Not just a diary

I awoke to somebody yawning. I looked over and saw Matt was up but I closed my eyes and relaxed awhile longer. I heard TK beside me get up. Two minutes later there was a loud clanging sound. I flew bolt up right, my eyes wide. Everybody else did the same to see TK with two frying pans in his hands.
“Rise and shine!!!” He shouted and clanged the pans together again.
Dominic and Leon through a few shoes or pillows at him, and TK just laughed.
Lodi gave a moan, “Lukas!”
I threw myself face into a pillow on the floor and pretended to go back to sleep. Leon and Michael moaned and followed my example, toppling all over me.
Matt and TK laughed some more, “Don’t make me bang these pots together again!”
Everybody moaned and threw a few things at him again.
Clang!
At this Michael and Leon were thoroughly enraged and they hopped up and chased TK out of the fort. Matt ran after them laughing.
I got up and slouched against the wall again; Dominic beside me did the same and Lodi scooted back in between us and leaned against my shoulder tired.
“What time is it?” asked Dominic.
A mutter from a pile of kids on the other side said, “6:30”
“Oh god… thanks Donny…”
Another mutter from the pile of people, “No problem, mon.”
Our leisure was not long. The party returned through the door with TK in captive.
“Come on guys! Get up! Lets go swim!”
Laury yawned and went forward, turning to Dominic and me who were perfectly fine with sleeping longer, “Come on Jessi! Dominic! Hop to it!”
We moaned.
She held out her hand and I took it with her dragging me up to my feet as best she could, “Where we going again…?”
“To the pool.”
I yawned, “All rot…”
We all went out and split up to go get on swim stuff.

When I got home I remembered I didn’t have swim trunks, so I went inside and talked to Miguel for a little bit. I watched some WWF for a while and then turned around and started to head back to the pool after changing into some shredded denim shorts and taking off my shoes.

When I got there I saw most of the people were already there, but nobody was in the pool yet. They were all standing at the edge in their swimsuits looking at the water.
“You first…”
“I’m not going in!”
“I dare you!”
“Wussy!”
“Are you kidding? That water is like ice!”
“Yeah! It’s like seven in the morning too!”
“I’m going to push you.”
“Somebody jump in already.”
This was too good an opportunity to miss, I just had to do it.
I rushed at the line as fast I could and put my hand two people’s backs. Before anybody could react I reached over and pushed Leon in as well. I then backed off. I looked over Lodi and two other girls, all wearing two-piece bathing suits. They were laughing pretty hard.
“Well, well… look who decided to show up…” I said, looking at Chelsea.
She sat up from her lawn chair and pulled down her sparkly pink sunglasses to look at me, “Well I couldn’t miss a perfectly good opportunity to come to the pool and get a tan!”
TK, Leon, and Dominic had gotten out of the pool. They stared at me with killer eyes. Matt and Michael were cracking up at the edges.
“Jessin… I am so gonna kill you…” Dominic stared at me shaking his head. Just then TK went over to a bush and whooped out one of the biggest super soakers I had ever seen. The smirk on my face slowly dropped along with my bottom jaw.
In the blink of an eye I took off like lightning. I tore across the streets like mad in my bear feet. TK, carrying a water gun the size of himself, couldn’t keep up so he stopped there, aimed, and pulled that trigger with all his might.
A steady stream of high-pressured water pounded me in the back. I quickly grabbed a trash can lid and took cover. The water clanged against that metal trash can lid so hard I almost fell over. Then it stopped. I raised my head and took a look around. That was exactly what TK wanted. He shot me in the forehead and I ducked back under. This little game went on for about five more minutes until TK finally ran out of water. I slowly came back, streaks of wetness across my whole body.
“Okay, okay I give in!” I said, walking towards them with my arms in the air.
They stared me in the eye threateningly and I couldn’t help but smirk. Dominic seemed to want to say something, but he couldn’t find the right words.
“R-revenge…” was all he came out with.
“Will come your way,” said TK.
“Be afraid… be very afraid…” added Leon.
By then Matt and Michael were already swimming around. I came and sat down by the edge of the pool as the other three guys jumped in.
“Are you going to swim?”
“Nope, I went home and remembered I didn’t have any trunks.”
“Just swim in your shorts. Nobody’ll care.”
“Oh yeah…” I began to take off my shirt, but remembering that tattoo I stopped and shook my head, “Nah…”
“Come on Jess!”
“No one’s going to care what you look like with your shirt off!”
“No, I just don’t feel like swimming,” I said. The truth was I actually looked pretty good with my shirt off.
“Ahh, come on!” TK shot me with quick squirt of his super soaker in my gut.
“Damn you!” I said. We laughed. “Don’t make me come over there…”
They messed around in the water and shot each other for a while and I sat down in a lawn chair, getting tired. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warming sun. About fifteen minutes later I noticed it had gotten really quiet. I opened my eyes at about the same time they picked up my chair. They carried it pretty fast before I could even react and sure enough, through me in the pool, chair and all.
I arose out of the water and shook my hair off. My eyes darted to the guys, laughing on the side. I quickly grabbed the super soaker that was floating in the water and shot every one of them. That high-pressure water really did hurt, so I gave them mercy. They were still cracking up.
I shook my head and got out of the pool, pulling my sticky cloths away from my skin and shaking the water off my head. “You imbeciles!”
“Well you might as well swim now…” said TK.
“Heh… oh shut up.” We laughed and I went and sat down by the girls to dry off, hoping the color on the back of my shoulder wasn’t visible through my white shirt. It wasn’t long before the girls got to my hair and decided to put little braids in it. While the guys were soaking each other and pushing each other around the pool, I was sitting on the side in the midst of three girls all messing with me. Hey, I could do that everyday.

“Jessin! Say Good Day Mate!”
“No!”
“Please! It’s so funny!” Chelsea pleaded.
“Why!!”
“Because, just do it.”
“Good-Day-Mate.” I said in my best American tone, annunciating each and every letter.
“No, you have to say it like an Aussie!”

Chelsea screamed as TK pelted me in the stomach once again with a water gun. The girls screamed and jumped up, Chelsea chewing out TK, who was laughing like crazy.
“You were getting too comfortable Jess!”
I blinked, “Wonderful.”

It was then I remembered I had to go down to Hot Topic to work. I went over to the edge of the pool, “I got to leave.”
TK got out of the water and was drying himself off, “Where you going?”
“The mall.”
“Sweet. I’d come but I promised this girl I’d meet her at Dions for lunch.”
Chelsea shot up, “You have a date?! With who?”
TK shrugged casually, “This girl Jocelyn.”
Matt’s eyes widened, “Jocelyn Valley?”
TK nodded and swung his shirt over his head, “Anywho what are you guys gonna do?”
“We got stuff to do…” said Dominic, looking at Matt suspiciously.
“What about you?” TK said looking at Lodi.
She shrugged. TK frowned. Everybody was dressed now.
Before I could stop myself, I jumped at the opportunity, “You can come with me if you would like. I can’t leave Hot Topic though.”
She smiled, “All rot! Do you work there or something?”
“Yeah, I guess you could say that.”
They fluttered with questions, “Whoa you never told me that!”
“How did you manage that?”
“Do you really get paid?”
“How old are you anyway?”
“Look I have to go,” I said.
“Me too. Adios brotha.” And we filed out the gate.

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