「 FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY 」

21 | A message in a bottle

"We're going to the beach!" Mia squealed excitedly as she barged in my room Sunday morning,

I groaned and faced the other side of my bed,

Suddenly the blanket was violently ripped off me,

"Mia!"

"Alex!"

"You're impossible" Mia told me as I curled into a ball trying to use the warmth from my body to keep me warm.

"You're annoying, what does a girl have to do around here to get some rest"

"Leave town, change your ID move to Mexico and continue to live your life as Francesca De La Rosa Los Montoya Ramirez for the rest of your life"

I looked at her weirdly.

"Whatever let's go!"

Twenty minutes later I was showered, packed, dressed and ready to go with lots of help from Mia because without her I'd probably still be getting, unwilling to even look in the mirror at the untruly mess that I called myself.

I wore a simple white halter-top bikini, where the top half was covered in a beautiful lace design, on top I wore a nude cover up, I wore my silver locket that I always wore and carried a small tote bag with all my belongings in it.

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"567 bottles of beer on the wall, 567 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 566 bottles of beer on the wall"

"566 bottles of beer on the wall, 566 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 565 bottles of beer on the wall"

"565 bottles of beer on the wall, 565 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 564 bottles of beer on the wall"

"Okay unlock the doors I'm jumping out" I told them groaning, this wasn't going to end anytime soon.

Dylan and Kyle were singing at the top of their lungs in the drivers and passenger's seats while we drove to the beach, and they had locked the doors...those assholes, they want me to suffer.

"Sing it with us! 564 bottles of beer on the wall, 564 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around, 563 bottles of beer on the wall"

I groaned again as we kept driving until we reached our destination.

"Catch" Chase called to Mia parked the cars and walked down to the beach, Mia didn't catch it in time and it hit the side of her head.

"You asshole!" she yelled at him and picked up the ball and ran after Chase with the ball in hand ready to fling it at his head,

"I guess you could say Mia's Chase-ing him" Dylan said coming up beside me and snorted.

"You idiot" Liam said to him but laughed along nevertheless.

When we got down the beach it was a perfect day, it was sunny and bright, the sky was crystal clear, not a cloud in sight. The ocean was almost crystal clear whilst the wind whipped at my hair and the smell of sea salt infiltrated my nostrils. There was nobody here but us.

Mia and Chase set up a volleyball net and they were passing the ball back and forth, Liam was on top of Dylan's back as they chased Kyle with a stick in his hand, that made me laugh.

Liam and I joined Mia and Chase's volley ball game, girls versus boys, before everyone else joined it.

Halfway through the game, girls winning obviously, the guys decided it was too hot and they should go in the water and we agreed.