Love is In the Cosmos

17

" Dude, you have a basketball goal for your pool?" Jon ask me gaping at the pool

I smile and pull my shirt over my head. Before considering anyone I just jump right in. I gasp at the feeling of the chilly water  hitting my warm skin. I resurface just as everyone else jumps in. I jump on Josh's head to make him go under water. He taps on my arm as I put him in a headlock to let me know that he gives. We swim back to the surface and cough as we swallow water.

"What the fuck was that for?" He says 

I shrug my shoulders and grin.

"Because I felt like it." I say

"Like that's good enough." Nick screams out

I turn to see him shirtless and Brie constantly punching his arm. I only fell for that once. His motive is to make you mad because you're not hurting him, which pisses you off making you hit him harder causing your knuckles to hurt. Mine were swollen for a whole week when I did it. I laugh as Brie misses his arm and hits Bryan instead. Nick catches me watching and smiles. I smile back just as Josh jumps on my back.

"Paybacks a bitch huh?" He says as I go underwater

I struggle to get a breathe as my chest sets on fire

"Dude you're drowning my girl?" I hear Le say

I look at Nick his jaw is squared and Randy is staring from him to me. I look at Randy and he raises an eyebrow at me and looks at Nick from the corner of his eye to tell me that he's asking if there is anything going on between us. I mouth later to him and he nods.

Two hours later most of us are still in the pool or having a shot or two from the bar. I see that Le, Josh, and Jon have disappeared so I swim over to the edge of the pool where Paige sits with her feet dangling over the side.

"Hey Paige have you seen Le?" I ask pulling myself out of the water and sitting beside her

She smiles and grins.

"Why you already wanna play with Nick some more?" She whispers

I look at her and roll my eyes.

"Not that I would mind that but no that's not why I'm asking. I asked because Randy wants to talk, but  when Le sees me talking to him he flips out and goes all over protective of me and shit." I say

She nods.

"Oh, I gotcha girl. By the way he left to workout with Josh and Jon so feel free to talk to Randy as much as you want while he's gone." Paige says

I laugh and look across the pool and spot Randy looking at me. He raises an eyebrow and I nod my head so that he knows we can talk now. I get out and wrap myself  in a towel before walking around the pool and through the patio door. As I'm walking through my living room I pick up the remote to turn off the TV. After sitting the remote back down I walk into the kitchen.

I open the fridge and lean down to get a beer and I feel eyes on my ass. When I shut the door I see that Randy is sitting at the island. He quickly adverts his gaze.

"If you want one you gotta get it yourself." I say as I pop the top off mine

He smirks and gets up and grabs himself one from the fridge. He pops the top and swallows a gulp. Some rolls down his chin as he pulls the bottle from his lips. What'd I give to kiss it off. After wiping it away with the back of his hand he sits on the bar stool beside me.

"So, what's up with you? One day you're with Cody, then you're not and I get what he did he fell for himself instead of you then slept with Kelly in your house, then you're with Leati, and then you're all smiley and twinkly eyed with Nick. So like I said before What's up?" He says finishing his beer

I stare at him for a moment then finish mine. He takes my bottle from me and tosses both in the glass recycling bin.

"Okay so Steph put me up to something in order to help Nick become champ. I've gotta find out Le's weaknesses and tell them to Nick so that he can use them against him, but I'm starting to realize that maybe Leati doesn't have any weaknesses." I confess to him

He nods and gets up and grabs two more beers from the fridge.

"So you're telling me that from day one Stephanie convinced you to sleep with Leati, find his weaknesses, and to tell Nick so that he can use them against him and become the champion?" Randy says opening our beers 

I nod and take mine from him.

"Yeah and now me and Nick are together and I don't want to hurt Le. I just don't know what to do anymore Randy." I say lying my head on the island counter

"All I can say is do what you think is the right thing or what you think is best. Just don't piss Steph off because that is one bitch I don't think you can handle." He says

I sit up and smile.

"I think I know what I've got to do. I've got to tell Le whats been going on and I gotta talk to Cody because I want to know what the hell happened between him and Kel." I say

I hear a car pull into the drive and we get up taking our drinks with us.

"Thanks for listening by the way." I say as we walk into the living room

He smiles.

"Anytime. By the way you know God made girls too ." Randy says walking out the patio door just as the front door opens

I smile at the fact that Randy remembered the song that I sung last night. Which is one of my favorites and plus it makes me feel better when I feel like I don't have the strength to do something. I breathe at the fact that maybe he say that just to encourage me a little.

Leati walks in and hugs me. I look at him and smile before grabbing his hand.

"Can we talk?" I ask

He raises an eyebrow.

"Sure." He says