It's been a week since Florida. The guys and I are staying at the clubhouse for the weekend. What is that loud noise? It has been going on for a long while. I hate it. Checking the time I see it 5am, why is an alarm ringing at 5am? I stood up from my bed, removing Mike's arm from my waist and he stirred. How he can sleep through this noise, I don't know? I left the room and went on banging Lou's door.

"If you don't stop that annoying noise thing, Lou. I am going to break down this door, take that alarm and shove it down your throat and swirl it around your intestines!!!!" I shouted while still banging the door. The noise stopped.

I turned around to leave and saw Mike, Peter and Jake standing by the door and looking at me.

"What?!" I shouted.

"Uhm, nothing" Peter said scratching the back of his neck.

"Then leave my front, I need some sleep!!!" I shouted at them. They stepped aside and I went inside to sleep. I do not like being awake at 5am for no reason. I am definitely not a morning person.

"Good morning" I greeted Mike after having my beauty sleep with no noise.

"Morning?" he said warily. What's up with him?

"What's up, why the question?" I asked.

"I want to be sure you are in a good mood. I am scared of you sometimes" he said and I laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" he asked.

"Nothing" I answered. He sat up on the bed resting his head on the head rest, I sat on his laps and kissed him. We made out for a very long time.

"Let me go shower" I said standing up.

"Don't go yet" he said pulling me back on his laps. I kissed him and stood up.

"We should go shower" I told him.

"Together?" he said winking. I just smacked him and left him on the bed going to the bathroom. There is only one bathroom we all share. I took my towel and clothes to change into before going to the bathroom.

I opened it and my eyes burned.

I quickly close the door shut and ran back to my room closing it shut too.

"What happened?" Mike asked standing up when I entered.

"Uhm... " I started but was cut off by a knock on the door. Mike opened the door for Jake who just stood there looking at me scratching his neck.

"What happened between you two?" Mike asked looking at Jake and I.

"I went to the bathroom, didn't know anyone was there but turns out Jake was in there" I said.

"What's wrong with that?" Mike asked still looking at us.

"I was there naked" Jake replied slowly and quietly.

"What?!" Lou shouted who was standing by the door with Peter.

"When did you guys get here?" I asked.

"Not long but long enough to hear everything", Peter said.

"So, you saw him naked?" Mike asked.

"Yeah, kinda" I replied. Things are going to be awkward between us now.

"Wow" was all Mike said.

"Things are going to be awkward, right?" I voiced my concern.

"Yes" Jake replied.

"What if you saw me naked, you know to even it out" I suggested looking at the guys.

"Wait, what?!" Mike shouted staring at me.

"So things wouldn't be so awkward" I told him.

"There is no chance I'm allowing Jake see my girl naked, no chance" he stated looking at me.

"You two are going to just forget this and pretend it didn't happen" he continued. That's a good idea.

"I like that idea, what do you think?" I asked looking at Jake who just nodded. Peter and Lou went to the sitting room leaving Mike, Jake and I in the room. I was by the door going to the bathroom when I turned to face Jake who was going to the sitting room.

"By the way Jake, you have a very nice body even if I just saw it for a mili second". I told him and winked. Jake just laughed.

"I heard that!" Mike shouted before I closed the bathroom door and locked it as a precaution.

We are all in the sitting room bored out of our minds watching TV. Things are still awkward. Jake wouldn't seat beside me or talk to me. Not my fault I saw him naked.

"Things are still awkward among you two, we need to leave this house" Peter said.

"That's cool, what should we do?" I asked eager to leave this house.

"We could go for a work" Lou suggested. Nice. We all agreed, took our jackets and left the house just walking down the streets. We have been walking for a long time and things were still weird.

"Jake, can we talk?" I asked him when we were in a coffee shop. We stepped outside together.

"Okay, I don't want things to be awkward between us. I hate it. What can I do to change that?" I told him genuinely asking.

"I hate the awkwardness too but there is nothing you can do because it's not your fault. I should have locked the door or used the shower curtain. Things do not have to be awkward" he said and I agreed with him.

"You wanna hug?" I asked.

"Not yet" he said and I laughed understanding where he is coming from. We both went inside and the awkwardness began to depict.

"I have an idea" Lou shouted. We are still in the coffee shop. The awkwardness having completely gone.

