「 FRATERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY 」

34 | Lily

"I've seen that place before, but I can't remember where".

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"I'm going to make you drown in your own pathetic tears, Ryder!" I yelled at Logan after he threw me into the pool.

That jerk.

"You're such an asshole!" he stood at the edge of the pool, cackling like an idiot.

Suddenly he came toppling into the pool right on top of me, we resurfaced together spluttering and coughing.

"Classy" I muttered and Logan splashed me with a wave of pool water, it turns out that Valentino had pushed him in.

Grayson and Ethan soon joined us by grabbing Valentino's arms and cannonballing into he pool with him kicking and yelling,

Valentino's arms flailed in the water and Ethan grabbed him by his arm and pulled him back to the surface, when he came up for air Valentino took a few deep breaths before shooting a glare at the boys and walking off.

"What was that about?" I asked Logan as Valentino went over and leaned over the table full of chips and drinks.

"It's a long story" he replied and I nodded,

A few feet away from the pool and out of ear shot Mia was having a heated discussion with Chase, I barely caught a few sentences but I was sure it was about Chase not wanting to irritate Noah further by hanging out with Logan. After a few more minutes it looked as if Mia had won, she looked triumphant in getting Chase to stay while Chase had a hesitant look on his face. When he looked over at me I offered him a small smile which he returned, then joined Kasey, Will and Mia in conversation.

I sighed loudly, if Chase was so hard to convince I can't help but imagine how hard Noah would take it.

"He'll come around," Logan whispered to me, he grabbed my hand and squeezed it. I nodded, I knew it was wrong of me to force a relationship between them but I don't see how it could be so terrible if we were all friends.

We had put Beth to sleep upstairs while Will, Mia, and Chase joined Logan, Kasey, Grayson, Ethan and myself were in the pool soon after, even Vicky joined us later in the night.

"So how's Kyle?" Vicky asked me as she stood next to me, watching as everyone got into a water fight.

"Huh?"

"How's Kyle?" she repeated with an eye roll,

"Uh- fine?"

"Is that a question?"

I'm going to be honest; Vicky was extremely intimidating.

"Kyle is okay I guess, why?"

"He and I dated briefly last year before I realized what a dick he was" she muttered and I furrowed my eyebrows,

"He slept with another girl when we weren't really official but when I found out, we were dating. He apologized and everything even though he didn't really have to since we weren't an item then, but he still regretted it but now I'm over it",

I nodded, slowly as I tried to take everything in.

"I'll be stealing her," Logan said, holding my hand and pulling me further into the pool,

Vicky just hummed in agreement.

I watched everyone around me and they looked like they were having fun.

Except Valentino.

He stood next to the table packed with food, staring at his feet.

"I'll be back," I told Logan, getting out of the pool, he tugged my hand and gave me the puppy dog look,