Aesthetic - Jaden Hossler

10.

Alice was hesitating at first, she was a terrible swimmer and aside from Addison, nobody knew. What if somebody threw her in a deep part and she could not get up and Addie wasn't there? Addison seemed to know that she was nervous and pulled her towards the hot tub.

"Let's start here."

"I don't think that is a good idea, you will freeze when you get in the normal pool after that."

"Anthony has a point."

And with that, it seemed to be okay for everybody else. They got in the pool with no trouble at all. Alice stood at the rim of the pool with a scared expression.

Avani was starting to worry:" Allie. Are you okay?"

Alice was shaken out of her trance and smiled at her before she kneeled down to be closer to her friend.

"I'm fine. Just scared."

Anthony who hugged his girlfriend close to him started to frown. "Why?"

"I'm a terrible swimmer."

Avani started to laugh and grabbed Alice's hands who now sat on the edge. "If you want I can stay by your side. But after an incident that involved Kio going to the hospital, we decided, that there would be no more dunking."

Antony nodded to support his girlfriend:" You can also stay in the shallow waters, you don't need to get to the deep part, and if you do, just hold on to one of us or the edge."

Alice nodded and finally got in the pool. "Oh my god, it's freezing." Dixie swam over and laughed at her:" You'll get used to it." Unbeknownst to Alice, Addison had already told the others that Alice wasn't good with deep waters so that they were all ready to help when something happens.

Jaden swam over to the four at the edge of the pool. "Let's get to the others, we wanted to film some TikToks."

Allie nodded and grabbed Dixie's shoulder who helped her get to the deeper waters where she started to grab the edge so that Dixie was free to go again. "Do you want to be in a TikTok Allie?"

"I don't know. Do people want that?"

"Who cares? Have fun, Allie!"

Alice cares. She was afraid that people would criticize her for everything. That she was Asian, that she wore red, that she wore a one-piece and not a bikini, that she wasn't as fit as her sister.

Charli pulled her up so that they sat upon the edge she was previously grabbing. "I will teach you the hand movements to a very easy dance. And before you say anything. We will film it somewhere where we can stand."

It took Charli a while to teach the movements. Well, not the movements but more the combinations. Alice could do the moves well, she just struggled with remembering what move would be next, but that was solved rather quickly.

When she did it for the first time, with music and without Charli doing it with her to look at the moves, she was proud of herself, but also the others were proud of her. Some were smiling and some were clapping.

It was so weird to Alice that they were so excited that she wanted to film a TikTok with them, it made her feel important and accepted. While the others swam back to the other edge of the pool, where they would be able to stand, Alice, stood up, and started to run alongside the pool so that she didn't have to swim.

Avani was luckily filming the spectacle because when Alice neared the end, she slipped, fell in the pool, and took Addison down with her.

Welp. There goes her plan to get out with dry hair.

Addison came back to the surface laughing so hard that her stomach ached. Alice was blushing, really hard, because everybody seemed to have seen it and some laughed while others looked shocked but when she saw her sister she had to laugh as well.

Jaden grabbed her arm and pulled her towards them to a place where Dixie was able to stand comfortably, but when he saw that she had to tilt her head and stand on her tippy toes, he laughed and pulled her even further to a place where she could comfortably stand.

"If I let you go now, you're not going to drown, are you?"

"Shut up Jaden!"

Avani stood in the first row, between Addison and Alice while Charlie and Dixie stood in the second row, in the spaces between the girls so that you could see them.

Anthony decided to film the spectacle while the other boys sat beside him, rooting for the girls. It took a few tries until they were synchronized to a point where everybody was okay with it, they ended the short dance to 'Relationship' by Young Thug feat Future, with a group hug, because they already felt, that that was the take.

They filmed a few more videos of them having fun while they posted videos continuously. Alice was surprised with herself, that she was having so much fun, that she didn't even notice that she was freezing.

Griffin noticed that the girls, not only Alice kept shuddering. They had had a long day and being in the cold-water having fun tired them seriously out.

"Let's get in the hot tub. I'm freezing."

Bryce laughed at his friend. "Shut up dude! You're freeing?"

Griffin didn't respond, he just nodded towards a shaking Alice who was playing around with Kio. Bryce nodded, grabbed Alice, who was shrieking in shock and sat her down in the hot tub. Alice sighed in content at the warmth that filled her.

"Guys? I don't think that we will all fit in there." Before she could even say anything else everybody was in the tub and the water was overflowing.

To be honest. It was nice, sitting in that tub with people who helped her so much in only a day.

Charli and Dixie grinned at each other, seemingly having a plan in mind. "So Alice. We don't really know much about you?"

"Care to play twenty questions?"

"Won't it take like really long if I ask you guys questions?"

"That's why we ask questions and you can answer us. "

"Oh okay."

"We don't have to if you don't feel comfortable." "No that's fine Bryce." They all sat on the circular seating area of the hot tub.

"Okay everybody can ask me two questions. We can do it clockwise, so Bryce would start."

"Sounds good. Let me start with something basic. How old are you?"

"I am currently twenty-one years old but my birthday is in like two months."

"Neat so you are born in 1998? You are the oldest of us."

"Yeah, I kinda thought so."

"Okay, I still got one question. Let's address the elephant in the room. How tall are you?"

Alice blushed while looking down, she suspected that this question would come but she didn't expect it so soon.

"I am 5'1"

"In centimeters."

"Isn't it enough that you know I'm short?"

"In centimeters Alice."

"One hundred and fifty-five centimeters."

"You're a short stack of pancakes, Alice and you know it."

"Shut up Josh!"