Chapter 4: Marco Polo
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Nathan snapped out of his daze and looked at Haley in a whole new light.
"What did ya do that for?" Nathan asked incredulously.
"I dunno. I just did." Haley said shrugging her shoulders.
"Well…" Nathan started before Lucas cut him off.
"What was that?" Lucas asked indignantly.
"Cause you were teasing Haley 'cause she kissed Nate." Brooke answered as if it was obvious.
Peyton sensing a change in the fun atmosphere, ran to the nearby pool and jumped in. "Come on!" she called to them.
Desperate for a change of subject, Haley ran over and jumped in first, followed by Brooke.
Jake, who was wearing his bathing suit under his clothes, pulled them off, and dived in.
Nathan did a cannonball into the pool yelling "Geronimo!"
Lucas did a huge cannonball and splashed everyone.
As soon as he came back up, Peyton, Brooke, and Haley splashed him back setting off a big splash war.
Brooke giggled when Lucas splashed her with a wave of water.
Haley seemed to be avoiding Nathan, as best she could in the middle of a splash fight while Lucas seemed focused on getting even with Brooke and Peyton.
Jake turned out to be pretty good at making huge waves to splash them with.
Finally they stopped but were still laughing loudly.
When everyone calmed down Nathan said "Let's play Marco Polo!"
Everyone agreed with this idea.
"Who's gonna be Marco?" Haley asked, bobbing to stay above water.
"I will." Jake volunteered.
"Close your eyes Jake." Brooke instructed.
"Stop bein' so bossy Brooke!" Nathan said exasperated.
"I was not bein' bossy!" Brooke protested.
"Was too!" Nathan told her.
Before Brooke could reply, Jake started the game by calling "Marco!"
"Polo!" Everyone called from separate parts of the pool.
Jake swam closer to where Brooke was.
Brooke tried to swim away but splashed slightly so Jake knew she was there.
Jake swam closer before calling "Marco!"
Everyone replied "Polo!"
Jake swam and just barely caught Brooke's leg as she tried to swim away.
"You're Marco now!" Jake said gleefully.
"I am not!" Brooke protested.
"Come on Brooke, he caught you fair and square." Peyton said to her from nearby.
"Fine." Brooke grumbled before closing her eyes.
"Marco!" Brooke called.
After five rounds of Marco Polo everyone stopped playing in the middle of the round while Haley was Marco.
They said they weren't playing but they always said this and then splashed whoever was Marco.
Haley listened carefully and heard voices. She swam over grabbed their arm.
"Gotcha!" Haley shouted.
She opened her eyes and saw it was Nathan's arm.
Haley immediately blushed and let go of his arm. She mumbled an apology and swam to where Brooke and Peyton were.
The girls and boys hung in different groups until Nathan shouted "Ice cream truck."
All six of them climbed out of the pool and dashed to the ice cream truck.
Sorry for the abrupt ending but the next chapter will be the last for this story. I do plan on doing a sequel however. I just finished watching the new episode and the WB is EVIL! Nothing they put in the trailers was in this episode, but the episode WAS good. However I'm getting off track. Please review with any comments or thoughts!