Holocaust

Chapter One

|Chloe's POV|

We walked down the cobblestone path of Gracelind Drive. I pushed Paige into the grass laughing. She fell on her hands and knees dying of laughter. Not giving a worry about ruining her new Hollister white capris. Why should we care? It's summer, and for the first time ever we were staying at the Hyland house parent free. Kelly and Randy were in Aruba for a week so it was just the three Hyland kids at home, and for this weekend, me. I got a call from my mom signaled by the most beautiful voice of Justin Beiber, calling me his baby, almost enough t make me not pick up the phone, but I knew that I couldn't do anything to not have me be aloud to stay. I picked up the call. Wise choice. "Hello My Dearest Darlingest Mother!" A chuckle came off the other end. She asked if we were getting ourselves into trouble for being that polite. I told her "of course not!" most innocently as I could and she laughed and told me to call back at 9 pm tonight. 8 hours until I would hear from my mother. Paige gave me a "what was that all about?" glare and I shrugged and we continued to chat about our plans for the evening. Tori's dad would come over to drop Tori off at 8 pm to hang out with Brooke, and he would take Josh with him to his friends house for a while. We continued to plan out our night even as we turned the key into the front door of Paige's house.

"Last one in the pool is a rotten egg!!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs breaking out into a full out sprint ripping off clothes as I could and flinging my last flip flop off seconds before taking a leap and plugging my nose for the plunge into the cold depths. I felt myself go into the pool quickly and emerge from the surface with just enough time to breathe. I made sure to acknowledge that I was most definitely first arguing with Josh over who came on second, him or Brooke. Paige was last, and I jokingly teased her that she would have to do all sorts of punishments. She dunked me into the pool for it and I came back up splashing her in the eyes. Brooke came in jumping on my back and I started laughing. This is what summer was all about: having the time of your life with the people you love.

About an hour later I toweled off my sparkly pink Juicy Couture baiting suit that was an exact replica of my "twinnies" except mine was a few shades faded from washing machine accidents. Oh well. It was still cute and showed off my growing six-pack. I was proud of it. I told Josh to tell the girls I was going into the house to shower and get dressed and for them to hurry it up as they were mosying trying to "tan"-something I didn't even bother to do with my pale skin. And with that I took my bag and entered the glass back door of their house just as if it was my own, making it up the hardwood floors all the way to the guest bathroom, set my stuff down, and stepped into the steaming hot paradise, much to the contrast of the icy pool water.

I got out of the shower and reached for the green towel on the rack, the towel I kept at the Hyland house for the endless sleepovers I had here. I dried off and trudged into Paige's room wrapped only in a towel looking for some comfy clothes from Paige's closet. My lounge wear was downstairs in my overnight duffel bag downstairs and was too lazy to venture down to get my clothes, so I settled upon something from Paige's closet. I grabbed my own underwear, but went and grabbed a orange lulu sports bra from Paige's closet for my un-needing boobs. Two reasons, I felt weird being around Josh and even some of Brooke's friends feeling uncovered; and sometimes we would go down into the basement and make weird dance video and that would just be in crop tops and such. I threw on some sort of FRHS hoodie that must have been one of Brooke's bc it was a little big on me, and grabbed a pair of PINK yoga crops with a gold sequins covered band and changed. Sloppy cute. And I knew Paige would be wearing a similar ensemble along with Brooke because it was a lounge type of night with long chats and late movies. And I was finally going to learn how to do the cups from Pitch Perfect! I quickly ran to Brooke and Paige's shared bathroom and stole some of Paige's scrunching gel and retreated to the guest bath and began working on my hair because The water was still running in their bathroom showing thy were still showering in there too. I finished my hair off with the blow drier and snapped it off and pulled my phone out and took a mirror selfie and posted it with the caption "at a sleepover at my second home!" Immediately my ig notifications blew up so I turned them off and went down stairs just as my stomach started angerly growling.