17. Alphabet Mafia

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Bailey's POV:

I slowly turned around seeing my mom stand a few steps behind me. "I said what are you doing?" She repeated, what do I say? What do I say? I've never done this before. "I was thirsty." I lied, "Then why are you being all quiet about it?" She scoffs passing me, "I didn't want to wake you or dad up." But I did anyway. "Hmm okay, just go back to bed." She hums bringing a glass of water back up to their room. That was too close. At least I'm on the stairs and not by the sliding door. I eventually heard them snoring again and I continued my way out of my house.

I slowly slid the door open and I slipped out in the gap that I made, I shut it closed, and luckily the moon was out, just enough light to help me see. I walked towards the gate that leads to the side of the house and I grabbed one of our lawn chairs to help me get over. I landed on the small rocks that surround each house in the neighborhood and I jogged towards the end of my street. A single light blinked twice and I got further till the headlight shined on me, "Took you a bit Beans." I heard Skylar and I crossed my arms walking closer to her bike.

"To be fair, I almost got caught by my mom but I'm here now so is that good enough?" I gave a little attitude. "I'm just joking, hop on. We have a great night ahead of us." She hands me the same helmet as before and of course, she doesn't have one for herself. "So are you going to tell me where we're going?" I ask getting behind her wrapping my arms around her torso, strong torso. "Nope, you're just going to have to wait and see." She chuckles and she drives off, a lot quieter than before, I'm going to take a huge guess and say we're going swimming but there's not a beach in sight in our suburban vast land and I don't have a pool plus there aren't that many places with a pool either besides that one random YMCA.

I kept my head up looking at the houses and street lights passing by. I bet if we did this in a city it would be beautiful. "You okay back there?" Her voice sounded muffled through the helmet. "I'm doing great!" I laughed enjoying that I'm doing something really out of my comfort zone even if it is just going on a late night drive. I don't think she understands how significant this is for me. This is helping so much and I don't think she realizes it. We slowly come to a stop and I look around, we're in a different neighborhood. "What neighborhood is this?" I ask letting going of her to take the helmet off my head.

"We're in one of the rich neighborhoods and this house right here belongs to Mr. John, a stockbroker at some big rich fancy stock firm, dude is loaded and we're going to sneak into his backyard." She gets off her bike pulling a backpack out of the side bag. "Why are we going to sneak into his backyard?" I asked and I hear her chuckle, "Because he has the best pool in the neighborhood now come on but we're going to have to be quiet." She tapped her finger to lips indicating to be quiet and I nod sucking in my lips a little. I got off her bike following her to a large house, bigger than mine, at the corner of the street.

"Okay his fence isn't that tall but I do need to help you climb up unless you already know how to climb over a fence." She looks over her shoulder, "I don't know how to climb anything, when I was younger I used to climb trees but then my parents stopped me every time I tried and eventually I forgot how." That's a part of my childhood I miss. "Sounds like you used to have a pretty adventurous childhood." We stop at a white wooden fence that was like an inch taller than Skylar. "I guess so, I didn't do anything that amazing or adventurous, my parents say I didn't do anything like that if I bring some memories up." I explain.

"That's gaslighting but come on give me your foot, I'll hoist you up and you're going to swing your leg over the top and you're going to sit at the top and wait for me okay?" Gaslighting? I saw her crouch on one knee with her fingers intertwined palms facing the sky. "Uh okay." I swallowed that weird feeling in and I put my foot in her hand, "I'm sorry if I'm heavy." I apologized feeling her push me up, I held onto the top of the fence and I tried to swing my leg over, failing a couple of times but then I got it. I looked overseeing the rectangular pool that stretched the size of the yard, it's huge.

"Okay now once I'm down on the ground, you're going to swing your other leg over and scoot down and fall but I'll be there to catch you." She instructs once more and I nod watching her get down with ease landing on her feet almost silently. "Come on." She whispers and I do as I was told scooting down eventually falling down but my hands ended up holding onto Skylar's shoulders and she held onto my waist. "Good job Beans." She let go and I did too smiling. I've held onto her before but that was the first time she's held onto me. Even her hands are warm but not like clammy warm.

I followed her to the edge of the pool that was lit up by purple LED lights, it's very aesthetic, I love it. She dropped her bag and immediately started to undress. Oh my, I cupped my hand over my eyes giving her privacy, "You can look Beans I know you want to." She teases and I hear her get into the water, "Uh- um- no." I stuttered removing my hand, I can just see her black bikini, she has a nice body. "It's okay you can admit it." She smirks and I quickly shake my head, she can't read my thoughts, right? I hope not. I didn't want to look right? What's wrong with me?

"Come on get in, the water feels great." She floats on her back while I continued to stand. "I think I'm good here." I point at my spot, "Why? The water is a lot more fun." She bounces her eyebrows, "I don't want to get wet." I made an excuse, "Ha that's what she said." She chuckled, I can't believe she made that joke. I tried to keep my laugh in as I sat on the grass that borders the pool, "Come on Beans, I know you want to get in here too." She swims closer to me hanging onto the edge of the pool. "I do want to get in trust me." I'm just self-conscious and insecure, it took me forever just to put my swimsuit on.

"Get in then, it's just you and me, Mr. John is the only one who lives here and he's barely home anyway, he's actually on a business trip right now. I got you." She reassures me with a soft smile that disappears as she dips her head in the water, I want to see it again. "Here, I'll turn around and you can get in when you want to." I see her spin the water and I take a deep breath stripping myself, I've been fine while running in just my spanks and sports bra because I'm a blur when people drive, they don't see much at all. I'm a blur and they can't see the details on my body.

