Forgotten

Chapter 7

When I finally fell asleep I slept like a baby. My mind didn’t have something weighing on it now that I found Jacin. I can’t keep thinking back at our text messages from the previous night. I bit my lip blushing as I thought back on them. We were blatantly flirting. I wonder how it will be tonight when we actually see each other, people always have more guts over the phone. I’m already feeling shy just thinking about facing him after everything I had texted him last night. I got up and quickly took a warm shower. I then put on my turquoise bikini I then took the chiffon matching scarf and fold it into a triangle tying it behind my back with the two corners, the last corner pointing down my waist. My whole front being technically covered while my entire back was open. It’s not like I am going out in public. The driver will drop me at Liara’s house and from there we are going to the beach. I then put on some jean shorts. Tucking the corner of the triangle in at he front since the jeans came up so high. The jeans were shorter than I’m use to. I then slip my feet into my matching beach flip flops.

Now that I am ready for the day I went to my closet to look for an outfit for tonight. I had no idea what I wanted. It has to be beach appropriate, yet cute and still a bit sexy. I wanted to impress him. He has seen me in semi comfy clothes, I want him to see how I look if I try. I couldn’t decide. I stood there for such a long time so in the end I just grabbed a bunch of things and threw it in the bag. Liara will have to pick because I just can’t I am to invested. You know how it gets. There was this scene in the one movie I watched where they zoomed in on an object and asked them what they thought it was and they all guessed wrong. They were amazed at seeing what it really was. It’s just prove that when you are to close to a situation you don’t see clearly which is exactly what is happening here. I left my hair loose to cover my almost naked back. I rushed downstairs eager to get to the beach.

“Breakfast!” I hear my father order from behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw him heading towards the steps so I waited for him. I didn’t want to do breakfast because Lyssa has been searching for something to use against me. I thought I could skip it today. Although it’s a rule in the house that we eat breakfast together. It was my mothers rule and I love that my father continued the tradition. Even when he was heart broken after my mothers death he showed up for breakfast. I loved it until Lyssa came and everything changed. It hasn’t been the same since. I followed him to the dinning room where our breakfast was already on the table. Breakfast is always ready by seven am since it has to be ready before school. My father also prefers to be at his office by eight. Lyssa was also waiting.

"What are you wearing, I can see right through that top, if top is even the word for it, it barely has any material!" Lyssa started as soon as we walked through the door.

"It’s not a top it’s my costumes chiffon scarf, I’m just using it as a top. What do you want me to wear when I go to the beach a jumpsuit?" I told her as I sat at my far end of the table. I don’t want to eat a large breakfast so I just pulled the muesli, dried fruit and yogurt closer. I quickly mixed it and started to eat.

"Aren’t you going to say anything about your daughters attire?" She asked my father, he looked at me and back at her.

"It looks like she is going to the beach." he simply said before starting with his breakfast. I wanted to laugh. She needs to learn to choose her battles, because it seems like my father is tiring of it all. It will cost him though. I finished my breakfast as fast as possible, it was very uncomfortable, I think that she just misses being young. She is still young enough to hang out with friends and go to the beach, but she chose to get married to an older man.

When I was done I rushed out of there as fast as I could. I grabbed my bag and rushed out the front door and into the car. I don’t want to get to the beach to late. I still need to stop at Liara’s house so that we can pack the things we’ll need for today. We at least have already sorted it all out in groups. All we need to do is load it into the car. Then it will be fun in the sun all day long. The driver was driving to slow for my excitement. I don’t know if I am excited to be going to the beach or excited that once my day at the beach is over my night at the beach will start and then I will see Jacin. I should text him now that I think about it.

[I’m on my way to Liara’s house, I’ll see you tonight at six]

Now I need to wait for his reply. We stopped at Liara’s house. I quickly jumped out and rushed to the door. I knocked a couple of times and then waited. Liara opened the door looking beach ready. Her brown hair was tied in a high ponytail. She was wearing her costume. It was a two piece, but the bottoms and top are tied together with string that crosses around her middle a couple of times. She had a jean skirt over her bottom. She stepped aside so that I could go in. I followed her to the kitchen.

“I just need to finish my scrambled eggs. My dad made me breakfast before they left for work.” they own two cars. On was her dads and the second was her mothers, but as soon as she could drive they gave her one of the cars and started driving to work together. This means that they need to go into to work earlier than they use too. Since her father needs to drop her mother first. Her mother starts before her father and works later. So he is always early for work and have to wait for her as well. It’s a great sacrifice for their daughter. They would truly do anything for her, like how her father got up earlier than he needed just to make her breakfast before they left or how they take extra shifts on Saturdays so that she can have everything she needs.

