i like this chapter 

squad 🆙

walker scobell
leah sava jeffries
aryan simhadri
kaitlyn bright
dior goodjohn
charlie bushnell

kaitlyn
my pool closes tomorrowww it's so sad

charlie
i still can't believe it's open early november
then again i can't believe it's 80 degrees in november

kaitlyn
yeah gramps ur not used to global warming yet

leah
LMAO

dior 
i love ur pool

walker 

same

aryan

hey walker remember when we went to kaitlyn's pool when she was in utah

walker

OH YEAH
that was fun except for us breaking the floaty
rip duckie 💔

kaitlyn
YOU BROKE DUCKIE????
don't tell me ur the one who broke unicornie too.

walker

NO NO THAT WAS ARYAN
unicornie couldn't hold his fatass 

aryan

sorry kait i wanted to tell you...
ALSO WALKER STFU
we were trying to blow more air in it and i accidentally tore a hole..

charlie

no way u broke duckie and unicornie in one day

leah

why are we not talking about how ORIGINAL their names are!!

kaitlynstfu lele we bought them when i was like 7

aryan

duckie and unicornie's times were fast approaching anyway
those things were kind of nasty

kaitlyn
THEY JUST NEEDED A GOOD WASH THAT'S ALL
it's like my neighbor's crusty little white dog
we thought she wouldn't live past ten but here she is barely clinging on to 17!!
duckie and unicornie had so many years left in them

walker
how about we have a pool party today bc it's the last day
and kait i'll bring you a new floatie 🙄
i'll get you that toilet seat one we saw at walmart and you can name it toiletie 🎀

kaitlyn

absolutely not walker

walker
okay 😖

dior
yes kaitlyn walk him like a dog!! 🦮🚶🏼‍♀️

walker
she is not walking me like a dog.
just bc dior said that ur getting a toilet float whether you like it or not
be there in half an hour 

leah
sounds goodd

charlie

yup

dior
sureee

aryan
👍👍

kaitlyn
wow guys thanks for asking you can totally just come swim in my pool it's whatever
see u in 30😞

"I'M HEEEERE!" dior sang through the front door about ten minutes later.

"come in!" kaitlyn called. "i'm in my room."

"you're so early." kaitlyn commented, getting off of her bed to hug her. "i'm not complaining. help me pick out a bathing suit?"

"oooh, yes." dior clapped her hands and sat on the bed. "what are the options?"

"okay, so we have this white one, this yellow one, and this neon blue one. i kind of want to wear the neon one because it makes me look super tan, but it's from triangl bikinis so it's kind of.. you know... my butt cheeks are half out." she said, giggling.

"i don't think walker would be able to handle that. he would get all red and not be able to look at you."

"well, i don't know about that... actually, maybe. probably. yeah." they laughed.

"oh, what about this one?" dior pointed one out from the pile. "it's cute. pink makes you look really tan. and it doesn't look like it's too bad on the coverage issue."

kaitlyn tried it on. "oh yeah, this works! i forgot about it. i think i got it from target last year." 

the doorbell rang, so they walked downstairs and opened the door, revealing leah and a very disgruntled charlie.

"i cannot wait for her to get a car." charlie grumbled, shoving his way past them and making straight for the pantry.

"you were in the wrong lane! you should know that!"

"I WAS TRYING TO SWITCH LANES LEAH."

"okay, but you didn't need to??" 

"yes. i. did. kaitlyn where the fuck are your popcorners?"

"i may have finished them this morning." she said, wincing. 

"AH!" he slammed the door and stormed out towards the pool.

"don't worry. he'll be fine once he cools off from the road rage. he's more mad at the people honking at him than he is at me." leah shrugged, unbothered. "he was driving so slowly."

"i'd make a grandpa joke, but i think he would shove me in the pool with my clothes on." kaitlyn said, matter-of-factly. "can you grab some snacks and put them outside?"

"yeah, and i brought my speaker, too." leah smiled.

"oh, perfect! put some music on. i'll be right there." leah and dior walked off towards the back of the house. kaitlyn looked in the mirror, finger-combed her hair and put on a little lip gloss - even though it would come off the second she got in the water - and checked herself out once more in the mirror. she wasn't really insecure about her body, at least not most of the time and especially not with her best friends, but this time just felt a little different. walker was her boyfriend. she'd been getting a lot of weird comments on her instagram. and she wasn't in a one-piece and worn-out cover up on the beach, or wearing a hoodie like she had been in the beach vlog. 

hoodie. that was a good idea. she pulled on a navy one with sharks on the back and walked outside into the glaring sunlight.

charlie was munching sullenly on popcorn on a beach chair while leah laughed and chatted with dior as she fiddled with the playlist and dior sat with her feet dangling in the pool. it was perfect weather for the pool, sunny enough to tan but not so hot that the concrete burned her feet. she sat down next to charlie. "feeling better, mr. i'm hangry so i'm gonna scream at my fourteen-year-old costar who's literally one of my best friends?"

"shut up." he shoved her lightly. then he called out, "hey leah?"

"yeah?" she looked up.

"sorry. love you."

leah smiled. "love you too, but i'm not playing your weird 1940s playlist."

"yeah, whatever." he looked back at kaitlyn. "there."

"good job." he held out the popcorn bag and offered her some, which she accepted. just then, they heard a loud noise coming from the front of the house. 

"what was that?" they all turned around.

then, faintly, they heard the sound of 'rich baby daddy' by drake sounding throughout the house.

and aryan and walker burst through the glass door at the back, a toilet floaty around walker's waist and aryan dancing in strange, jerky motions.

