Around in a Circle

Chapter 5

Leah Cranston

"It was so weird. He was just like, 'since just then' and I'm just like, um.... Okay then." I explain to Chlo what had happened yesterday as we are eating lunch at a cafe near our hotel.

"That's weird....."

"I hope he wasn't hinting anything, I have no interest in him." As I take a sip from my drink.

"Come on, Leah. Give him a chance?"

"Are you listening to yourself right now?" I say, surprised. Chloe pauses.

"No, you're right. Never mind."

"What? You're really confusing me right now."

"No it doesn't matter." She laughs lightly.

"Okay..." I laugh a little before I take another sip from my strawberry frappuccino. "What should we do today?"

"Well I was thinking, I don't know about today but me and Maddox talked about this yesterday, do you want to go to Disneyland tomorrow?"

"Oh my god yes!"

"Cool, now we just need to ask Austin."

"Are you going to ask him?"

"Well I was thinking, do you wanna do that?" Chloe asks and I raise my eyebrows.

"Really?"

"Yeah. You ask him." She says as she plays with her straw in her drink. I study her face.

"Are you okay?"

"Hm?" She looks up at me. "Yeah." She smiles. "Time of month." She says quietly and I give her a knowing look.

"I see." I say. We both stay silent for a bit. "Well. Should we go see what the boys are up to?"

"Sure, they're on the beach right?"

"Yep, as far as I know."

"Let's go then."

We both already had our bikinis on underneath so we didn't need to go back to the hotel to change. So instead we just head straight towards the beach, and we see that the boys are in the water, playing with an inflatable water ball.

"Is this their stuff?" Chloe says as she stands in front of some clothes on the ground.

"Um, I think so." I say and bend down and reach into the clothes. I feel a phone and take it out. I frown.

"Uh Leah? I don't think that's-"

"Um can I help you?"

I spin around to see a guy with a girl.

"Oh." I drop his phone back onto his clothes. "Sorry, I-I thought it was my friend's." I say as I flash him a smile.

"You don't need to lie, and you really don't need to get desperate to get a guy's number. But then again I don't see why someone wouldn't go out with you you're hot as hell." He says and I blush a bit.

"Caleb!" The girl says as she lightly hits him in the arm. "Sorry about him he doesn't mean it." The girl says to me. Me and Chloe look at each other weirdly. I raise an eyebrow at the girl.

"Oh, no I didn't mean that you were ugly it's just that he's my boyfriend."

"Yeah, and we were just going to leave." Chloe says as she grabs my arm and drags me away.