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episode 5
i'm so grateful for all 70 of you!

One of my favorite memories of summer in Cousins started with a song, and ended with a boy. He taught me how to dance, it was pretty romantic and I loved it, but everyone was watching us.

Me and Belly were at Ms. Covington's first dance rehearsal. Jere wasn't here yet, and I was starting to worry. I got embarrassed, but I knew I wasn't alone because Belly didn't have one either, I was gonna go up to her until a boy stopped me.
"Hey, do you have an escort?" He asks me.
"Uh- yeah, just running late. Not sure if he's coming or not." I say.
"Okay. Well in the meantime I'll dance with you." He says, smirking.

I don't like this boy, and how he's flirting with me.

"Attention everyone, please welcome our instructor. Ms. Covington all the way from Ms. Covington school the ballroom dance in Newton."
"Please join your partners" Ms Covington says.
Jeremiah still isn't here. I assume he didn't get off work, but it's okay because it eventually worked out. Belly's with Nicole.

"Pick up the pace, everyone!"
Ms Covington says, then claps.

I see a jealous Jeremiah out of the corner of my eye.
He comes over to me, puts his arm around my waist.
"I'm her escort, you can leave."
He says protectively.
"Go."

Me and Jeremiah dance,
"Jere that was rude. You could've handled it better." I say.
I know he's jealous, clingy and all but I think he immediately got angry at me the moment I said that. "Yeah no, no one's gonna steal my girl." He said.

"Hey Alexa, play so pretty."

Playing so pretty by Reyanna Maria.

Everyone starts dancing, but honestly I'm too pissed off at Jeremiah.
He glares at me, until Paige walks in.
"What is going on here."

"Alexa. stop. Jeremiah Fisher, what are you doing here?" She asks.
"I'm an escort, and we had a code brown and lost the keys to the chemical closet." He said.
Paige takes out something, then gives spare keys to Jeremiah.

He catches them,
"Bye love." He says, kissing my neck then running out.
I saw Conrad watching, he then waved.
And Nicole and Belly waved back. Awkwardddd.

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Jeremiah's talking to Steven at the bar. I see from afar, but Gigi and Dara are talking to him. Here comes my side of jealousy.
I go up to them, just in time to hear them say
"Your girlfriend is a disaster in heels."

"Uh- no, the waltz dance is just stupid. She's perfect." He says, noticing me and putting me on his lap.
Steven gave them both slushees and they walked away.
"Okay i've said this one too many times, not in front of me." Steven complains.

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I get home after a bit, and Jeremiah's laying down by the pool.
"Hey" he said
"Hey" I replied

"You know our moms are high key stoned right now?"
"What? What the hell?"
"Yep. My favorite snacks, gone." He said, laughing.
We both go inside and they are for sure high. There is so many snacks out.

They notice us, so Susannah goes to paint Jere and me and mom talk for a little.
"What are you guys doing?" I asked
"Just snacking. Oh and by the way are you and Jeremiah together? Your so grown haha." She said, pinching my cheeks.
"Uh- yeah, actually i was going to tell you soon but now you know!"

We go outside to view Jeremiah's painting and it was horrible..
"See this is why old people should not do drugs." Jeremiah says, holding on to my waist.
"Yep.."
Susannah pushes his shoulder,
"Let's leave these brats and go to the beach!" She said.

Once they leave, I turn to Jeremiah.
"Can we talk about today at the rehearsal?"
I asked.
"Yeah, how you almost ditched me for some random ass guy?" He said.
"No, it's just you weren't there and he came up to me and helped me. Nothing happened Jere, I swear." I said truthfully.
"I love you and only you, Jere." I said.

He kissed me. It wasn't rough, it was just passionate.
"You wanna go for a swim later?" He asked.
"Yeah." I said, out of breath.

I went up to me and Belly's room, and rested for a bit before me and Jere went to go swim.
She came in, looking like she was about to cry.
"What's wrong Bells?" I asked, giving my full attention to her.
"It's fucking Conrad. We almost shared a kiss last night and he said he was wasted and didn't remember." She said, on the verge of tears.
"Hey, it's okay. He's always an asshole Belly. But what about Cam?"

"M-me and Cam broke up, I can't lie to him because I love Conrad. Cams so sweet to me but I can't just lie to him." She said.
"Oh. Well I'm going to give Conrad a fucking piece of my mind." I said, pissed off.
"N-no, don't. I'll handle it, I promise." She said.

Belly walked out to go get something, and Jere came in and started kissing my neck from behind.
"I'll be at the pool, waiting." He said, in between kisses.
He walked out.

I got my bathing suit on, and headed towards the pool where Jeremiah was at.
We swam for a bit, then silence filled the air.
He looks at me deeply in the eyes, without saying a single word.
"I love you so much." He says.
"I love you too." I say, smiling.
He swims closer to me.

And closer.
He kisses me, and I wrapped my arms around him. He lifted me up.
We kissed for what felt like 3 hours.

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