unexpected • joey birlem

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Last night ended off with Quinton inviting Joey and Charles over for the night. I got to know Joey more and more and he was honestly a really good guy.

I roll out of bed hearing laughter in the guest bedroom. I flip my phone over seeing it was around eight in the morning and seeing two text from Braydon.

Braydon: hey i haven't heard from you last night
Braydon: kayla everything okay?
Kayla: hey sorry i was out last night, everything is fine :)

I roll out of bed taking my phone with me as I walked out of my bedroom. I peek my head into the guest bedroom seeing Joey and Charles shirtless laying on the bed.

"Hey you guys want breakfast?" they turn their heads at me and both smile at me.

"Yes please, want help?" Charles ask, I nod and walk out heading down the stairs. Quinton was sitting on the counter with a glass of orange juice next to him.

"Good morning sleeping beauty" I say, making him laugh. He looks to the side as Joey and Charles came from behind.

I grab a pan placing it on the stove. I grab the pancake mix and a bowl. Joey stood next to me grabbing a spoon to stir the mix.

I try not staring at his shirtless body, so I took a couple glances, cause ya know. Can't help myself.

"Kayla why are the chips still in your room?!" I burst into laughter as Preston walks in with my chips.

"Hey I'm Preston" the boys all introduced themselves and got into their own convo as Joey and I made pancakes.

"Let's start up the pool, eat breakfast outside, then swim after" Quinton says, Charles smirks at Joey and I, making me confused. Quinton and Charles walk outside to set everything up.

"Im glad I met you" I say to Joey. His cheeks turn a dark red looking at me.

"I can say the same" I smile, I flipped the pancake successfully not making a mess. I turn my radio on playing some music as Joey and I cooked the food.

I felt Joeys two hands on my hips slide across my stomach pulling me to him. He rest his chin on my head watching what I was doing.

"Is this okay?" he calmly asked, I smile looking up at him.

"Of course" he smiles down at me making me smile more then I already was. I turn the stove off as I finished making a couple of pancakes.

"You're pretty short" I glare it him and pout not taking my eyes off of him. I was up to his lower part of his chest.

"Way to ruin the mood!" I groan. He laughs grabbing my wrist pulling me to him and hugging me.

"Did you cut the fruit?" I ask, leaning back to look at his face. He sighs, shaking his head. I chuckle pulling away from him grabbing the fruit and started cutting them up.

Joey and I finished everything bringing it outside as there was plates already out. Everyone went to the table sitting down. I look over as my moms walk out in their robes.

"Well look at this!" I smile and sit down next to Quinton as Joey and Charles sat across from me.

"This was really nice you guys" Lina says, shoving a pancake in her mouth right away, making all of us laugh.

We finished eating, having funny conversations and embarrassing stories of one another that made us laugh till our stomachs hurt.

"Alright swim time!" my mom claps. We all got up and went into the house quickly to brush our teeth's and put are swimsuits on.

I grab a white two piece, having the top piece be a tube part. I let my hair down and sigh as I looked bloated from breakfast.
Yes I was confident with my body but I always had my moments where I didn't.

There was a light knock on my door, I open the door seeing Preston in his swimsuit.

"I don't think i'm gonna swim" Preston scrunches his eyebrows together.

"Why?" I roll my eyes and shook my head, he walked in my room a little more.

"Im bloated from breakfast" I say trying to make it sound like a joke. Preston rolls his eyes at me and shakes his head.

"Shut the fuck up. Kayla you're beautiful and nothing would change that" I pout my bottom lip and squeeze his arm a little bit.

"Im not gonna let my older sister think like that about herself" I hug Preston, him hugging me back.

"Preston you're getting taller everyday. Stop growing" I groan. Him and I walk down the stairs going towards the back door.

"Hi ladies" I say walking outside where everyone was already, Joey gives me a death glare, I glare at him back trying my hardest to keep a straight face.

"Move bitch!" Quinton says, with a deeper voice literally tackling me into the pool.

"You're literally a living parasite" I say, as I popped up from the water saying it to Quinton.

"Now that's just rude" he splashed me, I splash back smiling and swimming towards Joey and Preston.

"You should meet some of my friends tomorrow" Joey says, turning to me.

"Sure" I smile, making him smile back at me. I swam for a little while and got out of the pool, sitting down on a lounge chair.

Mine as well get a tan since it was rare for me to ever tan back home. I tanned really easily, I could be outside tanning for thirty minutes and get a good tan.

"We should do a bonfire later tonight" my mom says sitting next to me on the other chair. "Yeah that'll be pretty cool" she smiles at me and puts her sunglasses on.

"You miss Brady?" I nod frowning looking at my legs. "Yeah I do" I look over at the pool seeing Joey looking over at me but looking away once he saw me look.

"Will work things out so he can come here" I nod smiling at my mom. She always did anything to make me happy and tried everything she could.

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We were outside till the sun went down, which is when we started putting the bonfire together. Quinton and I grabbed chairs to put around the fire as Charles and Joey started the fire.

"We have s'mores!!" Preston runs out the back door with things you need for a s'more making a smile form on my face.

"Great" he placed them on the table and opened everything as we all finished setting everything up. My moms turned the fairy lights that were hanging around the backyard, lighting it up more.

We all sat around staring at the fire we were all still in our swimsuits so we were all pretty cold but the fire was slowly starting to help.

The night ended amazing with all of us being closer together but I couldn't get Braydon out of my head.