Dear Listener,

This is how I woke up the next morning.

“Zara.” Someone sang my name as if trying to see if I was still alive.

“Emm.” I rolled over.

“Zara,” I heard a giggle.

“Fuck off!” Blythe snapped.

Then she screamed at the top of her lungs which caused me to sit up bolt right. In front of my face was a roach, dangling by its antenna as Casta held it. Blythe screamed like a girl in a horror film and backed all the way up to the wall.

Casta busted into laughter.

“Casta! Get it away!” I also backed up.

“What? Little Freddie here?” She moved it towards me.

“Stop!” I screamed and backed up even more.

“Get it away, you fucking psycho,” Blythe screamed.

“Relax he’s already almost dead. Found him stuck in one of the poison traps.” She inspected it.

“What the fuck!?” Blythe screamed clinging to me.

“Casta enough before Blythe pees her pants,” I smirked.

Blythe smacked me in the back.

“Alright, alright. You sure?” she moved it close to us.

Blythe screamed.

She laughed before walking out of the room.

Blythe gave me a look.

“What?” I suppressed my laugh.

She grabbed the pillow and started beating me with it. I laughed and tried to duck for cover.

“I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!” she huffed hitting me with the pillow.

“It wasn’t even me.” I laughed.

“Ugh!” she pushed me off the bed.

I just laid there and laughed. I don’t even remember the last time it was that I laughed that hard, probably when I put that snake in Blythe's car that one time.

“Fuck you.” She huffed crossing her arms.

“Aw babe, it was just a roach.” I got up still laughing trying to comfort her.

I was laughing so hard I was crying.

“Don’t you babe me.” she hit me with a pillow.

“It was priceless though,” Casta said coming back in the room.

We shared a look and burst into laughter again.

“Ha ha very funny. I’ll get you back.” She hissed.

That made us laugh harder.

“You're so bad.” I playfully pushed Casta.

“I couldn’t resist.” She said still trying to quiet down from laughter.

“Ugh!” Blythe got up and marched to the bathroom slamming the door behind her.

Casta and I shared another look before we laughed some more. When I finally calmed down I noticed how close Casta was. Too close. Our lips were only inches apart. It got too real. She looked into my eyes and I found my eyes drifting to her lips. I swallowed loudly before pulling away.

“When’s the last time you laughed that hard?” She smirked breaking the tension.

“It’s been a while,” I admitted.

“Same.” She smiled.

“But seriously you shouldn’t pick on Blythe, she bites back. I of all people know.” I sighed.

“I’m not too worried.” She scooted closer to me.

“Well, you should be,” Blythe said from the doorway her arms crossed.

“It was just a joke.” I got up to comfort her, wrapping my arms around her.

“Hmph.” She turned away from me.

“What’s all the commotion?” Mom asked, yawning and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

“Ms. H they are picking on me,” Blythe told on us sounding like a tattling child.

“Oh no, there, there. Zara, how could you?” My mom went along with it, acting extra dramatic.

She shielded Blythe away from us.

“Mom,” I complained feeling my laughter bubble up again.

“Apologize this instant to this poor girl.”

“I’m sorry Blythe.” I snickered.

“Yeah me too.” Casta batted her eyelashes.

“There, these big meanies won’t pick on you anymore.” she patted Blythe’s head.

Blythe stuck her tongue out at us. Then all of us started giggling.

Even writing it down now I feel a smile on my lips. This will definitely go down in the books as one of the best memories and moments I’ve ever had. It’s good to be reminded that I can still be normal even after everything.

After that, we all ate some brunch, since it was already almost noon.

“Okay sweetie, I promised you this would be your day so what do you want to do?” Mom asked.

“Hmm… I’m not sure. You guys got any ideas?”

“To the beach!” Casta cheered.

“No!” Blythe and I said in unison.

She frowned at us.

“It’s just I got a lot of rough memories from the beach. I’m still not ready to go back there yet, but I have a better idea. Let’s go to the lake. Bust out the grill, barbeque. What do you guys say?”

"I love it! I can invite Ron and his boyfriend, We can make it a thing. Zara, why don’t you invite some of your other friends?” Mom clapped her hands excitedly.

“Okay. What do you say, we should invite Lu and Steph, Riley, and J should come to.” I turned to Casta.

“I bet they would love that.” She smiled.

So that is how we all ended up at the lake. Lu and his little sis Steph took their own car, Riley and J hitched a ride with them. I gave him some gas money. Blythe and Casta rode with me and my mom, we met up with Ron and his boyfriend Tye.

