𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐄. 𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐩.

𝟎𝟒. 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲

WHEN BELLY AGREED to sneaking out, I was shocked. Completely. It was nothing like Belly, she seemed really different this summer. But, honestly, everyone did. It must have been in the air. 

"Holy shit. We're doing this." I said, stopping as my feet touched the sand. Belly looked at me, she looked kind of concerned, and then she turned back towards the house. "Bells, it's ok." I told her. She smiled, and nodded her head.

"Yea, yea. Let's go." She said. We walked down towards the beach. I could smell the bonfire from where we were. 

Belly pointed to a guy, "That's the guy that invited me." We started walking over to the bonfire.  There was really loud music playing. It felt like a dream come true. I had a huge smile on my face and it made me feel like I was a child. 

"Yo gas station girl." The guy said. "Who's your friend?' He asked, and then looked me up and down and I rolled my eyes at him. 

"Where you coming from?" He asked us.

"Another party." I said, smiling and tilting my head.

"Sweet, yea. Hey, here take my beer." He said, trying to hand it to Belly.

"No, no, no thanks. I'm okay." She said, shoving it away lightly.  I practically pulled it out of his hand.

"I'll take it!" I said, in a cheerful voice. 

"Anyways, uh, you got a boyfriend back home?" He started asking Belly. She was about to answer him, but then she saw Steven and Luke walking.

"Steven!" Belly yelled. 

"What are you doing here?" Steven asked, looking at me and Belly. 

"And what the hell are you wearing-" Luke asked, looking at me.

"I invited them. Who the fuck are you?" He asked Steven and Luke.

"We're their brothers. They're both 15, you pedo." Steven yelled.

"I'm almost 16." Belly said, like that made things better. 

"Jesus christ, come on." Luke and Steven walked up to us and pulled us away. 

"Get off me." I yelled at Luke. Me and Belly were both yelling at our brothers, and trying to push them off. We kept bickering, but then we all bumped into each other and fell on the ground.

"Are you ok?" Steven asked Belly. I took Luke's hand and stood up, but immediately flipped him the middle finger. 

"Lilah?" Conrad was sitting on a towel, with a girl practically on top of him. "Belly?" He looked at each of us like we were crazy. I walked over to Belly, kneeled down, and stuck a hand out. She took my hand and stood up. 

"I thought you hated the Red Sox." Belly said, talking to Conrad.

"Who are you?" The girl who was sitting on top of Conrad Asked. 

"Who are you?" Belly asked her, before she could even answer. 

"Nicole. Conrad and I went to the deb ball together last summer." 

"It was after you guys left to take Steven to look at colleges." Conrad replied. 

"I thought you said that deb balls are bullshit. And all debs are sheep. " Belly said.

"Belly." I quietly said her name as a signal to stop, and looked her in the eye. But she then looked back at Conrad.

"I didn't..." Conrad said, exchanging looks between Nicole and Belly. "You're such a brat."

"Conrad!" I yelled at him to stop.

"Well you're an asshole." Belly yelled at him.

"Belly and Lilah! You came!" Jeremiah said, running over with a drink in his hand. "Great, we can all hang out, you guys!"

"We're about to take them home." Luke yelled. 

"Yea. We're leaving. Are you kidding me?" Steven said.

"Ok, guys, chill out. Come on." Jeremiah said. "Go hang out with Shayla and Gigi."

"Fine. But just stay right here, and don't talk to anybody." Luke said before walking away. 

"Ok, all right, chill." Jeremiah said, and lightly pushed him away. 

"Fuck you!" I yelled back at the boys, and Belly flipped them off. 

"Listen, for one, I'm really happy you guys are here. " Jeremiah said, before some girl yelled his name. "Ok, I will be right back." Belly started walking away, and Conrad was looking at me, angrily. I stuck my hands in the air, and started walking away.

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I was sitting in the sand, even though I knew it would get the dress dirty. Honestly, I didn't care. Taylor could never hate me. I heard somebody walking over, but I couldn't bother to look and see who it was.

"Delilah." I knew who it was, because I knew his voice so well. Jeremiah didn't normally say my full name, he always called me Lilah. He would only say my full name when it was just us.

"Heyyy." I was already on my 4th drink by this time.

"Hey?" He said, laughing. We looked each other in the eyes. For a long time. A smile started to form on my face. He got closer to me, and I leaned in and kissed him. I'm not sure what made me do it. 8 year old me would be euphoric right now. But, it's not like it was the first time we kissed. When I was 13, we were out on the beach at like 3AM, and we were just watching the waves come in. It was almost the same both times. Except this time I had alcohol in my system. We pulled apart after we heard Conrad yelling. We both looked over, and saw him and some guy yelling at each other. 

"Oh shit." I yelled. We both ran over there. They kept hitting each other and arguing about beer. I dropped my cup on the ground, but I didn't even care, considering more important things were going on. I saw belly walking up to them, but the guy that Conrad was fighting elbowed her in the face.

"Oh hell no." I whispered. I ran up to them, and tried punching him in the face, but after I did, he just stood back up and pushed me on the ground. I felt a sharp pain in my left eye. Conrad and the guy kept on fighting. Jeremiah was trying to get them both to stop fighting, and eventually, they did. But not long after, the cops showed up. Everyone started yelling and running off the beach. Jeremiah came over and helped me up. We both started running off the beach, behind Belly and some boy. 

It was all ... unexpected.

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𝑾𝜪𝑹𝑫𝑺 : 1048

𝑨/𝑵 - yay