When Summer Ends by Katy Wormald (the speed reading book txt) 📕

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I decided to wear a pretty blue summer dress that had small silver stitching around the edge, although after trying it on I realised it only just covered my bum so I would have to put a pair of shorts on with it. I opened my underwear draw and pulled out the entire bikini’s I owned. A Pink one with black love hearts on that was a size too big and made my boobs none existent, and a gray one with teal flowers on. Neither of them was anything special, but I suppose I would have to make do until I went to the small again.

Once I had my bikini on, I stood and looked at myself in the mirror. The gray against my tanned skin looked actually quite nice, and I was happy to see that my top half didn’t look like a boys. I turned around and tied the strings of it behind my neck and back. I had definitely lost a bit of weight from my hips, although there wasn’t much to lose. In my opinion, it was my face that was too chubby. After one lat pose in the mirror I slipped the dress and shorts on, and started work on my hair. I rubbed some curling moose into it, so that I would have long wavy curs that still looked natural, and tied half up. I put on a little eyeliner and some pink lip gloss and decided I was done, stuffing my phone into my pocket.

Beep Beep. Beep Beep.

I heard just as I reached the bottom of my stairs. I pulled out my phone to see Declan was calling me.

“Hey, beautiful.” He greeted me, bringing a smile onto my face.

“Hey Dec. What time we setting off to the beach?” I asked realising that nobody had yet told me.

“Well everyone’s there, so whenever you’re ready to go.” He told me. I told him I was ready now and would be outside in a second. Quickly hanging up and leaving Marissa note telling her where I’d gone. No doubt she was still in bed hungover so I locked the door as I left the house. Greeting Declan with open arms when he crept up behind me.

I gave a quick kiss on the cheek, but he pulled me in to give me a long, passionate kiss on the lips that left me wanting more. I smiled at him and stood beside his car waiting for him to open it for me. Once we were both in the car he started the engine and drove towards the beach.

“How’s the hangover now then, drunkie?” He asked laughing at me, and rubbing my knee with his spare hand.

“Completely gone, thank God! I’m telling you, dealing with a hangover that bad and having to listen to Marissa’s terrible singing AND trying to sober her up is one of the hardest things that I had ever had to do!” I laughed, but seriously she was pretty damn drunk.

“Oh trust me I know, I’ve had to lay in bed and hear her and my mum drunk out of their heads singing ’Meatloaf ‘songs!” He said pretending to cringe and shaking his head. I just laughed along with the picture of the two of them in my head.

“Oh, my mum asked me earlier if I would l look after Will over night one day this week so that they could go to some school reunion or something, I said yeah obviously, and she said that you could stay over if you like?” He looked at me waiting for my answer. “Williams no problem to look after, he only reads books and goes to bed early so you wouldn’t need to really help look after him, it would just give me a bit of company while everyone was out.” He said suddenly looking a little shy. There was a light blush on his cheeks and I couldn’t help but smile. He was so adorable!

“Yeah of course. I love William, he’s so cute!” I told him smiling, although inside butterflies were flapping their wings like crazy. I knew nothing was going to happen with his little brother upstairs, but still the idea of us alone made my mind race.

“Fantastic!” He said squeezing my leg and beaming. I just sat and smiled at him, he had a smile that showed off his perfectly white teeth, and could surely charm anyone.

We pulled up the beach car park a few minutes later and jumped out of the car, ending our conversation. I looked around and could already see the group of people sat messing about on the sand. Bradley looked up to see us coming and waved, which me and Declan both returned. We walked hand in hand over to them.

I was greeted by Ali and Jaz first by hugs, and then by everyone else. Maliki called me a Call of Duty queen which made me laugh. Guys were obsessed sometimes with their video games, so I know I had done good to earn that title, no matter how stupid it sounded. Declan pulled a towel out of the bag he was carrying and laid it down, patting the space in front of him for me to sit with him. We all spoke for a while, mostly about today’s plans how drunk everyone got at the party. I was quite surprised to hear nothing about Chloe, but I guess she was old news now which I was pretty grateful of. After half an hour or so I was laid on the beach towel in my bikini sunbathing with the girls, while the boys were off surfing. We gossiped for ages about Chloe, who had apparently said that she wanted Maliki back, but he told her to get lost (In much worse words though!). Deep down I did feel kinda bad that I caused them to break up, but when I told Ali and Jaz that they said it wasn’t my fault. Chloe had been like it with all other new girls in the group and everyone had gotten bored of it pretty quickly. Nevertheless though I still felt bad for her, I wondered if the tables were turned would I react the same?

