Chapter 25

"Well maybe if you weren't up all night, you wouldn't be so tired." Alli said to me. "You were up late?" Angie asked. "We went out with Jake and Jasmin." I smiled. "Jake got back around eleven." Chantrel, Jake's mom, pointed out. A playful smirk appeard on Alli's face. "You know when you just sit up all night talking? It was one of those nights." I lied. "Talking." Alli repeated.

"Alli!" I looked at her with wide eyes. She burst out laughing. "Oh I see, talking." Chantrel winked at me. I laid back in the sand and covered my face. "Is that why my son has scratches on his back?" "I don't know what you're on about." I smiled innocently at Angie and watched the boys as they all walked up the beach.

"Cody, turn around." Alli grinned at him. "Why?" He looked between us all. "They're talking about scratches." Lilly told him. "So..? Oh." He realized as he locked eyes with me. Jake stepped back and looked at him before smirking at me. "Good night, huh?" "Jake, can I talk to you actually?" I jumped up and pulled him away without giving him a choice.

"He's that good, aye?" "Shut up." I hit him. "Ow!" "Well then." "What do you want?" "Did you kiss her?" "It's clear that Cody kissed you." He winked. I rolled my eyes and hit him again. "Okay! Okay! No I didn't." He stared at the sand. "Why not? I thought you were all set." "But then you popped into my head." "Huh?" "The way you showed me. There was too much sexual tension and I couldn't get it out of my head." "Jake!" I blammed.

"I'm sorry!" "You're gonna have to take her out again tonight and do it." "I'm not rich like your boyfriend. I can't afford to go out every night." "Take her to see a movie. Just do something because sooner or later she'll give up. You need to kiss her and you need to do it right." "I don't like you being here. Get out of my country." "You're funny." I rolled my eyes.

"And think of it this way.. The sooner you get the kiss out of the way, the sooner your back can match Cody's." I smiled and walked back to the others. "Come in the ocean with meee." I pulled on Cody's hand. "I've just come out." "Please." I pouted. "You're lucky you're cute." He sighed and let me pull him.

"You guys don't want any food?" Mom called after us. "Later." Cody spoke over his shoulder and wrapped an arm around my waist. "How was the surf?" "Good. The water's warm." "And there's no sharks?" "Took them all out for you." He grinned which made me laugh.

"Is that Jasmin?" I noticed a girl who looked a lot like her. "I dunno." Cody looked over to where I was looking. "I think it is." He said. "Jake!" I shouted, he turned around and looked at me and so did Jasmin. "Your girlfriend's over there!" I pointed with a massive grin. They looked for each other and then noticed each other. "Come in the ocean with us?!" Jake nodded and they both started walking.

"He's gonna kill you for that." Cody laughed as I wrapped my arms back around his neck. "Pretty much everyone turned around." I giggled and kissed his lips repeatedly. "You're a very pretty boy." I said before planting more kisses on his lips.

"Not interrupting anything, are we?" Jake's voice broke us apart. "Nope." I smiled. "You're dead, you know that?" He raised an eyebrow. "But Jasmin is your girlfriend." I shrugged. They both looked at each other awkwardly. "Shall we do races?" Cody stood up and dropped me in the water. I stood up too and nodded.

"Okay, you see that building?" He pointed to the tallest one and we all nodded. "The first one to be in line with that building wins." He proposed. "I'm gonna win." I grinned and started going deeper as we were only up to our waist. Jasmin followed me and the boys followed behind.

"You're smallest so you're shallowest." Jake positioned me. "And then you." He positioned Jasmin before standing next to her. "Look at you guys, standing next to each other and shit." Cody cooed which made me laugh. "Dude," Jake glared at him. "Hmm?" Cody acted like he'd said nothing. "Stop." "I'm smaller than you." "Tough." He said.

"Okay! On three!" Jasmin stopped their squabbling. "One.. Two.. Th-" "Can I join in?" Alli's voice interrupted us. "Sure, you come next to me because you're small." I pulled her. "I'm taller than you." She laughed. "You guys ready for this?" Cody asked. "Okay, you count it down." Jake said to him and he nodded.

Jake and Cody won by far although they've been arguing about who won out of them for the last twenty minutes. "Boys!" Angie finally snapped. "I won! Come on, Mom. We all know that I'm the better swimmer. I could have been in the olympics." Cody said arrogantly. "Oh wow." I rolled my eyes. "So modest." Cara laughed.

"Jake's just a sore loser." "I won and you know it!" "You didn't!" "I did!" "Guys! Shut up." "No." Cody said to me while biting into his burger. "I'm just gonna sit between you and hit one of you whenever you say something." Alli got up and sat between the two boys.

"Are they always like this?" Jasmin asked. "They like a bit of healthy competition." I giggled as I watched them stare each other out. "You got any siblings?" I turned to look at her. "I have two younger siblings. They're twins." "Boys, girls?" "Both, a boy and a girl." "Cute." I smiled. "How old are they?" Alli asked.

"9." "How many years bigger than you is that?" Cody asked Lilly as he pulled her onto his lap. "Umm.." Cody held up his fingers for her to use while she counted. "Two?" She finally gave her answer. "Well done." He kissed her head. "Can you take me into the ocean now?" "Let your food go down." He told her.

"She's so sweet." Jasmin watched Cody and Lilly. "Does your little sister get on with Jake?" "She loves him." "That's good." "But they don't have the relationship Cody and Lilly have." "Lilly grew up with Cody." "True." She nodded. "I've gotta be home in ten minutes." She said as she checked her phone.

