Undefined Love (Shawn Mendes)

Chapter 1: Pools and Handstands

March 12, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

It's finally time for my church's choir tour to the States. I'm so excited! Everybody in the choir is required to have their passport in order for these trips to be possible.

I'm frantically trying to finish getting last minute things together before meeting at the church and heading to the airport.

Arriving at the church I spot my best friend Penny. "HI!! Are you excited?!?!" I ask

"Hi! And sure! I mean, I could do without the whole having to sing thing, but I can always mouth 'watermelon cupcake' if I forget the words. And I'm super nervous about the whole flying thing, but hey I'm excited about everything else!"

"Haha well, same but it's going to be a great time. Just you wait!" We get in the same car to ride to the airport and 15 minutes later we are standing inside the lobby. (lol do airports have "lobbies")

"Flight 298 now boarding" says the weird bald guy in charge of our gate. We all start getting on the plane, some people are sleeping, but most people are excitedly talking and hanging out with their friends.

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We finally land and manage to get everybody off the plane.

"Oh my gosh! We are in the U.S. like actually here!!!" Penny, who is freaking out, tells me. I have to admit that it's pretty cool to be in a different country.

Mr. Andrew Gertler (our choir director) calls us all together. "Ok guys, I know this is really exciting but keep it down some while we call out the names of the people riding together to the hotel." The long list goes on... Finally I hear "Penny Hale and Kayla Smith". There's also some guy that looks a few years older than me that I don't know.

Penny, the dude, and I all get into the taxi. Turns out, Penny doesn't know the guy either. UGH hopefully this won't be a super awkward cab ride.

"Oh my god, it's so hot here. It's March it should NOT be this hot yet." I say.

"Yeah but the guys are pretty hot here too, so I guess it all balances out." Penny responds.

We hear strange boy mumble something that sounded like "Ugh girls... so stereotypical... why did I have to get stuck with them while Shawn gets all our friends?" under his breath.

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Yes we finally made it to the hotel and I can actually stretch myself out for more than 10 minutes. Mr. Gertler assigns our rooms, I'm with Penny and some chick that I don't know.

"Hey let's go to the pool after we get our stuff into our room." Penny requests.

"Okay haha but are you actually going to swim?"

"Hey! I swim... sometimes. But I will tonight. I hear they have this cool pool where the wall separating the outside and inside is a partial wall so you can just swim under."

"That's pretty awesome! Well let's go upstairs, and put our stuff down and put on bathing suits."

We get ready to go to the pool, suits on, and talking about how fun it is to be in a different country for yet at least the fifth time since landing.

Woah. The pool does have a swim-under wall.

"Hey let's go outside, I mean the weather is nice and it's getting really crowded in here." I say

"Okay" is the response I get from Penny.

"Hey! Let's see who can do the longest underwater handstand!"

I laugh. "You're on!"

I look over through the water and see that I've been under longer and come up for air. The first thing I hear is "Kayla look out!!" I turn around and I see about 7 teenage boys jumping into the pool... exactly where I'm standing.

I quickly duck underwater and decide not to move. Someone lands right next to me and someone lands partially on my leg. I'm not hurt, but I'm annoyed. Who the heck does something like that?!? I catch a glimpse of the 2 boys' faces. One of them looks vaguely familiar, but I don't know their names.

"Are you ok?!?"

"Yeah." I respond, to Penny. Of course one of the boys doesn't think to ask if I'm hurt.

"Kayla, you ready? It's about to be time for us to be in our rooms, and lights out are in 30 minutes. I for one would like a shower so I don't have to get up early in the morning."

"Sure, ok. Let's go."

Guess I have to figure out who the jerks that jumped ON me in the pool are tomorrow. Lucky for me I have a whole weekend around them to figure out who they are, and how to approach them about their awful behavior.

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Author's note-

Hi guysss, so this is the first official chapter. I hope you guys liked it. I'm really just writing for fun, but would love your opinions. Keep in mind that this story is just starting. I'm not sure how often I'll be updating due to school and other things, but my hope is to have a new chapter up weekly. Thanks for reading my story :-)