer job was just what she needed. somewhere to go everyday. she sent out the applications weeks in advance, and patiently waited for any response. when she least expected, she got a response. the local lifeguard tower needed an extra guard. $15 an hour pay, cute red bathing suit, and gets to hangout with all the hot lifeguard boys. who wouldn't want that.
danielle, that's who wouldn't want that. the pay was awesome, but the boys and bikinis were not too appealing. she wanted to sit in an air conditioned ice cream shop, not a sweltering beach tower.
fast forward to her first day in the cape. she had already unpacked her belongings into her beach themed bedroom, all that was left was to pick up her uniform and start her shift.
she got into her beat up two door, 2006 jeep and drove down her street to the public beach parking. she sat in her car and checked her phone, morning over the countless snapchats she was receiving from her friends. that's when a knock came from her drivers side window, it was a boy.
"you can't park here unless you work for the beach ma'am." the brunette boy said.
"shit my bad, I actually do work here it's my first day. i'm a lifeguard? dan said embarrasdly.
"your danielle?" the bot questioned as she nodded, "i expected you to be one of the other cape girls" he said in a sassy tone.
dan opened her car door, blocking the boy between the fence and her car, "you mean you were expecting me to be your summer hookup..?" dan smirked.
"no that's- uhm i didn't mean- that's not-" he stuttered
"chill. im kidding." dan shook her head and lifted her arms in surrender.
"..oh ha-heh..." the boy awkwardly let out a laugh and tried to hide his red face.
"im colby.." he said while walking after dan, "and I wasn't looking for you to be my summer hook up. whatever that even is." he scratched his neck.
"don't act like you haven't had one like every summer since you were 13.." she rolled her eyes and shut the car door.
dan swung her backpack over her shoulder and began walking out of the parking lot, her toes hitting the fresh warm sand.
leaning down to grab her flip flops she was met by another hand reaching for them.
"ive got them.." colby smirked.
"so charming." dan sighed.
they walked in silence down to the life guard post, where they climbed the ramp and walked into the main watch room.
"taeo his is danielle, the new trainee." he laughed.
dan scoffed, "friends just call my dan or danny..."
"why didn't you tell me this danny..?" colby joked.
danny turned to face him, "sorry did I not tell you, we aren't friends." she shot back, grabbing her flip flops from his grasp and picking up her bathing suit from the table.
she walked back into the dressing rooms and changed into her red, two peice life gaurd bathing suit, layering with a pair of old ripped up denim shorts.
stepping out of the dressing room got her a mix of different reactions.
some ooooed some awwwwed. but only colby stayed silent. just staring at the way the bathing suit so perfectly hugged her already tanned body.
///// HIII LITERALLY FIRST THING IVE EVER WRITTEN AND THIS IS ALL COMING FROM WHAT I WISH COULD HAPPEN TO ME :)))) //////
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the secrets we keep
Любовные романыdanielle murphy has the summer life people would kill for, yet she's so unsatisfied with it. year after year she retreats to her cape cod town home and wastes away her summer. this year she is doing what she promised herself she wouldn't, becoming o...
