Chapter 10
"Well, that was insanely fun." Garrett said as he took his place next to me. "I don't think we should play this anymore, we don't want to get in anymore trouble. Plus, it looks like Cam's uncle is going to seperate us at any minute" He gestured to Solomon and Macey raised an eyebrow at me. I gave her a pleading look and she gave in, promising to go along with it.
"What should we do now?" I asked everyone else. I could tell it was about 1:30, we had approximately 7-8 hours until the park closed.
"We could go around the lazy river, or we could play hide and go seek. The park's big enough for it." Matt suggested.
"Yeah, we could split up Boys against Girls." Macey added.
"Sounds good to me!" I said
"Awesome!" Garrett added "Who is going to look for who first?" he asked.
"You guys look for us," Macey said "close your eyes and count to 100 so we have enough time to find a good place to hide." She grabbed my arm as we stood up.
They shoved their faces down into the towels and started counting. Macey and I went towards the slides. We climbed to the top of the stairs and found a good spot to watch the boys from. We could see almost the entire park and we could see if they were coming towards us in which case we could go down one of the slides. It was the perfect spot.
"So what's this about Solomon being your uncle?" Macey asked.
"We were playing what are the odds and I wanted him to throw a rock at Solomon but he didn't know him so I told him I did and that he deserved it. It worked like a charm, he nailed Solomon and he thought that Grant threw it so he threw it at Grant, it was hilarious." I explained.
Macey laughed. "That's awesome! Then I suppose your little kiss with Garrett was a 'What are the Odds' question as well?" She asked.
"Yeah, it totally hooked him though so it ended up working well for everyone." I explained as I watched Matt and Garrett walk to the wave pool.
"Definitely." Macey agreed
"What about you and Matt? What have you two been up to today?" I asked her with a raised eyebrow.
She shrugged her shoulders. "He flirted, I kept him interested enough, we spent some time in the wave pool, and in the lazy river. It's been a pretty relaxed day." She scanned the horizon with me. "Hey look, it's Zach and a fake redhead." Macey said pointing to our left. "Crap, looks like they're heading up here."
"We'll just ignore them." I said as I watched them come up the stairs. "Looks like Preston and a black haired chick are headed this way too." I said as two teens rounded the corner. She turned quickly towards our right to see a random coupled coming up the stairs. "I so knew you liked him!" I said as she squashed down her jealousy.
"I do not!" she protested.
"Mhmm. I saw you all over him last night, you're in love." I argued.
"I am not in love with him!" she countered.
"Suuure." I said with a smile as I turned to look for Matt and Garrett.
An annoying girly laugh filled my ears. "Oh Zach, you're just too funny!" I rolled my eyes at the amount of flirt that was in this girls voice.
"Here comes the bimbo" I whispered to Macey
She laughed quietly in my ear. "It looks like our guys are coming too." she pointed at Matt and Garrett as they starting running up the stairs.
"Let them think they've caught us." I said as we stood in front of a row of slides used for racing.
"WE FOUND YOU!" Matt yelled as they raced towards us.
Zach and his bimbo turned to look at us. The lifeguards started blowing their whistles at us again. They tackled us to the slides as we gave small squeals. All four of us tumbled onto the slides behind us and we went down in a big tangle of arms and legs, laughing the whole way down. We landed at the bottom with Macey on top of Matt and Garrett on top of me. We were all laughing as the water washed over us. I glanced up just long enough to catch Zach's amused we sat there laughing at our strange position, a group of three lifeguards walked over to meet us at the bottom of the slide to escort us from the water park. We went without an argument.
Macey and I gathered our stuff, scribbled a note to my mom then followed Matt and Garrett out of the park.
"Well, that was a blast." Matt said as we laid our towels out under the shade of a tree in the front of the park.
"Yeah, we almost made it the entire time too." Garrett finished.
"What do you mean?" Macey asked.
"We are kind of trouble makers, we tried to make it the whole time without getting kicked out of the park." Matt explained. "The rest of our group is going to be leaving in about 30 minutes, then we'll get back on the bus and head home."
