Before we could even start to get away though, Liam spoke up, "No, no. It's perfectly fine, love. We don't mind at all." The rest of the boys nodded in agreement and Harry asked, "Are you fans?" I nodded yes, not quite knowing what to say. Zayn spoke up before a silence could come over us and said, "Well, we were just going to get in. Do you mind?" he was already taking off his shirt to get in and I made sure to not look, not wanting them to see my expression when I did to save myself from embarassment. Brooke immediately answered him, clearly out of her original shock now. "Oh no of course not. Feel free," she smiled at him and he jumped in doing a cannonball which splashed his friends who were now taking off their shirts also. I took my eyes away from them and Brooke and I shared a look.
I can't believe that we're here with four fifths of One Direction! This was unbelievably amazing, or as a Directioner would say, amazayn. "Where's Niall?" I asked them to keep the conversation, and also because he hasn't shown up this whole time. Louis responded this time, in a laughing tone, "Oh you know, being Nialler. He's probably eating out the kitchen." Suddenly, I remember a very commonly known thing about Louis. His stereotypical outfit. The blue and white stripes and red pants. I smirked. "Hey Lou, finally got your boat?" Everyone started laughing and he looked at me with happiness and amusement in his eyes, "Yes! I did, finally! Isn't it wonderful? It could use some more color though. Hmm, maybe some dark blue and then accented by some red here and there.." He trailed off and we all laughed at how his imagination had gone off. "And maybe some carrots on the back!" He exclaimed.
Suddenly, I felt something grab my leg, or rather someone. And they yanked me down. I took a quick breathe before being submerged in the cool water. I could feel the hand tugging me a bit deeper, but they let go and I waved my hand down to feel the hair on their head. Hmm, their hair is thick and although it's wet, I can still feel the curls in it. It's Harry! Brooke's hair is longer and the other boys' hair isn't this curly. I could tell that he was swimming back up, but I decided to get back at him. I stayed under and even tried to swim to the bottom since we were still pretty close to the shore. I went down, down, down, further and further until finally, I felt the smooth, thick, mossy mud of the bottom.
***Brooke's POV***
While we were all laughing, I saw Harry slip underwater and watched as his form went towards Jess'. I laughed at how I could tell exactly what he was going to do and how Jess and I always do that to each other anyways. He pulled her under and I saw her take a deep breathe before going under. Alright, well she would be fine. We can both hold our breathe for a good amount of time so I had no need to worry. I turned back to Zayn, Liam, and Louis. Louis still looked like he was daydreaming and Zayn was messing with Liam. I can't believe that they're actually here. And that Jess and I get to hang out with them. After a few seconds, Harry came back up and the boys turned their attention to him, seeing that Jess was still missing. Oh, I know what she's doing. Silly girl, she shouldn't scare the boys.
The boys started talking about where she was and started coming up with silly ideas like 'a giant squid could've pulled her into the middle of the lake so that she could live in an underwater bubble with the baby squid eggs and watch over them until they hatch, and then the squid would get rid of her and she'd be gone forever'. Ya, they were becoming very worried and imaginative. I know she is fine though. She'll be coming up any second now. In the meantime, I started doing somersaults underwater and entertaining myself since the boys were too busy coming up with weird scenarios.
***Jess' POV***
I decided that it would be long enough for my plan to have worked already by the time I got to the surface again. Kicking my way back up, I broke through the surface and took in the people around me. Niall was still missing and Brooke was doing random flips underwater.The other boys were sharing a conversation and hadn't noticed me. Maybe it didn't work and they hadn't noticed my absence at all? Oh well. Trying to listen in on them from where I am isn't going well, so I started treading over to them. I tried to join in the conversation. "Hey guys, what are you talking about?" Louis turned to me and launched himself at me, hugging me tightly. "Where'd you go? We thought you were gone forever! Did you find the squid? Is there an underwater bubble world that houses baby squids? Did the big squid give you a present? Did it give you a carrot? I want a carrot! I love carrots. Carrots are just the best, don't you think?" He asked dramatically, finally giving me time to respond. "Yeah, carrots are good. No, I didn't get any presents, and there are no squid, Lou. Although it would be awesome to have an underwater bubble world accessible by humans, I didn't find one." I am getting hungry now so thinking about carrots isn't helping. Louis is still clinging on to me and somehow keeping us afloat at the same time. I pulled his arms off of me and looked up to see that Brooke had come over. Swimming over to her, I left the boys to their own conversation. "I don't know about you, but I'm getting hungry and we should probably let them have the time that they came here for. Do you want to go back to get some lunch?" I asked her, eager for food. She glanced at the boys and looked back to me, "Well I guess so." "You guess so what?" Zayn asked. I turned to him and told him we were going to go get lunch. He frowned a bit and glanced at Brooke. "You can eat here. As long as Niall didn't eat all the food. He's been in there for awhile."
