We were fresh out of high school, and ready to take on the world. Rosie, Tylee and I decided we would take a summer and celebrate. To do so, we packed our bags and left to go live in California for the summer. Rosie's aunt had a beach house down there and she offered it up for us to stay in. And without hesitation, we quickly left after we were handed out diplomas. A day after the ceremony we were on the road, we all gave quick goodbyes to our families and promised to be home soon and stay safe. All three of us had packed up our cars full of our summer wardrobes and followed one another out of the state.
We got to the house at about six, and had all three of our cars unpacked by six- thirty. We chose our rooms and got settled. When we finished we all agreed to go out to eat. We drove to the nearest In-n-Out and sat down to eat.
"This is going to be an unforgettable summer." Rosie said. We all giggled and nodded in agreement. "What do you guys want to do tomorrow?" Tylee asked. Glances were exchanged between the three of us as if we had already come to an agreement with no words spoken. "Shopping!" We all squealed in unison. We continued to discuss what we would do throughout the week over our dinner. We were unaware of how unforgettable this summer was about to be.
I stirred slightly, as sunlight shined in my face. I slowly sat up in my new bed and looked around the cozy room I'd be staying in for the next three months. I smiled slightly and began to make my way out of the room and down the hall to see Rosie in the midst of both getting ready and cooking breakfast. I smirked and went to sit at the island in the kitchen. Tylee was in only shorts and a bra lying on the couch watching the t.v. I continued to watch her prepare the food. "Go get ready guys, after breakfast we can leave." She ordered. I smirked and did as I was told. I walked back down the hall and into my room. I grabbed the first thing I saw and threw it on it ended up being a bright red romper. I walked into my bathroom and began to scrunch my hair to make it wavy and continued to with my normal ritual. When I finished I grabbed my bag and took the same route to the kitchen I had taken moments ago. Tylee and Rosie were sat there just beginning to eat as I sat down.
We ate silently till we were finished. "Lets get this show on the road!" Tylee demanded as we made our way out to her car. We shortly arrived at a shopping mall. First store we headed into was Forever21.
We scurried around the store and found arm fulls of clothing. I was the first one to get into a dressing room, then Rose and Ty were put on either side of me. "Are you guys done yet? I want to see what you got!" I yelled over the loud music. I got the sound of doors opening as my reply. I did the same and met them outside. Compliments were thrown around as well as clothes as we continued with our piles.
We walked out of the store with about three to four bags each. As we continued our journey we came across the a couple of other stores and repeated the same process. When we showed off our outfits to one another in Ever Tylee pointed out, "Hey, haven't those boys been in the last few stores we've been in?" Rosie and I turned to look where she was mentioning. And surely enough there were four boys walking into the store as if in search of something. "Yea they were!" Rosie exclaimed, " I noticed them when we were in Hollister and Tillys." I took a long look at them, they did look familiar. "Hmm, lets have some fun with this shall we?" I suggested with a wicked smirk on my lips. Rosie and Tylee smirked with me and nodded. "What are we going to do?" Tylee asked. I smirked as I watched it all playout in my mind. "Lets head over to Roxy, shall we. I've really been needing a new bikini. " I smirked. "Lets do it." Rosie agreed. We changed our clothes and walked out of the store, making sure the boys were close behind.
"I don't think they're following us anymore." Tylee said. I smirked, "Just wait for it I said." A few moments later they were trying to catch up to us without letting on to what they were doing. Roxy came into view, our pace quickened with the proximity. Soon enough we were walking into the store with ease. The three of us headed to the swimsuit area. Each of us picked out a few different styles. I then grabbed a worker to let us into the dressing room. After she unlocked the doors I snuck a look over my shoulder to see the boys walk into the store searching for us. I stared a little longer than I should have and one caught my gaze. He lowered his sunglasses and winked at me, I felt my cheeks heat up. I ran into the dressing room. I quickly tried on the first bikini I'd chosen, it was a blue bandue with long frills hanging off the front.
"Are you guys done yet?" Rosie called. I walked out of the room and met them. We had all picked out the same bathing suit just different colors. We laughed at our selves then turned to examine our selves in the mirror. As we chatted about the bikinis, I risked another look in the boys direction. They were all staring, jaws on the floor staring at us. I hit Rosie which got hers and Tylees attention. I motioned over to where the boys were. Rose and Ty giggled and blush like the bunch of girls we are.
"Lets go find some cute sundresses and maybe they'll decide to talk to us." I looked over at Rosie, "Okay, which one do you like?" She met my gaze and blushed, "No! It's just, you know, that, " she stuttered for a moment before she dropped her head. "The curly haired one and the dark haired one." She mumbled feeling ashamed. I looked over to check out whom she was talking about.
