Adopted by One Direction

Beach

The next 4 days passed by without anything special happening. Vanessa hadn't done anything to me yet, she just gave me those glares that made me wish that the world would end sooner. Vanessa leaves home by herself, so I never saw her dad. But I know there's gonna be a parent's Day two months later, and I'm dreading that day. It just gives me a really bad feeling. On the other hand, I had a lot of fun with Lily. I went to her home on Tuesday and we did our homework together, then Lily taught me how to skateboard. Lily is obsessed with skateboarding, she sometimes even skateboards to school. The two of us are probably the two least liked people in school, because Vanessa makes them all prejudiced. But at least they didn't bully me. I only got an occasional insult, which I never took really seriously. I was used to that stuff. On Saturday the boy decided to treat me to a trip to the beach. "Since you had such a bad week at school, we decided to give you a little treat," Niall said. I was really excited. I've haven't been to the beach for ages. I quickly got changed and jumped in the car then we were off. We played a game of Truth or Dare on the car journey. "Truth or dare, Zayn? I asked first. "Truth." He decided. "What's your greatest fear?" "Swimming." He replied without hesitation. "I can't swim. I'm scared of the sea."  "Then I guess we'll just have to teach you later." I laughed. "No way!" He yelled."I'll drown." "Come on, we'll all be swimming, you can't be left out!" I said. "No way," Zayn repeated. "Never ever." He crossed his arm and pouted, looking like a stubborn child. "Ok, next, Louis, truth or dare?""Dare." He replies promptly."I know," Said Harry, "I dare you to pop your head out of the car and sing something at the top of your voice." "That is so easy," Said Louis, "Watch me." He pressed a button to open the roof of the car, then stood up and started singing What Makes You Beautiful in an ear-wrenching-voice. He got a bit hyper,jumping around and waving at the passerbys. He finally came back down after five minutes. "That was fun,"He said,sitting down."But I think someone recognized me. Passion, your turn now, truth or dare?"Dare." I replied. "Hm...let me think of a really wicked one..."Louis said,thinking. "How about when we go to the beach, you swim out for 50 meters then dive down until you touch the bottom."Harry suggested "That's not fun!" Said Louis, it's a boring dare!"it's quite challenging though."I said, "You're on, I'll do it.""Liam's turn now and your obviously choosing truth, right?" Niall asked,     Liam, who was driving, nodded. "You know me too well." "Ok, how about Passion asks a question, she knows the least about you.""Let's see then,"I said, thinking of a question to ask. "Who's your favourite member of One Direction? Not including Liam Payne." He concentrated on the road for a while, and the boys looked at him expectantly."Passion Tomlinson. She's quite cute.""What?" Louis said, frowning."She's not even in One Direction!""Yes she is. She's in the 1D Family! and besides, I don't even like the other four members.""Fine." Louis said. "Now Liam Payne's my least favourite member in One Direction." We kept talking all the way, and the boys kept arguing like real brothers. I was getting a bit car sick towards the end of the ride, so I closed my eyes and leaned on Zayn, listening to snippets of their conversation. I was quite relieved when Liam announced that we've arrived. I stepped out-out of the car into the gleaming sunshine, blinking to get used to the light. In front of me was a sandy beach stretching out for a few hundred meters. Beyond it was a sparkling, clear blue sea with rippling waves."This is perfect." I said breathlessly. It was the prettiest sight I've seen in my life. I started running towards the open sea, kicking off my flip-flops before running into it, savouring the feel of the cool seawater washing against my toes. I wiggled my toes. It was bliss. I went back to the boys reluctantly when I heard them call my name for the tenth time. "Passion! why did you run off like that?" Liam half-scolded-me. I shrugged. "I just couldn't help myself. This beach is perfect, by the way, when are we going into the water?" "After we unpack our stuff." "Never." Harry and Zayn said at the same time. I rolled my eyes. "You are swimming today whether you want it or not, Zayn." I said. I helped them unpack all the food and stuff, and smeared some sunscreen on my face just to waste some time. Then I took off my clothes until I was standing there with just my swimsuit on. "Are you guys done yet? I asked, very impatient. "Yeah, yeah." Louis said. The boys all kicked off their flip-flops, and the five of us ran down the beach and into the water, while Zayn walked slowly behind us, grumbling. He sat at the edge of the beach, his feet just touching the water, while the five of us splashed each other with water. "That's for saying I'm your least favourite member of 1D!" Liam said as he kicked water in Louis' face. Louis went underwater to escape Liam's attacks, and when he came back up for air, he yelled, "You are so dead now, Liam Payne!" Louis jumped on Liam,forcing both of them to go underwater, and they wrestled in the water, splashing me, Niall and Harry with droplets of water. "Let's go further out!" I said to Niall and Harry and we swam away from the two of them. When Liam and Louis resurfaced, they doggy paddled to us, and we talked while treading water. "Thanks for bringing me here, I love this place." I said to the boys. "We used to go here when we first started a band." Niall told me."We just went here and chilled,without having to worry about singing and fans." "Cool!" I said, "Do you think the fans will recognize you here?" They all looked around the beach at the same time, as if they would suddenly see screaming teenage girls appearing. "I don't think