Dwindling Time (Being Edited)

Chapter 5

Tamika and I were walking to school.

Things had been very quiet since I had told her about what Spencer had said to me. It was kind of weird because it sort of felt like she was jealous. Yet she told me so many times she was over him. I guess it must've been weird for her. Her best friend having a crush in her ex. I would've been weirded out if I was in her place but as much as I tried I couldn't change the feelings I had for Spencer.

"So, what's going to happen now?"

"Between me and Spencer? I don't know." The same question had been reeling through my head for the past couple of days. I didn't actually know whether he liked me or whether he was going to ask me out. But I really wished that he would.

I had gymnastics the next afternoon while he had rugby so he'd come to my house and my mum would drop is both off. I was hoping we'd get to speak a bit then. But then again Spencer was so unorganised and so unpredictable I would never know.

"Look. I know it may seem like I'm not being supportive but I just want to keep you safe. I don't want you getting hurt by him."

"I know, Tamika. But how can you learn from mistakes if you don't make any. Maybe Spencer will be a mistake, maybe he won't. But either way, I will have learned some kind of lesson from it." I had no idea what I had just said but I needed a reason to get Tamika off my back about the subject for the moment. I was just as confused as she was.

"Yeah I guess so.." Tamika trailed off.

"Lesson about what?" Tamika and I turned around to see a blonde girl walking behind us.

Kayla Darcey. Not a girl everyone wanted to know, let alone interact with. The main reason is (to put it into nice words) she was a harpy. She was like the Regina George of our school. Even though she was super popular and had her 'followers', no on really likes her because she was mean and horrible. That's just how Kayla was. No one would stand up to her because then she wold make their lives a living hell. The only three people who liked her was one of my best friends, Caitlyn Tomkins and two other girls I was friends with called Leah Jenkin and Giuliana Samuels. Kayla was a complete bimbo. Huge breasts, blonde hair, blue eyes but some how she wasn't pretty. She was horrible, an airhead and sometimes the worst person in the world, but we tried to be nice to her. Tried.

"Oh nothing." I answered looking back at her," I was just explaining to Tamika how it's good to learn from your mistakes."

"Oh yeah. That is good. I've learnt from so many of my mistakes. I'm sure you guys have made heaps of mistakes. Well I know your parents have." She smiled and walked off in front of us.

"Diva." I said to Tamika.

"Devil." She replied.

School was a bore. And I almost wished I didn't get such good grades so I didn't have to pay attention and I could go to sleep.

In the middle of Geography I got a text.

"Hey can I come over after school? Today has decided to be super hot and I need a swim."

I smiled at the message Spencer sent me and quickly texted back.

"Sure. Be there at 3:30."

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The rest of the day zoomed by. I was so excited to see him. It was the first time I had seen him since he had told me that he liked me.

"Hey mum." I said when I got home, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Me and my mum looked nothing alike. Although we were both short and had brown hair, she had bright blue eyes which I was constantly jealous of and fair skin whereas mine was more olive.

"Hey Evie. How was your day, hon?"

Boring.

"It was great thanks." I said smiling at her, "Um mum, Spencer texted me, asking if he could come over and swim coz it's so hot."

"Sure. Just tell him to come over whenever he can."

I smiled at her and ran upstairs to get changed into my bikini. Ok, my purple one or my orange one or my pink and black one? At that moment, those questions were important. Pretty much everything I looked like then, weighed out my future. I chose my orange one which had white polka dots on it and went into the bathroom to tie my hair up into he perfect messy bun. I looked at my reflection. I wasn't nearly as pretty as I would've liked to be. My friend, Caitlyn was tall and skinny and sometimes I wished I had her figure. My butt was a bit bigger than usual size and my boobs were too small for anyone's liking. I had braces to fix up my teeth and I knew by looking at myself I wasn't perfect. But that was the best I could get myself. I gave my reflection a little wink, slipped on my jean shorts and skipped back downstairs.

By the time I got back down I could see Spencer swimming in the pool. I crossed my arms over my stomach and walked outside to see Spencer.

"Ok so you got 2 choices. No actually you got one." He said to me as I stood by the edge of the pool, taking off my shorts. I didn't understand what he was talking about.

He started walking out of the pool and I couldn't help but stare at his well- defined body. His 6 pack was well shaped and he had an excellent V- line. The water dripped off his biceps and I had to make sure I didn't start drooling.

With one swift movement he picked me up over his shoulder and I knew exactly what he was gonna do.

"No! Put me down Shrek!" I started banging m fists against his lower back.

"Ouch! That hurts princess. I think I need to teach you a lesson." He jumped up and the next thing I knew I was soaking wet. It was refreshing but I didn't particularly like being chucked in. He chuckled once he saw the expression on my face.

"Lighten up. You were going to have to get in sometime." He splashed a bit of water on my face.

"You're on." I challenged, splashing him back.

Water was chucked everywhere and the laughter was endless. It was like fate actually liked me today.

"I so won." I said to him as I walked it of the pool, grabbing my towel.

"Nice ass, Evie but nah I don't think you won."

I gave him a little shove and laughed. He did too. And then he just stopped and stared. I just looked at me with his intense green eyes and out of the corner of his mouth I saw the smallest smile. Those ones you get when you're totally content with everything. I dropped my stare and looked at my feet.

"Thanks for the afternoon. But I better get home." He said coming closer to give me a hug. I held on and inhaled the mix of the chlorine and his cologne coming off his body.

"Anytime." I replied when he finally let go.

He gave me another smile, and he was gone.