I let the though drop from my head though when I saw Declan jobbing towards us in nothing but his swimming trunks. I did try my best not to look at him, but he looked so hot! Water was still trickling down his perfect six-pack and his messy hair made him look irresistible. I bit on my lip and looked away, knowing that I was blushing.

“Hey, I got you all some ice cream, seen as though Maliki through a huff when I pushed him off the board and asked for one. Seriously he’s like a little kid!” He told us handing each one of us an ice cream. I was kinda sad though, the sun had made them all melt a bit. We all said thank you and smiled at him. Mmmmm...Ice cream i though as I started to lick it from dripping onto my hands.

When I saw Brad running towards us, I secretly hoped that he had bought us all another. Although there was no such luck as he just grabbed Ali and ran with her into the sea. She came back up from under the water and splashed him laughing. They were such a cute couple and anyone could tell that they were in love. I looked over to Declan was waved at me smiling; I blew him a kiss and laughed at Jaz as she made a gagging noise.

“Hey sexy, was that kiss for me?” Asked a horrible sleazy voice. I looked up and raised my eye brow at the boy standing in front of me. His two friends behind him were laughing and looked at them like they were idiots too. The dumbass who said it was now staring down at me with a dopey grin on his face. He must have been about my age, and was probably only as tall as me too. He had no definition to his pasty white body, and had a hair cut that his mum must have done.

“No, it wasn’t. It was for my boyfriend right over there- see.” I said pointing towards Declan noticing that he was watching what was going on and seemed to be making his way over to us. I looked at Jaz who had a disgusted look on her face, and secretly wished that Ali was here to tell them to get lost for us.

“Well maybe you have a kiss for my friend then?” He said grabbing his crotch, making his friends burst out laughing. Jaz let out a ‘Ewww’ noise, whereas I jumped up to my feet and grabbed my things. I told Jaz that we would go sit further down the beach and she joined me in walking. That was until the guy grabbed my arm and spun me around.

Instinctively I put my ice cream hard into his face and tried to wriggle free of his surprisingly tight grip. When I couldn’t though I kicked him as hard as I could in the groin, although I hurt my foot a lot I don’t think it made that much pain for him as he only winched and groaned before shouting abuse at me. His grip on my arm had gotten stronger and was sending shooting pains up my arm. Jaz was even shouting at him to let go but all I could manage to say was “My freakin’ arm!”

He did let go though, only when Declan punched him hard in the face. Hard as well might I add. The smashing noise from it made me cringe and I was sure he had broken the boy’s nose, although I didn’t feel bad for him. The boys friends bolted from behind him and ran as fast as they could onto the road and around a corner. The boy who had grabbed my arm however was on the floor holding his bleeding nose. Declan was at my side within a second making sure I was okay- I lied and told him I was fine even though there was a huge red mark on my arm that hurt like hell.

“Guys we should go- I’m pretty sure that his mates rang the cop.” Maliki told us and we all started walking back to our cars. Everyone was around me making sure I was alright, even Bradley gave me hug, which I though strange since he hadn’t spoken much before. But all the same I thought it was really sweet how they were all trying to comfort me.

“Where we going people?” Declan asked we were about to get in his car, Ali and Jaz were in with Bradley and Maliki was riding with us. I did offer him the front seat but he told me he was cool with riding in the back. Declan made a rude joke at that but I just kept my mouth shut and tried not to giggle. After a few minutes discussion we decided to get a takeaway pizza and hit the skate park.

We all climbed out of the car and into the pizza place. Me,Ali and Jaz were all going to share a four cheese pizza because I didn’t want anything over the top and Ali was a vegetarian. The boys ordered two meat feast pizzas for the three of them to share, and I wondered how they could eat so much.

We drove to the skate park, well Declan didn’t drive as much as he should have done, he kept telling me to grab the wheel as he