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"Wait oh my god we should have a sleepover tonight" Belly says from the other side of the facetime we're on. "Oh my god yes," I respond. "Okay brb I'm gonna go ask my mom," Belly says before I hear her door shut behind her. Me and Belly have been getting really close lately and I love it. I've never really had any friends in Cousins' but now I have Belly and Jeremiah kinda. The only bad part is they're only here in the summer.

I hear her door open again. "She said yes!" Belly exclaims. "I'm gonna start packing!" I respond. I pack a pair of hello kitty pajama pants and a white cropped tank top to sleep in. A swimsuit just incase we go swimming. And a pair of jean shorts and a Billabong croptop for tomorrow. I pack everything else I need like a toothbrush and hairbrush. It's currently 5 p.m. so Belly said I can go ahead and come over. I walk down the stairs into the living room where my mom is.

"Hey mom, I'm gonna spend the night at Belly's tonight so I need you to take care of Charlie," I tell her. "Okay, have fun" she tells me. I walk out the front door and walk over to Belly's house. I'm currently wearing sweatpants, a Sublime shirt, and a pair of Birkenstocks. I knock on the front door and I can see Belly running to it through the glass. She whips the door open and pulls me inside. "This is gonna be so fun, I don't have any girl friends in Cousins'" Belly says excitedly.

Belly drags me up to her room and I lay my bag down on her bed. "So what do you wanna do first?" she asks me. "I'm not sure," I tell her. "Well I was thinking we could give each other makeovers tonight, and then watch a movie in the living room. And then tomorrow we can make one of the boys take us on a muffin run and then go swimming at the beach," she tells me. "That sounds perfect!" I tell her. We decide Belly is going to do my hair and makeup first and then choose out an outfit for me from her closet.

She finishes my hair and makeup really quickly. I look in the mirror and she gave me two french braids and then simple, natural makeup. "I look so good," I tell her. "Okay let me go pick out an outfit for you," she says as she runs to her closet. She picks out a purple flowy croptop and a pair of white jean shorts. "You have such good taste" I tell her. When it's my turn I give Belly two small bubble braids and leave the rest of her hair down. I also do natural makeup on her. For clothes I pick out a blue crochet croptop and a white skirt.

When we're done giving each other makeovers we change into our pajamas to go downstairs to watch the movie. Belly puts on a pair of pajama pants and an oversized t-shirt. We go downstairs into the kitchen to look for snacks. I find some popcorn and Belly finds a few packs of candy. We go and get comfortable in the living room and try to find a movie to watch. Belly is sitting in an arm chair and I'm sitting on the couch in the seat closest to Belly with two open ones to my left. We decide to watch Scream.

"What are you guys doing?" we hear from behind us. Me and Belly both jump because they say it at a tense moment at the beginning of the movie. "Jesus Jeremiah" Belly says. "Sorry, didn't know you guys were watching a scary movie," he says. I'm sitting with a bowl of popcorn on my lap while Belly had the candy. Jeremiah sits right beside me on the couch and reaches for some popcorn out of my bowl. He turns to me and asks, "What are we watching?" "Scream, the first one," I tell him.

I might have a tiny crush on Jeremiah. It doesn't matter though because we're friends and he hooks up with so many people I can't keep track. Suddenly there's a jump scare on the TV. Belly screams and I turn and smash my face into Jere's shoulder. "Sorry," I whisper when it's over. "It's okay," he says as he turns and smiles at me. God his smile. The more me and Belly hangout the more I crush on Jeremiah because he's always around. "It's cold in here," Jeremiah says as he grabs half of the blanket I'm using and covers himself up with it leaving the other half to me. I yawn because the movies almost over and I am so tired. I end up falling asleep, but I don't remember when.

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I wake up in the morning on the couch and see Belly asleep in her chair. I feel something move under me. I realize I'm laying down on Jeremiah. Under the same blanket, and his arm is around me. It's kinda nice, but we're just friends. Right? I slowly get up off of him leaving him the blanket and sit down on the other end of the couch. I grab my phone to check the time, it's 9 a.m. I stand up to wake Belly up. I gently shake her arm, "Hey, Belly, do you wanna go on that muffin run?" I ask. "Yeah," she says tiredly as she wipes her eyes.

We go upstairs to change. I change into the outfit I packed yesterday which is a pair of jean shorts and a Billabong croptop. I pair my Birkenstocks with it and go into the bathroom to brush my hair and teeth. I walk out into the hallway and run into someone. They grab my arms to hold me steady. It's Jeremiah. Of course. "Woah," he says. "Yeah sorry," I tell him. "Belly said I have to take you guys to go get muffins," he laughs.

Jeremiah is driving his jeep while Belly is in the passenger seat and I'm in the back. We're blasting music and I'm honestly having so much fun. We finally arrive to the place they we're telling me all about. It's a little bakery in town that allegedly has the best muffins in the world. We order 3 chocolate chip for us 3, 2 cinnamon sugar for Steven and Conrad, and 2 blueberry for Laurel and Susannah. Me and Belly eat our muffins in the car so we have time to go swimming when we get back. "Holy shit this is actually the best muffin I've ever had," I say. "Told you!" Belly laughs. "We've been getting these muffins since we we're little and they've never disappointed," Jeremiah adds in.

We get back to the house and the household goes feral over the muffins. Me and Belly sneak upstairs to change into swimsuits and go to the swimming pool in her back yard. "You're pool is so much nicer than mine," I say. "Not really my pool, but Susannah's" she says. "I thought you all lived here?" I asked. "We do. But Susannah is the one who owns the house," she tells me.

As we're relaxing in the pool Belly tells me a bunch of stories of her childhood in this summer house. She tells me about the Belly flop tradition, the koolaid debacle, why she is in love with Conrad Fisher, and the boardwalk.