Tye is really tall. Like almost seven foot. He is also really muscular. He has ebony skin and a shaved head. They brought the grilling stuff and started it up. Turns out Tye loves to grill.

We found ourselves at Cane lake. It was a hotspot for day goers who like us want to get out for the day and take a swim. It was pretty packed when we got there, but we found a corner spot that was empty and had a picnic table there. It was perfect.

Steph instantly clung herself to my mom. She had on a cute pink swimsuit that has a little skirt attached to it and made her look like a ballerina. She also had on some arm floats and water shoes.

Lu wore swim trunks and no shirt as well as some sandals. On his head was a bandanna and his back was covered in more tattoos. J had on some basketball shorts, he didn’t own any swim trunks that fit. He also wore a muscle shirt and sandals. Riley had on a very small bikini, it was like two sizes too small. But to hide that fact she also wore a baggy shirt and her camo hat. Casta wore swim trunks over her one-piece swimsuit. She also had her hair up and wore sunglasses on her head. Blythe had one this really cute Brazilian bikini that made her look super hot. It was hard to keep my eyes off of her. It was one of those that showed off all her curves and toned muscles, and also a lot more ass than I was comfortable with because if I could see it, so could everyone else. And I swear J was getting eyefuls.

I wore a bikini I bought for spring break but I never got to wear due to everything. It wasn’t anything special. It was red and black and covered what it needed to cover and stayed in place which was really important when I bought it. At least I thought so.

“Last one in gets a mud ball to the face!” J called running to the water.

We all took off running except for Blythe. She was the last one in.

“Blythe come on,” I whined.

“She’s the last one in,” Casta smirked.

“No, I’ll take the mud ball.” I sighed.

“You asked for it.” Casta laughed throwing a handful of mud at me.

I gasped before tackling her and dunking her in the water.

Casta got up and splashed water at me. I splashed her back and soon we were all in a splash war. All except Blythe who just swam off to the side and watched us. I frowned and swam over to her while Casta was trying to get Lu.

“What’s up?” I asked.

“Nothing.” She sighed and looked up.

“Blythe come on, have fun.” I pouted.

“I’m glad you made so many friends.” She smiled at me.

“Blythe.” I frowned.

She moved and wrapped her arms around me.

“Blythe you’ll always be my first friend,” I said.

“I know.” She rested her chin on my shoulder.

“Then what?”

“Nothing, I just like seeing you happy.” She kissed me softly on my neck.

“Blythe.” I shuddered.

“Still a lightweight?” I felt her lips smirk against my skin.

“No.” I lied.

Her hands slid down my sides, One hand spread my legs while the other rubbed me through my swimsuit.

“Blythe.” I bit my tongue to keep from moaning.

“Liar, liar pants on fire.” She giggled.

“Stop it.” I pouted but did nothing to push her away.

Her fingers teased me through my swimsuit. I squirmed in her grasp. She kissed the nape of my neck.

“Uh, god, Blythe.” I moaned quietly.

“Shh.” She teased biting my ear lobe.

My breathing became heavier and came out in quick burst. I was getting close.

“Hey what are you guys doing?” Casta swam over to us.

“N-nothing.” I lied, still not pulling away.

“Well come on we want to play chicken, I need a battle partner.”

Blythe pushed her fingers into my swimsuit. I sucked in a deep breath my face I am sure was a bright red.

“Uh! Just a second, I’ll ah! Be there soon.” I shook in Blythe’s arms.

“Okay.” Casta drug out the word eyeing me before swimming away.

“Fuck Blythe.” I whimpered.

“God this is turning me on so much. Look at you, getting off in front of everyone. Naughty girl.” She licked my ear.

“I’m close.” I moaned.

“Cum for me baby.” She bit my shoulder.

Her free hand moved up my body and squeezed my breast through my swimsuit. I jolted in her arms, my body spasming as I climaxed.

“So fucking hot.” She bit my ear.

“Oh fuck.” I shuddered, pulling out of her grasp.

She smiled at me lust in her eyes. I couldn’t help but kiss her then. She kissed back.

“You owe me now.” She smiled pulling back.

“This doesn’t mean we are together again.”

“Well if we aren’t together maybe we can just be fuck buddies. How long has it been since you got any? You seemed tense.”

“Look that’s not the point. I don’t want things to get confusing between us.”

“What’s so confusing about loving someone?” she pulled me close.

“Blythe,” I warned.

“You never have to be lonely so long as I’m here.” She kissed me.

I kissed her back.

“You owe me, whatever we are. You still owe me.” she winked when she pulled back.

