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Chapter 5
"Factor 35." Kirsten said as she held out the pink bottle. Ryan stared at her confused. "Is that high?"
"Yes it's practically a block. Now hurry up. I wanna get an early start at the sun."
"You're not feeling sick anymore?"
"No it was only a 24hr bug. Now stop worrying and put on your sun cream."
"Where are we going? Pool or beach?" Seth asked moodily as he emerged from his darkened bedroom. Kirsten turned to her son and tried to fix his hair, "Pool. Seth you should really cut this all off. You look like a burst mattress."
"Wow we're full of compliments this morning aren't we mom? I see you've opted for a different but equally slutty bathing suit today." He ran his eyes over his mother who had selected a simple black triangle bikini. "Seth, don't talk to your mother like that." Sandy had entered he living room and walked over to his wife, "You look beautiful." He said smiling.
"Thank you." She answered and kissed him on the cheek, "Seth hurry up and get dressed. Why are you all taking so long?" But Kirsten had barely finished before there was a knock at the door. "Who's that?" Ryan asked stupidly.
"The maid?" Seth suggested.
"We have a maid here too? What did we do fly Rosa over on a different airplane?" Ryan asked sarcastically. Kirsten, believing him to be serious, answered, "Ryan you know Rosa's in Mexico visiting family right now." Sandy pulled open the door to find Marissa and Summer standing in the doorway, "Ugh thank god!" exclaimed Summer as she marched into the apartment, "We've knocked on like a thousand doors looking for you guys. You didn't tell us what room you were in." Summer slapped Seth playfully on the back of the head as if to punish him for his stupidity. Marissa kissed Ryan on the cheek before challenging, "Summer it was more like four rooms and two of them didn't have anybody in them."
"It's nice to see that SOME people are ready and not lying in till midday." Kirsten said while rolling her eyes at her dark haired son. "You guys aren't ready yet?" Marissa questioned.
"Uh no we just got up like ten minutes ago." Ryan admitted.
"Well Chino don't think I'm gonna be waiting for you to get your ass moving..." she paused and remembered that Sandy and Kirsten were present, "I mean... uh... I don't... I... just... I..."
"It's okay Summer breathe. Just let it in... and out." Seth said soothingly.
"You know what Summer? I'm with you. I'm going to the pool. I will be waiting down there when you decide to uh... get you ass moving." Kirsten said chuckling. Marissa and Summer followed Kirsten out of the apartment and went down to claim sun beds by the pool. Summer laid her bright pink towel over the bed while Marissa did the same with a blue towel. Kirsten sat on the edge of her sun bed and covered herself in sun lotion. "Uh Kirsten?" Marissa asked cautiously.
"Yeah?"
"I just wanna apologise for ... invading your vacation. But you know it'll be fun. We'll hang out."
"Sure. That'd be... great." Kirsten put on her best false smile and gritted her teeth, "Where's your Dad?"
"He's just coming. He slept in too. He said he'd be down soon. Men." Summer groaned without opening her eyes.
Kirsten, Summer and Marissa had been at the pool for forty minutes before the guys appeared. Sandy saw them all lying in a row. The girls didn't seem to notice them so Sandy nudged both boys in the ribs, "What?" Ryan asked. Sandy signalled to the girls, "Remember how I got you out of bed yesterday, Seth?" Seth frowned at his father, "Huh?" Ryan had caught on and whispered something to Seth, "Oh I get it." All three guys crept up to the girls without them noticing. Summer opened her eyes as if about to say something to Marissa but it was too late. Sandy, Ryan and Seth had already grabbed the girls and flung them over their shoulders. The three ran and plunged into the icy cold water. Marissa squealed in protest and Kirsten kicked at her husband to let her go but he didn't until they were all bobbing on the surface of the water, "I. Am. So. Gonna get you for that," Kirsten warned. "Yeah? What you gonna do huh?" Sandy said in his best gangster voice. But before he knew it Kirsten had her hands on the top of his head and pushed him under the water. As he fought to get back up he managed to get a hold of Kirsten's legs and positioned them so as when he resurfaced Kirsten was on his shoulders. Ryan and Seth took the initiative and did the same with Marissa and Summer. Summer and Marissa fought to knock each other off of their boyfriend's shoulders and Ryan and Seth concentrated on staying afloat. Sandy threw his wife from his shoulders and she toppled backwards into the water. She came back up laughing and Sandy wiped the water from her eyes. She wrapped her legs around his waist and he spun them both around in the water. She kissed her husband fervently and was followed by the sound of vomiting coming from the other side of the pool. They looked over to find Seth pretending to have his fingers down his throat and making retching noises. Sandy, amused, turned back to his wife and kissed her more passionately but they were interrupted by Jimmy's sarcastic voice above them, "Come on people there are kids in the pool."