Macey and I nodded in understanding. "Are you guys here with your school?" I asked.
Garrett nodded "We go to this private school not to far from here, the lowest funded private school ever. Our Alumni is so cheap we can only afford the crappy public school busses." He explained
Matt jumped in "Seriously, they spend a ton of money on the actual school and stuff, so it looks like a private school until we have to go somewhere then we just look like another crappy public school. No offense, if you go to public."
"None taken," Macey started
"We go to private too." I finished.
"Really? What school." Garrett asked.
"Gallagher" We answered in unison.
"Never heard of it." Matt said.
"It's not around here." I said vaguely, their curiosity put me on edge.
"What school do you guys go to?" Macey asked.
" Acciaccatura, its this really new school, I don't think you've heard of it." Garrett said
I had heard of it, Macey was kicked out of there. "No, I don't think I have." I said "Maybe I'll look into it." I smiled at Garrett.
"I think I got kicked out of there." Macey said. "The first year it was open, I was there for like a week and they kicked me out for something stupid. I might've lit a classroom on fire or a teacher or something." Macey looked lost in thought as she tried to remember why she got kicked out of that particular school.
Matt laughed "Were you the one that lit Mr. K on fire?" He asked incredulously
"Science teacher?" She asked and Matt nodded. "Yup, that was me."
Matt laughed harder, Garrett and I joined in.
"Oh my gosh, Macey! Seriously?" I asked her with wide eyes.
She looked at me and smiled. "He got on my nerves." She defended. I laughed harder.
"Aww crap, here they come, we better get on the bus." Matt said as he finally regained the ability to speak. A huge group of teens came towards the exit.
Garrett and Matt climbed to their feet. "I had fun today." Garrett said
"Me too." I agreed. He leaned down and pressed his lips to mine.
"Come on bro," Matt said as he walked towards the bus.
"Bye." He said as he followed his friend to the bus.
"Bye." I said to his back.
Macey and I waved as the bus drove away.
As soon as the bus was out of sight, Macey and I rolled up our towels and walked to the entrance. "Excuse me, I think we left something in there, can we go look for it?" I asked.
"Sure, just don't stay too long." He said as he let us through.
We walked through the gates to where Liz and Bex were gathering there stuff.
"You done?" I asked them.
They nodded "The guys are done too," Bex said subtly gesturing across the patio.
I glanced in their direction to see them packing up their things as well. "Awesome, where are my mom and Solomon?" I asked.
"Going down one last slide." Liz said. We all rolled our eyes as my mom ran up to us.
"Hello girls, are we ready to go?" She asked as she gathered her bag and towel.
"Yes Mrs. Morgan." We answered in unison. I smiled at my mom innocently when she turned to look at me.
"A little cheeky today are we?" She asked
"Yes mom." We answered in unison once again. She rolled her eyes.
"Sometimes I think you four share a brain." She said "Let's go." She started walking to the car and we followed in a single file line behind her.
Half way across the parking lot we met up with the boys, they fell into line next to us. Mr Solomon walked next to my mom, Zach came up and grabbed my hand, Preston inched carefully next to Macey, Jonas stumbled into Liz causing both of them to trip, and Grant ran over and wrapped his arm around Bex.
"That was some stunt you pulled Gallagher Girl." Zach whispered in my ear.
"It was all for you Blackthorne Boy." I said with a smile. He smirked and leaned over and kissed my cheek.
We climbed in the car without another word. Zach and I climbed into the very last row of seats, as we sat, Zach wrapped his arms around me causing me to lean back into his chest.
"Can we get food?" Grant asked as he and Bex came to sit by us.
"I agree with Grant." Macey said as she climbed into the row of seats in front of us. "Ugh, I don't think I ever want to say that again." She wrinkled her nose.
My mom laughed. "Sure thing guys, we'll pick up a few pizzas on the way home." She said as Solomon started the car. "Beware, we're taking the long way home." She warned us.
We all sighed and settled in for a long drive.
