Secretly Famous

The Barbeque

Tris's POV:

I gave all my friends my address this morning and they should be here any minute now. I hope they don't look at me differently when the find out I'm rich and my mom is famous. I see the cars pull into my long driveway. It's now or never I tell myself before stepping out the front door to greet them. They will get to meet my brothers and my mom later. My mom went grocery shopping to get the food for tonights dinner and my brothers are in town hanging out with some friends. They each invited two people but I don't know who they invited yet. I hope my brothers like all my friends. My mom won't really care as long as they aren't dangerous people but my brothers will most likely interrogate them before approving. Not that I need their approval. I am sixteen years old and can handle my friends on my own.

"Tris!" shouts Uriah. "Your house is huge!"

"Ya! Why is it so enormous? Ho big is your family?" asks Christina. "How can you possibly afford this?"

"I'll explain in a minute," I say. "Follow me."

I lead them into the backyard and we all sit around the pool area. Everyone wore bathing suits under their clothes like I told them to.

"Start talking girl," says Lynn.

"Well..." I start. Then I go on to explain everything. What my parents and brothers do for a living. How my mom is famous and I grew up having friends that are only my friends to take advantage of me. Why I didn't tell them who I really was. Tobias just sits there patiently twiddling his thumbs on a chair. I already told him all this. When I finish I look up from my lap and examine all of my friends faces. To my delight they all smile at me.

"That's great!" says Marlene.

"You aren't mad that I didn't tell you?" I ask.

"Mad? Of course we're not mad!" exclaims Christina. "We all get why you didn't tell us. I would have done the same thing but now that you know we are all truly your friends there is nothing to worry about."

"Just don't let it affect the way you think about me," I plead. "I really like you guys and I don't want to lose you."

It's now Tobias's turn to speak up. "You could never lose us Tris."

"Thanks!" I reply. "Do you want to go swimming?"

They nod and everyone takes off the layers covering their bathing suits. Everyone but Tobias. That's odd. Zeke, Shauna, Lynn, Will and Marlene all jump in. Christina goes to lie on a chair and tan. I take off my cover up. I'm wearing a solid red bikini. I catch Tobias staring out of my peripheral vision.

"You coming in?" I ask.

He thinks for a moment but then gets up. He doesn't take off his shirt which I find a little strange. He doesn't need to worry about his body. He is in perfect shape.

"Maybe he burns easily," I think. "Ya that's what it is."

But I know that isn't it. I watch as Tobias runs and jumps into the pool with a loud splash. Uriah and I were now the only two out of the pool other than Christina. Before I know what is happening Uriah picks me up and throws me onto the pool. I scream playfully. I come back up spitting water out of my mouth.

"You will pay for that Uriah Pedrad!" I yell but my smile gives me away and soon we are all splashing each other playfully. An hour goes by with us all swimming and tanning and chasing each other around the pool. When we are all dried off we lay our towels in the grass in a circle and talk for awhile. I sit in Tobias's lap playing with a dandelion, Marlene is laying on Uriah's towel while he plays with her hair, Shauna is in Zeke's lap, and Will, Christina and Lynn are all laying down on their own towels. I hear the glass door to the backyard slide open. My mom, brothers and their friends must be here.

"Tris!" shouts a familiar voice. It doesn't belong to any of my brothers though. "Tris!"

I immediately stop playing with the dandelion in my hands. I quickly stand up and whip around to face the person the voice belongs to.

"Robert!?"

A/N so now Roberts stepping in. Will there be any competition between four and Robert??? Review!!
06/05/16