Lies and Broken Smiles

15

"Now what to eat." Say Alice looking in her pantry

"You're not meant to eat before swimming." I mention looking at her

"Well we're not going to go swimming right this minute -"

"Aww but I was looking forward to that part." Interrupts Kaiden

"Pervert" I say looking at him.

"Never."

"AS I WAS SAYING" Shouts Alice over our noise "We need to eat something before
swimming."

Julia pulls out a big bowl as Alice pulls out a big packet of chips

"Found something!" She yells

Ugh is all I can think but I don't say anything.

They pour the bag into the bowl and soon everybody is attacking the bowl wanting their share of the chips.

"Aren't you gonna have some?" Ask Kaiden

"Oh she never eats," Says Julia

"I do to!" I attack back and I grab a chip and push it in my mouth.

I then realize Alice and Julia are staring at me

"What?" I ask

"Nothing I just don't think I've actually ever seen you eat before." Alice says

"Oh shut up I've eaten in front of you plenty of times."

"Nope can't think of one." Julia says

I roll my eyes at them

Soon we all head up to Alice's room and the boys head to their home to get changed.

"I don't really have a good bathing suit." I say I love swimming but my body is just so fucking disgusting.

Alice hands me one of hers.
"Just use mine." She smiles I give her a fake smile back before heading to the bathroom to
change, the other girls change together but I can't let anyone see my body.

I soon have on the bathing suit it's really cute, it was pink with white polka dots. I stare at myself in the mirror I can see the fat bulging over the sides of the bottoms and my legs bigger then the tree trunks, my arms massive. I suck in and let out my stomach a few times, turn this way and that way trying to find anything to make me look smaller, I sigh it's useless, I grab a towel and wrap it around my body.

"Well come on lets see how you look in it." Alice encourages

"No thanks." I say still hugging the towel close to my body just the thought of them seeing

me makes me feel uneasy.

"You're so skinny. Stop being embarrassed." Says Julia annoyed with me, I ignore her and dig around in my bag of clothes.

"What are you looking for?" They ask I ignore them until I finally find what I'm looking for, I
pull out a big grey way over sized tee-shirt and put it on over my bathing suit before letting go of the towel

"Oh my gosh Cali, you don't even need that." They say

"Yes I do I won't go swimming unless I wear it." I say

"Stupid." They mutter again I ignore them, I hear noises down stairs in the living room.

"I think the boys are back." I say opening the door still feeling so disgusting as you can see my legs I peek into the living room and there they are.

"Oh you girls are finally ready." Says Kaiden

"Of course we are we've been waiting for you." I shoot back.

"Why are you wearing a top, don't you have a bikini" He says staring me up and down

"Don't look at me like that!" I say blushing madly

"Like what?" He says smirking

"Alice hurry up and come down here." I shout up the stairs

"I'm sorry about my brother as you can see his a bit immature." Dillion says coming over to me

"Yea I see that."

Everybody comes down stairs and we blast the radio by the pool side as they jump in one by one I watch them.

"Come on Calista! We're waiting." Calls out Alice and Julia
I sigh and lower myself into the pool using the ladder on the sides. I can't swim so I usually just sit on the steps but I do love swimming or well being in the water, it's lovely.

"Come on come swim with us." Says Kaiden coming over to me.

"I can't swim." I say

"I'll teach you." He has a genuine look in his eyes, no tricks.

"It's embarrassing."

"Well you'll never learn if no one teaches you." He grabs my hand and slowly pulls me forward

"I'm gonna die aren't I?" I joke around, yep I joke when I'm nervous or scared, pisses people off

"You're not gonna die, you're safe with me." He says and takes me over to an edge of the pool to hold on to "Or you can just hold on to me." He says smiling

"Ha I'm fine thanks." I laugh

Kaiden ends up spending the rest of the time with me talking about many different things.