The best pool party I’ve ever seen

"And it seems the young new couple is here now!" I heard a man say as the girls walked out in front of us.

We walked out after the girls made it down the steps and I could hear applause and see cameras flashing.

"It seems the girls have a little special something planned for us, they're wearing cover-ups!" The man announced as King and I waved and smiled, then made our way to the end of the pool where the group was waiting with no one other than maids around them, and cameras, of course.

"That was perfect! Em, you're a natural. Lira is red!" Kayla embraced me as I sat down. I looked around and saw Lira, she was looking at me with her face red and her mouth hanging open. 1-me, 0-black barbie-doll striper.

"Let's chill over here a bit and take some selfies, then show the whole 6th grade what they've been waiting for." Kayla said, pulling out her phone and handing it to a maid. She posed and I heard the phone click.

We all got up and joined her, squeezing in tight because 8 in one photo is a tight squeeze. After 10 minutes of photo taking and playing, it was time to shine.

"Alright girls, I think it's about time to hit the water." Kayla smiled.

"Guys, you can join us if you like." Kayla dismissed them with her hand. We all simultaneously unzipped our cover-ups and the boys took off their shirts.

"The girls have gone all out today, and the new member seems to be the star of this show." The man announced as we stepped into the pool. Lira was still on her sun chair.

"Oh, no. Em, stay your butt in the shallow end. I refuse to see your hair get wet like on Wednesday." Kayla commanded me.

"She's fine, we'll wash her hair afterward." King reassured Kayla and grabbed my hand to pull me in.

"Actually, I don't do swimming." I took my hand away from King.

"What do you mean? You were underwater Wednesday." King said.

"I was running underwater, there's a fine line between running and swimming." I told him.

In the next second, I felt my body fall forward and into the water.

"Omg, Lira, you bitch!" I heard a slapping sound and a splash close to mine when I fell. I stood up and coughed out all the water I could.

"Em, you good?" King asked as he patted my back.

"Ye-yea.. I'm-" I was still catching my breath when I saw a short-haired Lira rise from the water and pounce on Kayla.

"Omg!" I screamed as I saw them both submerge under the water. I grabbed at Lira's back and pulled, but I accidentally tore the straps of her swimsuit off.

"Ahh!" I heard her scream as her head popped out of the water.

"That whore tore my swimsuit!" Kayla wormed from under Lira.

"Must have been cheap then you slut!" Kayla grabbed King and me and forced us out of the pool. The girls and guys did the same. A maid came forth with a towel, but I held my hand out to stop her.

"She started it, it's her fault. Let her suffer." I said and Kayla nodded in agreement. I saw Lira look around while holding up her straps.

"I think you ripped some of the back of the swimsuit too." Kayla giggled.

"I've got to find out what kind of material that is to stay far away from it." She turned to me and laughed, then snapped her finger and the maid went to Lira with the towel.

Lira got out of the pool, face flushed red and lots of eyes on her, Kayla and I just laughed. I could tell King didn't want to influence us, but nonetheless, he laughed anyway.

"It seems something spicy went down, but the question is, who is the victim? It seems King's ex, Miss Lira La Minister, pushed Miss Emmelyn Cree, but she seems to have come out unscathed, and Miss La Minister has had her swimsuit ripped. Let's see what the public says about this!" My laughing stopped all at once.

"Oh, no. I'm not coming out of this the predator." I wrung out my hair and walked towards the announcer man.

"Hello, sir. I see you are confused about what just happened." I started to speak to the announcer.

"Miss La Minister pushed me face-first into the water, as we saw. Kayla, my dear friend, avenged me and slapped Miss La Minister. She must have been weak or unready for the slap because she fell back into the water." I informed him as the camera faced me.

"Miss La Minister came from the water and pounced right onto Makayla. Of course, my first thought was 'she's going to drown her', so I tried to pull her off and accidentally caught hold of her swimsuit." I sounded so innocent, for a second, I believed myself. Honestly, I didn't think anything and just acted.

"Now you know the truth, call who you may the predator and the prey." I smiled at him, then the camera, then walked back to Kayla and King who looked dumbfounded.

"What did you just do girl?!" Kayla practically screamed at me.

"I confronted those nosy bystanders. Now, those chocolate muffins look divine. I'm going to go have some." I walked towards the snack table that was crowded with other students.

Some clapped, some whispered, some smiled. I ignored the whispers and focused on the claps and smiles. Apparently, sugary sweetness doesn't go to the core with that girl and people knew.

I took a chocolate muffin and bit into it, it was delicious. It wasn't too warm but it wasn't cold. It had melted chocolate in it, it was the best dessert I'd ever had, even better than hot chocolate and that's saying something!

I moaned at the flavor once I took a single bite and downed the muffin.

"Man, I didn't know girls were so fond of chocolate." I heard a voice behind me and I turned around.

"Oh, Ty, hi!" I covered my mouth as I talked, it was full of chocolate, and licked my fingers as I swallowed it.

"Sorry for what Lira did to you. She can be a royal bitch sometimes." Ty apologized.

"It's fine, as long as none of us came out hurt." I said.

"Uh." He pointed to some peeling skin on my arm that I didn't notice.

"Oh, that's just a little scrape, I'll be fine." I reassured him, grabbing a gummy bear and dipping it in the chocolate fountain. Don't judge, it's good.

"With a sweet tooth like that, you're bound to have at least 5 cavities." He commented as I filled a bowl of gummy bears and drowned them in chocolate.

"My mom used to let me eat candy for breakfast at the beginning of 5th grade, after that, I stopped having any belly-aches for candy and haven't had a cavity my whole life." I announced, picking up a gummy bear and biting its head off.

"Lucky, I wish my mom would let me eat candy for breakfast." Ty reached for one of my gummy bears and inspected it before popping it into his mouth.

"Oh, wow. This is good." He said.

"I already know that." I rolled my eyes, finishing off my bowl.

"I wonder if they have any pretzels." I looked around and saw them next to a bowl of M&M's.

I rushed over to them and dumped a few handfuls into my bowl and went to drown them in white chocolate, opposite of the regular chocolate fountain. There was dark chocolate too off in a corner.

"Okay, maybe not a cavity, but you've got to have diabetes." He said, watching me dig into my chocolate-covered pretzels, one of my favorite forms of chocolate after pure chocolate.

"No, but my grandma does. She still eats whatever though. She is not a fan of pure chocolate, she likes chocolate with peanuts in it." I said, munching on one of the pretzels.

"I'm sure you're going to follow in her footsteps soon enough." Ty watched me finish the bowl and go in for chocolate-covered strawberries, the delicious cliche.

"Won't stop me from eating my chocolate though." I admitted, starting on the last desert before the barbeque. Yep. Apparently, there was going to be a barbeque that I was subconsciously invited to yet was told nothing about.