The Summer That Changed Everything

Chapter 1

We were almost there. By we, I mean me and my two best friends, Cadence and Riley. We are on our way to the prettiest island ever. The Bahamas. The freaking Bahamas!

My mom is finally letting me do what I want to do this summer, so seventeen Bailey Hamilton is actually going to the Bahamas this summer.

We finally get off the plane, I can almost taste the beach, and the margaritas we would soon be drinking by the side of the pool. "Come on" Riley grabs my arm and pulls me towards the way to baggage claim. "Let's go get our stuff!" Riley has always been the bossy one out of the three of us.

Cadence was always the fun one, the life of the party. And me, well I'm the one that hardly ever gets noticed. Maybe this trip will change that.

Cadence and I both look at each other and laugh at Riley's eagerness. "We're coming" I yell back at Riley in between giggles. We get our stuff and walk around the airport. "Okay, so we have like an hour before our ride gets here so do you guys wanna grab something to eat?" Cadence asks us while looking at a map of the airport.

"Of course, we want food" Riley and I say in unison. "We were on that plane ride for like four hours I'm starving" Riley says. So, we all head to the first place we come by, which is a Mcdonalds. We order our food, I order a Big Mac.

I scarfed down the Big Mac cause I'm so ready to get to our hotel and go to the beach. " Okay! Let's get outta here and go find our ride" Cadence says as he stands up and grabs his trash. Riley and I both jump up and run ahead of Cadence. We're all laughing so loud the whole airport can probably hear us, but none of us really care right now, we're too excited.

We get outside and we see a man who looks about 21 holding up a sign that says 'Carolten'. We put it under Cadence's name since he's the oldest out of us. Riley and I are both 17 and Cadence is 18. Cadence walks up to the man and starts saying something, I can't really understand what he is saying because I'm too far

behind him. They talk for what seems like forever until Cadence finally motions to Riley and I with his hand to come over.

The man asks us where we are headed to. I open my mouth, about to respond when Cadence jumps ahead of me and says, "We are going to a hotel called 'Trifar'." We all jump into the car and shut the door behind us. I pray and pray that the driver won't try and start a conversation with us, but of course my luck he does. "so" the man starts off, "where are you guys from?" He talks with an accent I don't really recognize.

Riley pipes up, "We are all from California" she says it really slow like the guy doesn't understand English. I bite my lip trying to hold back my giggle. After an hour car ride full of small talk that none of us seemed to really care about, we finally get to the hotel. I step out of the car slowly taking it all in. This place is HUGE! "Guys, this place is so big! We are going to get so lost" I say not really to either of them in particular.

"Nah. We'll be fine Bailze" Cadence has always used that nickname for me since we were like 8. I hate it when he calls me that it makes me feel so young. Cadence walks around to the back of the car and starts grabbing stuff out the back. He hands Riley and I our stuff and tells us to go to the desk and get our room key, so that's exactly what Riley and I do. Cadence walks up to us just as the lady is handing us our key.

"Alright guys, let's go to our rooms and get in our swim suits and hit the fricking beach!" It's so cute when Cadence gets excited like that. I mean, everything about Cadence is cute though. His dirty blonde hair, his crystal blue eyes, the dimples that form in his cheeks every time he smiles. I've had a huge crush on Cadence ever since we met in like 3rd grade. He doesn't know though, neither does Riley. I don't know if I will ever tell them either.

We walk off the elevator onto our floor, well Riley more like ran then walked. "Whooooh vacation!" I yell at the top of my lungs not caring who hears. I start to run to catch up to Riley, who's already at our room door. I grab our key out of the back pocket of my cut off blue jean shorts I got from Forever 21. I open the door to our room and walk in, "Guys this place is fucking huge" Cadence says as he follows me inside. "There must be at least like 4 bedrooms in here." Which he wasn't wrong there were 4 bedrooms, I don't know why we picked such a big

place there were only 3 of us, and Riley and I were already planning on sharing a room in the first place.

We didn't really care about exploring the hotel room right this second, all we wanted to do was get in our swimsuits and hit the beach. Me and Riley put our stuff in the first room we saw. The room was huge, it had a huge queen sized bed with a comforter that had little seashells on it. Actually, now that I looked around there were seashells everywhere, but you know it is the beach so what do you expect. Riley has already started unpacking her stuff, putting her clothes in the white drawers right next to the bed. We're staying here all summer so we all brought like 3 bags each, it's a lot to unpack. "Riley, we can unpack later. All you need right now is your bikini, sunglasses, and sunscreen if you need it. And whatever else you plan on bringing."

"Okay. You're right I'll unpack later" she stops packing and starts digging through her suitcase until she finds out what she's looking for. She then pulls out a pastel pink two piece bikini. I turn around and unzip my suitcase, looking for my favorite bikini, it's a just plain white triangle bikini, it's my favorite because it goes with my platinum blonde hair and makes me look super tan. Like a Tumblr chic or something like that. I throw it on to the bed so I have free hands to take off my clothes and change. When I'm done getting changed I turn around to see Riley looking in the mirror that is above the white dresser, trying to figure out what to do with her long dark red hair. Her hair is like a dark maroon color, it's so pretty. She dyed it that color last summer.

I decide to just throw my hair up in a messy bun, Cadence told me one time that I look super cute with my hair thrown up in a messy bun. Riley decided to straighten her hair and throw it up in a high ponytail. I have always been a slight jealous of Riley, she's beautiful, she always gets told that. I mean it's not like I never get told that, cause I do. It's just, she always has the hot guys ALL over her, everywhere she goes. And I never do. Honestly the only guy I really want is Cadence, but he would never go for a girl like me. A girl that is so anti social and always has her nose in a book.

Riley and I walk out our room to meet Cadence in the hall way. He decided to pick the room right across from ours. "Alright, you guys ready for the beach?" Cadence asks us as he is already heading for the door.

"Of course!" Riley and I say in unison, we then start bust out laughing as we walk out the door.