I'm not going to lie they were all nice looking boys, but I wanted the one who winked at me. "I like the brunette with brown eyes." Tylee said dreamily. I looked over at her and rolled my eyes. "You two are ridiculous." I mumbled "Lets go look at sundresses now." I told them before walking into the dressing room to change. After we finished, we hungup the bikinis and walked out of the store and past the group of boys on our way to find a store with cute sundresses. We walked around the mall for 15 minutes before stumbling upon a little whole in the wall store. It was called 'Forever Summer', we walked in the boys not too far behind, I think they realized we were on to them. We walked in and it instantaneously smelt like the ocean. There were surfboards all over the walls, there were bright pictures the windows were open and letting the sunlight it. Needless to say we fell in love. We quickly found a whole rack of unique sundresses. All of us each picked out three, and went for the dressing rooms. I tried on my first one which was a light blue high to low. It had a rope belt at the waist. I was in love. I walked out of the room not even calling to see if Tylee and Rose were ready. I walked to the mirror noticing the boys out of the corner of my eye. They slowly moved closer. Rose and Ty came out of their rooms not too long after Tylee had found a pink coral tube top dress and Rose had tried on a white high to low. We complimented each other quickly, "Wait, lets all trade 'cause I really like yours Hannah, I just want to see how it looks." Tylee suggested. All of us agreeing I threw over the blue one and Tylee threw over her coral one for Rosie to try on, then Rose threw over her white one for me to try on.
We all walked out at the same time each of us looked at one another and shook our heads. Back to the dressing rooms, we traded again, this time I got Tylee's coral dress, Rosie got my blue one and Tylee got Rosie's white one. I walked out to get a better look in the mirror. This time I realized I had an audience. The boys were now sitting on the couch in front of the dressing rooms. I blushed noticing their stares and quickly walked to the mirror. Rosie and Tylee quickly joining me. They had noticed the boys too, but we continued with our dresses.
"I kinda like this blue one on me." Rosie said, rather loudly. Tylee had seemed to know what Rose was doing and added her two sense. "Yea and I kinda like this white one on me." I was completely confused. I looked at them as if they were crazy. I was about to add my two sense to the situation before we were interrupted. "Excuse me." A raspy English accent interjected. Rosie and Tylee smirked before turning around to the voice. I looked over as well to see all the boys had come closer and were eyeing us in our dresses. "Yes?" I asked bluntly.
"Well we saw that you three were trying on each others dresses and it seems that you ladies have got it all wrong." Said the curly haired boy who Rosie had eyes for. All three of us were thoroughly confused, now. "What do you mean?" Rose asked dreamily. "Well she had the coral one on and that only looked good on her." Said the brunette gesturing to Tylee. I saw my bestfriend blush. I rolled my eyes. "And you had the white one on which only looked good on you love." Curly said to Rosie. Both of them smirking and winking at one another. The boy whom had caught my eye earlier came forward. I tried so hard not to blush.
"And you darling," he said in an angelic voice, "looked outstanding in the blue one." I looked at him as he took off his glasses. My face heated up forcing me to quickly look at the ground.
"Would you all like to go out to lunch with us?" Tylees boy asked, looking around the group. The three of us looked at each other and smiled we all nodded and agreed. "Great lets get you ladies dressed and lets make our way down to the food court." The dark hair boy suggested. With that the three of us turned around and went to change into our clothes. We didn't bother buying the dresses then we figured we would come back later.
"So where are you girls from?" asked Tylees boy. "We're from Vegas." I said. "Where are you guys from?" asked Rosie. "The U.K." answered the dark haired boy. The three of us looked at each other and giggled at our inside jokes.
We had made it to the food court our new found group spanned out to get their food. My guy and I decided to leave the group and go and get some pizza. So in order to do so, we crouched behind a group of people walking the other way in the food court and when we were far enough away from the group we stood straight up and raced to the pizza place.
When I turned around after touching the counter first, he caught up, "Whoa, you're fast." I smirked and giggled a little. The both of us were out of breath. We went up to the counter and ordered. When the cashier asked for the money, he pushed my hand out of the way and handed the girl his credit card. I turned to him, "Why did you just pay for me? I have money." He smiled and took his card back from the girl thanking her before turning to me. "I'm sure you do. But I like you and I hope to see a lot more of you." He gave me a cheeky smile. I smiled and blushed. Our order number was called and I went to grab it. Without another word, we went to find the rest of the group on the outskirts of the food court. We sat down and the table was quiet for a while until everyone started to fill up on their food.
"Oh my god, we've been so rude lads! They don't even know our names! I'm Josh by the way everyone." TYlees boy introduced himself with a little wave while he continued eating. "I'm Zayn." Said the dark haired one. "I'm Louis." My boy said giving me a wicked smirk from his seat across the table. "And I'm Harry." Said Rosies boy. "My names Rosie, but you can call me Rose." Rosie introduced herself. "I'm Tylee." She said dreamily as her and Josh gazed into one another eyes. "And my names Hannah." I smirked at Louis.
Lunch went on for a while we all got on great, we chatted about our lives and everything and before we knew it hours had flown by. "Do you guys want to come over to our house and have a few drinks?" Rosie offered. I looked in her direction, shocked she would suggest such a thing. A skewed amount of agreements erupted from the boys. "Okay where did you all park? You can follow us back to our place." Rose stated. "We're parked over by the Italian joint." Josh said. "Okay we'll go get the car and meet you guys over there." I suggested. Everyone agreed and we all went our separate ways for now.
The three of us walked away and when we made it around the corner we all stopped and faced each other. We all burst into squeals and giggles and we bounced around like a bunch of idiots.
A minute later we were cool calm and collected again. We exchanged glances and giggled as we continued to make our way to the car.