Nessi stumpled out of bed. It had been a long night, Claire was practically telling everyone, especially J, the worst moments of her life ever. She was annoyed and angry.
‘Hey guys’ she said as she stumbled into the kitchen to see Louise, Abs and Scott. ‘Wheres Claire?’ she asked, knowing her luck she probably be in J’s room telling some more equally embarrasing stories. They shrugged. ‘What about Nats?’ she asked as she got some orange juice from the fridge.
‘Shes gone to get something to eat for us, there’s nothing in’ Scott answered
‘Don’t any of you having anything in your room?’ Nessi asked
‘Not unless stale bread takes ya fancy.’ Abs joked. The front door opended
‘Hey guys, I’m back. Anyone miss me?’ Nats asked happily.
‘Sure did, so what you’d get?’ Scott hurried to the carrier bag, he was starving.
‘Well, I’ll teel you what I did find’ she reached in the bag and picked up a newspaper. ‘Look at this’ It was an english paper, with pictures of Abs and Louise splattered over the front page.
‘No way’ exclaimed Abs ‘When was this taken?’
‘Last night by the looks of it, I’ve heard of news travelling fast but this is stupid’ Louise said, then whispered to Natalie ‘My hair looks good though doesn’t it!’ As they ate they laughed about the story, then Claire barged through the door.
‘Oh great’ Nessi sighed under her breath ‘Where have you been then?’
‘I’ve been at the lads apartments actually’ Claire smiled as she knicked the last piece of toast ‘You know, I was with J all last night, what were you doing Vanessa?...actually it doesn’t matter I’m going down to the beach in a bit, see you all later, I’m going to get changed.’ She took Nessi’s orange juice and left. The whole group looked at her in disbelief, had she stayed at the lads apartment last night?
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‘I cannot believe claire’ Natalie said to Scott as they waited for the lift, they were last to leave the appartment, they were heading to the pool, which was only a 5 minute walk from there room. ‘What does she think shes doing, this holiday is turning out worse and worse everyday’ she sighed.
‘Hey, how can it be bad when I’m here.’ Scott joked, then became serious ‘I do know what you meen though, whats Claires problem, can’t she see that J doesn’t like her???’
‘She stayed the night there Scott, J must thinks she’s okay or she’d have chucked her out, I don’t wanna talk about it the whole thing is just too much.’ Scott put his arm around her and they made there way to the pool. Nats had already saved some sunbeds by putting their towels on them that morning.
‘Hey guys’ Louise shouted from the pool, as she saw them approach. She was relaxing on her lilo. Abs was asleep on the sunbed and Nessi was engrosed in a magazine. J was sat pretending to be asleep but kept having a sneaky look at Nessi and Claire was no where to be seen. And god knows where Ritchie and Sean were!!!! They had only seen them a couple of times
Nats dropped her stuff on a vacant sunbed, and put her feet in the pool water.
‘Hey Scott whats this???’ she screamed as he got up
‘What?’ he ran over
‘Nothing, i just had to do this’ she said as she pushed him into the water, but as he fell into the pool he grabbed her arm and Nats fell in to.
‘Serves you right’ Scott said as he surfaced from the water.
‘God, I hate you’ Natalie mocked
‘No, you don’t you love me’
‘Yeh, I do, I love you Scott, I know I’ve only known you for two days, but I love you more then I’ve ever loved anyone else before....and that scares me like hell.’ Scott stared at her then smiled, and pulled her into a hug.
‘Well if it helps I feel exactely the same way, I love you to Nats.’ Then he kissed her.
Ch.8
As Natalie walked to the ice cream palour she was on a complete high, Scott had just told her that he was in love with her, and she was in a gorgeous hot country surrounded by her friends. ‘Maybe this holiday isn’t gonna turn out as bad as I thought’ she whispered to herself. Then she saw Claire, sat on her own with an ice cream sundae. She went over and sat down next to her.
‘Hey Claire’
‘Hiya’ she replied
‘U okay? U look kinda miserable.’
‘No, I’m fine just had a bit of a reality check, thats all i guess.’
‘Oh yeh?’ Nats asked interested. Claire handed her a spoon and they shared the sundae.
‘Yeh, I’ve realised that J doesn’t like me at all, and that I’ve been a horrible person for the past 2 days. No wonder no one likes me.’
‘We do Claire, I must admit, you were being a complete bitch.’ Claire just looked at her ‘I’m only joking. I can just see where your coming from. I’l tell you what, after we’ve ate this why don’t you come back to the pool. We still have about 4 hours of solid sunbathing. What do you reckon?’ Natalie asked, despite what Claire had been like she did feel sorry for her and a ittle guilty she’d not purposly included her in what she was doing.
‘I really don’t think I want to. Anyway hows it going with you and Scott, go on depress me more.’ She laughed
‘Well this morning, he told me that he loved me, great or what?’ Nats giggled as she dipped her spoon into the melting ice-cream.
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‘Hey all, I’m back’ Nats said with Claire trailing behind her.
‘About time too, thought you’d got lost or drowned in some ice-cream or something’ Scott laughed and then looked up ‘Oh, hey Claire’ Nessi looked up from her magazine then went back to reading it.
‘Can I talk to you Nessi?’ Claire asked
‘I don’t really want to’ Nessi answered not looking at her.
‘Well it doesn’t matter coz I’m gonna talk to you anyway.’ The rest of them were all sat listening, Louise had even paddled over to the edge of the swimming pool but was still on her lilo. ‘I’d just like to say that I’m sorry for these past two days, and its only now i’ve realised what I’m acting like, and I wanna add that no lad is worth losing a friend like you for.’ Nessi closed her magazine and looked up at Claire, who was on the verge of tears.
‘I’m sorry too.’ Nessi answered and got up and gave her a hug. A smile appered on everyone elses faces.
But the smiles were soon broken wehen Sean came racing over to them ‘Guys, I need Help’ he shouted ‘Its Ritchie, hes been swept out to sea. I saw his face go under but he’s not come up.’
‘Shit, where is he’ J shouted ‘Just carry on to the end of the beach, the life gurads there looking for him but I need to call the ambulance or something.’ Sean went ran to reception, whilst the rest ran as fast as they could to the beach.