Chapter 2: Mall days

I got up and brushed my teeth and did my hair and makeup. I never use too much makeup, just for my eyes. I had light smoky grey and light pink blended together, charcoal eyeliner and brown mascara. I was wearing a pink and black camouflage long sleeve shirt that clung to my curves perfectly with white crop jacket and black skinny jeans. I had always been a little dark but not gothic or anything like that, I love color and I just pick out what looks good on me. I had always been a tomboy type, but my mom wanted the perfect frilly type of daughter.

She finally accepted that that wasn't me about a year or two ago. I loved sports but I liked to cook and use makeup. My mom actually found something that I like to do. I loved singing. It is one of the things I enjoyed doing all of the time but I suffer from stage fright and only sing with the closest people to me and do it alone.

We were leaving soon and I got my purse. To make it short, I'm practically loaded but we all like the small town sort of life. Money is no object to us. I could buy Japan and my mom wouldn't say anything except make sure everybody is taken care of. We headed off to a super mall where I was going to get the superstar treatment because my mom felt guilty, boy aren't I lucky.

The drive to the mall was silent excluding a few comments on how people in Vegas drive like freaking maniacs. The lady that was doing the pedicure was definitely professional and the lady doing my full sets had done white tips with musical notes on them. They were awesome. I had my toe nails painted black. I didn't know why but I just like black sometimes.

I felt a little better and then we had to buy school supplies. I had completely forgotten about school. I was dreading it. I bought a twenty four pack of led pencils and like ten book covers that were mandatory, I got one five subject notebook and one three subject note book. Before we left I had gotten my hair layered and cut up to my mid section.

When we were finally done at the mall we went to McDonalds for something to eat and then went home. It was still only like six o'clock in the afternoon so I decided to walk to one of the three pools in the complex to read and listen to music. I slipped on my new bikini incase I decided to take a little dip. I got my sun glasses and iPod and left. I also loved to swim and thank the heavens the water wasn't as shallow as I thought it was going to be.

There were six people there, four guys and two girls. The pool was a good twelve feet deep and they were playing chicken. I recalled doing this with Sandy and she had red marks for weeks. I set everything up and suddenly one the girls were thrown into eleven feet by some buff sixteen year old looking guy and she couldn't get back up for a breath. My CPR lessons might actually come in handy.

Nobody seemed to know what to do but me and I dived. I brought the brunette back up and checked for breath. There wasn't one. I pumped her chest and nothing was happening. I did it again and she finally choked up the water.

"Oh my gosh, thank you so much. You saved my life! How could I ever repay you," she asked breathless.

"Don't mention it, just tell dumbass over there to think before he throws somebody into deep waters," she chuckled at my words.

"I'll make sure to do that," she said still laughing. Her friend came over with the other guys. She hugged her friend and then turned to me.

"Thank you so much. I thought I lost her. Maybe if the dumbass over there listened to me when I told him she couldn't swim very well, none of this would have happened," she said glaring at a buff guy. He hung his head in shame. "Hey this is my number, if you ever need anything call me maybe we can all hang out sometime, somewhere where there isn't water," she mumbled.

"For sure, you know my mom and her boyfriend are having a cook out maybe they'll let me invite a few people," I said while taking the piece of paper with her number.

"That sounds cool. How 'bout it guys," she yelled back at her friends. They all nodded.

"Kay cool," I pulled out my phone to call my mom. She said it was alright and every thing would be done in about an hour. She said Chad invited some of his friends and it would only be fair if I had some people around that were my age. "Hey guys, she said it was alright and everything would be done in and hour. Lets all learn each others name first though," I said realizing we didn't know each others names.

The girl I saved stood up with everyone else and spoke. "Well I'm Madison but you can call me Maddie, the girl that talked to you after you saved me is Ava and she's my cousin, the guy that threw me in the deep end is Robbie," she pointed as she said their names, "the lean one is Hayden, the one next to him is Tyler and the one next to him is James but he prefers to be called JJ. What's your name," she asked out of breath once again.

I laughed slightly at her excitement and said, "I'm Jessica but call me Jess or Jessie," I said. "How old are you guys," I asked.

"Well everyone here is fourteen except Robbie. He's my big brother and he's twenty-two," she said and Robbie waved.

"I'm fourteen too. So are we all in ninth grade," I asked excluding Robbie.

"Yeah, what school do you go to," Ava asked.

"Shelton Community High School," I said coolly.

"Well then I guess we'll all see each other," she said.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go get some food," I yelled and we all hooked arms and walked out of the pool. I still miss New York but Vegas might not be that bad.

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