What's a bad boy?

Chapter 9//Hot days with hot boys

Chapter 9: Hot days with hot boys

Today is the hottest day of the year so far.

Fans are on, suncream is being applied and hundreds of people are going to the beach. We're honestly really lucky that it's a Saturday, otherwise we would have had to sit through the heat in class. My god, I'm melting just thinking about it.

However, though majority of the kids are out with friends swimming or tanning, I am completing my heat wave ritual at home. You see, back in Springdale, there were so many heat waves that came through on a monthly basis that after a while I began to develop a routine of participating in a specific series of activities.

The first thing I do is go out into the pool area, where I open a very large bottle of Schweppes Orange and Mango. Next I play my favourite songs by Fall out boy, through a speaker whilst lying on a towel beside the pool. Then after about 30 minutes of tanning, I slip off my throw and dive into the pool.

Now I am currently up to the stage in my ritual where I like to float on my back, looking up at the sky. This is normally my time for contemplating everything wonderful that I have to be thankful for, however, at the moment I am struggling.

I've left my childhood home behind, to live in a town where I am almost completely unwanted and alone. My parents are rarely ever home. Everyone in my school bullies me, and I have no friends whatsoever. Well, almost none...

Suddenly an idea pops into my head, making me reach for my phone and clasp it to my ear as it rings.

"Hey, do you want to come over to my place?"

Words of happiness are shouted in my ear and I have to stop myself from lurching away from the phone.

"Um great. I'll see you soon!"

I hang up and lay back down, an excited grin resting on my cheeks.

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"Violet!" Heather shrieks.

She is standing on my front step wearing a yellow throw over a black and white striped bikini.

"Hey Heather!"

"I'm so glad you invited me over. The house has been so depressing ever since my aunt Josephine died."

It's comforting to learn that Hunter hadn't been lying when he said that that was the reason as to why she wasn't at school.

"Well, I was bored and I've never really had a 'girl's day', wanna show me how it works?"

She laughs softly.

"Yeah sure."

I lead her through the house and out into the pool area. Thankfully, just like every other day, my parents are nowhere to be seen.

"Wow, you've got a pool?!" She shrieks in surprise.

"Um yeah, don't you?"

I'm really surprised at first. I had thought that since this is a hot part of town almost everyone would have a pool.

"No. Not many people have them, because of the drought that happened a few years ago. I guess your house had it put in before then."

"Wanna jump in?"

She smirks excitedly.

"Hell yeah."

We both shrug off our towels and throws off, and leap into the pool. Our shrieks of joy are muffled as we come into contact with the waters refreshing surface. When we rise back over the crystal blue to face one another, we are both grinning like idiots.