My Riptide

Chapter 18: Milo

River-

"What the hell man, I haven't seen you since Milo's party. I thought this summer we were going to have fun and hang out, but you won't even let us over now bruh." Jackson says. He has the disappointed look on his face and he was rolling his eyes. I roll mine harder.

"Lil mama done gotchu trapped man." Tjay says patting my chest. I shove his hand off me. These bitches have no idea. I grab the snow cone flavoring off the shelf of the shack and drench it in the ice. Pina colada, my favorite.

I ignore more of the comments from the two guys dumping ice and shaving it as I hand it to the customer. They are just some jealous fuckers that can't pull the girl of there summer dreams. I'm being fucking for real, they've both had their eyes on these rich best friends with daddy's money that come for the summer like everyone else. They attempt every summer to get those two girls wrapped around their fingers and in bed, but it never lasts.

I look over to Jackson, who's looking at the open window. I turn and see another customer. She's looking in the shack like she's never seen one before. As soon as she gets done scanning the inside of the shack she looks at me. She blushes a little as her eyes make there ways down my chest to my abs. Oh hell no.

"Boo?!" Tjay yells out rudely to the apparently hungry girl, making her jump and let go of her lip that was between her teeth.

"Excuse me?" She puts her hands on her hip. I can't help but laugh when I see her face is impossibly getting redder from her sunburn.

"Sorry, he's not the friendliest person. You wanna snow cone?" I say trying to help the situation. Which was a mistake as soon as she gives me those fuck me eyes and starts twirling her hair. Damn this girl needs to chill the fuck out. I am fucking already married for crying out loud. Now that I'm thinking of it, I miss my Peach. We haven't seen each other in a week. I've been busy working Luke's shift at the shack while he visits schools he's applied for or got accepted in.

"Uhm it's okay, and no I was wondering if there are any open spots for the paddle boards today." She says while lowering her bikini top. I scoot back off the counter uncomfortably. Who is that desperate?

"Uhm we don't have any open spots for today."

"What do you mean? Its always open. It's not like the beach is crowded today. Just let me rent one for today." She pouts as she shoves the clipboard back to me. Who the hell does this bitch think she is?

"Us, once our shift is over for the afternoon, cuh." Tjay comes from behind me.

She rolls her eyes and leans over the wooden counter to the shack. "You know, it wouldn't hurt to let me join. I don't bite. Well not if won't ask me too." I almost loose it when she places her hands on my arm.

"I'd rather get bitten by a shark." I shove her hand off of me and cross my arms. Her mouth is left opened and her eyebrows furrowed. You know what? That made my day.

She grunts and walks off as she gives us the middle finger.

"Yeah you can shove it up your ass when you get done bae." Tjay says as we all laugh.

"Bruh had one fine ass though." Jackson says as he dabs up Tjay. I ignore em.

The timer goes off which means we are on break. We close the shutters to the shack and grab the paddle boards and head out to the waves.

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After paddle boarding for around two hours we decided to go to the country club for a short minute just to hang out for a while.

I haven't been here all summer. Last summer this was my top spot to either hookup, hang, or work at the pool. Yeah life guard wasn't that fun. I mean don't get me wrong it was fun and all because I got to work with most of my friends, but it wasn't really fun when the whole time I was hiding from my parents.

I told them I got a small job at the country club and they went psycho about the fact that I wasn't doing a job that would effect or impress my Princeton review. I kept the job because it was my first job and it would probably be the last one I would enjoy.

In the corner of my eye I see Milo approaching. Here we go again with him trying to act all bad ass and shit. I missed the guy but damn. He's grown more of an asshole than he was when he left.

"Where's your uh blondie chic that's got you wrapped around her finger?" I look up at him and roll my eyes. Why does everyone keep asking about Peach like she's one of my hoes or something? Like damn. She's not just a chic, she's my wife. And proud of it.

"She's busy right now." When I say busy I mean she's probably watching Disney movies with Hannah right now.

"Oh so y'all are like dating? I thought she was like one of those sluts you just found at the party." I know he ain't talking about me having sluts. He always had girls in bed with him before he left at like the age of fourteen. Even at the party I swear I saw him rubbing on 40 different girls that were about to pass out from the alcohol.

"Uh I don't know man we haven't really confirmed it yet, but we're getting there I think."

"Your so different now man. Where's my friend that didn't believe in love and didn't give a shit about the world." He started laughing as I shook my head and smiled. Little did he know I did believe in love. I just didn't believe love was in all the things I did before this summer. He knew I was waiting for her. All these summers he knew.

"I was like fourteen." I start to tensely laugh. "I don't know, things started changing after you left. No offense obviously. But then at the same time it was hard when you left cause you were my best friend. It's crazy how we've just swapped places." When we were younger I was the 'play boy hot guy' for like one summer. I'm pretty sure it was the last summer before he never came back. And now I don't really do that shit anymore. I never cared about being the 'play boy'. I just like living life now before my parents take it away from me. I mean I still am close to everyone that comes for the summer and everyone likes me now. I guess that's all that matters.

"It's alright man." He slaps me on the shoulder. "Oh fuck. What happened to the pretty beachy peachy girl? Man I remember you were obsessed with that bitch. I mean I can't blame you, she was fine as fuck. Was she washed away or something?" He laughs. I don't know if he's being an asshole and if I should strangle him or if he's just playing around and cutting up and I should just laugh. I try to ignore the fact that he just called her fine just to tick me off but I laugh it off.

"You mean Peach?" I mention to him, trying to clear up his memory from the party.

"Oh shit! I knew she looked familiar! Yeah that girl. Fuck you man. You've done lucked up. I never thought you were going to ever talk to her and not gonna lie I was about to shoot my shot and talk to her but we had to leave a day early." He starts to laugh again. He hits me on the arm. I knew he was going to pull that.

"Asshole." I shove him back.

"Pretty Peach wouldn't have known what was coming for her." He giggles then stands, "but hey I'll see you later, nice talking to ya." I wanna humble this motherfucker so bad. Hopefully I don't see him later. I don't wanna deal with his shitty face anymore. He can go back to where he was all these summers.

I text Peach cause I have nothing else to do.

River: "Peach answer me."

Peach: "I have to tell you secrettttttt."

River: "Peach I already know your Batman."

Peach: "HOW DID U KNOW."

River: "Because I'm Spiderman duh."

Peach: "THEY CITY NEEDS USSSS."

River: "Your drunk aren't you?"

Peach: "Never Betta baby girl."

River: "I'll talk to you later Batman I have a mission that needs to get done."

Peach: "go shoot the bad guys."

River: "I'm Spiderman, the only thing I shoot is webs 💀"

Peach: "Hot Spiderman 😃"

This girl...

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Hey guys!! We just hit 500 reads!!!! I'm very happy and I'm also trying to do shorter chapters cause that what most of you prefer. Also I finally did Rivers POV again because it's been a while. 🙌  I'm also trying to update more now!!

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