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Chapter 3: Angry

Chapter 3

Kayleigh

"Hey guys", Kenna says casually, she looks very excited to see Colin. Maybe a little too excited.

"Hey girls, how come we meet you again? Has to be the destiny", Theo says looking at Lacey with a big smile.

"Or the simple fact that we live at the same hotel", I mutter from my sun chair, facing the sky. Destiny. Yeah right. I don’t believe in destiny. Or soulmates, or anything like that.

If I looked and Lacey and Kenna right now, I know that they would give me the evil eye. I know that they think that I’m trying to ruin this for them with my negativity, but

"Someone's cranky", Colin laughs.

"Don't mind her, she's always like that", Lacey giggles. "But she's actually really funny".

"Yeah I can tell she looks like the life of a party", Theo says. "And she really shines with joy".

"It's nothing personal", I say like I'm a part of their conversation. "I just don't like you very much".

"Ouch!" Theo, Colin and Jeremy say at the same time.

"No really it's nothing personal, she's just not a people person", Kenna says.

"How come she’s friends with you if she’s not a people person?" Colin asks curious.

Many people have asked the same. I have actually been wondering that myself, so Colin is not the first to ask, and probably not the last one either. 

"We forced her to be our friend in the beginning, we all three met in high school, she tried to get rid of us and everything, but we didn't let her", Lacey says. “Eventually she warmed up to us, we figured that she would need friends and at some point, she would want friends and she did”.

That's true. We all three ended up in the same home room, they started talking and then they started talking to me, although it took about six months for me to actually be friends with them. They sat with me at lunch, walked beside me in the corridors, sat near me in the classrooms and talked to me even though I didn’t give them a lot of response, I answered their questions and statements with short answers.

"Really?" Theo asks.

"Yeah", I say. They're quite for a while. I feel someone sit down on my chair by my legs. I look to see who it is. Jeremy. "What are you doing?" I ask.

"Sitting, what are you doing?" He asks.

I give him a death glare. Does he think he's smart or something? He knows exactly what I mean. He’s not funny if that’s what he’s thinking right now.

"Well sit somewhere else", I say.

"Nah I'm good here", Jeremy says nodding. 

I groan and lay down my head again. He starts tickling my foot. I sigh and sit up now. "Why do you have to be so annoying? Go jump in the pool or something!" I say irritated.

"What an excellent idea", Jeremy says as he takes off my sunglasses.

Wait what? The next second he carries me up in his arms and runs towards the pool. 

"Don't even dare!" I shout.

"Want to bet?" He says mockingly.

"I warn you! I will..."

Splash! Both of us are now it the water. I hear Lacey and Kenna laughing. I mentally curse them and the guys. I feel the panic start growing inside of me as I touch the water. Get me up! Get me up! Get me up! I feel like the panic takes over my body and I now have a hard time breathing. Here I am with a stranger that just now jumped in the pool with me in his arms. I don't even know him or his friends. They sure aren't shy, but what if they're axe murderers or pimps, or ... Yeah okay, I'm probably exaggerating a bit... Okay a lot. They are probably just guys our age, out on a vacation to have fun after collage or something. But still, I don't know them! I hate talking to strangers. 

Now everyone but me are laughing. I see nothing funny in this. "It is not funny!" I hiss through the panic as I help myself out of the pool since no one else helps me.

"Oh, come on! It was funny!" Kenna says.

"No!" I insist feeling very angry.

I do not think it’s funny. She knows me, she knows I hate meeting new people, and then someone I don't know throws me into water when I don't even like water! I hate being surrounded by water. Sure, I can lay down on a sun chair, but I do not swim. The water is too dangerous. It’s not that I can’t swim, I can swim, but get into the water.

Lacey has stopped laughing. "Oh god, I totally forgot", she says, suddenly worried. "Are you okay?"

"No! What do you think?" I almost shout as I shake.

"I forgot too, I'm so sorry Kayleigh", Kenna says as she realizes.

And these two girls are supposed to be my best friends. 

"Did we miss something?" Theo asks.

"Kayleigh is terrified of water", Lacey says.

"Why?" Colin asks.

"None of your business!" I hiss as I take my stuff and walk away.

I hear running steps behind me. "Kayleigh?" I hear. Jeremy. Hasn't he caused enough trouble already? "Please stop". But I don't. I keep walking. Jeremy catches up to me though and forces me to stop. "I didn't know", he says remorsefully. "Please forgive me".

"No", I mumble, looking down as I try not to think of why I'm terrified of water.

He puts his hand under my chin and lifts my head. "Please forgive me, I'm actually a pretty kind guy, although I can be a jerk sometimes", he says.

"Obviously", I mumble. "But I don't know you, so I can't forgive you".

"You should get to know me", he says and reaches me his hand. "Hello, I'm Jeremy Love".

He’s last name is Love? That’s actually very pretty. I refuse to tell him that though. I look at him. I hesitate. But he looks at me with his big, big golden-brown eyes, so beautiful that I give in. 

I know I’m going to regret this. I regret every bad mistake I make. Are there even good mistakes? Do they exist? I don’t know, but I know for sure that this is a bad one. What is it with me? Why don’t I just walk away? I take his hand. Seriously, something is wrong with me.

"Kayleigh Martin".