28: Volleyball

"Lyv, Angelo, wake up,"

They were still asleep beside me. We all are. I can't deal with the alarm clock we set last night. I'm hearing it until my dream.

"Hmm?" Lyv just faced the other side, groaning.

I sat on the bed and saw how Angelo embraced Lyv's waist, "Wake up!" I shake them up, half asleep.

"5 minutes," Angelo said, burying more of his face on Lyv's back.

I let my body fall back to sleep, and savor my embrace on the pillow. I don't even know why we set an alarm last night, and why they are sleeping in my room. We looked like Fishes in a can.

Someone knocked on the door, and I opened half vision of mine, "Sue! Peter's outside,"

Peter? Outside? My work? No. I think something else.

"Lyv! Hurry up. We're leaving!"

In a panic, I got up from the bed with full energy, and I think I kicked Angelo's back, and it made him scream.

"Ouch!"

"What?"

"Get up, Lyv," I said, beating her with a pillow.

She removed Angelo's embrace while he turned on the other, "We're leaving?" she asked, sitting on the bed.

"That's why when I wake up, my back feels wet, and my shirt's wet," Lyv complained, carrying our luggage down the stairs.

When we reached outside, there were Peter and his friends outside a van. They were playing while waiting for us.

They picked up our luggage from us and put it behind the van, while Lyv's face uplifted.

"Who's this guy?" she pointed at one of Pete's friends.

I've seen them around, but I don't even know their names, except for Carter. I know him by the bracelet I noticed he wears every time. The other one seems to have fair-light skin.

They shut the trunk and stopped in front of us, "This is Carter and Isac," Pete introduced, pointing to each of them by their name.

"I'm sitting beside Isac," Lyv whispered to me before going inside first.

So, Lyv stayed in the passenger since Isac sat in the driver's seat. She almost argues with Carter, but with one glare from her, he let her. He also tried sitting beside me, but Peter switched his seat from the back to here. Carter ends up beside Angelo.

"All good?" Isac asked, looking in the rear mirror.

I nod at him, and I don't know about the others. Lyv also.

My elbow was resting on the window when I felt his head on my shoulder., "What about Mark and his girlfriend?" he asked with eyes shut.

"They're going on their own," I replied.

I remembered that we're going to a private resort, invited by Mark since it's Mika's birthday tomorrow. And he said, he promised her to have a week off from work to celebrate it with her.

Before Isac started the engine, Peter was fast asleep on my shoulders.

"Did you stay up all night?" I asked myself while I fixed his position and made him sleep in my lap.

THE AMBIENCE OF THE PLACE was peaceful before we stepped out of the lobby. It felt like home, calm. It didn't take us the whole morning to arrive here.

There aren't a lot of people in the resort, the staff is all dressed in the same uniform, so I can distinguish them.

As soon as we step out of the lobby, I had a glimpse of the beach and sand, white sand, while we were walking to our villa.

Lyv and Angelo stayed with me in one house, and the guys stayed in the other house. They had energies with them, and I'm still feeling sleepy after I was disturbed in the van.

"Let's go!" Lyv was pulling me from the bed.

"Look at the view, Sue. Come on," Angelo said, opening the curtains and the sun rays hit my face.

"Fine. Wait,"

I heard the door of our villa open, and I stayed for a minute in the bed before walking with them outside. I took my bag with me since they were carrying their own also.

The boys were going out of their villa too. And Peter caught up with me, placing his arm on my shoulder, letting me rest on his chest.

But Lyv saw us and pulled me from him, "Enough, lovebirds. I'm taking her,"

We stopped under a tent, resting on the sands. We placed our bag on the table, and Lyv started running in the sand, pulling me with her. But I saw Mark and Mika walking out of the lobby.

I waved my arms for them to notice us. Mark nodded at me and went to the villa with Mika first.

"Who is it?"

"Mark and Mika, they're here,"

She nods at my reply. Angelo starts playing with the sand, it feels unreal for him to see white sand for the first time in his life. While I take a pic of leave and used the ocean and sky as her background while the wind was swaying her hair in one direction.

