The Summer She Turned Pretty

Betrayal, Kisses, and Closure(for real this time)

We were now naked, in Hopper's Cove. We were splashing and laughing, and I felt really happy that Taylor was in with these girls now. 

"Hey, watch out for jellyfish," Gigi shouts as she runs down the dock. "I do not want to have to pee on any of you guys." It was just Gigi, Nicole, Belly, Taylor, Emmy, and I. 

"The other two girls missed out." Taylor sighed. 

"I know!" Nicole adds, "I figured Dara wouldn't but Marissa?" 

"That's what I thought." I nod. 

Gigi is slowly taking off her shorts when she calls Nicole's name. "Nicole!" 

"Yeah?" Nicole replies. 

"Conrad's texting you." 

"Okay, coming." Nicole quickly swims to the dock. 

We were a little far from the dock but I didn't really notice or care. 

"This is so nice." Emmy smiles, looking up at the night sky. 

"I have to admit, I like you guys' friends." Taylor looks at us. 

"Me too." Emmy agrees.

"I knew you would!" I laugh. 

"They all seem down with you and Jeremiah." She says to me. "Even Gigi, whose veins just about exploded when she heard." 

I laugh. We were facing away from the dock at the moment. 

"Oh, my God!" Taylor gasped. 

"What?" Belly and I laughed. 

"I just realized something. Hashtag Team Jellyfish-er." 

"Taylor, that is so dumb." I laugh. 

"No, I'm serious it's so cute. Don't you agree?" She asks Emmy and Belly. Emmy just giggles. 

"It is kinda cute." Belly laughs.  That's when a bright light shines Taylor, Emmy, and me, Belly was out of view. We look over to see the car we used to drive here, backing out. 

Taylor and I's faces drop. "I knew they were bitches." She yells angrily. 

"What's happening?" Belly asks, not in the know. Taylor, Emmy, and I start swimming back, Belly following and she soon sees the car leaving. "Guys, what's going on?" She asks, not wanting to believe what her eyes were showing. 

Taylor, Emmy, and I reached the dock and started to lift ourselves up. "They took everything," I whisper. 

"Except for your phone," Emmy adds. She picks it up while I'm ushering Belly over. "Which has a really incriminating text from Conbad." 

"Shit. What does it say." I squeeze my eyes shut. I'm the reason we're in this mess!

"My mom did ask me to ask you to the ball, but that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to." Emmy quotes. Belly and Taylor are on the other side of her reading the message as well. I read it too, wanting to make sure. 

"Oh my, God," I say this for two reasons, Conrad wanted to ask me to the ball! But Conrad's the reason we are stranded with no clothes. 

"May, concentrate." Belly commands. "What do we do, I mean we can't walk home naked!"

"It, it, could be worse," Taylor adds. 

"Taylor, what could be worse than this," Belly yells.  Taylor sighs. 

That's when I spot something, "Okay, guys, what about that?" I point at it. 

Belly and Taylor groan in unison. "No," Taylor replies.