Chapter 38

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Someone knock on the door shouting "go stand up marmots". I recognize Daniel's voice and groan before turning over in bed. I grab my phone and see it's 1 p.m. Well okay it's as quite late but still. My head hurts a little. Maybe I overdid the champagne.

I get up with difficulty and take a long t-shirt and shorts that I put underneath. I tie my hair in a bun and go down like this. I tried to wake Charles, but he's slow in the morning so he'll come downstairs when he's ready.

Most people are already up but not much more awake than me. We all had a good party last night. I'm going to sit next to Katerina and Luisa. They are super beautiful even in the morning. At the same time I am surrounded by models or who could be models. Charles comes down a few minutes later and comes to give me a kiss on the forehead before going to "breakfast".

We have the house for the whole day, so we decide to go put on our bathing suits and enjoy the indoor swimming pool. When we go up to the room Charles changes and comes towards me.

Charles: We have a problem bébé.
Emma: What is it?

He turns and shows me his back which is full of scratches. Oops.

Emma: Oh yeah. Well, listen, you just have to put on a t-shirt and keep it on.
Charles: It will be even more suspicious than if I put nothing. At worst I just have to find an excuse. Like I scratched myself in training with something.
Emma: Yeah if you want. I don't know if they'll believe it, but as you wish.

He decides to come downstairs and say a bogus excuse. Well, he's not going to say anything as long as no one remarks to him.

The water is super hot and it feels good. I dive into the water and join the girls. They don't want to get their hair wet and are careful while I don't care. I'll wash my hair afterwards, but now I want to enjoy and be able to swim.

Charles comes into the water in turn followed by Pierre when Daniel arrives.

Daniel: Leclerc did you go to war or what? What is this back?
Charles: Ah ah too funny man.

Daniel turns to me and says " you must have had a good night Emma".

I turn tomato red. I like Daniel very much but sometimes he is embarrassing. But he laughs at his own joke and doesn't make any other comment, so that's fine. Anyway everyone knows we're together and I mean nobody's naive everyone knows what's going on.

After this moment of embarrassment, I continue to talk with the girls. When all of a sudden, I feel someone grab my leg and then someone else grab my arms. Obviously it is Charles and Pierre.

Pierre: You're the only girl we have the right to sink so you're going to suffer, he said smiling with all his teeth.
Emma: And you're not going to sink me instead of helping me, I say to Charles.
Charles: Sorry ma chérie that's how it is.

They sink me three times in a row, barely letting me catch my breath in between. As soon as they let me go, Daniel arrives and carries me to sink me in turn.

Emma: Well it's almost over there? I'm not your painkiller.

Someone grabs my legs and yanks me down obviously.

Lando: Now that I've got you down too, it's good, we're done. Well I think. George, Alex do you want to sink her or is it okay?

The two look at Lando from their lounge chair and reply that it's ok they prefer to stay there. It really looks like two grannies especially since it's not even that there's sun and they can tan.

After this intense casting session for me, I decide to get out of the water for a while. I pick up my phone and decide to post the picture I took last night. I see that I quickly have lots of likes and comments.

 I see that I quickly have lots of likes and comments

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leafolki too beautiful my cops
julien.dlt a real princess 😍

I obviously see that Julien commented. If Charles sees this he's going to freak out. We once had the famous ex-conversation and so I told him that I had an ex named Julien etc. So he knows who it is. And given that he is very jealous, I think it might be complicated. But I figure he might not notice as I have so many other comments. I now have 248k subscribers so it's much less noticeable than when I had less.

Anyway, for the moment, we're with friends at the pool, that's all that matters to me and I don't want to worry about the rest.

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