"Your turn,"

"I don't want to,"

"Come on. For Instagram,"

I rolled my eyes and exchanged position with her. She took her phone and took a picture of me with the waves. She even commanded me what to pose and where should I stand next.

"Okay, that's enough. I had enough, Lyv," I turned the camera down on me.

"I'll send this to you. Post this on your IG, or else I'm going to do it," my phone started beeping.

They were here already with the boys. And Mika came running to me.

"Hi,"

"Hey,"

I kept her in my embrace since she won't let me go. I sat, and she sat beside me, she looked tired. Maybe academics.

"LET'S PLAY VOLLEYBALL,"

LYV INVITED AFTER seeing a ball and began dribbling the ball on the sand.

"Game!" Angelo shouted.

"I don't know how to play," I said.

"It's just a friendly game, Sue," Lyv winked at me.

"Boys vs. Girls!" she shouted, throwing the ball to my face, but I managed to catch it before it hit me.

"Boys are outnumbered, it's 5 vs. 3," Isac said.

"Hey! I'm Team Girls!" Angelo defends, "You see," he's game.

"Just keep hitting the ball, and it's our point if you ever let the ball hit the sands,"

We nodded at Lyv's instruction. We stand beside our tent. My team surrounds me while the other guys are on the other side. Cart and Isac started stretching their arms, Peter starts bending his head to the side, and Mark cracked his knuckles.

I'm excited to see how Mark and Peter play. I have never seen them played before.

Lyv makes herself ready that was standing on my left while Angelo couldn't stop threatening Isac with his eyes while preparing himself.

"Okay, set," Lyv started.

I hold the ball and step back to spike it to the other team.

They manage to serve it back to us, "Lyv!"

"Angelo!"

He jumped to serve it back, which led to Isac.

"Sue,"

I kept my watch on where the ball was headed, but I end up digging my face into the sand, as much as I tried to prevent it from hitting the ground.

"Sorry," I said to Mika, who helped me get up.

I shake my head to Peter when he's supposed to run to me. I smiled and tried to wipe off the sands on my arm.

"Just a friendly game, Sue. No sweats, " Mika said.

"1, 0," Cart announced.

The ball was on the boys, so Peter spiked it to us, which led to Angelo.

"Angelo!"

"Sue!"

This time I served the ball to their side, and Isac and Cart ended up bumping their shoulders to each other, so Mark caught it for them.

"Angelo--Lyv!"

He spikes it back way too strong that I don't know where it leads. Luckily, Lyv managed to serve it, and we scored!

"1,1,"

We scored the next set, and again, and again. The boys manage to catch up, but only one point. It's our last round. I'm getting exhausted, and so Lyv.

Isac spiked the ball, and Angelo jumped high, able to serve back the ball. It almost hit Mark's face, but they managed to serve it back to us, Mika caught it, and it was Isac's turn. I serve it back to them, and Pete hit it returned to Angelo, and it's Carter's turn.

Lyv followed the ball up in the air to where it is going to land. She stopped moving and waited for the ball. But it hit right into her face, causing her nose to bleed.

"Shit," Carter came running to Lyv.

We surrounded her as she lay on the sand.

"Lyv, are you okay?"

"Am I bleeding?" she asked, eyes shut.

"Not that bad," Angelo and Mika answered her.

"Okay,"

She stood up without us assisting her, "I'm fine, I'll just go back to the villa,"

I saw how she glared at Carter, holding her nose, lifting it to stop from bleeding. I didn't expect Carter to follow her, they're like arguing.

"Are you fine?" Peter asked me.

"Yeah, I just got sand all over my arms," I chuckled.

My arms are covered in sands. I keep falling to the sand while we're playing. He went back to the tent, and give me a towel. He's wiping the sand off me, but I get it from him.

"Thanks, "

"Are you going back to the villa?"

"I think of going around in the resort," I replied, "Do you mind?"

"I don't,"