Guest: someone who is at another person's house for a meal or a visit


The next day I woke up really late in the day. Like noon. When I went downstairs, I found lunch waiting on the dining room table for me. Roast beef sandwich. Yum.

Abby walked in right as I finished.

"Hey Abby thanks for lunch. Where were you?" I asked, wiping my mouth.

She chuckled and took off her shoes. "I was taking care of the horses. I do it on my days off. I hire people to do on work days. Forgot to tell you that yesterday."

"Oh okay. So, what's on the agenda today?" I said, getting up to wash my plate.

"Well earlier, your friend Bex called, so you might want to call her back. She left a message. You can go check it in my office." Abby replied nonchalantly, while making herself some lunch.

When she said that Bex called, my spirits lifted and I immediately raced off to Abby's study.


When I got there, the answer machine was blinking a neon red 1. Rushing to push the play button I listened to and Bex's accented voice filled the office,

"Umm, hi Cammie this is Bex… I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out today. And spend the night? My friend Macey is having a pool party tomorrow and she said it was cool if you came. Call me back if you wanna come over." With that said, she left her number. I wrote it down on a sticky note and ran back down the hall to Aunt Abby.

Breathless I asked, "Can I… hang… out with… Bex… today… and spend… the… night?"

Abby grinned at me. Of course; she had already heard the message. Then she got a mischievous glint in her eyes and said,

"I don't know Cams, you were pretty sarcastic to me yesterday."

My eyes got wide and I nearly begged.

"I take it all back! Please Abby!"

"Oh all right!" She winked. "But, of course, you know, you're going to have to get a bikini!" she cried in victory.

"Fucking. Shit." I groaned.

"Watch your French." Abby teased.

"It's English." I replied, sticking out my tongue.


An hour later I was standing in front of a full length mirror in a skimpy blood red bikini that really did no help to my body shape.

"Abby. This sucks. I probably won't even go swimming." I complained.

Abby walked back in the dressing room carrying four more bikinis.

"Probably and won't are two totally different things." She shoved a dark blue bikini with white polka dots on it at me. "Try that on. I think that's the one."

She walked out to give me privacy. I took the current one off and pulled the blue one on and smiled.

"Abby, you're a genius." She walked back in grinning.

"You look great Cam. Now call Bex, get her address and tell her we're on our way."


We arrived at Bex's and I was immediately in awe. The place was gorgeous. There were weeping willow trees surrounding the property, and the house itself was probably five thousand square feet and three stories.

"I'll see you tomorrow Cammie. Just give me a call when you want me to pick you up." Abby smiled, handed me my bag and then drove off.

Bex was the one to greet me at the door. She proceeded to give me a tour of the place. I stopped counting how many rooms it had after 7.

When we got to the third floor, Bex showed me what she liked to call the "Lazy Room". It was massive with down pillows everywhere, mini fridges filled with soda and snacks, and a giant 60" TV in the middle of the room.

We stayed there all night. Watching comedy movies and romances and then talking. We had a contest of who could drink the most soda, Bex ended up winning, but in total we drank 31 sodas. And ate 5 bags of popcorn. We finally passed out and the room was a complete disaster. Let's just say she's lucky to have butlers.


"Ugh. I have such a hangover!" Bex groaned, getting up out of the heap of pillows. I was confused. We didn't drink alcohol last night.

"Hangover? What from? We only drank soda last night!" I yelled, giggling for no apparent reason.

"Exactly." She groaned again. And then she shot up out of the pillows.

"WE HAVE TO GET READY FOR MACEY'S PARTY!" She screeched. I smacked her in the head with a pillow and she dropped to the ground like a dead weight. We were both laughing uncontrollably. Huh. Maybe we were drunk.

It turned into a full-fledged pillow fight, but we finally got ready, still laughing and headed to Macey's house.


"Macey this is Cammie. Cam, this is Macey. You get the idea." Bex said. We were at the pool party and Bex was, obviously, introducing me to Macey McHenry. Yeah. Senator's daughter. Whatever.

"Hey." "Hi."

Macey was just as beautiful as Bex. If not more so. Raven black hair, piercing blue eyes, diamond nose stud. She looked like a supermodel.

Bex had also introduced me to more people from the school I would be going to, but I couldn't remember all of them.

"Hey Cam, wanna go swimming?" Bex asked. The pool looked warm enough, and there were some pretty attractive guys over there but I wasn't really up for swimming right then. I shook my head.

Bex shrugged. "Suit yourself."

She took off her tank top and jean short that she had been wearing and I swear that more than half the guys' attention got directed toward her. They followed her like a bunch of lost puppies, and I had to hide my laugh as she dove in and they fell over themselves to act as hunky lifeguards. Well, they've got the hunky part down, just not the lifeguard.

I talked to Macey for a while and we got along well. Then her mom came over and told her that she needed her for some "Senator's daughter blah blah blah" so I went over to the pool and stuck my feet in. I had almost resolved to going swimming when a deep voice suddenly shouted,

"Heads up!" And I looked up just in time to see a football flying through the air at me.

I jumped up to catch it, but to my dismay, another person caught it and fell in the pool, taking me with them.


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