We Used To Be 26

Water

Alex

I was roasting in the 85 degree weather. Heat is not my favorite thing in the world. Lucky for me I had thought of a plan to change this. Carefully I looked around the little mob around me to make sure I had everyone.

Bill: Check, I squeezed his hand and he squeezed back.

Collette: Right next to Tom.

Tom: See afore mentioning.

Raven: Doing cartwheels.

Spirit: Bouncing a volleyball.

Allie: impossible to miss.

Colista: texting as ALWAYS

Asha: pretending to be a dinosaur

Noelle: Glaring at Tom's back

I think that was everyone. I was excited to try my idea. When we got to my house I sent the girls inside to get into swimsuits and the boys to their house then checked the slip and slide. I'd put my suit on just before last period so all I had to do was strip off my outer clothing. I put my stuff a safe distance from the slide then turned on the water. The strip ahead of me was 100 foot long and possibly 10 ft wide. I decided I would be the first one down it for the day and jumped on to it. I stood up from the pool of water at the end and looked up to see Tom and Bill emerging from their house with Georg and Gustav in tow.

Third Person

She raced to the top of the slide. She shook her dripping curls away from her face splattering all four boys in the process.

"Hey!" Tom exclaimed.

"You're at a slip and slide party, you are going to get wet," Alex informed him as the girls roiled out of the house with Casey added to the midst. Alex was slightly surprised. Casey was one: not happy with Alex's choice of friends, two: still under the delusions it was nice out not blistering, three: not exactly in her bikini body after all the time off that the move had left, and four: probably on her period.

"WOOHOO!" Asha shrieked as she did a flying leap onto the slip and slide.

"Come on Spirit!" Raven grabbed Spirits hands and the pair went flying down.

"HOLY SHIT!" Collette gasped as Tom grabbed her and sent the pair of them down the slide. The party continued quite like that in several variations of that for quite sometime.

"I'm screaming from, the top of the world!" Bill said at the top of the slip and slide. Alex laughed and was holding his hand. Tom shoved him. Bill and Alex went tumbling down. Tom didn't even time to laugh at the wet mess his brother and Alex were at the bottom in the water because Casey shoved him down after the pair. Collette went to send Casey down but tripped and sent the pair of them down. Colista approached the slide to look down. Unfortunately her adopted sister, Asha, decided to tackle her Colista flailed hitting Noelle, the three of them went down but not before Georg tried to stop Noelle's fall and fell with her. He landed on her, he braced his arms to hold himself off of her. He couldn't move before Spirit hit him bouncing slightly as Raven hit her then Gustav and last and by her own volition Allie. The pile was half sideways and half up and down. Bill and Alex slipped out after Alex extracted Tom's weight from her foot.

"Let's leave them be," Bill said and pulled Alex towards their little hide-y hole in the woods. As usual she was lost in his charm and sent only one look back at the pile. Tom scrambled to his feet and helped Collette up. His hand was on the small of her back and slid on her wet skin.

"You're all wet," he said in a seductive voice.

"Water will do that," she said with an evil grin. He grinned back and began to pull her away from the crowd.

"Are you alright?" Georg asked as he stood up knocking the girls off his back and into the water with a splash.

"I'm fine," Noelle said examining the bassist closer than she had before. There was laughter, not seduction in his seafoam green eyes. Everyone else disentangled themselves from the pile not noticing when Casey disappeared all of them going on without the missing 5.

Bill

I wasn't really sure why I pulled Alex away from the group. I was really enjoying watching her have so much fun. We wandered through the woods now careful of our bare feet. Every once in a while she would drag her hand through her hair or toss it around splattering us both with water. Twilight was beginning to make an appearance. We had an hour or so until sun down. The Sun's golden light lit up her alabaster skin in shades of gold and set her hair aflame with red and gold. I had no idea where we were going or what we were doing it was just nice to be together without everyone else interrupting. I sighed slightly and she paused turning to me. I couldn't tell her of my thoughts. I wished that she would always be so peaceful, that she would always be so carefree. Suddenly I wondered what would happen to our relationship if I was famous. Would the cameras and the tabloids and the fans be too much pressure for her? Would I have to give one or the other up?

"What are you worrying about?" she asked, her voice was low and slightly husky, I realized that her voice was deeper than mine. Her finger smoothed out my forehead.

"Nothing important," I said gathering her into my arms. She slid her arms around my shoulders and rested her head against her arm.

"Your growing," she said not tonelessly but in a tone I didn't recognize. I realized it was true I was an inch or two taller than she though we had been eye to eye a few days ago. I let the fingers of one hand trail through her hair, it felt like silk and I was surprised at how much water it was retaining.

"I am," I said and now we were less than a hair's breadth apart. There were no more words to say, nothing in this emotion, this binding power could be expressed in words. I felt like I could stay her in this moment forever. It reminded me of Fey in books, the land that no one ever wants to leave. This was my Fey, this was where I belonged, with her in my arms.

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