1995 {smosh}

chapter seven; LA in underwear

"Oh my God, I shouldn't have done that." Anthony said whilst pulling away and creating distance between us.

I remained silent. "I think you were right in that we stay just friends for now." He said.

I peered up at him, "I still love you, but I think it's best." He justified and I nodded.

"Wanna head back?" He offered.
"I think I'm gonna stay here for a bit." I answered and he nodded and waved as he swam off.

I swam back to shore and lay on the sand letting the sun hit me and warm me up. I could hear music from further down the beach. "You're either gonna hate me or love me." Mari stated as she joined me. I jumped up unaware of her presence. "Why's that?" I asked.

She handed me some photos of me and Anthony from minutes ago, they were polaroids. One of us running, one of us jumping, one of us kissing and one of us laughing. I stared at them for a moment. "How did you get these?" I questioned.

"I may have saw your polaroid in your bag and I may have followed you both down here and taken these cute photos." She said, smiling her 'please don't kill me' smile.

"I love them." I said simply. And then her smile cracked into a genuine smile.

"It's good to see Anthony happy again." Mari said as she continued to look at the photos.

"We're not back together, but we made up." I explained to her as she nodded. "Oh."

"Let's go back I'm cold now." Even though it was about 100 degrees the breeze was freezing as I was still wet. I grabbed my clothes and we began walking back.

"You're literally walking down an LA street in your underwear." Mari said cracking up.

"Is that not normal here?" I asked her and joined the laughter.

When we came back I ran upstairs before anyone could see me and hopped in the shower.

I quickly dried my hair and applied some make up on before slipping into white top with red around the edges and some short dungarees. I joined everyone else downstairs and they were playing a card game. Anthony patted the space on the couch next to him and I sat down there. "I'm so close to winning...!" Joven began to say.
"You're losing buddy." Sohinki said afterwards.
"No no no, you see that's all part of my plan.. if I-" He said but Shayne and Ian cut him off by yelling "Shut up!" together. 

At the end Joven did lose and Courtney won and I gave her a round of applause.

We have two nights here and three days but technically two. A half one, then a full then another half.

Joven cooked us dinner that night and I had to praise him on his cooking skills. We carried on playing games all night until one by one they went off to bed.

It was just me and Courtney.

"What happened with you and Anthony today?" She asked.

"We kissed. We made up. We broke up. We're staying friends." I explained in short sentences.

"Oh, wow." She said simply.

"I know, I'm exhausted now." I sighed.

"Me too, we got out and played with a slip and slide today, I'll have to show you tomorrow, it was hilarious." She told me.

"Yes show me! I love slip and slides!" I exclaimed.

"Shall we go on it now? It's dark but there's a porch light..?" She said and I frantically nodded my head. For the second time today I stripped down into my underwear and we turned on the hose for the slip and slide. It was still 80/90ish degrees out and the water was about 50.

"Three, two, one, go." Courtney whisper screamed and we both ran and slided across it together resulting in hysterics when we head butted each other at the end.

"Owww." I whispered and she kept laughing. Then she spun me around and we did a few races and she kept winning.

We were out there for at least an hour then we got cold and tired and I had another quick shower, literally about 5 minutes before snuggling into bed at around midnight.

It was a good day all in all.