“Okay take your time.” I told her as I sat down next to her at the counter. She pushed a glass of orange juice towards me. I sat there sipping it in silence as she finished her meal. When she was done she quickly rinsed out her plate and our glasses. We then went to the garage to pack our things. We had a beach blanket, umbrella, a big cooler that we filled with ice and bottles of water and fruit salad, sunscreen and a volley ball. We loaded everything in her car and then we set of for the beach. This is going to be so much fun. I checked my phone to see if I had a message, but there wasn’t any. I can’t help and feel sad about the lack of any message, but it was still very early. He is probably still sleeping most people sleep in on a Saturday. We just didn’t want to miss a moment of sun.

It wasn’t such a long drive before we made it to the beach since we were early we had got an amazing parking spot right in front of the beach. We got out of the car only to be attacked by Mika. She was wearing a dress over her costume along with a knee length coat. She doesn’t do good with the cold, I can’t wait for her to go into the cold water. She hugged each of us before taking a step back.

“You are late, you said to meet up at eight. It’s already half past eight. I sat here in the cold and waited. I could have still been bundled up in bed you know.” She complained as she glared at us.

“It’s my fault I had to have breakfast with my father and Lyssa and of course she had something to say about my outfit. It’s ridiculous. Anyway it made me late getting to Liara’s house.” I’m the only one that knows about Liara’s situation. She doesn’t advertise that she isn’t as well of as most of us. It’s no one’s business anyway. It’s just people like Mika that will find it odd that Liara’s father made her breakfast since she is use to servants doing it for us. Our parents work on weekends because they want to instead of they need too. It’s not that Mika is judgemental or mean. She just won’t get it. She is not use to it. Whereas I’ve known Liara most of my life. I’m very envious of her life. Mika won’t have the same sentiments as me.

For today we have invited the ice queen Mika and the energy ball and Zielle the energy ball. I thought about asking a couple more, but I was afraid that the news would get out and then my fun day at the beach would also become a party. My night has already been hijacked but I don’t care all that much anymore since Jacin will be here with me. We will then finally get to know each other. At the moment we don’t really know anything about each other other than our names. He also knows that I am from a rich family and I know he drives a bike. We already like each other though which can be a problem, maybe when we start to know each other we won’t like the people we turned out to be.

Zielle finally joined us as we started to unload the car. She was wearing a long sleeved chiffon pullover dress. She has almost white blonde hair with extremely fair skin so she is very safe when it comes to the sun, she basically bathes in SPF 50. Although the possibility to of getting sunburn never gets her down. She just gets so excited about anything and everything. Zielle and Mika carried the big cooler while Liara and I carried the rest of the things. I curled my toes into the clammy sand. It’s nice being this early, you can set up on the wet sand without it being much of a problem, whereas when you try to set up later in the day you tend to get the loose sand everywhere.

We made a quick job of setting up and by the time we were done it was already getting hot. I grabbed each of us a bottle of water so that we could hydrate before facing the sun. We drank our water and put the empty bottle back into the cooler. We aren’t about to pollute the beach. We then took of our clothes and helped each other with rubbing the sunscreen over our bodies. Ziella had a hat on that she tied under her chin, she wasn’t planning on having a wave hit it of her head. Mika on the other hand didn’t want to much sunscreen because she wanted to get a tan today. Since she likes the heat she’ll probably be laying down on a towel or she might even go and rent a chair to tan on. When all of us were officially ready to face the sun we ran out to the sea. It’s something we use to do when we were a bit younger, no fear. You just run straight into the cold water until a wave hits you and you get all wet or you trip and fall into the water. It’s also about who get’s their first, the last one in buys the afternoon ice creams. It’s usually Mika, as soon as her toes touches the cold water she starts to back track away from the water.

I was the first in the water and I must say that it was freezing I’m not use to it anymore, but I pushed through. I made it in until half of my body was underwater and then I fell which means I couldn’t win first place. First place get’s to choose first who they want in their volleyball team. If I win I choose Liara, if she wins she picks me, but if Zielle wins she chooses on of us. They always try to split us up because we are a winning team. It was a battle between Liara and ZIelle both going slower as they didn’t want to trip and forfeit this opportunity. In the end Liara was hit by the wave first as she was a few steps in front of Zielle. Once we were wet we ran after Mika who put up a great fight, but in the end we managed to drag her into the water. We then just had fun. We dove underneath the waves, sometimes we rode them out. It was fun, I knew I was going to have to do this more often. I found myself drifting with my eyes closed. Every now and again Liara would grab my ankle to pull me back in when the waves tried carrying me out.

We took a break and went to dry off and eat our fruit to build up our energy. Mika laid down on the towel and caught some sun as we ate while Zielle sat under the umbrella with hers. Liara and I sat on the blanket. When we were done we re-applied our sunscreen and then we went out to play volleyball. Liara and I won all three the games, other people joined in on the games as time went by. It was fun Zielle really got into it she is very competitive. After that we went for ice cream, Mika treated us. It was nice to get a bit of sugar in since we had been eating healthy all day, because the last thing you want is to be to full when you are on the beach. I took a sugar cone with vanilla ice cream that was covered in caramel. When we were done we just hang out on the blanket. Before leaving the beach we took a dip to cool off.