Cruel Summer {JJ Maybank} [c.s]

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐨

Aubrey was up early. She was excited and a little bit nervous about what was happening. She was going to be meeting JJ's best friends today. He had assured her the previous day that they would get along because of how quickly she got along with him. But she was still nervous. It had been a long time since she had any real friends since Elena always found a way to turn them against her. Bree just hoped that wouldn't happen here.

Although Bree had been awake for a while, she waited until she heard her siblings head downstairs before she made her way down as well. Her parents were horrible to her, but Aubrey was at least grateful that they didn't starve her, and she got to eat meals when they made breakfast, lunch, or dinner... she just wasn't asked to go out when they went to restaurants and things like that then she had to find her own food which meant ordering food from the grill and picking it up more likely than not. Or that they didn't make her do unnecessary housework and stuff like that.

The Gilbert family sat around the table eating breakfast, Grayson and Miranda were talking to Elena and Jeremy, about their plans for the day while Bree just focused on eating her breakfast, knowing what she was going to do while her parents took Jeremy and Elena out for surfing lessons.

Bree wanted to roll her eyes but held off, not wanting to draw attention to herself. Because that meant the quicker that she could get out of the house once the others left.

After they finished eating the kids were dismissed from the table and they all headed up to their rooms. Bree was looking through her clothes to find something to wear when there was a knock on the closed bathroom door.

Bree opened the door to see her little brother standing there, she let him into the room smiling at him, Jeremy was one of the only ones that Bree could be herself around, "What's up?"

"I'm sorry that Mom and Dad never include you in these things."

She gave her brother a smile, "It's all right Jer, it's not your fault, but I will let you in on something if you can keep it to yourself and not tell Mom, Dad, or Elena about it."

Jeremy nodded, "Promise I won't tell anyone." he meant that he wouldn't tell a soul whatever his sister was confiding in him.

"Okay, so I went exploring while you guys were out yesterday and I made a new friend who is going to introduce me to his other friends today, so I'm okay with not being asked to go for once."

Jeremy smiled at her, "Oooh okay well have fun Bree."

"You too Jer," the youngest sibling hugged his older sister, making Bree smile and return the hug. "I will tell you how it went later tonight, okay?"

"Okay, Bree, I'll see you later tonight then." Then he walked back into his room, closing the door behind him. Bree went back to finding an outfit to wear to meet JJ's friends. She ended up picking a baby blue two-piece bathing suit, with a pair of blue jean shorts and a black tank top with a pair of sandals.

Bree laid the outfit aside and waited for the others to leave. They left about 40 minutes later. Once she knew they were gone, the teenager took a shower and then got dressed in the outfit she had picked out, and she threw her hair up into two pigtail braids to keep it out of her face.

She packed a few things that she thought she might need into her backpack and then headed out the back door and walked down the beach until she ended up at the same spot as the previous night, which is where she was meeting JJ.

Aubrey checked the time and saw she was a few minutes early. They were meeting at 11, and it was currently 10:55.

Five minutes later, she heard "Rey!"