My Mistake (a Jackson Felt fanfic)

Unexpected Run-in

I take off sprinting towards him and jump into his arms. He catches me and hugs me tight.

Kane Sampson, my dance partner, and ex-boyfriend/bestie.

He carries me over to where everyone has congregated. His sister Kyla is hugging Preston and Landon and introducing herself to the other 3.

"Sorry Dice, we can't stay long. We're just heading back to the studio for some footwork. Dan will kill us if we're late," Kyla says to me.

I pout. This is my first time seeing them since they moved to Mexico a year ago.

"We'll hang later," Kane says. "Okay?"

"Boi we better," I scoff trying to act mad.

He rolls his eyes. "Whatever Candice."

They walk away.

"Candice?" Jackson asks, one eyebrow raised.

I rub my neck. "Yeah. Hence the reason 'Candy' fits so well as a nickname."

My eyes widen realizing that I've never told anyone on tiktok my real name and I made sure that it wasn't on any info sight about me.

"Please don't tell," I say quickly.

"We won't," Josh says.

"So what were you guys doing?" Luca asks.

I gesture to my showing swimsuit top and to Preston and Landon's swim trunks.

"We were swimming," I say.

"Well, Landon and I were," Preston says. "She was running away from us."

"You were gonna throw me in!" I say.

Preston laughs and I pout.

"Mind if we join you?" Josh asks. "We were just heading down."

"Go for it," I say. "Our stuff is this way."

I lead them all to our site and they start setting up.

I take off my shorts and put my Apple Watch in my bag, reburying it.

I see all of the boys share a lookout of the corner of my eye. Landon and Luca start to 'sneak' upon me.

I take off running up to a small cliff that you're allowed to jump off. I stop and turn around, waiting for the boys to catch up.

"You won't," Preston says.

"Bet," I answer, turning around and diving down.

I transition from flying to swimming so easily, and it feels amazing. I kick my feet making me go farther away from the cliff. I used to be on the swim team in Australia, and always swam faster underwater so I learned how to hold my breath for a longer amount of time than most people can.

This is why when I pop up out of the water I hear the boys calling my name.

I think I was under for about a minute.

I take a larger breath and dive back under, going for Preston's feet. I pull him down, pushing myself up and away from him before he can do anything.

He comes up blubbering.

I laugh and he dives at me, Landon following him.

I kick back and swim down down down and forward forward forward.

I come up at least 9 yards away from them.

Someone suddenly pulls me under, and through the clear water, I see Jackson. He's smiling at me, and his eyes stand out against the water.

I glare at him and come up.

When he comes up in front of me, I splash him with water.

"Devil girl," he says in a joking, low voice.

"You know it," I say. "I'm sickeningly sweet."

——

The boys are talking as I dry off my hair with my towel.

I check my phone and look at the likes I've already gotten on the pictures I posted on Instagram 5 minutes ago.

279 likes already. Nice.

I lay the towel around my shoulders, scrolling through the comments.

lil.missy9.0 Oh My God!

jesse_kingston Beautiful! The beach and you!

madison.b_. SLAY QUEEN

anna.lou67 the queen of all things sweet!

kpopstanplease.98 bow down peasants! we are blessed enough to see this amazing group of tiktok-ers

jihoon.lee stop killing me Candy.......i mean it

mr.marc74 oh my god I saw you on my plane!

I smile at the comments.

New comment from Jackson Felt

A hand grabs my phone.

"Hey!" I say, turning around to see Jackson typing something.

I reach for my phone but he holds it up above my level. Stupid short family! Stupid 5'4 body! Stupid genes!

He turns his back and finishes typing.

He hands my phone back to me. "There's my number, Josh's number, and Luca's number," he says.

I roll my eyes.

"You coulda asked," I say, playfully angry.

I ruffle my now let-down hair.

I swat at his hand and he laughs.

"Hang out tomorrow?" He asks me.

"Sure!" I answer. I find his contact in my phone and send him my address.

His eyebrows raise as he reads.

"We're neighbors," he says.

"Really?" I say, pleasantly surprised.

"Yeah! Payton and Tayler are coming over tomorrow. We can all hang!"

"One thing though," Landon says from behind Jackson.

"We're visiting our mom tomorrow. So you have to babysit Candy," Preston says.

"Babysit my arse!" I say, causing everyone to laugh.

"If you think my accent and way of words are funny then how about I say it as you do?" I say, miffed.

In a perfect American accent, I repeat what I said. "Babysit my ass."

"Since when could you willingly change your accent?" Landon asks, slightly surprised.

"Since I learned to sing," I say. "So basically my whole life. Can't believe you've never heard me talk like this."

Preston and Landon shake their heads.

"Oh, and if I'm going with you guys tomorrow then we'll need to be at King's Court around 11:30," I say.

"We can make that happen," Jackson says.

(Edited 04-11-20)