Just Friends? (Ansel Elgort story)

Beach House Pranks

This first chapter is dedicated to my best friend bethany199

"We made it! Freedom!", I scream as I sprint to the beach house. I take in all of the smells I missed over the school year. Tyler comes in almost tripping over our luggage and looks around in awe, "It's so big". I mutter a "that's what she said" under my breath. I snicker and he runs over dropping the luggage and puts me over his shoulders. "Put me down! Tyler so help me I will cut off you're dick off with a spoon!", I say trying to grab his legs to put him off balance. He doesn't even seem affected when I smell the salty sea water and my eyes bulge out of my head. "Tyler don't you dare", my voice low but loud enough he can hear me.

"You brought this on yourself princess", he says when I see the sea comes up to his knees. "Let's think of this as a initiation to the summer beach house pranks", he swings me around so he's carrying me bridal style. "I hate you" I say knowing what comes next. "No you don't, I'm you're best friend princess", he kisses me on the forehead and before he throws me I scream at the top of my lungs but I'm cut off when I hit the water. I jump out of the water and looks at him through my soaking wet hair. I start of slow making my way over to him and then I jump on him screaming "I'm going to drown you!". We both come out shaking and laughing. He sweeps me up again but starts towards the beach. We head up to the house grabbing a towel. He walks past me saying, "Hey im going to go make us some food want some?". I shake my head fast saying "duh". Tyler swings into the kitchen and I decide to strip down and go take a shower. I start to undress when I get a weird feeling. I look at the house to the right and see the curtain blowing. That house has been abandoned for at least two years and it's crept me out since. I decide to go upstairs and check out the old room.

I run up the giant stairs and memories flood my mind. This house has always been so special to me and I'm glad I have this last summer to enjoy it, Next year I would be a senior and I've already had colleges ask me about coming to their school after that. This summer is going to be one I'll remember. As I walked up the stairs I admired the house. Tyler was right, this house was huge. 5 bedrooms, two half baths, two full baths, a big upper balcony, and a big porch downstairs. Plus we had the beach and the sea right behind us. This was one of the perks of my mother's divorce to the horrible man that was once my father. I had never met him and I sure wasn't planning on it anytime soon. He was horrible to my mother and sure as hell didn't give a damn about me. I was okay with that though, he still sent his support in cash and that was all I needed. The only "father figure" I had was Sam and he was in his second year of college but decided to come down this summer with us. He had just broke up with his nasty girlfriend and wanted to get away, I knew his getting away had to do with getting laid but hey can you blame him? Even though this family was pretty messed up it still worked for me.

I heard a bang of the swing door up front and I looked out the window to see My mom and Sam arriving. 'Finally' I thought. I jumped into the shower and then went to my room to get some new clothes on. (Since my old ones were soaking wet from the idiot called Tyler) I put my long wavy hair into a bun and put on some short shorts and a Twenty One Pilots crop top. (btw their my favorite band of all time) I strut down stairs and looked out to the sea. It was already getting close to sunset so I decided to check on Tyler. I walked in smelling something delicious. One thing that was amazing about Tyler was his cooking and mom and Sam totally agreed. He had made Alfredo pasta, bean, steamed broccoli, and some salad. I went up and smacked him butt saying, "I think I'll keep you around awhile longer". He smirked and we sat down and ate. The first one to speak up was my mom. "Okay well thank you Tyler for cooking an amazing dinner the first night.", she said smiling at Tyler. " It was a pleasure Mrs. Wilson and it's only a small thank you for letting me come down here with you guys this summer". "Well you're welcome, I wish you would have come down two summer ago. With this cooking I could have given you a job at one of our restaurants". Yes that's correct, My mom owns a big restaurant chain and that's why we could afford things like this. After we were done eating and cleaned up my mom pulled us aside saying she was going out tonight and that Sam was in charge. I internally groaned knowing he wasn't going to stay anyway but my mom was a little naïve to see that. My mom thought he was a perfect child but everyone else knew that he wasn't.

So mom left and Sam stood on the second stair announcing his departure. "Well my little ones since I haven't seen any of my friends down here yet so I believe I'm going to go out and mingle", he said arms out and bowing. He strut towards the door grabbing his jacket and keys, "Don't do anything stupid like burn the house down, also be expecting a party this weekend", he smirked and then left.

"Well at least we have the house to ourselves?", he shrugged. I laughed and said "Movie night?", he immediately ran to start the popcorn while I searched for movies. It wasn't an epic first night but I have a feeling this is just the start.