The Message That Started It All

An Interesting Evening

*Time skiiip*

It is about 3 hours later of drinks, play fighting, laughing and talking. You have been having a really good time and completely forgot about him. You get out of the pool as the sun starts to set you go on Instagram at take a few pictures of the sunset and everyone for your story and feed. You all take a really cute picture that you set as your background. You dry off your hair with a towel because the heat had already dried your body "So what's the plan for tonight Eth?" You ask sitting on a pool chair checking your hair from your reflection of your phone. "Welllll I do have a few more surprises for you" he smiles and gets out. "We should probably get ready now" Mark says drinking the rest of his water you laugh to yourself seeing "pussy" written on his bottle. You all get out and head to your rooms. You go to your drawers and pull out a pair of black ripped short shorts, a baggie white t shirt and your converse from earlier. You put your clothes on tucking in the t shirt in the front only. then fixing your hair a little with hair spray you put on some makeup, concealer, powder, highlight, mascara, eye liner and some maroon colored lip stick. you grab some rings,necklace and earrings from earlier. grabbing your phone, watch and hooking your airpods case onto one of the belt loops on your shorts you walk out of your room downstairs to Jack and Mark waiting for you and Eth. "You look good" They both say in unison. "Aw thanks! Right back at ya" You say smiling. Eth comes downstairs a minute later "Ready?!" He says smiling. You all walk out to his jeep that now has no doors or roof on it. They let you sit in the front with Eth. You pull out your phone and take a video of everyone and downtown LA with so many people walking around and talking. You pull up to a board walk- Santa Monica and Venice beach. "Eth how did you know??!" You say getting out smiling walking over as fast as you can. The boys struggle to catch up with you. "Slow down girl" Jack says you realize and turn around seeing they are about 10 steps behind you. You wait and walk with them. "I'm so excited!! Thank you Eth!!" You say taking a video and save it for memories. "Of course you cant go to LA and not go to Venice!" he says smiling. Mark switches sides with Jack before you can notice and now he is walking next to you, your hands keep brushing against each other. You both blush but pretend not to notice. "So I was thinking we play some games, go on some rides and when were hungry there's this really good bar/restaurant I wanna take you guys to. I know the owner he's really cool and nice!" (Based on my actual experiences lol) "Sounds good." Mark says. you all walk up to the different booths and play a lot of the games. You keep trying to win this really cute blue dolphin with a white belly. And you cant instead you win a pink bat, you give up after a while and the boys try and cant get it either. Jack gets done with his round "God Damnit!" He says turning to the group "Sorry girlie" Eth says looking at you. "Its fine, I'm starting to get hungry tho" You say smiling. "Me too! All this losing makes me hungry" mark says "I mean you are a short- I mean sore loser you should be used to this" Jack says laughing and we all laugh "Okay Irish potato" mark says laughing "At least this Irish potato has height" He says as we all laugh "Alright children lets go get something to eat" You say. The all follow you and you walk to the bar. "Ethan!!!" A man in a unfamiliar voice says "Hey Tony!! How are you?" He says hugging the man "I've been good! What can I do for you and your friends?" He asks looking at us and smiling "Ill do a little of everything for us and around of the house drink but make one virgin please" He says pulling out his wallet "You got it" Tony says "Oh Eth let me pay" You say grabbing your wallet. "I got this one, get the next one love." He says you smile and thank him. You all choose a table that faces the beach and the sun set. You take a few pictures of the sunset and then yourself and then everyone. 10 min later tony comes out with a round of fruity drinks and we all take one. It is a fruit punch slushy with vodka. "this is definitely my favorite cali trip so far!" You say taking another sip of your drink leaving a lipstick ring around the rim. "This has been a really fun time! I'm happy I can spend it with you guys." Mark says smiling especially at you. *You think to yourself* Man he is really gorgeous in this sun light. But do I really have feelings for him? We just met and I don't even know what I'm doing with Alex. I'm probably just imagining it" You get lost in thought for a while, while the guys talk about cars and things, you think and plan exactly what you are going to do. Then Tony brings out a platter of individually wrapped tacos that have stickers with little animals indicating what is what. You are brought out of your thought and notice Mark staring at you. You both blush and grab some food. You being the awkward person you are, you're nervous to eat in front of people so you pretend to take a sip of your drink and talk yourself up. You then take a bite and a few later you aren't nervous anymore and its okay. You guys finish the plate and say goodbye and walk to the beach. You struggle to take your shoes off standing up Mark notices "Need some help" he chuckles and holds out his hand. You grab it and take your shoes off "Thanks" You smile blushing and walk towards the beach and put your feet in the water. As you walk you don't notice the boys. Ethan taking pictures of you looking stunning and jack and mark having a race. The sun starts to set more. You are in a trance watching the beautiful sky and the waves crash, your hair blowing in the wind, You smile to yourself proud of how far you've come and at this point you have a genuine smile on your face then you notice the guys looking at you smiling as well. "Whatcha smiling at?" Jack asks "The fact that I can beat all 3 of you in a race starting NOW" You laugh and start running they all run after you laughing. Ethan gets close but you run faster, Then mark is on your trail you two are neck and neck then he starts laughing and slowing down. You laugh and run faster leaving them in your tracks and you make it to the end of the public part of the beach. They all catch up to you out of breath. You laugh not out of breath at all "I run daily, each day I increase the speed and distance" You laugh "This is slight work for me sissys" You say looking at the almost set sun. "Whatever" Eth says "I wasn't even trying" Jack says playing it off "First one to the car rides shot gun" Mark says and start running. You run ahead of all of them and jack almost is ahead of you but you speed up and make it to the car slightly out of breath you laugh at them and get in "You really thought you could win huh?" You say checking your hair. "I thought it would've caught you off guard and I would get a head start." Mark says "Lets go home and have some more fun!!" You say smiling and looking out at Hollywood Blvd pass by. 

