A/N This is my Favorite chapter so far! I hope you love it as much as I do!
Chapter 10
Cammie and Zach both change into their swimsuits in the locker rooms and come out to the pool deck. Near a table they decide to put their bags down. As Cammie sets her bag down and looks up at Zach she stops. He's wearing black swimming trunks with green lines down the side. Since he's shirtless she notices his tan chest that is probably the complete opposite of Jonas. His muscular chest is well defined and he's got a six-pack! This was the first time she saw Zach shirtless.
Zach came out of the locker room and the moment he saw Cammie stopped. He let his eyes look her over in her bikini quickly and refocus on her face again.
First time seeing Cam in a bikini…she looks really good. Hot even!
She starring at him till his he asked, "Cammie? Cam are you okay? You're kind of zoning out?" Her head snapped up to his face that looked worried and confused.
"Wh-What? Ooh, yeah I'm fine." She blinked a couple times to focus.
"Alright good. So do you want to go swimming right away or sit and talk for awhile?"
With her gaze positioned on his face, and his face only she was able to reply clearly, "Lets sit down and talk. I want to know why you pulled me out of class."
Zach's face hardened, "I told you already. I got upset because she was on Jacob's lap and flirting with him after one night."
"Zach when you're friends with girls you need to learn we want the entire story. No details left out." Zach sighed and sat down across from her at the table.
"I was sitting with Grant, Jonas, Liz, Bex, and Dylan. Kaylee didn't sit at our table today of course. Kaylee then came over and asked if she could talk to me. I agreed so she led me away from the tables and apologized again saying that she wanted us to be friendly. She didn't want us to be the ex's that never speak to each other. It was a little…I don't know… weird hearing that after one day."
"It's because she misses you soooo much Zachy!" Cammie laughed while remember how Kaylee used to call him Zachy all the time. He never liked it but put up with it. But being called Zachy from his best friend earned her a glare.
"Sorryyyy. Carry on."
"After the little talk with her about being "friendly" Dylan pointed over to her at the lunch table and I saw her sitting on Jacob's lap. His arm was around her and she was playing with his hand."
Cammie knew Kaylee playing with her boyfriend's hands was one of her little habits.
"Zach, I know you really liked her, or like her, but I think you need to get your mind off her for awhile."
Zach let his head drop on the table.
"Zach?"
He lifted his head back up. "Honestly, I feel gay right now. I'm talking about my girl problems with my best friend."
Cammie started laughing really hard thinking about the truth in this.
"Don't worry I won't tell anyone about your gay moment. Now like I said, let's get your mind off things. Let's get in the pool!"
She stood up and walked to the edge sitting down to dangle her feet in the cold water. She heard Zach's footsteps follow her to the pool but he didn't get in. She was about to turn her back to look at Zach, but someone snuck up behind her and lifted her off the ground. She let out a scream and wiggled in the person's arms, but they only held onto her tighter. She could feel the person jogging to the deep end of the pool. She twisted her head and saw Zach smirking down at her.
"Zach!"
"Yes Cam?"
"Why did you pick me up?"
"We're going to cool down together!"
"What?" Cammie then suddenly realized what he was saying. Zach reached the deep end and stood at the edge.
"Ready Cam?" His eyes were bright and happy.
She glared and him with narrowed eyes and tried to squirm out of his arms. "Don't you dare Zachary!" But Zach jumping into the pool with her in his arms muffled her voice. She wrapped her arms around his chest and closed her eyes. The cold water covered her skin but even immerged under the water she could feel Zach's warm skin against hers.
They swam to the surface for air and both were laughing.
"Zach I can't believe you did that!"
He just laughed even more.
"You shouldn't be the one laughing Zach, you're the one that messed with me."
He gave her a questioning look. Cammie reached over and put her hands in his hair. It was very soft. She almost didn't want to get revenge on him, but quickly decided to do it. She forced her arms down and shoved his head under the water. After a moment he came back up and acted angry with her, but she could tell he was only joking. Zach swam to the ladder, got out of the pool, and sat down at the table. The whole time he didn't look back and her, and she remained in the water. He finally looked at her from the table and smirked. Cammie rolled her eyes but got out of the pool to join him. While walking over to him she saw him talking to a waitress and overheard him ordering an order of chicken strips and fries and two Cokes.
Their food arrived a few minutes later and Zach pushed the basket of chicken strips in front of her and scooted his chair over to hers. His arm brushed her arm, but they ignored it and each started to eat. Cam reached for a French fry, but Zach's hand beat it to her and picked up the fry. Instead of eating though, he held it out to Cammie and she opened her mouth letting him feed her the fry. He smirked at her and she giggled.
While finishing up eating the fries Cammie surveyed the pool area. Her eyes stopped on the lifeguard sitting under a tent. She studied the lifeguard closer and noticed he was about 6 foot with dark blonde-brown hair, tan skin, and muscles almost as big as Zach's. She couldn't see his eyes since they were hidden under dark shades. She was wearing sunglasses too. That's why she was able to stare at the guy for so long without him noticing.
Zach noticed Cammie was silent for a few moments and looked at her. She was starring in the direction of the lifeguard.
Snapping his fingers in front of her face to get her attention, "Cammie?", she stopped staring.
"Oh sorry." Cammie blushed a little, which earned an eye roll. Zach actually looked annoyed.
"Please Cammie, Him?"
"What's wrong with the lifeguard? " Cammie's eyes widened.
"He's about as manly as those two guys you fantasize about all the time. Ohhh what's their names… Justin Beiber and Declan Galbraith." Zach was of course being sarcastic and smirked, but Cammie only let her jaw drop and her eyes narrow.
