Palaye Royale Fanfic

Chapter 19 - The beach

Chapter 19 - The beach

It turned out we'd slept the whole night and when we woke up, Mum had breakfast on the table.

"Sorry for falling asleep, Mrs Richards. I promise I didn't mean to stay for that long."

"Don't be silly, sweetheart. You're always welcome and I'm just glad you've got my Elodie out of bed."

I gave Mum a big hug and told her I'd just been unwell and upset about things at school. Remington looked after me like I was a baby for a week - he said it was to make up for getting angry about the abortion and I wasn't complaining. I fell asleep in his arms every night and woke up to him spooning me which was the best feeling in the world.

He barely left my side for a week; we watched movies, practised harmonies, even spring cleaned the whole house while Mum was at work and drove Ryan to his classical concerts a couple of times. I saw Emerson and Sebastian occasionally because they wanted to check on me - but we hadn't rehearsed properly in a while because we wanted a break now it was summer.

"Why don't we go to the beach?" Emerson suggested one day.

We packed some towels and got int the car; Sebastian was hungover so Remington drove instead. My car was quite small and Emerson had failed his driving test more times than he could count. We turned on the radio and were singing along when Mr Doctor Man came on.

"Omg this is our song!" I squealed.

Remington and I sang along and Emerson was tapping on the back of my seat.

"Turn it down," Sebastian groaned but we turned it up.

"Guys we're on the radio! How crazy is that?" Remington grinned.

When we got to the beach, we put our towels on the sand and sunbathed for a bit. I had on a black bikini and felt a bit self conscious but Remington told me I looked beautiful. Emerson was staring but Remington caught him and shoved his head into the sand which sorted him out.

"Wanna swim?"

"I'll race you!"

Emerson won and I came second but Remington lifted me up and threw me in the water. We splashed each other for a bit and wanted to play piggy back wars but Sebastian didn't want to come in the sea. When he was sleeping, we all carried him to the water and threw him in. He was soooo angry at first but finally he gave in and Emerson got on his shoulders. They won because Emerson was 6'1" and Sebastian was 6'3" so they were a giant. Rem was also 6'1" but I was only 5'5" so I didn't have much of a chance against them.

We stayed in the sea for ages and sunbathed some more; I was reading and Rem had his head on my stomach sleeping. Emerson was burying Sebastian's feet in the sand while he slept and it was quite fit because he was a restless sleeper and kept twitching so Emerson had to start over a few times.

"Who wants lunch?"

Remington offered to go and buy us all fish and chips so I went with him to help carry it all. There was a group of drunk boys behind us in the queue who kept laughing and pointing at us. I held Rem's hand and tried to ignore them but I could make out some rude words. I could see Remington's jaw clench and his grip on my hand got tighter so I gently rubbed my thumb over his fingers to calm him down.