Everything's Changed

21

"Cannonball!" Raven shouted as she swung off of the rope and into the lake.

Clarke laid on the grass, on a towel, near the rope and the water. There were the blow up balls near the rope and the obstacle course on the other side of the balls. Clarke was laying there alone while everyone else was swimming and joking around.

Then Lexa got out of the water and walked towards Clarke. She sat down on the grass so she wouldn't make Clarke's towel wet. "You know you can join us."

"I'm just sunbathing right now." Clarke said, opening her eyes to see who it was.

"It's hard to sunbathe in a t-shirt and shorts." Lexa said.

"Do you think I'd want to show the bruises?" Clarke asked. "Someone's gonna think I'm being abused."

Lexa pressed her lips together, trying to not say, 'You are being abused.' She couldn't say it out loud. It was rude and pointing out something Clarke didn't want to be mentioned, most likely.

"Come on, it's just swimming." Lexa smiled. "Have some fun."

"What's your definition of fun?" Clarke almost snapped but in a polite manner.

"I say joking around and being playful." Lexa said. "Also competition."

"My idea of fun is reading, drawing, and sleeping."

"You obviously have not been living." Lexa said.

Lexa stood up and grabbed Clarke's wrist to help her up but Clarke made it difficult and did not try to get up herself. Lexa just had to use her muscles and pull Clarke up herself and she did. "Just come swim with us."

"Fine." Clarke said. "If I drown, it's your fault."

"Yeah, yeah." Lexa rolled her eyes. "Oh yeah, we aren't staying the night here and we're driving home tonight so if you want clothes, you might want to keep your shirt dry." With that Lexa ran back into the lake.

Clarke took the white t-shirt off and placed it on her towel. She walked down to the somewhat sandy beach near the water. She walked straight into the water and stopped where the water was up to her ankles. The water was somewhat cold but warm. Her feet sunk into the sand and it felt soothing.

"Stop stalling and come in!" Raven shouted.

Clarke rolled her eyes and walked farther down into the lake water. She stopped again where the water was at her waist. The girls were farther out where the water was up to their shoulders. Of course. Clarke took a few moments to adjust to the cool water temperature and kept moving to where the girls were.

"Yay, party pooper decided to join!" Octavia nudged Clarke playfully. "Cheers."

"You aren't British." Echo rolled her eyes. "Here's some advice, don't use British terms ever again."

"Why'd we bring her again?" Octavia snorted.

"Because I was invited like everyone else."

Octavia splashed Echo with water and everyone moved to the side so that they wouldn't get caught in the middle of their crossfire. Echo glared at the black-haired girl and sent a giant wave of water at her.

"Want to go to the water balls?" Lexa asked everyone else.

Raven nodded her head as they got out of the water and headed to the large netted area and the dock where the water balls were lying. There was a man sitting at the end of the dock under a giant umbrella and in a pullout chair.

"Hello." He said to the girls with a smile. "How many?"

"Six." Octavia shouted as she and Echo ran down to the end of the dock.

"Thought you two were still fighting." Harper retorted.

"Shut the fuck up." Echo nudged her.

"Okay, go ahead." The man said. "Take any ball, have fun."

They got inside of the hollow sphere and they started rolling around the netted area. Then Echo ran into Harper on purpose.

"You bitch!" Harper shouted which was muffled but they could still hear.

"Not your bitch though." Echo smirked and rolled into Lexa but Lexa's water ball made Echo fall back.

"Love you too." Lexa grinned.

Octavia and Raven were too busy fighting each other and Clarke just kept going in circles until Lexa rolled over to her and made her fall back.

"Thanks." Clarke sarcastically said.

"No problem." Lexa said and rolled the other direction.

All the girls were getting ready to race on the obstacle course. The lifeguard blew the whistle and the girls were off with a start. They were all in lifejackets and they were all colored differently. They jumped off of the edge of the dock and swam over the first platform. The obstacle course was a lot like wipeout and that was what challenged them.

Lexa climbed the up the ladder onto the first platform and she jumped onto the first moving up and down platform and onto the next and next. The next obstacle was a laddered rope that extended up fifteen feet to a higher platform.

The girls climbed up the rope with much struggle and the first to fall was Clarke. She fell into the deeper water. At the top was the plat that led to a large jump onto a trampoline that you had to jump onto another platform a few feet higher.

They successfully passed that and they got to the tightrope and Octavia fell next. Then there was the rock climbing wall where Harper fell. Then there was the ladder diagonally where you had to go quick and jump. No one fell but then there was a swinging rope where you had to get to the giant slide on the other side. Echo let go of the rope because of lack of grip.

At the other side of the rope, there was another laddered rope and then rock climbing to the giant slide ahead of them. Raven and Lexa were both equal on this obstacle because of their strength but Lexa gained the upper hand and started to climb up faster. She slid down the slide and into the ringed hoop that was checkered white and black, meaning she won. Raven came close.

The girls sat in the van while the van was still cooling off. They were all sweating while their hair was wet and they were all sitting in the heat.

"You still didn't win." Raven told Lexa.

"I just rock climb a lot." Lexa shrugged.

"I do too but somehow you won?" Raven said. "I go rock climbing more than you."

"How do you know?" Lexa asked.

"I just do." The girl winked.

"Let's get back to the dorms." Octavia shouted.

She pulled the van out of the parking lot and they were off, back to the school campus.