"What?" Peter asked.

"Well, I saw this flier of a baking competition going down and I thought we could go", Lou said.

"We should definitely" I said and they all agreed. We finished our fifth cup of coffee, paid and left. We walked to the place where the competition was taking place because we didn't bring a car. It was not that far.

Everywhere is set, the tables where the pies and cakes would be placed for the judges to taste were arranged. People were everywhere talking and eating and drinking. It's kind of a friendly street baking competition among the neighbors. We kept walking around fitting in with the people even if we didn't know them. I was going through the streets, when I saw this group of people in a garage talking. I went closer to eavesdrop. Turns out they are gathering judges and that's when I got a brilliant idea.

The judges were backing the door talking amongst themselves engrossed in whatever discussions they're having. When I was sure they didn't see me, I went to the garage door and began to close it slowly, it was the kind of door that closes side ways not the ones that go up. I used a metal iron by the side so it would be jammed in. Thank God for the noise in the neighborhood because nobody heard me.

I went to look for the guys, saw them shoving food in their mouths. "Okay, so who wants to have some fun?" I asked when I got to them. They all raised their hands.

"Then let's go pretend to be judges" I said and they looked at me like I had two noses.

"What?" Mike asked.

"Let's go be judges" I said again.

"I'm sure they have judges already" Jake said.

"Yes, I locked them in a garage" I said.

"Nice, what are we waiting for?" Lou asked and we went back to the crowd to mingle pretending to be judges.

"Who are you?" a lady asked.

"Who are you?" I countered her.

"I am the head of the committee, now who are you?" she asked.

"We are the judges" I said firmly.

"No, you're not" she said.

"What's that supposed to mean, we're liars?"I asked.

"Uhm, no but you are not the people I hired and saw this morning. Besides you guys are teenagers" she said. Shit. Think fast Elly.

"That's true, the men you hired are around somewhere, we are the real judges. We talk to the participants and see how they truly are. They wouldn't know we are the judges so they would probably slip up. No one would expect a bunch of kids to judge them, now would they" I said. That is smart.

"That is so true, even I didn't expect it" she said and I smiled. I cannot believe she bought that.

"You can't go around telling people though, we want to surprise them at the end" I told her before she left and she nodded.

"I can't believe you said that" Lou said.

"That's what you can't believe, I cannot believe she actually bought that" Mike said.

"I didn't think she would buy that" I told them and we all laughed. We went back and into the crowd waiting for the judging to begin.

"Hello everyone, it's time for the judges to taste the food" the lady we spoke to earlier said. Everywhere became quiet and everyone went over to the judges table.

The lady made eye contact with us and waved us over. We went to the podium that was made where the table was and stood beside the lady. "This year is going to be a little different, this young people are going to be our judges" she told them. Some people started to grumble.

"I know, you guys didn't expect a bunch of kids to judge but that is the point. We didn't want the participants to bribe the judges that's why the kids are here. No one would expect them to be the judge" she pointed out to them and they all agreed. She gave the microphone to me to address the people.

"I know you all were not expecting us to be the judges but I hope you all would respect our decisions and accept it. Thank you". I said.

"Let the tasting begin!" I shouted and they all cheered. The pies were set on the table with the names of the people on it. The guys and I went to each pie cutting a slice and eating it and pretending to write our findings in a note. We were still doing this when the real judges came running to the front.

"We are here, sorry, the garage door got jammed somehow" one of them explained when they got to the front.

"What do you mean jammed. We are sorry about that but it's okay, your undercover judges have taken over and are doing their jobs" the head of committee said. This is trouble. I looked at the guys and signaled for them to get ready to run.

"What do you mean undercover judges?" another man asked the lady.

"The teenagers" she replied pointing and looking at us. Everyone was looking at us now.

We smiled, waved and carried the pies.

"Get them!" the lady screamed.

"Run!!!!" I shouted and we ran.

We didn't stop running for about a mile because we were being chased. We ran into an alley and hid ourselves. When we saw the people chasing us run past, we came out and ran the other way, cutting through someone's backyard and going back to the house.

"That was so cool" Lou said when we got home. We all had to agree by nodding our heads because we were out of breath. We sat in the sitting room and ate what was left of the pies.

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