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"Ugh! Kat, he's just so infuriating!" Tara ranted. After their picnic, which had included many arguments like the one with the cake, they had split up- Sammy and Christian had gone back to the Academy while Kat and Tara walked to the beach. They boy's had forgotten their bathing suits and so headed back to get them. They were going to meet the girls at the beach.
"Well I guess it's a good thing that he's cute," Kat said, sending a sly smile Tara's way.
"Kat, come on. He's not cute…" Tara said, looking into the distance. Of course she knew he was cute, how could someone not find his face adorable?
"Tara banana, I saw how your eyes lit up when you saw him!" Kat gave her a knowing look and nudged her lightly on her arm. "You can just admit that you think he's attractive. I wont say anything, promise!" She said, smiling.
"Your delusional, Kat. And lets say, hypothetically, that I do think he's attractive. Why would that matter to you anyways?" Tara asked, confused, yet relived that she could tell Kat.
"Aha! So you do think he's attractive. This is good news to me, Tara, good news!" Kat exclaimed.
"But why Kat?" Tara asked in a whiney tone. She was usually fine with not knowing exactly what was always going on, but this time she needed to know.
"Later Tara. Now let's have fun! We're finally at the beach!" Kat explained. Tara looked around, she hadn't even noticed that they had reached their destination. Kat grabbed Tara's hand and started running towards the water. She made them stop before they reached the water to take their clothes off and put their things down, but after that, Kat started to run again, with Tara in tow.
"Eeeeee!" Tara screamed when her feet touched the water. It was freezing! "How are you still going in? This water is freezing!" But that didn't stop Kat, it didn't even slow her down—she kept going with Tara complaining and whining about the temperature of the water behind her. Finally, when they were about mid-thigh in the water, Kat stopped.
"Isn't the water great?" She asked, looking like a puppy that had just gotten its first treat. Her eyes flickered to the left for a brief moment and then came back to Tara.
"What were you looking at?" Tara asked, about to turn around. "Is there- AHHHHH!" She screamed as she was dunked into the freezing water.
She surfaced after a couple seconds only to find Christian laughing and Kat a couple steps away trying to contain her laughter. Sammy was still working his way over to where they were, but Tara could see a smile on his face.
"Well I know what you were looking at now," Tara said, glaring at Kat. She pushed her hair out of her eyes and then wiped the water off her face.
"Sorry! Not my fault—Christian signaled to be quiet, and I didn't want to ruin his plan!" Kat said, smiling, yet apologetic.
"Yeah, Training Bra, loosen up a little," Christian told her, smirking.
"I have a name you know," Tara said, getting a little frustrated that he wouldn't call her by her actual name.
"I'm aware," Christian replied nonchalantly.
"GUYS! This water is unbearable!" Sammy shouted, finally having reached the rest of the group.
Christian turned around and said, "Well yeah, did you expect it to be a Jacuzzi, Sammy?"
Kat turned around and walked towards them to join their conversation. Tara started towards them too, but then had an idea. Christian had his back facing her—it was payback time.
She sneaked up behind Christian, trying to be as quiet as possible in the water. When she was close enough, she reached up, grabbed his shoulders, and pulled him back in an attempt to dunk him, but ended up pulling him onto herself, causing them both to go down.
Underwater, Christian grabbed her hands and pulled them both back up.
He wiped the water off his face and said, "don't get too excited, Tara, I just wasn't prepared for that one." He seemed surprised that she had tried to dunk him; at least Tara caught him off guard.
"Good one Tara!" Sammy said. Him and Kat were a bit to to side of Christian and Tara, cracking up. They had seen Tara's futile attempt to dunk Christian since they were facing Christian while they were talking in their little group, and so facing Tara.
Tara turned around to face Christian again, "You called me Tara? Good, so were past the stage of you calling me Training Bra."
"Yeah, it was a mouthful anyways. Tara's short and sweet" He said, actually grinning, not smirking.
That caught Tara off guard, though, giving Christian ample time to push her back into the water. Underwater, she smiled to herself and could have sworn she felt a tingle in her stomach.
She surfaced and this time, there was a smirk on Christian's face.
"And that's how it's done, Tara." He said.
"Hey you lovebirds, get back over here. We need to head back if we want to be back at the Academy in time for dinner!" Kat shouted over to Tara and Christian.
"Well come on then, let's move," Tara said, making her way to where Kat and Sammy were. She turned around to make Christian was following, and sure enough there he was, not even two steps behind her. She turned around quickly, hiding her slight blush at his proximity.
When they reached Kat and Sammy, the four of them made their way back up to where they had left their stuff, and put their clothes back on. They then started on their long walk to the Academy.
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When they finally reached the Academy, the four of them headed to their rooms, deciding to meet back at the bottom of their stairs in 10 minutes so that they could change clothes and put their things away.
When they all met up again, the four headed directly to the kitchen and grabbed some food. They sat down to eat it in front of the TV. Also sitting in front of the TV to eat was Abigail. She glanced at the four of them and stuck up her nose.
"I suppose you all weren't practicing what we did in class today." She stated.
"Of course not Abigail, why would we do that when we had the option of going to the beach?" Kat asked in a teasing tone.
"Because you all need the practice. Its sad, really." She said, standing up. "I'm headed off to my palates class." She informed them and left.
Once she was out of hearing range, Kat and Tara started laughing.
"Who has a palates class scheduled for after dinner? This is the time to relax!" Tara exclaimed.
"Well I know one thing for sure, she'd be an interesting pas de deux partner…" Sammy said, looking off in the direction she left.
A bit of foreshadowing for you guys. If you have any suggestions about what I should do for future chapters, feel free to tell me! I'm all for suggestions. And also constructive criticism is much appreciated. Now all that's left to say is …. REVIEW! But really, they make my day!