Me: Guess who is back!
*The girls scream*
Sonny: Oh my god Nessie it's been like a year where have you been!
Me: I am so sorry I've been so busy and tired -
Alice: Which is just code for lazy
Me: Alice shut up. Anyway, I'm back now and –
Chad: Nessie! *runs over and gives me a hug*
Me: Put me down Cooper, you idiot!
Chad: *puts me down and tries to act cool* so, where have you been.
Alice: Acting cool won't help you. I recorded the whole thing.
Me: Over a year later and nothing has changed. Chad is still an idiot, Alice is still annoying and I don't own SWAC. Oh well it's just good to be back.
A girl with long black hair stepped out. She was wearing dark blue jean capris and a black Guess T-shirt with knee high black boots, and she was holding a Guess purse. She lifted her D&G sunglasses off of her face. "Sonny!" she said.
"Natasha!" Alice and I exclaimed, shocked.
Alice and I exchanged a look before both running towards our childhood friend. We tackled her with hugs and the three of us fell to the ground laughing. Alice got up then pulled me up and I helped Nat off the ground. "Well I see that Tyn has been kind to you," I said while she brushed dirt off of her jeans.
"Yeah. Well Alice has been good to you too hasn't she?" Nat said gesturing to my outfit and hair.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"I know you Sonny," she said. "Plus I gave Alice that skirt for her birthday."
"Oh yeah," Alice said.
We walked back over to Chad. "You must be Natasha, a childhood friend of Alice, Sonny and Hailey," he said.
"And you must be Chad, the "hotheaded jerk" that works at the Falls," Nat said.
"What's with the quotes?" I asked.
Before she could answer Alice whispered something to her. "Oh really?" Nat turned to me. "What happened to 'anything over a 75 means I would never go out with them', come on Sonny."
"That was two years ago, Jake and I had just broken up. Besides Chad has been way under 75 for the last few weeks," I answered.
"What are they talking about?" Chad asked.
"When we were younger we had this thing we called a Jerk-Ometer. It's like a thermometer except it was made out of cardboard and instead of taking someone's temperature it measured how much of a jerk they were," Alice explained. "When Sonny first started working on So Random she had endless complaints about you giving you a score 150 out of 160. Meaning the biggest jerk any of us had ever met."
"Wow. You guys had nothing better to do as kids?" Chad asked.
"Shut up Chad," I say.
"I'm just saying," he says.
I roll my eyes and turned back to Natasha. "So what are you doing here girl?" I ask.
"I came to visit my two best friends. One of which I haven't seen in forever since she more or less disappeared off of the face of the earth," she says dramatically.
"Disappeared off the face of the earth or out of the lowered population of Wisconsin? Your dramatic nature proves that you've been taking lessons from your sister," I say.
"Shut up."
"So how's my other adoptive mother doing?" I ask.
"She doing really well," Nat says. "Tyn and I visited a few weeks ago. Oh my gosh, Missy is so cute."
"Who's Missy?" I ask.
"She's our little sister. She's two-years old now."
"I've been gone that long! There's another little Miklennet girl, and both you and Tyn failed to tell me?"
"Sorry girl."
"Nat you forgot to mention Care Bear."
Nat, Chad and I turn to see where the voice came from and Alice holds up her phone. "Hey Tyn," I say.
"Hey sis," Nat says. "Oh yeah, Caroline is so cute. Except Bonnie totally used my name without asking me first, but I'll look pass that for now."
"Bonnie had a baby!" Alice exclaimed. "When was this?"
"And Nat no complaining Caroline is your middle name not your first name," I say.
"It's still my name," she says.
"Whatever girl," Tyn says.
"Uh hello, no one answered my question. When did Bonnie have a baby?" Alice asks.
"Around six months ago," Nat says.
"Hold on how did you guys know that my cousin had a baby before I did?" I ask.
"Maybe, because you've been in Hollywood for like 3 years. The better question would be how did I not know this?" Alice says.
"And when's the last time you saw her or even talked to her?" Tyn asks.
Alice thinks about it for a second and then goes quiet. "…About a year ago," she says sheepishly.
"See I'm not the only bad cousin," I say. "Granted I'm probably close to the worst but it's nice to know that Alice is down on that list with me."
"Oh same old Sonny," Tynnisha says. "Anyway I just wanted to make sure that my sister got there fine and since she did I will go and let you guys catch up."
"Alright bye Tynnie," Alice and I say.
"Bye superstar," Nat says.
"Shut up, Nat," Tyn says. "Bye guys."
Alice hangs up her phone and turns to Nat. "I still can't believe that you're here," Alice says.
"Well believe it, I've missed you guys. I haven't seen my korítsiain forever," Nat says using the Greek word for 'girls'. "Well actually I saw Alice a few months ago in London, so she doesn't matter much."
Alice pretended to be hurt, "Ouch thanks missed you too," she says.
"You still remember the Elliniká I taught you?" I ask surprised.
"Fysiká," she says. (Of course) "It was a lifesaver in Athens last year."
