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"Sophie! Troy!!" I heard Kayla yelling in the distance.

"Uh, we should go back to the house..." I said to Troy.

"Oh, yeah...." he replied, retracting his hand. All of a sudden, I felt cold when he did that....Weird.

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"Sophie, where the heck are you!?" I heard Kayla call again.

"We're right here!" I yelled back, standing up from the log. Following her voice, I eventually found her. She was soaked. "Uh, you're wet."

"No dip, Sherlock. I fell in that creek! Now, come on, I'm cold."

I looked back to see Troy far behind us. Nodding at Kayla, I walked back towards the house.

"So what happened...?" she asked as we entered my bedroom.

"I told him."

"The story?" I nodded. "What!? When!"

"Really, Kayla? When do you think I told him? When we were in the garden!" I sat down on my bed and  buried my face in a pillow.

"Oh yeah! Well, how did he react?"

"He felt bad for me, I guess..." I replied. "Oh, and do you still have the  note?" My voice came out muffled.

"Yeah, of course! Why wouldn't I?"

"Why? I thought you forgot about it years ago..." My eyes furrowed in confusion. Why would she keep it? I mean, there isn't really a good point for her to do so.

"Soph, do you really think I would forget about it? In fact, I framed it, and put it on my bedside table. Every night I read it before I went to sleep." She sat down next to me on the bed. "I never threw it out, or even thought about doing that!"

"Oh..."

"Yep! So what do you want to do now?"

"Go to the beach! Oh, and Jake can come!"

"Can Josh come?" she asked.

"Sure...? By any chance do you, you know, like him?"

"No...." She ran into my closet, trying to hide her blush.

"LIAR!!" 

"Fine, I like him."

"I know, but I can't blame you. He is kind of hot." I chuckled. 

"Back off! He's mine! You have Jake, and for a bonus, you live with a super hot and famous rock star! It doesn't get any better than that, Soph! Now call Jake!"

Laughing, I replied, "Okay, okay." I fished my phone out of my pocket, and dialed Jake's number. On the fifth ring, when I thought that he would never pick up, he did.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Jake. Uh, do you want to come with Kayla and me to the beach?"

"Yeah, sure!"

"Okay! Oh, and Kay wants you to bring Josh!"

"Okay, we'll pick you up in thirty minutes. Sound good?"

"Yeah, see you." Before he could reply, I hung up. Yeah, I know, how rude. 

"ISJOSHCOMING!?" Kayla yelled excitedly.

"Yes, he is, Kayla. Now let's go get ready. They'll be here in thirty minutes!"

"Oh my gosh, thirty minutes!? That's not enough time! How am I going to wear my hair? What am I going to wear? THIRTY MINUTES IS NOT ENOUGH TIME, SOPHIE!!!"

I laughed so hard. Gosh, Kayla is such a drama queen! "Just braid your hair, and wear my black bikini. You'll be fine. Stop being so dramatic!"

"Which bikini? The one with the rose on it, or the one with the butterfly?"

"I don't care, choose one!"

She ran back into my closet. "Butterfly it is!"

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Just as I was pulling my hair up into a pony tail, the doorbell rang. "Come on, Kay. They're here!"

"Okay, hold on. And...." She finished braiding her braid before continuing, "Done!"

I grabbed my beach bag before heading out of my bedroom. When the elevator doors opened on the first floor, I heard Troy's voice. "Why are you here?" he asked. As the front door came into view, I could see that he was talking to Jake. 

"Uh, I'm actually here to pick up Kayla and−" He paused mid-sentence as he saw me over Troy's left shoulder. "Sophie!" Pushing Troy aside, he walked over to where me and Kayla were standing.

"WHERE IS JOSH!?" Kayla yelled.

"He's in th−" Before he could finish, Kayla was already out of the house. "I'm not good with 'girl stuff', but I'm guessing that she likes him?"

"Oh, really? I couldn't tell." We both started to laugh as we walked to the front door. "Oh, and Troy, tell your mom that I'm going to be at the beach, okay?"

He didn't answer. Instead, he just glared down at me.  "Okay, then...? Come on, Soph." Jake said, linking his arm with mine and pulling me out the house.

I sat in the back seat with Jake, while Kayla and Josh sat up front. Kayla turned up the music as she sang along to Call me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. 

"Nice voice," Josh commented, smirking at her. She instantly blushed a light pink. 

"Why thank you!" she chirped, looking out of the window. I chuckled. Kayla blushes at simple little things like that. Yeah, I know, it's pathetic.

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Once we found a nice spot on the beach, I lay my towel down carefully, trying not to get sand on it. But Jake being the hot, immature idiot he is, had to kick sand all over it. 

"Jake!" I squealed.

"What?" he asked innocently. Taking my bottle of sunscreen, I squirted it all over him. "What was that for?"

"Now we're even. Simple conclusion." i shrugged.

He started to rub the lotion in on his body, "Thanks, now I don't have to do it myself!" I glared at him playfully before he took his shirt off and ran into the water. That guy is like a freaking Greek god.....

As I took my cover-up off, I received a few wolf whistles from the guys around me. I blushed a bit, chuckling to myself. It's not like I have a 'nice' body, especially compared to all these other girls. Like Kayla, for instance. She was absolutely gorgeous!

Spreading on some sunscreen, I noticed that everyone was already in the water splashing around like the little kids they are. I ran into the water to join them. As I got closer, they all went underwater and swam away. How mean! Looking around for them, I almost jumped out of my skin, when someone scared me. 

"What the heck!" I turned around to see Jake laughing at me. I smacked him across the chest.

"Y-ypu should've seen your face!" he said in between laughs.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"Well, I'm glad you didn't, or else I would've been in a lot of trouble." He laughed again. I splashed him in the face with water and ran.

I ran as fast as I could in the water, but of course it slowed me down. Eventually, Jake caught up to me and pulled me against his chest, making me screech. I burst out laughing. He span me around to look at his face before laughing with me.

His eyes were filled with amusement. Well, most of the time they were.... Honestly, I loved his eyes. But, I liked Troy's eyes even more. Wait, did I just think that?? Well, Troy's eyes are pretty nice too...

Wait where is Kayla...? "Jake, where are the others?"

"Uh, that's actually a good question... I guess they ditched us." He let out a short laugh. "Of course they would do that."

"Well, we were the ones that ran away, I guess....So what shall we do now?" I asked.

"That is also a good question." He scratched the back of his head. "It's up to you, Soph."

I don't know what to do? "I'm hungry! Yeah, that's it. Let's go eat." He laughed, as we headed back to our belongings.

"Okay, let's do that."

Hi!!!!!!!! Okay, well Wattpad was being ridiculously stupid and deleted this chapter. SO I had to re-type it all again. THEN it got deleted again....(-_-).....SO I had to re-type it a SECOND time. THEN it was deleted yet ANOTHER time, and of course by then, I knew it word-by-word.... OH, well, I got it up, didn't I??  Okay, so let me know what you think! Bye!! Xxxx

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