*TiMe SkIp*

You get home and walk inside you wait for everyone to get in, "I'm going to go change if you want to meet me in the painting studio that's cool, I think I'm gonna paint." You say walking upstairs. "Sure!" They all say You walk into your room and close the door, you open your window and close the curtain and turn on your fairy lights. Then you grab your grey sweat pants and a black crop top, you take off the remains of your makeup and put your glasses on. Walking out you bump into mark who was coming from the bathroom it knocks your glasses off. "Oh shit- sorry" He says picking them up and giving them to you. "You're good, this isn't the first time strong guy like yourself has done this" You smile putting them on, He blushes and you walk into the art room. He follows. *You think to yourself* WTF WHY DID YOU SAY THAT YOU IDIOT *you mentally face palm yourself* Then You pull out some supplies and grab a cup to fill with water "So how long have you been painting for?" He asks as everyone else walks in. "Well I always painted here and there when I was a kid but I never really got into it until freshman year of high school" You say looking up inspiration. You grab blues whites and greys. You use a picture of your feet in the water that you took today as your reference. "What do we paint?" Mark asks as you start to put the paint on your pallet. "Paint whatever comes to mind. I usually look up ideas and inspirations" You says smiling they all go to a desk, you share one with Eth and get to work. About an hour later everyone is done and you are putting the finishing touches on yours. Jack shows his first. Its a Septiceye Sam of course but shaded and painted well. Ethan shows his next, its of a forest with a sunset, the colors make it look very pretty. Then Mark shows his, he took a picture of you painting with paint on your hands and a little smear on your face. Its very detailed and almost perfect. You smile at him "That's really beautiful Mark". "Well I tried to capture true beauty the best I could" He says blushing and smiling he hands the painting to you. Then you show yours of your feet with white painted toe nails and the water and foam hitting them just perfectly glistening and looking almost real. "Wow that's really good Nicki" Eth says "Yeah I wish I could paint that well." Jack says You check the time to see its 7:30pm. You lay it to dry and clean up everyone does the same. "Want to watch a movie?" Eth asks "Sure!" Mark says "Horror movie?" You ask "HELL YES" Jack screams "And there it is" You laugh following everyone else downstairs. You go to the kitchen to get pop corn and drinks. Ethan, Mark and Jack sit onto the couch. You come back and sit in between Mark and Ethan. They turn on the movie and turn the lights off. Half way through you notice how close you are with Mark. You look over and see him smiling and blushing. You lay your head onto him and somehow fall asleep. By the time the movie is over Jack and Ethan are asleep. Mark gets up and carries you to bed bridal style. He lays you in bed and grabs your makeup remover/ skin care and cleans your face for you. Once he finishes he kisses you on the head and goes downstairs to clean up and then goes to bed.

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A/N Thank you for reading!! I had a lot of fun with this chapter and yes ive been to california i highly recomend going if you can! But I hope you enjoyed! Even though no one reads these I have fun making them even if they arent the best but I will be updating soon hopefully

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