Endless Summer (emison)

4

"She's not coming." Alison said casually as she noticed Noel looking around frequently. The empty beach chair next to him, across from Alison had remained vacant for the whole time that the group had been sitting in a circle out on the beach. The bright colored beach chairs were formed in a circle with a cooler in the middle of them. The sun made their skins hot and shines brightly on the group of eight.

"She isn't? Didn't you invite her?" Noel asked, pulling out his phone frantically. "Maybe I didn't text her."

"No, I didn't bother to invite her. Her girlfriend surprise visited her a few days early so Emily's going to spend all her time with her." Alison said, frowning behind her sunglasses.

"You don't sound too thrilled." Noel remarked.

"Well she's the only girl worth talking to here." Alison said, not caring about the other girls in the beach chair circle that were listening in. They glanced at her, giving Alison a cold stare over their sunglasses. Alison couldn't care less, she was in a bad mood since the previous night. The group almost went mini golfing instead of hitting the beach, but Alison forced them not to. Coming to the beach was no better however, due to the boredom that was settling over Alison the moment they sat down.

Finally her breaking point of boredom and annoyance, Alison stood up and readjusted the sunglasses on her face.

"Later bitches." she said, turning to leave.

"Ali?" she heard Noel call as she retreated from the beach. "Don't you want a ride home?"

"No." Alison said, but she did want a ride. Her pride got in the way, so denying the ride had to be done. Noel didn't protest, leaving Alison to make her way towards the beach exit. She almost texted Emily, almost. She had composed the message and almost hit send before deleting the text and hastily putting her phone back in her shorts pocket.

"I guess you're not coming with us to Morey's Pier tonight!" Noel called, making Alison stop in her tracks. He always knew just where to hit Alison, he knew she loved Morey's Pier. Who wouldn't love the three different piers with thrill rides to classic carnival games. The funnel cake was the best though, as well as the beach hotties, but the beach hotties were definitely not at the top of her list this summer.

Alison turned to face Noel, who was smirking widely as he knew he had gotten Alison.

"Are you coming or what?" Noel asked.

"Who's going?" Alison asked.

"Well I invited Emily." Noel said, his smirk becoming wider. It was if he knew something was up, but nothing was up. Maybe Alison was getting paranoia.

Alison groaned dramatically, "That means her rag tag girlfriend is coming too."

"Well you don't have to go, I was just trying to be nice." Noel said, shrugging.

"Yes, trying to be extra nice just in case Emily decides she likes guys again." Alison said, a bit too sarcastically.

"A guy can dream. So are you in or not?"

(Yes this is what Morey's Pier is actually like because I have been to Cape May. Most of the places mentioned are actual places in Cape May)

Paige stuck out against the crowd quite clearly. And no, that wasn't because Alison was critiquing her outfit the moment she came into view at the pier. It was because Paige clearly looked uncomfortable with the group of people that Emily had dragged her to go meet. Noel and Paige hadn't had a history like Paige and Ali, but Noel still had a douche bag personality that shined through the pearly white smile and good guy persona. The other people there were strangers to Paige obviously, but were in the same social class as Ali and Noel.