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Fact no.15: Paintball is hot

APRIL

I've been ignoring Coin for a few days now. Better said, a week. He was indeed waiting for me in front of the bathroom door that night but Dia asked him to leave. For once in his life, he listened.

I spend my days with Cami, Kai and Dia at the beach. Coin leaves in the morning and comes back somewhen after lunch. He joins us then, but we don't talk. I feel his gaze on me though. The entire time. As if he wants to say something but can't bring himself to do it.

I don't know what's worse. Talking and swearing at him the whole time or not talking at all.

We're all sitting on our towels now. Cami cuddling with Kai, me and Dia sharing a towel and me braiding her hair and Coin on another towel, looking at his phone. I know he's texting with the Fab Five. Someone sent him a reel earlier and as he opened it, Taylor Swift music started playing loud. That could only mean one person. Jacob.

I saw how Dia next to me tensed as the music started playing. She must also have realized it was Jacob. Dia and Jacob is what I call soulmates. They are both music obsessed, but while Dia is more Lana del Rey, Jacob is a pure swiftie. Dia is mysterious and shy, never saying much, always keeping her feelings inside her, while Jacob is the complete opposite. Always smiling and talking, making jokes and laughing. The two would make such a good couple. But of course, they can't be together. Because of Leo. Dia never said she loved Jacob and I also think she doesn't know it yet, since all she thinks about when it comes to love is Leo. Jacob made no sign until now of loving Dia, but I can see it. In the way he looks and talks to her. Some part of him wants her.

I just hope he'll one day get her.

"So, I was thinking", Cami begins and we are already paying attention to her. She was the one who brought us to that party. And even though it didn't well so well for me, it still was a fun experience. Kai and Cami had a great time attending their first event as an official couple. Dia talked to this guy from a band, Miguel, who agreed to let her sing with him a few times this Summer. Dia is a music major at Wrencore, who wishes to become a singer one day. She was happy to hear she can get some gigs with this band and add it to her experience.

Overall, the night didn't suck.

"Some friends of mine from college are going to play paintball tomorrow. They invited us to come. Would you like to join?"

Would I like to let out my aggression by shooting at moving living targets? Hell yeah.

"Sure", I say. Dia nods too. Coin only shrugs and agrees. Kai has already agreed the moment Cami opened her mouth.

"Great. We'll have fun. And my friends already can't wait to meet you", Cami adds while taking out her phone and texting someone, probably telling her friends we said yes.

Something inside me tells me we'll indeed have fun.

NOAH

If you asked me how I pictured this Summer to be like, wearing a big black vest and a weapon in my hand wouldn't have been my top guess. Yet here I am, ready to play paintball with my best friend's fiancée's friends.

Yay.

The only good thing is that April is here as well. She's been ignoring me ever since I crashed her date at that party and then told her I didn't hate her. And she called me Noah. Noah. She hasn't called me like that since high school junior year. And given the fact I just finished junior year in college and am on my way of becoming a senior, that says a lot.

Cami introduces us to her friends, a bunch of other college students, and then we make the teams. The teams are made randomly through an app. I definitely get high school flashbacks right now, when we couldn't decide how to make the teams and the teachers gave up and used their "magic" app. I am selected in the red team, along with two other girls, one with blue hair that introduced herself as Gabi and a blonde haired whose name is Adella. There's two guys in our team apart from me, one called Roberto and another called Carlos. And then there's...April. Who gives me a death stare the moment she finds out we were paired together.