Fifteen

Hi! It’s Marley.

SCHOOL IS OUT! I’m at the beach with my family. My parents are too strict and wouldn’t let my sister go to beach week with the rest of her grade. I don’t know why she was thinking they would let her. I mean, I guess she is already eighteen, and she’s leaving for college at the end of the summer, but still. Anyway, the deal was she wouldn’t go, but that my parents would take her to the beach somewhere else.

But, anyway, this week we’re at the beach in a house my parents rented. Collins got to bring her best friend, her boyfriend, and his best friend. I got to bring Kendall, too because I’m sure Collins didn’t want me hanging out with her friends. It’s been fun, there’s ocean and beach on one side of the house, and the sound backs up to the other, so we can go kayaking whenever we want. Although we did that today, and Collin’s boyfriend flipped me and Kendall out of our kayak and Kendall cut the bottom of her foot on the clam shells that line the bottom. Then we couldn’t get our kayak flipped back over and it was full of water so it was so hard and no one would help us.

The neighbors in the house beside us are a bunch of older married people in their thirties, and they’re having some kind of bachelorette party or something, but they’re always really loud and trashed every night. But last night we were hanging out in our yard and we noticed that they keep their coolers full of beer on the outdoor porch. The boys have already been experimenting with climbing up our front porch just for fun and so when all of the neighbors went inside Collin’s boyfriend climbed up the wood porch and stole some of the beer from them. It was SO funny, but I was so worried he would get caught up on their porch. Of course, my sister wouldn’t let me of Kendall have any of the beer, so she’s lucky I didn’t tell on her. I wouldn’t do that though, because her and her best friend think that Kendall and I met some boys at the pool and we’ve been “sneaking around” with them. Sometimes if one of us leaves our phones around we catch them snooping through the messages. So I got the brilliant idea to change Kendall’s number in my contacts so when she texts me I looks like a boys name. SO now we’ve been texting each other, and I purposely leave my phone on the bed while I’m showering or whatever and they think they’re reading messages from me and my new beach boyfriend. But today, Collins said we couldn’t go to the beach with them. So we said we were meeting up with our boyfriends, but we really just stayed at the house. But then they were coming back, and we had to hurry and run out the back yard before they saw us. Only problem was it was a field full of these little sticky balls that literally puncture your skin and neither of us grabbed shoes on our way out. We were running and then we got too far in and they were everywhere and it was so painful EVERY step we took. We were cracking up in the middle of this field in so much pain and Kendall made me PIGGY BACK her out of them because she already hurt her stupid foot on the clam shells. It was WAY too much work for a fake beach boyfriend. Anyway, it’s probably time to retire the beach boyfriends because we leave to go back home tomorrow.

Anyway, that’s all for now.

Hi! It’s Marley.

I’m home from the beach, but I’m still sunburned! And today I spent the day at the lake with Kendall’s family (as if we haven’t been around each other for a full straight week) on their boat. I probably wouldn’t have gone along this time, but Cole was going too, and I haven’t seen him since before the beach. Of course, he’s probably only going to flirt with Kendall, but I would do anything to spend even a little time with him. Even if there’s other people around. It’s not like he ignores me, but he doesn’t have the same flirty comebacks when he talks to me. It was still fun though, we went tubing, and knee boarding. Though I was so excited this time because they have two tubes for the boat, one is huge and shaped like a couch and holds several people, but the other is a small disc shaped one that you have to lay down on. So, if another person has to go with you, they kind of have to lay on top of you. Thankfully I guess we are close enough for him to not to even think twice about it, but we rode that way so many times. He would just flop down on top of me, and we would giggle every time we went over bumps. I tried to look coordinated and sporty in my bikini (and unfortunate life jacket), but I think I face planted at least once off the tube. And a few times he pulled my bottoms down when we slid off the back, LUCKILY never all the way off that they got lost, but still. And then on the car ride home we were all packed in the back of the SUV laying across each other for comfort. It was nice with his head in my lap. He just got a buzz cut and I like to rub my hands over it. I guess it felt good for him too because he fell asleep for most of the drive. I can’t help it, I just like being next to him.

Anyway, that’s all for now.

Hi! It’s Marley. It’s Marley.

Me and Cole spent the morning at the pool where he lifeguards, and then we went to his house after. His mom or step dad weren’t home when we got there, so we went upstairs and we ended up in his bed together. I mean, we were just watching TV, there was nothing going on. But I had slipped under his comforter because I was freezing and still kind of wet in just my bikini so there was a considerable amount of our skin touching. I was teasing him by rubbing my legs on him, because I didn’t shave today and they’re really prickly. I do it all the time because he’s so funny about leg hair, and I could not care less if they’re smooth or not. Sometimes if my legs are near him and I’m wearing a skirt or shorts or something, he reaches his hand over and runs it up my leg just to see if I shaved or not. He always makes this cute little grossed out face, and shakes his hands after he touches them like it felt gross. But then I guess his mom came home, and she walked in on us. He doesn’t ever like me around his parents really. I’ve met them both, and since they are divorced, he spends equal time at both. I’m very friendly, and for the most part they know who I am and that I’m with him a lot. But today after I left, Cole told me that is mom had said we weren’t supposed to be in the bed like that, especially because she thought we didn’t have clothes on. He told her I had a bikini on, I guess it didn’t look that way because he only had his board shorts on. But she apparently was not very happy. Even his own mother thinks he’s hooking up with me, and he’s even told me before that when I leave she’s always asking if we are together, and what we are always doing upstairs. Once he said she even asked him in a snooty tone what his girlfriend thought about him spending so much time alone with me. I mean I would probably as him the same, it does look pretty saucy. I kind of get a kick out of it, though.

Anyway, that’s all for now.