My Summer ☀️ - Steven Conklin 🌴

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We've been going to our beach house in Cousins since we were babies. It's always been Me, My mom, My brother, Her best friend Laurel, and her two kids. No dads, nobody else, just us. This summer seems like every summer but it's not. I can feel it. It's my summer. Me & My family had gotten to the beach house earlier in the morning, while we were waiting for the Conklin's I walked out to the beach and dipped my toes in the water, careful to not wet my hair since I had done it that morning. The way it hit my toes and refreshed me. It was the feeling I got every summer, it warmed my heart. Summer had always been my favorite season, I just felt more alive.  felt like I was destined to just be on this beach.

"Soph! They're here!" Jeremiah screams from the edge of the pool. I quickly grab my towel, sunglasses, and tote bag and get out of the water. Our beach house was gorgeous. It had long flowy stairs down to the beach and a gorgeous pool. It just reminded you of summer.

"Coming," I shout back at him as I start stepping up the stairs. I was super excited to see Belly & Steven. I've always liked Steven since I was around 10 years old, but nothing would ever happen there and I had learned to accept it. Belly was one of my best friends, even though we only really spoke in the summer it felt like we'd been in contact the whole year. Once I finally got up to the house I ran out to the front. I see Belly getting out of the car and run up to her.

"Omg. Bells!" I say hugging her tightly.

"Sophie!" She replies hugging me back. "It's been forever!"

"I know right!" I reply before turning around and hugging Laurel.

"You've grown up so big!" Laurel says me. I turn around and hug Steven.

"You look nice." He says, I could feel my cheeks burn a little but tried to calm myself down, he was just trying to be polite.

"Thanks," I tell him.  

"Hey, hey, guys, guys." Steven starts as Conrad and Belly walk over. "I mean, I don't know about you, but I.." "Well, I-I think it's time," He says acting as if he was looking at his non-existent watch.

"For a.." Jeremiah and Steven say at the same time. "Belly flop!" Belly screamed and started trying to run away, Steven caught her but she got unloose and kept running until Conrad grabbed her. She wouldn't fight Conrad grabbing her, she always had this stupid crush on him. 

The 3 of them picked her up and shouted "Belly flop!" as they ran through the gate to the pool. I followed behind them sitting down on a pool chair because I'd rather not intervene and get thrown in the pool myself. "1,2,3" They all chant swinging her side to side before throwing her in.

"You're all so immature," I say rolling my eyes.

"How's the water?" Jeremiah asks her sarcastically.

"Guys. Guys. Wait. Sophia looks so alone over there, we can't just leave her out like that!" Steven says putting his hands up in the air.

"No. No. I'd much rather be left out," I tell him putting down my phone.

"Don't worry we gotcha girl!" Jeremiah says as the 3 of them walk over to me.

"No. No. No." I tell them as they start picking me up. "I'm good, please let me down."

"No can do," Steven replies. Before they start chanting again, "1,2,3" and throw me in the water, I push myself up from the bottom of the pool and swim to the edge. 

"Assholes," I mumble to myself.

"Guys, I hurt my ankle." Belly tells them, "Come on," She reaches out and Conrad grabs her hand to pull her out of the water but instead Belly pulls him into the water.

"Belly!" He shouted, as he kept dragging her under the water and they kept pushing each other down until they both came back up. I get up out of the water and grab my towel to start drying my hair. 

"You know I put effort into my hair today and it's all gone," I tell them, rolling my eyes.

"Oh, well so sorry," Steven replies. "Can't you just do it again?"

"That's not the point," I tell him, tying the towel against my waist. "It took me like a whole hour."

"Then just leave your hair how it is," Jeremiah says as we all start walking inside. I roll my eyes. They have no idea what it feels like to have to style and curl or blow out your hair. They wake up and leave it like that and somehow it still looks good? Like so not fair. I enter the house behind them, Jeremiah and Steven walk upstairs while I sit down next to Belly on the kitchen stools, when I walked in they were talking about whether Belly looks like her mom or her dad.

"Laur, she's you all over." My mother said while Laurel dried Belly's hair with a towel.

"People always say I look like my dad." Belly replies.

"No, when your mom and I first met, she looked just like you," Susannah told her cutting lemons and dropping them in the pitcher.

"Except, I had no boobs at all," Laurel told her tapping on Belly's boob. Belly looked so uncomfortable I laughed a little.

"Gross, Mom." She told her as Laurel walked away.

"I think Belly looks more like her dad," I say getting up from the stool and grabbing a sprite from the fridge.

"Nope." My mother replies cutting her final lemon.

"You should call your father and tell him we got in safely," Laurel tells Belly putting away a box of Captain Crunch.

"Uh, why don't you tell Steven to do it?" Belly asks as she sips the juice my mom had just made.

"Because I'm telling you." Laurel replies "He misses you guys when you're gone."

"Yeah, but he'll see us at the end of the summer." Belly responds.

"No, he'll be here for the Fourth," Laurel replies. Me and Belly glance at each other shocked. Laurel and Adam had been divorced for like a year and a half now.

"He didn't come last summer?" I ask her. Laurel sighs.

"Because we'd just gotten divorced." She replies. "We're good now."

"Where's Mr. Fisher?" Belly asks.

"Oh, he's in London." Mom replies. "They got him going back and forth. He'll join us later in the summer. For now, it's just the women and the children, just the way we like it" We all laugh. We talk for a bit longer until Belly and I go upstairs.

 I walked into my room, my walls were a teal that I picked when I was around 11. My cozy white bed and my teal seashell p. Every time I'd walk into this room it just screamed summer and I liked it like that. I text around with Gigi and Nicole before I decide to take a quick nap before dinner. 

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A/N

First chapter! Honestly don't like this so far. 

UPDATE: I'd reccomend to skip to chapter 5 if ur new