"BEND THAT ASS OVER! LET THAT COOCHIE BREATHE! SHAKE THAT ASS BI-"

leah lunged for them before walker could turn around and shake his butt and grabbed the speaker as everyone else burst out laughing. kaitlyn was laughing so hard that she was bent over with her hands on her knees and her eyes shut, body heaving. walker looked at her, smiling. making her laugh like that was his favorite thing to do. she never looked more beautiful than when she was overtaken by humor.

"awww, leah, why'd you stop our dance routine?"

"seeing walker twerk is not on my 2024 bingo card and i would like to keep it that way." everyone burst out in a fresh round of giggles.

"kait!" walker picked her up and twirled her around.

"walk!" she said. "if you throw me in this pool i'll kill you."

"nah, i know how much you like that hoodie." he said. he grinned devilishly. "take it off so i can toss you in."

"that looked like one of those groomsmen entrances you see at weddings." dior commented, unknowingly taking the heat off of kaitlyn and her hoodie.

"i would kill you if you did that at my wedding." said leah.

"yeah, you better not do that at mine. i'd take you out of the bridal party." kaitlyn added.

"well, i think it would be a little weird for the groom to walk down the aisle to rich baby daddy." walker winked. kaitlyn smiled to herself, then was hit by a thought. this was walker, her best friend, her other half, her partner in crime. she couldn't see them ever breaking up. what if he was the one? 

what if she married him?

but they were just kids. what a ridiculous thought. she shook it off.

"cannonball!" aryan jumped in the pool. leah, having decided she wanted to play some more drake (but no rich baby daddy), followed suit. dior slid from the side into the pool. kaitlyn reluctantly pulled off her sweatshirt and sank into the pool, hunched into herself so nobody would look at her. walker, of course, noticed her stress, only a second after he'd found his tongue and regained the feeling in his legs enough to jump in. why was she acting like that? how could she be insecure when she'd just left him breathless?

while the others splashed around in the shallow end, he swam towards her in the middle of the pool in about three powerful strokes. son of poseidon, indeed. 

"hey." she tried to smile at him. instead of responding, he checked over his shoulder to see if anyone was looking, then kissed her gently. "you're so beautiful."

she looked up at him adoringly. "i mean, really beautiful. i don't know how i got so lucky. swimsuit, no swimsuit - i mean, clothes on, of course - i mean..." he stuttered and trailed off. she laughed. "breathe, scobell. and keep going. you're inflating my ego."

"ugh, whatever. i take it all back." he splashed her.

"hey!" she splashed him back with enough force to make a mini tidal wave.

"HEY!" dior yelled from the other end, using her floaty to send a surge of water towards them, kaitlyn having accidentally hit her.

"HEY!!!" she jumped on to dior, tackling her and pushing her underwater.

"HEY!!!!!" leah jumped on top of the pile as dior broke free, coming up to splash the two of them.

it was the last day of summer, and all was well.

kaitlynbright no thoughts just leah's lethal facecard

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author just pretend the first pic is at the pool and not the beach LoL

walkerscobell you must be exhausted from swimming through my mind all day 🏊‍♀️

walkerscobell are you a backstroke because i would bend over backwards for u
⮑ aryansimhadri BEND THAT ASS OVER! LET THAT COOCHIE BREATHE!

walkerscobell my swimsuit? oh, it's made of boyfriend material
⮑ kaitlynbright do you live in the desert? because you're looking reeeaaalll thirsty.
⮑ walkerscobell can you call a lifeguard because i'm drowning in your eyes
⮑ user8 HELP.

leahsavajeffries UR FACECARD IS DEATHLY 

leahsavajeffries I LOVE U GIRL
⮑ kaitlynbright I LOVE U MORE 

walkerscobell this is great except for the last slide
⮑ leahsavajeffries stfu

leahsavajeffries send me that pic please 
⮑ kaitlynbright on it 🫡 

dior.n.goodjohn HOLY WOWW

dior.n.goodjohn did i do u justice w the swimsuit choice or what 🤷‍♀️
⮑ kaitlynbright perchance 🤷‍♀️
⮑ aryansimhadri YOU CAN'T JUST SAY PERCHANCE 

aryansimhadri petition for our rich baby daddy dance routine to be finished
⮑ kaitlynbright if by finished u mean done forever postponed infinitely then yes!
⮑  user4 NEED TO SEE THISI.  

user9 why's she fat asl
⮑ walkerscobell do u need glasses like i will pay for u to see an optometrist

user223 oh my god she's grgeous

iamcharliebushnell thanks for the food ig 🤷🏻‍♂️

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walkerscobell i can hold my breath the longest

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percyseries a true son of poseidon

kaitlynbright yeah but i can hold my underwater handstand longer
⮑ walkerscobell yeah but i can do more backflips
⮑ kaitlynbright yeah but i love u more
⮑ walkerscobell no.
⮑ user6 CRYING I NEED WHAT THEY HAVE

aryansimhadri BEND THAT ASS OVER
⮑ kaitlynbright i do not like green eggs and ham. 

iamcharliebushnell i am coming for u perseus

momonatamada where my invite at 🥺🥺
⮑ dior.n.goodjohn PLEASE COME NEXT TIME MOMO
⮑ kaitlynbright YESSS
⮑ walkerscobell ew no 
⮑ walkerscobell jk miss u momo

xochitlgomez FAV SQUADDDD

dior.n.goodjohn i love this pic send it to me

leahsavajeffries ok seaweed brain
⮑ walkerscobell wise girl
⮑ rickriordan I created you.

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