friendly neighbors

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Right then I remember that there was a boy my age that lived next door. I used to play with him sometimes when I was younger, but I haven't been here in years, and he always made fun of my accent. The last time I was here, we were 10, and he kissed me. It was my first kiss and we were young so it was quite weird and I still thought boys were gross. He wouldn't remember me anyways, so I don't feel bad about not being able to remember his name right now.

I step out of the pool, grab my towel, and lay it out on one of the long chairs before I lay down on my stomach.

"Might as well get a tan while I'm here" I mutter before I drift off.

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I shift a little and oh god, I should get some sunscreen. I hear someone laugh and another person sush the laugher. I flip over, ignoring the noise and walk inside. There's gotta be some sunscreen in here some where.

I find some in the bathroom, and apply where I can. I grab some cold pizza out of the fridge and walk back outside.

When I open the sliding door, I stop in my tracks. I look at 4 very attractive, very unfamiliar boys infront of me. 3 of them are in the pool while another lays in the sun, where I was before, on my towel with sun glasses on. The 3 in the pool, one with blonde curly hair, another with blonde hair that's straight and he makes stick up, and the other has obviously bleached his hair but pulls it off very well. They are frozen and staring at me saying nothing. The one in the chair hasn't moved at all and looks up at the sky, and he actually seems a bit familiar. He has dark curly hair, his skin is the perfect color and his body is amazing as hell from what I can see. I realize it must be weird that I'm just staring at him while the others are staring at me, so I snap my head in their direction.

"Wh-who are you?" I ask.

"Guys, this is Jess," says the dark haired boy, "remember I told you that Tess said her neice was staying for the summer a couple weeks ago? This is her." He still didn't look at me and I just stared at him confused. He knew my aunt by her first name?

The boys in the pool relaxed and started to mess around again. The curly blonde haired one jumped out and approached me, sticking his hand out and saying "Hi, I'm Ashton" I set my food and down on a table so I could shake his hand

"I'm Jess,"  He looked me up and down causing me to blush since I'm in my bikini "and I'll be right back!" I quickly turned around and went back inside. I dug throug my suitcase in search of a little slip dress that I packed to go over my bathing suits. I slipped it on, checked myself in the mirror seeing that my cheeks have already turned red form the sun and headed back out.

The bleached hair boy was now standing next to Ashton, eating my pizza.

"What are you doing?"

"Oh, sorry, I just got really hungry and couldn't help myself," he smiled "I'm Michael"

"Hi Michael" I smiled back "Go ahead, help yourself"

"I'm Luke!" shouted the other blonde boy who was now swimming around in a round floaty "Calum told us you're American!" Calum. CALUM. Now I remember his name! It's coming back to me now. Gosh, Calum. The Calum that made fun of my accent but shared his popcicles with me every summer.

"It's not like you can't tell from the accent, Luke" Calum laughed "How've you been?" he looked up at me for the first time since he's been here. He smiled once we made eye contact "It's been a while"

"I've been well, you?" I tried to sound cool, like I wasn't surrounded by 4 sexy guys.

"Wooonderful," he replied as he jumped up and walked right past me, entering the house.

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