𓆉 KILBY GIRL 𓆉
CHAPTER TWELVE
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AFTER MAKING IT HOME, MOST of the kids in the household made their way to the pool, except for Conrad, per usual.
Belly was wearing her new purple bikini Taylor insisted on her to wear. Fawning about how Conrad is going to go crazy over it. For the short amount of time Taylor and Lana pretended like that didn't hate each others guts, and somewhat tolerated each other.
Steven, Jeremiah, and Trent wandered off to the other side of the pool, as did the girls.
"Conrad is going to lose his mind when he sees you in this bikini." The blonde shared her excitement, hoping Belly would share some of it.
"No, i doubt it," Belly shook her head in disappointment, moving her arms around in the water to create ripples. "I honestly think he couldn't care less."
"Come, on Belly."
"No, seriously." Belly sighed. "He didn't ever get me a present this year."
"What?" Taylor said out of disbelief. It was far out of character for Conrad, everyone including Taylor knew it.
"Yeah he's been a total grouch lately." Lana pitched in, looking up from the shark floaty that she had been wrangling for the past five minutes to get on, and was finally able to sit on it.
Belly nodded along with her with wide eyes of agreement. "He claimed her forgot."
Taylor scoffed. "Ugh, what a little bitch."
Lana screeched as the float slid from under her, sending her under water, and the shark, nose diving up.
She was only met with laughter from the rest of them, while she was stuck with chlorine filled water in her nose. She relentlessly coughed, it tuning out their laughs.
"That was pathetic, Lana." Steven grinned ear to ear.
"Shove a stick in it, Steven!" She shouted back, still focusing on getting the water out of her nose.
"We know you're gossiping about us over there." Taylor titled her head with a loopy smile.
"Yeah you wish."
"Let's play chicken!" Belly's best friend rose from the in excitement.
"No. Not chicken." Belly pointed her finger, shaking her head.
"Yes." Taylor demanded.
"I was like twelve the time we played." Belly whined, shaking her head from side to side.
"I'm in." Lana shrugged carelessly. She never cared what it was, but she was always up for it. If it was fun to her, in her mind she would make it fun for everyone else.
"oh, come on, It'll be hilarious." Taylor pleaded towards Belly, knowing she wouldn't stand her ground for long.
"Hey, i'm down." Jeremiah agreed shortly after Lana had. "Come, on Steven, Trent."
"Fine." he groaned.
"Oh, come on Steven. Live a little." Lana smirked, pinching his now rosy cheeks.
"Dibs on Jeremy." Taylor shouted, swimming towards him.
"I do not want my sister." Trent made very clear, taking his chance to dunk her underneath the water, plunging even more water into her nose.
"I didn't want you either." She splashed water back at him.
"I don't want my sister either, man." Steven agreed, shrugging his shoulders as Belly got offended.
Lana grabbed Steven's shoulders to focus on her. "We're gonna win this, got it?"
"God your way to competitive, La." Steven shook his head, with a laugh.
"Come on! The more competitive, the better."
"Fine. But that means you take my sister out first." Steven smirked, his nose scrunching up.
"Whatever makes us win."
"Let's go!" He howled, shaking his wet hair like a dog, before dunking under water to let Lana on.
As Lana climbed onto his shoulders she noticed the small glares she was receiving from Taylor. And she wasn't making them distinct either.
But she wasn't letting that ruin her time. No way in hell would she let something that stupid ruin the happiness Lana loved to live in.
Steven rose out of the water with Lana on top of his shoulders, joining the rest in the small circle they created.
"On three. One, two, three!"
The girls begin to push and shove each other around, laughing and giggling. Lana grabbed onto Belly first like Steven had said. Taylor tried to knock both of them down but only failing when Belly pushed Taylor over, making Jeremiah slip, both of them eventually collapsing into the water.
Both of the girls went at each other, trying to push on another down, Lana almost fell down until voices made their presence known outside of the pool.
"Hey, guys!" Nicole waved sweetly, catching everyone's attention.
Along with her was Conrad, and a random girl everyone seemed to be confused by. Until Lana looked over at her brother. He looked like he immediately knew her.
"Hey, Nicole."
"Hi. Happy birthday, Belly."
"Who's that?" Lana scrunched her face at Nicole and Conrad. She almost laughed when Conrad give her the biggest shrug. Not even they knew who she was, so why was she in their back yard, following them?
"I'm Monica, Trent's girlfriend." She said with attitude. The protective type, like Lana was trying to steal her prized possession. "Who are you?"
"I'm your boyfriend's, sister." Lana said with the same equal amount of tone. Everyone's face was glued in shock. Nobody knew he actually had a girlfriend, and was quite shocked when not even Conrad, Jeremiah, or Steven even knew.
Trent sunk himself down into the water, letting go of Belly, who was still in his shoulders. He climbed out of the pool, and joined Monica's side.
"What are you doing here?" Trent asked, using his towel to dry his body and hair.
"They let me in. Said you were in here." She shrugged, acting like nothing was wrong with what she had just said.
"Let me down." She tapped Steven's shoulders. He did what she said, while she then swam over to Jeremiah.
"She sounds like a psychopath." The brunette whispered in his ear.
Jeremiah snickered, nodding his head to agree with her.
"Let's talk about this somewhere else." Trent shook his head, guiding Monica on her way out.
"What the hell just happened?" Taylor hysterically laughed, subconsciously looking for an actual answer.
After a few minutes of silence, Nicole spoke up, changing the topic. "Are you guys playing chicken?" She asked in the most judgmental tone possible.
"Um, yeah. It was, it was Taylor's idea." Belly said, obviously embarrassed of what the older girl thought of her.
Lana shrugged her shoulders. "Chickens for all ages. No shame on the game."
"You tell, em." Jeremiah ruffled her hair.
"Hey, i'm Taylor." She introduced herself, realizing who the girl was.
Lana noticed the pattern of Taylor not liking any of Belly's female friends. She could tell by her face and earlier when the mention of Nicole came up, that Taylor did not like the girl.
"Hi." Nicole nodded.
"She's my best friend, from home." Belly's introduced further.
"Just visiting for the weekend."
"Oh, that's cute." Nicole awkwardly nodded, just going along with what was being said.
A far too loud silence sheered over them like fog in the morning time. Belly through her hands up, "You guys wanna play a real game?"
"Yes!" They all chorused, excitement clear in everyone's voice.