Summer To-Do List

Chapter 1

Hey readers!! This is my first story in a long time so I'm kind of rusty. This first chapter is sort of a prelude to the story, the regular chapters are a lot more interesting and long than this one. I'm super committed to this story so far so let's hope it goes well!

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My name is Ariana Johnsom, I am 17
years old and I live in the always sunny, always hot, state of Florida. I live at Palm Springs resort on the tip of Florida. Yup that's right, I live at a freaking resort. I wake up and go to sleep listening to the sound of constant beach waves. I live on the sixth floor of a twenty floor building next to one more building, five pools, three hot tubs, a state of the art full floor gym, tennis courts, saunas, a beach side restaurant, and so much more. It's pretty amazing besides the fact I have to drive forty five minutes to school and thirty five minutes to get to a regular neighborhood. I'm one of the very few people who live at this exotic resort, besides a couple of old retired folk, and of course my best friend callie. The only reason my family can afford to live here is because of my dad's job, he is the assistant manager of the resort. It's Pretty crazy, my dad has been working at the resort for a while but about six years ago he got a promotion but it came with a deal, he could have the prestigious and honorable title of assistant manager, IF he lived at the resort. The answer was so obvious and he was so quick to take it. The resort asked all the assistant magnets to live at the resort so they could provide 24/7 service for their residents. That's also why my best friend,Callie, lives here. Her father is also an assistant manager but they live in the second building.
Callies father and my father started at the same time, in the winter. Not many residents were staying here in the winter so callie and I were kind of forced friends. My mom isn't in the picture, her and my dad divorced when I was only four, my dad said that they just grew apart, she left Florida with her boyfriend right after the divorce and my dad has been my only parental figure ever since. Callie's mom is I her life, she works as executive chef at the restaurant in the resort, it's delicious five star food. Anyways, Callie and I.......We liked each other at first but after a year or so we started hating each others guts. In 6th grade we kept ourselves as far away from eachother as we could. We sat on opposite ends of the bus and never talked to eachother. But in the summers we were stuck with eachother, having to see eachother every day. Her mom thought it would be a good idea for us to make a summer to-do list and fill it will things we wanted to do with each other every summer. I guess we quickly became friends and we continued to make lists every year. Now it's sort of a tradition.
There's also Brandon, his parents own a room that they use for summers and occasionally spring or Christmas breaks. We met Brandon while he was swimming laps one night in one of the outdoor pools. He was here for Christmas break but the water was freezing. Callie and I were walking when we saw him, We thought he was hot so we went up and talked to him. Flash forward a few minutes and we both ended up naked in the pool with him.
It wasn't a big deal until he came back a couple months later for spring break, then things got awkward. It all worked out though and now it's just something he teases us about.
He is super daring and adventurous so the three months here's here for summers it is non stop fun. It's honestly so much fun that when he leaves at the end of August we spend the next two months recovering.
Still, it is a great life and one I'm happy to have.