Losing my other half

Pool Party (Part 3)

"Are you ready?" I whispered to Jake.

"Who wouldn't be?" He whispered back.

"True" I flicked up my eye brows and smirked. It was time. Time to have fun.

We walked out with a bucket full of ultimate water balloons. We ended up saving the best for last. So we got the people on other people's shoulders.

We motioned "shhhh" to the people facing us. I pelted an ultimate balloon at Anthony. The pink outside layer broke as it hit his tan back, dispersing the tiny little sacks of water. They popped on his back and the water inside came back right at us. But yet never hit us.

We laughed as Anthony turned behind us letting the blonde girl fall into the blue water. He lifted him self up out if the water and we ran. We pelted more balloons at other people an they started after us as well.

"Hey, it's finale time!" Jake yelled.

I positioned my arms to get ready for Kelly. We passed her and she had no clue. We had a bucket of balloons for the other people. Kelly was facing away from the sun with her reflector for tanning. What a popular girl.

I motioned "shhh" again to the other people.

"3...2...1..." I counted with my fingers and mouthed the words.

Water splashed everywhere and water balloons popped as they hit her skin. she screamed really loud. It triggered Ethan from his round of beach volleyball an he ran towards us.

Kelly held up her hands as if she were in a murder mystery. She screamed again.

"Kelly calm the frick down." I chuckled.

"YOU!" She pointed a finger at me.

Her hand lifted up and smacked me. That's right, SMACKED ME!

"Woah woah woah." Anthony, Jake and a couple other guys had to pull her off. My face stung and my eye hurt. She kicked me as I was down on the ground.

"Kelly that's enough!" Anthony shoved her back, "what did she ever do to you?"

"She stole my boyfriend!"

"When!" I paused, "All I did was make a new friend who actually had a heart unlike you! I'm so glad that Ethan-" Ethan cut in.

"I don't know who you are!" He said

I relaxed. Not like I was in angry, in the way I wasn't tense anymore. I looked down and I felt tears rolling down my face. I darted to the locker rooms and stopped. Tears streaming down my face one by one. But they were impatient, one came down as one was rolling down my cheek. I held my head and punched the lockers. I actually made a dent.

I kept going at it until my knuckles started bleeding. I collapsed and just let myself go. Jake came running in.

"Oh, Kenna..." He trailed off.

I didn't let myself stop. I just let Jake carry me out. He didn't carry me out to the pool but he carried me to the showers. He turned one on and felt the temperature.

"Perfect" he flicked his hand and sat down. He put me under the warm water and got up. He came back with an ice pack and towel.

"What time is it?" I cried.

"7:30" he smiled and hugged me. He sighed and let go. The blood from my knuckles just kept running. My eye was swollen from the slap, my cheek was red, and my knuckles cherry red. What Ethan said just kept playing in my mind over and over which made me cry harder an harder.

"It's gonna be okay." Jake stuttered.

He turned off the shower and grabbed a towel and bandages. He wrapped the towel over my shoulders and it hung over my body. He wrapped my knuckles up as I settled down. He took his two fingers and lifted up my chin.

I tensed up again. He leaned forward and we locked lips. It was my first kiss. I couldn't believe it. I would say it was like sparks but that's understating it. Jake leaned out. His smile was gentle. He leaned it again and this time he kissed my cheek.

"It's gonna be alright." He repeated.

I smiled and Jake lifted me off my feet. He led me out with an ice pack on my eye. I sat down and watched everyone play. Anthony sat down next to me.

"What happened back there?"

"Oh, nothing. I overreacted." I turned to face away from Anthony but he just turned me over.

"What happened?" He raised his voice

"I just overreacted I'm fine, Anthony"

"Ugh okay." He looked up like he was about to cry but turned to me and said,"it's getting dark. Time for a real party!" He smiled. His whole mood changed from "just tell me it wasn't just nothing" to "hey it's time to party!" It was confusing but I just went with it.

"Hey little bitchawhoreas." Kelly kneeled beside the chair.

"What bitchsqealer." I mumbled

"Ethan doesn't know you. Remember? Back the fuck off bitch. You have no business with him. If you talk to him again, I'll slit your throat."

"You know you wouldn't." I shook my head slowly.

Then she scratched my cheek with her fake nails. There was a little blood but oh well. What can you do about it?

I hopped up and jumped into the pool. It was nice and warm. I looked up at the sky and the light was fading. Colored lights started coming on beaming into the sky. Party music started playing. It was like homecoming, but in a pool with suits on.

"Hey, how are you doing?" I heard Ethan's voice behind me.

"Why should you know? You obviously don't know me." I turned away and pulled myself out if the pool. There was silence. Not from the pool itself but from Ethan. I looked back and he was looking down. His facial expression was saying, "yeah, I shouldn't give a damn about you."

"Kenna!" Brooke and Leslee called out.

"Hey guys!"

"What happened?" Brooke asked tilting her head.

I explained to them what happened but I never explained the kiss.

"Oh I'm so sorry. That's hard."

"It's okay. Let's go party!" I yelled taking a drink of my Shirley Temple.