some things just clique
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THE HAMPTONS, THE LIVING ROOM; SUNDAY, JUNE 28th 11:03 A.M.
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"Why am I up?" Massie groggily rubbed her eyes, feeling rather disjointed today.
"Due to the fact that Kemp had to go to the bathroom a good five times, therefor, waking the rest of us up." Plovert rolled his eyes while Kemp just grinned very proudly.
Massie groaned and rolled over in her sleeping bag. "Five more minutes, please." Dylan begged against her pillow.
"Guys, let them sleep. Let's swim in her pool," Nikki offered, wide-awake and already in her bikini.
Massie wanted to vomit once again; Nikki was gorgeous and skinny, even though last night she practically inhaled Dylan's Oreos.
Alicia wouldn't tolerate the look on Massie's face when Nikki suggested such a ludicrous idea.
"Actually, Mass, didn't you say you wanted to take all of us to the ocean for the day?" Alicia didn't care that Nikki didn't affect Josh; it made her uncomfortable to see Massie so upstaged. The beta raised an eyebrow and Massie practically jumped onto the little lie.
"Yeah, actually I did Leesh, thanks for reminding me; it totally slipped my mind. Can all of you be ready in… twenty minutes?" She batted her eyelashes with a new-refurnished smile on her face.
"We're ready now," Nikki all-but whined and folded her arms.
"That's too bad," Claire dismissed her soundlessly, "we can be ready, Mass."
Alicia raised her eyebrows in utter satisfaction and watched Nikki shrink a little under Claire's dismissive glare. Apparently Claire's got nerves.
"Alright," Cam said before any of them could protest. He didn't want to push Claire's nerves any further.
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Forty-five minutes later, all of the teens climbed out of the Block's large Range Rover.
"Thanks for the ride," all of them said to Issac.
They headed for the hot sand. The day was beautiful and sunny and about eighty-degrees out. It was a perfect day for the Hamptons.
"The minute we get home, we need to discuss party decorations. I'm not too concerned though," Massie told her friends thoughtfully, "the party-planners will do most of the dirty work, anyway."
"Why? Are you injured? You can't do any work yourself?" Nikki smiled innocently while Massie fought the urge to bare her teeth.
"I can, Nuhk-ew-i, but I prefer to have professionals complete my plans so that don't turn out like sixth grade parties." The alpha dared Nikki to retort with a simple glare, but thankfully, the brunette kept her mouth closed.
"I officially am in love with summer," Kristen declared with closed eyes and a smile tugging at her lips.
"I second that," Dylan grinned and laid her towel on the hot sand.
"Does anyone want to go swimming?"
No one answered Nikki immediately, not even Derrick. Massie was too busy pretending to be distracted by the ocean's significant view to notice Derrick couldn't tear his eyes away from her.
"I'll swim," Kemp took off his shirt and egged on Nikki to take off her clothes. Of course he only offered because he wanted to check her out.
With the confidence of a girl who knew she was beautiful, Nikki took off her cover up and ran to the waters with laugh.
The day played like this: Nikki swam and flirted with each and every Briarwood boy while The Pretty Committee tanned and gossiped.
"It's hot." Massie announced, "I'm going to swim, any of you ladies want to join me?"
"I will," Derrick's tone made Massie think that his offer was meant to be a statement. "Let's go."
They walked along the hot sand and the salt waters licked the tips of their feet. The sun shone brightly down upon them and Massie had never felt so exposed in her life.
"Are you mad?" He asked after a moment of listening to the laughter and talking faded.
"Now why would I be mad?" She rolled her eyes and exhaled. Of course she was mad, but the thing was, Nikki wasn't with them right now, this may be the only change they'll have together alone. And since it is summer…
Derrick grunted and stomped on the water a little too hard because it splashed her. With water dripping down her freshly-shaven legs, Massie lifted her head and shot Derrick a glare. She was so momentarily surprised by the cool water that she decided: screw it.
"How dare you?" Before he could even react to her words, he was bombarded with a cold, splash of salty water. He rubbed his eyes and when he opened them, she was already a good ten feet ahead of him and she was gaining length.
"Come back here!" He sprinted after her, his feet getting dragged beneath him as the sand sunk and the water touched his toes. She was giggling hard but she was no match for Briarwood's starting JV goalie.
"Nooo," she squealed, her laughter echoing along the fairly vacant beach. The sun beat down on the two of them as they began to grow sweaty. "Please, I'm sorry," she begged as he reached her with a devilish grin tugging at his oh-so-kissable lips.
He lifted her up effortlessly despite her wishes, and Derrick looked into her eyes with a scrutiny she didn't recognize.
As she giggled and pleaded not to be thrown in, he realized that he's never seen the Queen Bee so giddy and, well, immature.
"Block," he teased with a smile, "tell me how the water feels." And with that, he tossed her into the water with a splash!
When she resurfaced, she was thankful she wore waterproof makeup. "You're dead to me, Harrington."
"And what are you going to do about that?" He taunted with the biggest grin.
She tackled him and down they both went into the cool, summer salt waters. Just the two of them.
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THE HAMPTONS, THE LIVING ROOM; SUNDAY, JUNE 28th 9:03 P.M.
With the showers and fresh summer-PJs on, they all gathered onto the Block's large sofa.
"What movie, guys?" It felt good to be back in charge. As opposed to walking on eggshells, Massie was feeling fairly confident that she was dancing on clouds—not that she would ever tell anyone that; except maybe Claire.
"A scary movie," Dylan declared. Then the redhead turned and winked at Claire.
Claire shrunk a little in her seat. She could feel the intense stares she was receiving from Cam who was on the other side of the living room, and she felt them during the beach day…all day.
"Ladies," Massie looked at all of her friends, and pointedly ignored Nikki's stare, "remind me that we need to plan the party."
"Mmkay," Nikki answered quickly. Massie did her best not to claw the brunette who was perched a little too close to Derrick.
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Mid-movie (which they all decided Prom Night was acceptable), Claire couldn't take Cam's consecutive stares anymore.
She whipped out her enV and furiously typed.
MEET ME ON PORCH 12 2NITE
She didn't wait more than three seconds before her phone hummed with a new text message.
OK.
With a small sigh, Claire turned back to the movie and all but pretended to watch psychopaths chase around the naïve girls. Secretly though, she wished it could be 12:00am.
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It was hopefully a little longer. Next chapter will be Sensation White (depending on how many reviews I get). I'd like to thank those who did review, it was inspiring and a nice surprise.
I hope you guys enjoyed this cute chapter!
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