so. This beach is usually empty. We'll be safe." Louis said. He has a point. The only occupants of this beach were us and two families with little toddlers. Not a teenager in sight. "Good then. This day would turn into a disaster if people saw you guys with me." Harry then showed us how to do somersaults in the water. I had a lot of fun but felt dizzy after a while. Louis learnt it quickly and started somersaulting back to the beach like a crazy person. Which he is, actually. "Lets race back, shall we? Niall asked. We agreed and I started swimming as fast as I could back to the shore. Liam won and I came last. Or to be more accurate, Louis lost, because when we arrived back to shore, he was still somersaulting in the middle of the sea. "What . An . Idiot." Harry said, shaking his head so that water droplets flew at us. We walked back to Zayn, who had been watching us glumly. "Why don't you just go swimming with us?" I asked him. "It really isn't that hard, I promise you." "Why don't we just eat before we do anything else?" Niall suggested. "Fine." We went back to where our bags were, and the boys took out an entire basket full of food. Inside were a dozen kinds of food, salads,cookies,apple pie, and the lot. I took out a sandwich and stared at it skeptically. "You guys didn't make this right?" I asked. The food looked much too tasty to be made by either of them.  "No we didn't, Mr.Marks and Mr.Spencer did." Liam replied, taking out a platter of chicken wings. We waited impatiently for Louis to finish somersaulting back to us, then we tucked in. I ate loads and loads of food, and I finished, I lay down on the sand and just enjoyed the sunlight. Slowly, I drifted asleep. I dreamt about pleasurable things, such as living to a ripe old rage with my old and gray One Direction brothers and sitting in rocking  chairs under the sunlight talking about old times. Neither did my dad or Vanessa's come into my head. After an hour or so, I woke up but realized that I couldn't move. I opened one eye .  My entire body was buried under the sand. I opened the other eye to look for the boys. So there they were, sitting around me and laughing. I struggled to pull myself up. Then I pulled my legs out of the sand. "Very funny, guys." I said sarcastically, running to the sea to wash the sand off me. "Whose idea was it?"  "Zayn." The other 4 of them said immediately, I eyed him through the corner of my eyes. He shrugged. "You're so going swimming now, Malik." I said, and pulled him up, dragging him to the sea. "Noooooooooo!"  He whined, but the other boys were on my side and they helped me push him into the sea. We were only ankle deep in water, but Zayn was already staring at the water like it was suddenly going to stand up and swallow him (Like the Prince Caspian movie from Narnia.) "Come on!" I said to him. "We wont just let you drown!"  We slowly moved further out, until we were waist deep in water. By slowly, I mean half an hour. When the water went to Zayn's shoulder though, he flat out refused to go any further. I tried holding his hand and coaxing him, I tried mocking him by saying most 3- year -olds could swim but he can't, I tried to simply force him but Zayn stayed exactly where he was. In the end , Liam picked Zayn up and threw him further out, so that if he stood up normally, only his quiff would be visible. He panicked, moving his arms around like windmills and screaming. " Just try swimming to us," I yelled to him above his screaming. "I can't" He screeched at me, "I'm drowning .Harry,Niall, Save me!" "Mate, just stand on your tip toes and you'll be fine." Harry said. "Now just try to swim towards us. Try to move like a dog. Paddle!" Niall instructed.  Zayn  cautiously 'swam' to us in what was supposed to be a doggy paddle, but he ended up half walking, half moving his hands weirdly around. When he came to us, we still cheered for him like he won the Olympics and Liam carried him back to the beach like he was a hero that saved the world. "See? You can actually swim!" I said, hugging him, then immediately felt uncomfortable for telling such a lie."I mean,kinda. You'll get better if you practice." "That reminds me, what about your dare?" Harry said suddenly. "You still haven't done it yet. Do it now!" "Oh right I forgot. I'll  do it now." I said, and ran back into the sea, swimming out. "Let's go watch!" Said, Louis, beckoning to Liam and Niall."And I'm just gonna stay nice and dry here." Said Zayn, sitting down on the beach. We swam out until Zayn looked like he was as small as a golf ball. "Are you ready ?" Said Harry, sounding like he was hosting a show. "We have Passion Tomlinson, going down in three...two...one!" I took a deep gulp of breath and dived down. As I went down meter by meter, the water around me got darker and darker. When I was 4 meters down, everything around me already seemed to be in complete darkness. Unwilling, all the memories I had with my father came rushing to me faster than the motion of the water. I closed my eyes tight and tried not to think of anything, but as I did, I kept sinking lower. Before I knew it I was out of breath. I tried to kick myself up, but my limbs felt like noodles. I flailed my arms around aimlessly, but instead of going back up, I sank lower and lower.it was as if my dad was there, forcing me down. I tried one last time to kick myself back up, but it was no use. I was sinking fast and I had also no breath left. I opened my mouth, desperate for air, but got a huge mouthful of salty seawater instead . My mind was slowly going blank. Memories from my life flashed by. Torture from my dad, those long , unhappy days in the orphanage, getting adopted,meeting lily, the boys. The boys. I wanted to get back to them. I struggled for one last time, with one though in my mind. Get back to the boys. Then I felt darkness closing in around me, and everything went still. Very, very, still.