I notice the look of pure confusion on Chad's face given the fact that he couldn't understand the bits of Greek in the conversation. I can see that Alice is becoming aware of that too and I can envision the gears turning in her head as she works it to her advantage. My assumption is proved correct when Alice asks, "Theoró óti o fílos sas den mas katalavaínoun?" (I take it your boyfriend doesn't understand us?) When I nod my head with a knowing smirk she adds, "Perfect."
I chuckle knowing that Alice is going to use Chad's lack of knowledge of the Greek language against him. "Giatí échei simasía an Chad den katalavaínei Elliniká?" Nat asks a little bit lost. (Why does it matter if Chad does not understand Greek?)
"It's because he is quite fluent in Spanish," I clarify in English so that Chad can at least understand a part of what we are saying.
"Ok so you do know that the only thing I was able to understand was my name," Chad says.
"We are very much completely aware," Alice responds.
"Talking about me were you?" he smirks.
"Dios mio Chad, does the world revolve around you? Maybe your name just came up in the conversation," Alice utters.
"Cállate Alice," Chad says.
Nat shoots me a questioning look. "Yes they've been acting like three year olds to each other all morning," I answer he silent question."
"Hey! I resent that!" Alice protests.
"Me too," Chad agrees.
"Wow the one thing they can agree on is protesting to being compared to a three-year old," I say.
"Meanwhile sounding like a three year old in the process of saying it – minus the use of the word 'resent,'" Nat adds.
The two of them scowl at us as we laugh while we walk. Their sour mood lasts about thirty seconds before the go back to their bickering. After a few minutes of aimlessly walking around, Nat starts complaining about how hot she is. "Well no duh, look at your outfit choice. A black shirt and knee high boots," Alice states.
"Oh give me a break. I wasn't expecting it to be this hot," Nat counters.
"Please, you have a change of clothes – and shoes – in your bag," I say.
Nat sticks her tongue out at me. "Oh and I'm the three year old," Alice says.
"Sorry to interrupt…actually no I'm not, but weren't we going swimming?" Chad asks.
That thought had totally slipped my mind the minute Nat got out of the car. We go back towards the cabins; Nat goes with Alice to her cabin and Chad and I go to ours. I hurry to the bathroom before Chad and change into my halter back two piece blue bathing suit. I take out my headband since it's one of my favourites and I'd rather not get it wet or chance losing it. When I open the bathroom door I am greeted by a towel hitting my face. I roll my eyes – not that he could see – and take the towel off of my face to see that Chad has already changed into his swim shorts. "Thanks Blondie, I've always wanted to be hit in the face by a towel," I say.
"Well I'm here to help Sonshine," Chad says.
I walk over to my side of the room, whacking Chad with the towel as I pass and look my bags and drawers for my camera. Of course being blind I didn't realize that it was sitting on right top of the chest of drawers. Grabbing it I walk out of the cabin and walk over to Alice's cabin. But before I get there I see the two girls walking my way, so I stop walking. I am unwilling to walk and meet them only to have to turn right around in the same step. We walk back to the cabin to find that Chad is still inside. "Chad if you don't get out here soon I will personally toss you in the lake. And that's a promise!" I yell through the door. The girls laugh and then give me a once over. "Look at little Talissa come out of her shell," Alice says.
"Miss 'I-Will-Forever-Wear-A-One-Piece-Bathing-Suit' and look at you now," Nat says.
"And whenever Hales and I were able to force her into a 2-piece she always put on a baggy t-shirt over it," Alice says.
Before I could even open my mouth to form a reply a pair of arms snake themselves around my waist making me jump. "Ahora Allison, por qué te escondes ese hermoso cuerpo tuyo?" Chad says quietly to me. (Now Allison, why would you want to hide that beautiful body of yours?)
Well it was supposed to be quiet, but judging the identical looks on Alice and Natasha's face I know that they both heard.
"Chad se da cuenta de que los dos oyeron y entendieron bien?" I reply. (Chad you realized that the two of them heard and understood you right?)
"Por supuesto que sí Allison pero es mucho más divertido de esta manera y lo sabes" he says back to me. (Of course I do Allison but its way more fun this way and you know it)
Ok I have to admit that hearing Chad say my name with a Spanish accent is probably the hottest thing I've heard.
"Ok can we please get to swimming? I'm about to die from the heat," I say. And only half of the reason is the sun.
Chad lets me go and we walk towards the water, well more like raced. I threw my towel on one of the chairs without stopping as I passed; when I got to the edge of the lake I launched myself into the water. I close my eyes just before I am submerged in the water; I stay under for a few seconds before I start to float back up. When my head breaks the surface I hear laughter as the other 3 follow my lead jumping into the water.
Ok yeah this chapter probably sucked but I wanted to get this finished and uploaded before…well before I got bored and started doing something else. These days I literally have a shorter attention span than my younger siblings. And I might have a hard time writing the next few chapters until I get back into OTRTA writing mode so if you guy could just help me out that would be awesome. You can leave any possible ideas in the review box or you can PM me. Thanx :)
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