Later after lunch everyone was lying soaking up the sun. All except for Jimmy and Kirsten who were sitting up on the edge of their beds facing each other and talking about their first vacation together. "Oh my God I haven't thought about that vacation in so long!" Kirsten laughed, "We had to stay the night in the dingy, disgusting hotel because you ran our car into a tree!"
"Hey you were partly to blame. I was distracted!"
"Oh yeah? Well I think you were just too eager! You were so eager we almost didn't get to Tijuana." Kirsten stopped suddenly and realised how loud she had been talking. She turned to the rest next to her, all of who were looking at her over their sunglasses. Summer let out a well timed, "Eww!" and went back to her Cosmopolitan.
"The Kirsten in Tijuana. Wow you kept that one under your hat huh mom?" Seth said suddenly very interested, "And when were you gonna tell me that the vacation you kept me away from for so long was a destination you frequented in your younger years?"
"For very good reason I might add. I know what goes on down there."
"As do I but unfortunately I had to sneak down there in the pretext of a comic book convention to find out."
"Yeah and look how well that turned out..." Kirsten trailed off and saw Marissa disappearing more and more behind her magazine with every word they had just said. "I'm gonna go for another swim," Marissa said hurriedly before sliding into the water. Kirsten turned to Jimmy, "I'm sorry I didn't mean... I didn't think. I'm sorry." Jimmy waved Kirsten off, "Hey don't worry about it."
"So have you talked to Hailey since you got here?"
"Yeah I called her to tell her we got here okay. I actually asked her if she wanted to come with us but..."
"But what?"
"She doesn't think we're quite... there yet."
"So where are you?"
"I don't know but apparently we aren't at the vacationing together stage."
Kirsten rolled up her beach towel and sat on the edge of her bed. Everyone was in the pool playing a game of water basketball. Jimmy, Ryan and Marissa were in a team and Sandy, Seth and Summer were in the other. Kirsten watched as Ryan sneaked up behind Sandy and jumped on his shoulders just as Seth aimed the ball at his father. Ryan caught it easily and passed it on to Jimmy who was standing next to the net. "Hey Coop that's cheating!" Sandy yelled from the other side of the pool. "Yeah, Yeah. You're just mad that we're winning." Jimmy relied smugly.
"What? No you're not. We're winning." Summer yelled outraged.
"No way it's seven- five to us." Marissa yelled laughing. Seth was holding onto the edge of the pool clearly bored with the entire game, "Does it really matter who's winning?" There came two very loud Yes's from either end of the pool. Seth turned to find that they had both come from his father and Jimmy Cooper. Both looking rather red. Ryan swam toward Sandy, "Hey man take it easy. It's just a game. A bit of fun."
"Yeah it's just a game that we won!" Sandy claimed obviously irritated. Kirsten noticed that this could get out of hand so she walked to the edge of the pool and tried to persuade her husband to get out of the pool, "Sandy you're making a big thing out of a stupid game. You're acting like a child."
"He's cheating!"
"I don't care who cheated. You're embarrassing your kids. And look at me! I feel like your mother. Now get out of the pool now or you'll be sleeping with the boys for the rest of the vacation." Sandy climbed out of the pool sulking and helped his wife tidy up their things. When the rest of the group joined them Sandy and Jimmy were both made to apologise by Kirsten and shake hands. Kirsten flung her bag over her shoulder and stood up from the beds,"Now I'm gonna go take a shower. You boys come up when you're ready."
Everybody decided to go up to the Cohen apartment before Summer, Marissa and Jimmy went back to their own. Ryan and Seth carried all the towels and Sandy carried the bag that held the magazines and sun cream. Marissa rapped the door for the second time. Just as she began to wonder whether Kirsten as still in the shower the door swung open. "Hey sorry I was uh... sleeping and didn't hear you."
"Oh. Okay well we all came up for a cup of coffee. Is that okay honey?" Sandy asked as they all piled into the apartment. Kirsten laughed, "Nah I figured as much anyway." Sandy leaned in and whispered, "I'm sorry I acted like an ass with Jimmy." He began to kiss his wife but they were interrupted by a yell from Jimmy in the living room, "Oh my God! What are you doing here?" Sandy turned to look at his wife who was grinning, "I got a visitor."
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