Best Friends Forever?

Chapter 7 - Black Out:

Aqua Dream was even bigger, better and wetter in real life than any advertisement could ever have made it out to be! It looked amazing! I can’t even do it justice! My eyes swarmed over the parks slippery slides, rapid whorl pool and colourful décor. I was almost bounding ahead before a sudden thought hit me; I still have to get changed.

I mean, I wasn’t exactly a huge fan of heights, or water for that matter, but the slides in this place would make it almost impossible not to have a good time, I mean at least I would get away from Ben for the rest of the day.

As I expected, once I emerged from the changing room, finding the parents wasn’t exactly a hard task; look for the place with the most sun and you were bound to find them, just like moths after a flame. There they were, covered in tanning oil, lying up on three sun loungers without a care in the world. It looked so tempting, to just lie there and forget about all the cares and worries I had going on right now…that was until I came to my senses and realised I was in a frigging waterpark!

“Okay you guys, I have my sunscreen on and am ready to hit the slides!” I tell them, looking down on their relaxed bodies, “I will come back if I need anything or if I feel myself starting to get sun burn” – The joys of having auburn hair, soon to be wet auburn hair that would look even more of a mess than usual; so much for getting the hot lifeguards attention…

“Wait a second Samantha” My mother began, gazing up at my through squinting eyes as her hair fell in front of her face, “Ben will be back in just a second”

“Ben…” I reply, my mouth drooped wide at the mere mention of his name.

“Yes, we know you aren’t the strongest of swimmers and wouldn’t want anything to happen to you, so Ben agreed to watch you.”

Watch me? Did I really need ‘watched’? Was I some kind of baby who couldn’t take care of myself? Wait hold up, Ben was going to watch me? I do not want to ruin what might very well be the best day of my life with that arrogant jerk, and I can assure you that he did not ‘agree’ to this so much as be forced into doing it!

Who cares if I’m not the best of swimmers? That’s what all those hot lifeguards are there for, I mean maybe I will have to be given mouth to mouth by one of them; that would be such bad luck…

Sure enough Ben took that exact moment to stroll out of the changing rooms in his baggy red swim trunks, blonde hair blowing in the light breeze as the sun gleamed down on his body. He looked hot. Wait no he…he…abs. Damn did Ben look good in just those shorts, his god-like body on full display to the world, and he knew he had the attention of not only me but basically every girl in the park.

“You kids have fun!” Mrs Fletcher says excitedly, clearly she is having a better time right now than I am likely to have with her son. Ben grunts back at her, turning around and beginning his first trip up the long flight of steps to the top of the first slide. I guess we are going.

At least I know one thing for sure, Ben is as pissed off about the whole situation as I am right now, I don’t want to spend time with him and he doesn’t want to look at me let alone hang out. Gee, way to do wonders for my confidence Ben!