Zodiac

Chapter 5

Today was the ‘National Pool Day”, today all of the Zodiacs would join together and have a massage pool party at the Water Park. I quickly took a shower and pulled on my favourite bikini. It was watermelon pattern and the top piece, each side was a watermelon slice, and the bottom was light green striped with wavy dark green lines. And pulled the turquoise dress that I wore on the first day over the top. KNOCK! KNOCK! I opened the door, Zach and Emma was waiting there. Zach smiled at me and said,

“You ready?” he was topless and was wearing black and green broad shorts, Emma was wearing an orange dress and black scandals, over her bikini. “Yeah,” I said, “C’mon lets go.”

The park was already packed with people, we went to one of the beds, the umbrella over the top was huge, and it covered over about two bed (beach chairs, whatever you want to call them) on each side. I took off my dress, I spotted Sammy on the other side of the park, he waved at me, and I walked over to him. He held his arms out and fell into them, he was warm, it was nice to be with him again. A guy with light brown hair, walked over to us and smiled,

“Hey Sammy, is she your girlfriend?” I saw Sammy blush, I was probably blushing too,

“Yeah. Tess, this is Ethan. Ethan meet my best friend slash girlfriend Tessa.”

“Hi,” I said. He waved and nodded. I told Sammy that I was going to go to the fruit bar, I gave him a quick kiss and headed towards the fruit bar. Emma and Zach was there as well, Emma waved at me and said,

“You’re boyfriend’s hot,” I smiled at her, Zach looked at her, raised his eyebrows and said,

“Geez Em, that was encouraging,” she shoved at him, and he fell into the water. We both cracked laughing. And Zach came out of the water and looked at us confused, then he probably realised what was going on and started to laugh.

“Ladies and gentlemen, may I welcome you all to ‘National Pool Day’,” a voice was booming over our heads, the sun was setting, I’ve been to this festival many, many times, and we were just about to host the competitions, “The Competitions are about to start, this year’s comp will be in partners, of a boy and girl,” Sammy and I locked our eyes together immediately, it was out of habit, when we had to do anything in partners, it just happened, “The competitions will start at 6 o’clock, I suggest that you get into partners now, if you are willing to participate.”

I waved good-bye to Zach and Emma, and walked over to Sammy, “Hey, what do you think this year’s gonna be?”

He shrugged, “Donno, hopefully something good, we gotta win,”

“Yeah, I know,” he cupped his hand around my face and pull me into a kiss, I stood still, I didn’t want him to get hurt, not again and pulled away, “Sammy, I don’t want you to get hurt, not again,” he looked at me and said,

“I actually don’t really fricking care,”

“Neither do I,” I put my hand around his neck and pressed my lips to his, we stood there kissing for a while. Then he lifted me up and threw down into the water, I got submerged by the water, but I saw him jump in after me. I swam to him and pulled him underwater, since Aquarius’s ruling element is water, I made an air bubble around us and pulled him into a kiss. It was the best underwater kiss of all time, maybe the first.

When we came up of the water, I saw Ethan looking down at us, “You do realise that the water is clear, and that everyone can see you.” I turned and stuck my tongue out at him.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the Competitions starts now! Will all competitors please come to the starting area, and this year’s game will be hosted by Venus, goddess of love and beauty.” Everyone cheered, the air shimmer and Venus appeared. Every second that you look at her she seems to get more and more beautiful, to your most perfect definition of beauty. Obviously, goddess of love and beauty. She smiled, I felt like her smile lit up the whole nation.

“Welcome all, to the 2014, Competitions.” There was another round of applause and cheers, “May the games, begin!”

The first round was elemental magic, Sammy’s elemental magic was fire, and mine was water. Whatever we tried would turn into steam. In the end we were doing individual acts, Sammy was the fire dragon and I was the water dragon. It would be the battle between the two dragons and then in the end when they crashed, the scene would explode into steam and then both dragons were gone. Once we have performed our act, everyone burst into cheers and applause. And Venus gave us a medal for winning this year’s competition. Zach came over to us, he wore this grin on his face,

“That was awesome,”

I looked at him and said, “Obviously it was awesome, all my ideas are perfect,” and this is where Sammy stepped in and told them that it wasn’t really my idea, it was his, (which was true, but give me some credit). I saw Venus come over to us, she smile at Zach and Emma,

“If you wouldn’t mind, can I have a word with the winners, alone?”

Emma put on her perfect smile, “Of course, my lady,” and walked away. Yep, we probably were seriously screwed if a goddess wanted to talk to us alone. I hesitantly said,

“Um, my lady. Have we done anything wrong?” she laughed and smiled,

“No, nothing at all. I came to warn you.” Her mouth was set in a straight line and her brows furrowed, “Jupiter and Mars are against your love, Mars will try to separate you but not kill any of you, but Jupiter on the other hand will do anything to get you two apart, even if it means killing one of you. But I am trying whatever in my power to protect you from Jupiter’s wrath, but my powers will be weakened by his as he is the King of Heaven. Uranus and Mercury are also supporting you, it’s a good thing that the other Gods are standing aside. I shall not bomb-bard you with things to worry about anymore, have fun at the party.” And just like that she went poof into pink dust that smelt like roses.

Sammy turned pale, his eyes wide, he muttered, “Oh, we are so screwed,”

I nodded, “Yeah, I know Sammy, I know.”

Before we had to leave and return to our Zodiacs, I gave Sammy a quick kiss,

“Meet me tomorrow morning at the cave, okay?”

He kissed me, “Okay.” I ran back to meet Emma and Zach, the temperature was already dropping,

“Hey, are you cold?” Emma asked and wrapped her arms around me.

“Yeah, kinda,” I smile, “Where’s Zach?”

“He’s back at Aquarius, already.”

“You do know it has only been a couple of days since the Zach came in from Aries, and you guys are already dating?” I saw her blush in the moonlight,

“Yeah, well…I found him cute, and-I don’t know-it just happened I guess,” she looked at me, “How about you and Sammy, huh? Sexiest couple of the year.”

I felt my face going hot, “T-that was different, we knew each other for years.”

“Yeah still.” I shoved her in the arm and we walked off back to Aquarius.