"I'll walk you." Jake got up and helped Jasmin to her feet. "Such a gentleman." I smiled. "Oh please." Cody rolled his eyes. "Shut up." Jake and I said at the same time which made Lilly and Poppy giggle. Jake and Jasmin left and Cody took Poppy and Lilly to the ocean with Tom and Kipp.

"You guys are gonna be alone tonight." Alli said to me. "How come?" "Charlie wanted me to sleep at hers." "I don't wanna be alone with him." I groaned. "Why?" "Hormones and shiz." "Huh?" "Horny hormones." "Well I arrived at the wrong time." Trey sat down next to me. Alli and I laughed with each other.

"We weren't talking about us." "No, you were talking about not wanting to be alone with Cody because of his hormones." "You gotta stop listening to my conversations." I laughed a little. "You can always come chill with us tonight." He offered. "I can handle Cody." "I didn't ask if you can handle him." He said which made Alli laugh.

"That's disgusting." I scrunched my nose. "Sure.." "Can we move away from this subject now?" I sighed. "I think it's cute how much Lilly adores him." Alli watched everyone playing in the ocean. Lilly and Cody were splashing each other. Lilly's smile was clear on her face.

"It's something else." I watched as well. Cara sat down next to me. "Hey, Cara. Hey, Bump." "What are we looking at?" She observed that we were all watching something. "Cody, Tom, Kipp, Lilly and Poppy." I said.

By the time we got back to the hotel it was around eight. I was sat with Cara in the living room of mine and Cody's apartment. "Have you thought of names yet?" "Not really. We've thrown things around." "Like what?" "For a girl, Trey likes Sophie, Chloe and Mckenzie while I like Grace and Arianna." "I like Mckenzie and Arianna." I smiled.

"What about boys?" I wondered. "I like the names Logan, Jayden and Liam where as Trey likes Charlie, Dylan, Carter and Joshua." "I like the name Logan." I nodded. "Trey doesn't." "You're never gonna name this kid, are you?" I giggled.

"What would your names be?" "I want three children and I know their names too." I grinned. "Oh boy.. Hit me with it?" She prepared herself. "Don't tell Cody because he might freak out." I said which made her laugh. "Like I said, I want three children. A boy first and then two little girls, I want the boy to be older like Trey is to me but then the girls would be closer together, so they can be like friends and get along really well." I painted the picture.

"I want to name the boy, Riley." "Why Riley?" "I always liked it." I shrugged. "And then I want the first girl to be Georgia and the second to be Jazmyn." I finished. "They're beautiful names." "They are. I had Jazmyn picked out since I was little, I named my first dolly Jazmyn." I grinned. "That's so sweet!" She cooed me.

"Shh. Cody's coming." I shushed her when I heard the bedroom door open. "What's up, ladies?" Cody sat on the couch with us. "We're just talking about our futures." Cara smiled. "Oh yeah? Like what?" He became intrigued. "Bump's names." I said. "Trey and I were talking about that earlier. On the way back here." "You were?" Cara sat up.

"Yeah. He was saying the types of names he liked." "You ever thought of children?" She asked. I hit her. "What?!" "Stop." I warned. Cody laughed at me. "I haven't thought about that." He shook his head. "Lau-" "I think it's time for you to go now." I got up and pulled Cara to her feet. "I wasn't going to say anything." She laughed while walking to the door.

"Say anything about what?" "Nothing!" I smiled. Cody watched me suspiciously. "Have a safe walk across the hall." I grinned and closed the door once Cara had opened her's. "You want some dinner?" I asked. Cody nodded and followed me into the kitchen. "Okay, pup. You don't have to be that close." I laughed at him.

"Whatcha gonna make me?" He watched me look through the fridge. "Make me a curry." "No, not something that big." "Yeah.. I want a curry." "How old are you?" I giggled. "I'm seventeen and I want my baby to make me a nice dinner." Cody spun me around and wrapped his arms around my waist before leaning me against the fridge.

"If you want curry this can't happen." I broke my lips away from his. "Maybe I'm not so hungry." He smirked and started to lean in again. "No, come on." I pushed him away and reopened the fridge. "I'm gonna take a shower." "Okay." I smiled and let him walk out.

After dinner I took a shower and dried myself before going into the bedroom. "Oh, hi, Lil." I smiled at her. "Mommy and Daddy went to dinner with Brad and Angie." "Yeah. So we're staying with you guys." Tom said while climbing onto the bed with Cody and Lilly. "Okay. Have you eaten?" "Yeah." They both nodded.

"Movies, yeah?" I said while looking through my suitcase. "I wanna watch 101 Dalmations." Lilly slid off the bed and crouched next to me. "I've got that." I handed it to her and stood up with a bunch of other movies. "Can we sleep in your bed tonight?" Tom asked me. I looked at Cody. "You can watch the movies in here." He said.

We all laid in the bed and then around the middle of the second movie, Tom and Lilly had already passed out. "I'm gonna take them to bed." Cody got out of bed. "I'll take Lilly." I picked her up and carried her into Alli's room where I settled her down on the bed and tucked her in. Tom was sleeping on the couch, it pulls out into a bed.

"Lauren?" Lilly whispered as I opened the bedroom door. "Yes, sweetie?" I went back and sat next to her body. "Can Coco come and give me a good night kiss?" "I'll just go and get him." I kissed her head and went to find Cody. "Codes, can you go say good night to Lilly?" I went into the bedroom. "Sure." He smiled and got up.