I smirked at her and pinched her butt in the water. She let out a cute yelp before splashing water at me.

“I’ll only repay you is you participate in today's fun day,” I said.

“Fine, but I’m not playing chicken.” She said swimming towards everyone.

“Deal.” I followed after her.

That’s when I saw Casta death glaring us. She caught my gaze and quickly looked away. I got a bad feeling about this. What if Blythe is right? What if she likes me? The signs are all there. This is not good.

“Alright, I’ll be the ref!” J said.

“Hop on, we got this,” I said to Casta.

She gave me a look of longing before she smiled and climbed onto my shoulders.

“You are going down homey,” Lu said putting Riley on his shoulders.

“You are going to be eating those words,” Casta smirked.

“We’ll see who eats what.” Riley smiled.

“Alright let’s keep it clean, no eyes, no hair, just fun. On your mark, get set, Go!”

Riley and Casta grappled each other trying to push the other off. While they did that Lu and I kept splashing water at each other trying to get the other to slip or fall over. In the end, Casta and I fell over into the water.

“Woo! We are the Champions of the lake!” Riley cheered.

Casta and I shared a look before we pushed and knocked them over. Everyone dissolved into giggles. Blythe came up from behind me and wrapped her arms around me.

“You two a couple or something?” J asked.

“No,” I said and at the same time Blythe said,

“Yes.”

I sighed.

“It’s complicated. I guess I should properly introduce you guys. Blythe everyone, Everyone Blythe. She is my ex-girlfriend.”

“I’m Jermal but just call me J.”

“Riley.”

“Lupe, or Lu if you want, that’s my little sis, Stephaine.” He pointed to Steph who was playing in shallow water with my mom.

“So ex-girlfriend huh? On a scale of one to ten, how good is Zara in bed.” Riley wiggled her eyebrows.

I splashed water at her.

“An eleven,” Blythe smirked.

“Don’t say that!” I hissed.

Everyone laughed, everyone but Casta who was doing her best to remain normal looking.

“Where is the weirdest or most daring place you've had sex?” J asked.

“Okay! Enough of that. No need to reveal my sex life.”

“You really wanna know?” Blythe squeezed me tighter.

“Stop it.” I pulled out of her grasp.

“Hell yeah, they say you can always tell what someone is really like by their sex life. The crazier the sex the crazier the person.”

“Zara isn’t crazy. She is too timid to be crazy.” Casta came to defend me.

“I don’t know. I saw that house homey,” Lu said.

I ran my hands down my face. Everyone laughed.

“Well?” Riley looked at Blythe expectantly.

“No, I don’t spill for nothing, you guys wanna know you got to spill your craziest sex stories.”

“Sounds fair to me.” J shrugged.

“Alright, with my ex-boyfriend in the bed of his truck. It was parked, we did it in the truck because his family was in the house.” Riley said.

We all giggled.

“With my homegirl in a chick-fil-a bathroom,” Lu said.

“Ew anyone could have walked in and seen you.” Riley smacked him in the shoulder.

“Oh someone did, it didn’t stop us though,” he smirked.

We all laughed again.

“J?”

“Um, I’m a virgin.” he said sheepishly.

“What! No way, for real. A stud like you?” Riley said.

“Yep. Don’t laugh.” He pouted.

The same boat as him, I’m a virgin too.” Casta said.

“I wonder why,” Blythe said sarcastically. I elbowed her hard in the gut.

“Bite me.” she hissed.

“I scared her this morning with a roach, she is still being a baby about it.” Casta supplied clearing up the confusion on everyone’s face.

“Alright now you,” J said.

“Well since you really wanna know, just now, over there.” Blythe pointed.

“Blythe!” my face went a bright red.

Everyone laughed.

“Ew! We are swimming here!” Riley laughed and splashed water at us.

“I can’t believe you.” I splashed Blythe in the face.

“You know I can’t help myself.” She purred, pulling me closer.

“Seriously my little sister is right over there.”

“What? No one noticed, you guys didn’t.” Blythe smirked.

“I did,” Casta said.

“Why didn’t you say anything?” J laughed.

“What am I supposed to say? Please stop having sex right in front of me?”

“Oh my god, I am so sorry,” I said.

“Please good sir, stop-ith the lewd acts in front of me.” She said in a posh accent.

Everyone laughed.

“I’ll just go crawl in a hole now,” I moved away.

Everyone laughed some more.

“You are so red.” Blythe kissed my nose.

“I hate you,” I pouted.

“Payback.” She smirked.