At his name, Niall came out the back with a bag of chips in his hand. He glanced down at all of us in the water, obviously surprised to see Brooke and I here with them. "Hi!" I said loudly, suddenly gaining my usual hyperness. He turned to look at me and said in his thick Irish accent, "Hello! Who're you?" "¡Me llamo Jess!" I replied, using the Spanish that I had learned at high school. I chose Spanish as my required language. The only other option was French, which isn't a bad option either.
I just realized that they hadn't known either Brooke's nor my name. Huh, I guess it just hadn't come up. Oh well, now they know mine. "You know Spanish?" asked Liam. "Yup! I'm trilingual!" I like being trilingual. It's fun because Brooke and I know sign language and then we get to talk to each other from across the classroom. We go to the same high school, we're also the same age, although I am older by a few months. And another cool thing about signing to each other is that nobody else knows what our conversation is about and it's like our own code.
Getting out of my own thoughts, I looked up to see Liam looking at me expectantly. "What??" I asked, confused. Had he asked me something when I zoned out? "I asked what your third language is," he said. Oh. Well that makes sense considering the conversation topic. "Oh, it's sign language." I responded easily. I looked at Brooke and motioned to all the boys and then did the sign for crazy. She giggled and the boys looked confused. "What'd you say about us?" Niall asked, obviously catching on to when I motioned to them. "Oh, I just said that you guys are simply magnificently talented, wonderfully beautiful people who are super smart too." I made up randomly, not expecting anyone to buy the lie. Now Zayn spoke up, looking slighlty surprised. "You can say all that in one motion?" he asked, totally believing it. "Mhm, ya sure. Right. Most certainly." I replied with sarcasm, not trying to persuade them at all.
Then Lou giggled and everyone looked at him. He motioned to himself and copied the motion that I did when I called them all crazy. The rest of the boys rolled their eyes and Brooke and I burst out laughing at his obliviousness to calling himself crazy. Liam looked at me with a curious stare and asked "What??" "Ohh nothing. Just thinking about a funny joke that Brooke had told me yesterday." "Then why'd you both laugh at the same time?" he asked skeptically. "I referenced it to her. I guess you guys were too busy staring at Lou like he was going to do a magic trick." I said smiling, not even trying to use a convincing tone at all in my explanation.
Before he could interrogate any further, I sunk down underwater just enough for it to engulf me and then slowly came back up. Then I looked over at Niall, wondering why he'd been so quiet. He was sitting on a chair on the back of the boat pouring the last crumbs of the chips in his mouth. What are chips like? I started thinking to myself. Well, they're crunchy, and yummy, especially Doritos. I dove under water, flapping my legs like a mermaid would and swam next to where Niall sat while keeping my legs together as if they were a tail. I came up and rested my arms on the deck like mermaids usually do in the movies. "What are your favorite kind of chips, Nialler?"
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***Jess's POV (still)***
We ended up going inside their houseboat and making some sandwiches. Luckily, they have Nutella, the best sandwich ingredient ever made. After finishing, we all brought some snacks to the second level of their houseboat. It had a game room with an air hockey table that can flip around to be a ping pong table. There were also some videogames and a PS3.
I am playing a car racing game against Niall, Harry, and Liam. Brooke is playing ping pong against Zayn, and Louis is eating carrots next to me on the couch. I'm kicking all of their butt's at the game with my lime green Nissan GTR while they were all lagging behind. In first place and gaining distance between my car and all the other's, I heard Harry and Niall whispering. Ignoring them, I kept on playing, making a goal of lapping everyone one and a half times. As I was getting closer to that goal, there was suddenly a car flying at me, driving the wrong way. I glared at it and expertly manouvered around it. Turning, I glared at Harry and Niall for a second before facing the game again. "Are you guys really so desperate to not be beaten by a girl that you're willing to sacrifice one of your own just to knock me out of the game for a few seconds?" I asked slightly incredulously and with a challenging tone. Which one of them sacrificed themself?? It probably wasn't Liam, he's too nice to bring someone else down like that for the other guys. Harry and Niall were whispering before, so it was probably their plan. Smiling to myself, I figured that Harry talked Niall into doing this and came up with a plan. Still holding the remote and driving like the epic ninja I totally am, I stood up and went to sit right beside Niall. Glancing at him for a second, I whispered in his ear so Harry wouldn't hear. "Niall, if you aim for Harry instead then I'll make you a special dinner tonight," I offered, hoping to win him over and get him on my side. He looked at me for a second and smiled. "Promise?" I nodded my head yes and he started grinning more. Facing the game completely now, I watched as I was gaining more and more of a lead and when the backwards car, Niall's, passed me I watched the screen below mine that shows Harry's car. As Niall's car came towards him, he didn't think much of it since Niall's car was on a path to pass Harry's, but at the last second, it swerved right into his and caused both their cars to roll. I smiled and gave Niall a quick hug before jumping back to my spot on the couch. Louis, pausing his munching on carrots, nudged my shoulder lightly. "Nice, turn them against each other," he said in a sarcastic but laughing tone.