"Hey! Don't insult Justin and Declan! Your just jealous they can sing and you can't. Plus they are cute!"
Zach put his hand to his heart and made puppy dog eyes, making his emerald green eyes as striking as ever. "I can't sing, but are you saying I'm not cute!"
Cammie hesitated. Of course she would reassure him that he's cute, but she kept her mouth shut wanting to bug him.
Both Cammie and Zach looked at each other waiting for one to speak until a voice interrupted, "Hey there." Both heads snapped up to see the lifeguard standing over Cammie's chair.
She blushed again, "Hi."
"I'm Josh. I've seen you before, but I've never met you."
"I'm Cammie." She gave him a huge sweet smile. But Zach had to interfere.
"And I'm Zach, her best friend." Zach stood up and positioned himself in between Cammie and the lifeguard, Josh and shook his hand. Cammie could see both guys' arms flexing as they shook hands. When they released their grip Josh stretched his hand, and Zach smirked once again.
Josh then turned his attention back to Cammie. "So do you come here to the club to do anything else besides swim?"
"Well once in awhile I like to go to the tennis courts."
Josh seemed interested. "Really? That's cool! I love tennis."
Cammie raised an eyebrow. For a guy with his build she pictured him more as a basketball player because of his height, or a football player because of his muscles.
"Ohhh. Well Zach loves tennis!" She made up on the spot just to annoy Zach. He shot his head toward her and mouthed WHAT?
"Oh you too Zach, which do you play singles or doubles?"
Zach starred at Josh like he was speaking Norwegian. "I play singles." He lied.
"That's awesome-
Josh started to get in deep conversation about tennis while Zach pretended to listen. In the meantime while the boys were talking Cammie decided to slip away. She walked to the girl's locker room and pushed the door open. As she entered she avoided the puddles of water that was on the tiled floor from people getting out of the pool and coming in here to change. She wasn't careful enough though because a few steps later Cammie's foot slid in shallow water. Her legs fell out from underneath her and she went down, hitting her head on the hard floor.
"Ouchhh." She reached up and pressed her hand to the back of her now throbbing head.
The thud from the locker room caught Zach's attention and he ditched Josh racing into the girl's locker room. He stopped when he saw Cammie on the ground holding her head.
"Oh my gosh! Cam are you alright! What happened?"
"Relax. I'm fine Zach thanks. I just slipped on some water that was on the floor and hit my head. I have a headache though."
"Do you want me to get you some Tylenol for your headache?"
"I can get it. You might want to get out of the girl's locker room before someone comes in here and sees you."
"Right, that's probably a good idea. Don't want an old lady screaming at me now do we?"
Zach left the locker room after helping Cammie up from the floor. She walked super slow over to the medicine cabinet that was by the restrooms and sifted through the shelves looking for some Tylenol.
She pulled out the bottle and shook it till a pill fell out into her hand. She was about to swallow it when someone's hand landed on her shoulder. The hand startled her causing her to drop the pill. Cammie spun around to be face to face with Josh only inches away from her.
"Sorry if I startled you." He smiled.
"That's alright. I just didn't hear you. What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to check on you. Zach said you fell." Josh put both his hands on her shoulders. She looked up into his blue eyes but his eyes weren't on hers. They were looking up and down her body. Suddenly she felt awkward in her small white and orange striped bikini. His hands slowly grazed down her sides and rested on her waist.
"Josh. I think you have the wrong impression here." Sure he was cute, but she didn't even know the guy!
All of a sudden he wrapped his arms all away around her pulling her against him tightly. She had no choice but to put her hands up on his chest to put even the smallest bit of space between them. Josh leaned in right away and kissed her. She didn't respond to this at first from shock until he started to kiss her more.
She quickly pulled away. "Josh stop!"
"Cammie come on!" He leaned in to kiss her again but she turned her head to the side and started to try to get out of his arms. He just laughed. His hot breathe on her neck stung. She tried pushing her hands against him, but that only made him back up a small space. She had to result to using her nails. She curled her fingers and in a fast movement slashed her nails against his bare skin. She got goose bumps on her arms from the odd feelings of his skin coming off from her nails.
"Shit! What the hell!" Josh stepped back and looked down at his now red chest. She smiled slightly at the sight of the multiple red gashes on his once perfect chest. He grazed his hands over the marks, wincing.
"You shouldn't have done that bitch!" He sprung forward and smacked her across the face. Cammie's head snapped to the side and the whole side of her face started stinging. She whimpered from the pain of the slap. But anger and adrenaline took over her and the pain no longer existed. Josh was all she could think about. Hurt Josh.
Everything from that moment happened in a flash.
Cammie looked around the locker room for some sort of weapon. She ran over to the medicine cabinet and saw a yellow bottle. It said Rubbing Alcohol. For Sterilization of Cuts. She grabbed the bottle and unscrewed the lid just in time as Josh came up to her again. She dumped the entire bottle onto his chest starting at his neck. The rubbing alcohol quickly flowed down to the gashes from her nails. He started screaming from the stinging pain as the alcohol made its way into the cuts.
Cammie took this as her time to run. She ran past him, out of the locker room, and onto the pool deck. Even out of the locker room she kept going and ran by the edge of the pool in case Josh was to be following her. She focused on where she was running then and saw Zach running towards her in the opposite direction. She couldn't stop running in time and neither could he. Zach collided into Cammie and she fell sideways. Her head slammed against the side of the pool before her body was submerged in the water.
"Cammie!"
Her name was the last thing she heard before losing consciousness.
A/N Hope you're happy with it. It was the longest chapter I've written which makes me proud. :) I'd love reviews of course. I'll update in a few days but it won't be as long sadly unless some great idea pops up.
