Love Interests

Chapter 5

Riley's POV:

Jamie and Tyler have been texting me for the past few days now, and I have to say that Jamie is a lot like me and this friendship is easy for me I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not. We haven't seen the boys since that game because they had a 4 away games, but thankfully they come home today so we invited them to our end of fall pool party. The weather is in our favor today being 70 degrees, perfect weather for a pool party before the new year. Getting ready for the pool party, I get lost in my thoughts about all the fun we had this summer. As I'm gathering napkins and plates from our basement, my phone begins to ring and like the nonathletic person I am, I run up the stairs barely able to get up them and answer my phone with very heavy breathing. I was swimmer all through college so I'm not used to this kind of exercise. Before I get the chance to properly answer the phone, I hear Jamie's voice through the phone "Riley are you okay? Are you hurt? Hello?" "Jamie hey sorry I was downstairs and had to run up. You know I'm a swimmer, that's too much running for me." I laugh into the phone. Jamie laughs a little before saying "We're almost at your house. Our plane landed a bit early and we thought we should head over a bit early to help you guys set up. Plus Segs over here is complaining about how much he misses you." "I am not" I hear Tyler protest in the background. "Okay guys sounds good. I'll leave the front door unlocked you guys can just come right in." I say after giggling into the phone. All of the sudden Anna comes down the stairs and not knowing I am on the phone she yells at me "Riley get your ass over here I need your help choosing a bikini. Please." "Guys I guess that's my cue to hang up. We will see you guys in a few minutes." I say into the phone. After the boys say bye, I hang up and walk up the stairs to Anna's room. After what feels like hours, we both find the perfect bikinis to impress the boys, or at least that's what we told each other. Walking down the stairs I see Jamie and Tyler sitting in the living room that is covered with Dallas Stars stuff. Once they hear us come down, they immediately hop off their seats and ask what they could do to help. Finally 2 hours later, everyone is here and Anna and I get ready to say our annual beginning of the party speeches. Usually they are funny and sad at the same time, kind of like Anna and I. As I head up to get the microphone from our personal DJ, I see Anna giving me a sign to do our special once a year speech. Immediately I get excited and get in my position to start.

Anna's POV:

As soon as we get ready for our annual speech, I know exactly what we have to do to impress the boys. I give Riley our sign and once she gets into position I know she saw my sign. Getting in position I here Riley start the speech like a regular one, but what some of our guests don't know is that this speech is anything but ordinary. "Hi guys Anna and I just wanted to say thank you for coming to our last pool party of the year. Now we have a very special performance for all of you guys." she tells everyone. "Anna you ready?" she asks me and giving her a curt nod, we tell the DJ to hit it. Then to the surprise of everyone, we rap our entire plan we had made during Advisory in 10th grade. As we rap together, we look around to see some people stunned and others singing along having heard it a few times before. When it gets close to the final, we both start to do the weirdest dance moves possible and as Riley raps the last part I hold up a picture of our teacher, Mrs. Birdie she says "And no Mrs. Birdie we will not be operating a food truck together!" As we finish, everyone claps and they start to jump into the pool or go back to talking. As we give the DJ back the microphones, we agree to start the grill. I go to ask Derek if he could help with cooking, but was stopped a few feet short by Jamie and Tyler. "Hey Anna great speech. What was it.?" Tyler asks me and before I can answer, Riley yells at me "Hey Anna do we have any more gas this tank is empty and I can't start the grill." I yell back to her "Yeah it's in the garage I'll go and get it." "Sorry boys I'll have to explain we have to start the food and I need to ask Derek for some help, but enjoy the party." I then explain to the boys. As I turn to go towards Riley I hear Jamie yell "We can cook for you guys we are so used to it." and just like that, we put the boys to work cooking food for all of the guests.