After beating the boys seven times in a row, I decided to take a ride on our jet skii before it got too dark out. I told Brooke of my plan and she came with me. After saying goodbye to the boys, we walked to the front of the boys' houseboat, onto the sand, and across it to our houseboat. Walking through the housebot to the back, we told our parents that we're taking the jet skiis out and grabbed our life jackets on the way. Reaching the back with our life jackets on, we jumped into the water and went over to the jet skiis. Climbing onto them and turning on the ignition, we slowly drifted away until we were far enough to not create a lot of wake and sped off. It's a nice, clear area where we are. There isn't any traffic here at all which makes it more fun because now I can have more room to ride. Driving in a circle, I went around three times before going out wide and turning around and going right through the center of the circle where there's churning water and sped up, gaining some air. I continued on, doing donuts and Brooke and I rode over each other's wake and just speeding down a stretch of water and letting the wind whip my hair around.
When Brooke and I came back to our spot, we found that the parents and the speedboat were gone. Walking into the kitchen, we found a note from our parents to tell us that they had gone out for a little cruise and that we can make ourselves dinner whenever we wanted. As Brooke sat down on the couch, I decided to make us dinner.
I started by making the fried rice on the stove and decided to make hot dogs. I started making some chili for Brooke because I know how she likes chili dogs. Then I got out some carrots, celery, and a small bag of chips for each of us. Now finished with everything, I put together Brooke's plate first and gave it to her. Just as I was getting mine, there was a knock on the front houseboat door. I walked over, opening it to be bombarded by two boys running inside and making themselves comfortable on the couch Brooke is sitting on. I looked at Niall and Zayn expectantly, waiting for them to speak. Niall gave me an inoccent smile and said, "Well, you promised to make me a special dinner tonight." I turned to Zayn, raising my eyebrow. "I came to make sure you don't abduct my little leprechaun," he smiled cheekily.
Walking away, I finished packing my plate with three hot dogs and the rest of my food and then made a plate for Niall, giving him chili on his hot dogs and put a sliced pickle on the side. Bringing the plate over, I handed Niall his and looked at Zayn again. "Have you eaten or would you like some too?" He smiled and asked for some, so I went back and starting making a plate for him too. "Do you want chili?" I called out. He responded with a no. That's probably good, I hadn't made that much. I brought over his plate and mine and sat down between Niall and Brook with Zayn on the other side of her.
Niall eyed my three hot dogs. "Are you gunna eat all those?" He asked. "Oh yes I am, so don't think about stealing any," I said with a smile. People always underestimate me because of my size. I'm not really tall, but not really short either. I'm 5'5" and seventeen years old.
I turned on the little TV infront of the couch and changed the channel to watch NCIS, my favorite show. When I had finished my hot dogs, which was quickly, I snatched a pickle slice off of Niall's plate and took a bite of it and snuck it back hopefully before he noticed.
Resuming to watch the show, I saw him pick up the pickle slice from my peripheral vision and made sure to keep a straight face. He turned to me and poked my shoulder. Looking at him and trying to pull off a questioning look, I raised my eyebrow. "Yes?" I asked. He looked from me to the pickle and back. "Did you?" was all he said. I leaned my head down to the pickle he was holding up and took another bite out of it. "That?" I asked innocently, trying to keep my face blank. He narrowed his eyes at me and almost smiled, but immediately went back to having a poker face.
He opened his mouth, about to say something but I beat him to it. "Do you know how to play poker?" I asked. He nodded and I smiled and turned to ask Brooke and Zayn if they wanted to play. But they had apparently gotten distracted from the show too.
***Note: Thanks everyone for reading my story, I'm glad that there are some people reading. I would really appreciate it if I got some feedback so that I can improve so please comment. Any kind of feedback would be wonderful. I hope you enjoyed the long chapter.
Also, if you want to comment who you want Jess to end up with, please do because I'm undecided. And, what do you think happened with Brooke and Zayn? How did they get distracted too? What's going on? Find out! And if you comment, it'll give me motivation to get the next chater out sooner. Thanks!