I looked down at my body that's in a dark blue bikini and I immediately covered my lower abdomen. There are so my stretch marks. I was a chubby kid growing up, then my mom noticed the marks on my body, underneath my stomach, my inner thighs, also under my buttcheeks. I've hated them since I discovered them. Skylar still had her back turned and I got into the water, she was right it does feel great. "Can I turn around now?" She laughs, "Yeah." I crossed my arms over my shoulders covering my chest.

"So? You like this?" She asks and I nod moving my legs to keep me afloat. "Can you tell me more about your childhood?" She moves closer to me and I feel my face get warm trying to avoid looking into the water, "You want to know more?" I question, my childhood isn't exciting. "Yeah, I want to know more about young Beans." She smiles and I couldn't help but smile too. "Okay fine but it's only fair if I get to hear about your childhood too, so what do you want to know?" I say, "I don't know, everything, what did you do growing up? How you grew up? How did you know you were a part of the 'alphabet mafia'." She did air quotes.

"Well, I was inside a lot. I had babysitters growing up my parents worked full time and had long hours so I spent a lot of time in my room but I didn't mind it, I was a chubby baby as my parents put it, a belly, and all. Whenever I did go outside it was to run errands with my mom but at school I read a lot and I was in my middle school library hiding in a corner to read in peace and that's where I met Carmen, we've been friends since sixth grade. I wasn't a lonely kid or anything but it probably looked like it from an outside view. My parents are really heavy on me when it comes to school and grades because that's how they grew up, they're only lawyers because that's what their parents, my grandparents, wanted them to be. And they're slowly pushing me to go down that route too." I let go of my shoulder spreading them out to float better.

"Do you want to be a lawyer?" She asks, "No, I never had an interest in being a lawyer. I actually want to either own a bakery or be a librarian because are my passions, I used both of them as an escape. I would bake my stress away and I would be up in the middle of the night making banana bread or something and reading. Reading gave me the adventure, the thrill, the romance, and the danger that I never got to experience." I smile remembering all the times that I smiled because of books. They've been there for me: Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Austen, Hoover, Sin, Silvera, and Scranton. "But what about your favorite book? Pride and Prejudice?" She remembers my favorite book?

"That was the first book that I fell in love with, it's beautifully written especially since it's so old and I fell in love with how the main characters changed the romance game and the status quo. When you understand everything that happens it becomes memorable. And the movie is beautiful too and of course, it's not exactly like the book but there's this scene that's always in my head." I think she would really love that scene too. "Sounds kind of boring, no action, or adventure." She dunks her head in the water and I do too opening my eyes seeing her looking back at me, I blew air into the water creating bubbles and we both reached the surface. I wiped my face and she just blinked a couple of times smiling. How does she look so good all the time?

"It's not boring, some things in life can be interesting in life without needing action." I state and she tilts her head back and forth, "Ehh I think everything in life needs action." She says, "How so?" We have very different points of view.

"Because that's how my life is. I was always in trouble as a kid, constantly getting scolded by my teachers because I swore or didn't listen. My brother, Sage, is really the only permanent person in my life. Even back to my earliest memory, it's only him. My parents, uh- weren't really involved in our life. We were on the run a lot trying to fend for ourselves, Sage put himself between me and danger, then soon Dean, the criminal was a part of that wall that protected me, and then a girl was too. Um then I was alone for a period of time and I had to learn to protect myself and that's when I learned about how thrilling life can be getting into situations of running away from the cops, that almost getting caught feeling and as much as I honestly don't like it, there's an attraction about it. I can't let go of it, it's the thrill of being close to something so bad but getting to be free another day. With the right people, the right surroundings, bad things can feel so good. Like this, sneaking into some rich dude's pool, it feels good." She starts splashing water everywhere and I tried to shield myself which didn't work very well.

There's more to Skylar than just the rebel kind of girl. "Do you ever wish that you could change the way you grew up?" I ask something a little deeper, she paused her movements then sank her body into the water up to her shoulders. "Honestly, no. Even if the world turned upside down, I wouldn't change it. What about you?" She returns the question, "I wouldn't change it either." I replied if it were to change I probably wouldn't be in this pool with her right now. "I see, I see but you still didn't answer all of my questions." She taps the tips of fingers together like what those villains in movies do when they're thinking.

"What did I miss?" I ask, "How did you know you like girls, women, females, milfs?" She bounces her eyebrows again and I dip into the water hoping to escape the question but she follows me trying to catch me but I managed to swim away, I saw a determined smile in the water while our hair floated to the surface. I tried my best to swim away just missing every time she tried to grab me but then I felt her grab my hand pulling me back up, both of us took a deep breath in. "You're not going anywhere Beans." She showed me our hands intertwined with one another. I hope I'm not red right now, her hand felt rough against mine but it wasn't uncomfortable I liked the feeling. "Fine, I'm not going anywhere." I huffed leaning against the wall. "Now, storytime." She shimmied in the water as if she was getting comfortable,

"Well it's not really a story at all, like I said earlier today, I haven't been out that long at all but I used to ask a couple of questions whenever I saw a girl that I saw just a little differently from my friends, 'Did I want to be them?' or 'Did I want to be with them?' that had me confused for so long and I didn't accept it myself. I couldn't just be okay with it. Since growing up it's like my parents prayed that I would be straight, I don't know it just felt weird because I would say how a character is pretty or cute and then my mom would change the conversation to how a character was handsome or good looking. I never really agreed unless it was Chris Evans or Sebastian Stan but I knew the second I rewatched an episode of Kim Possible and Shego appeared on the screen and something ignited in me." I remember so vividly that night, I screamed into my pillow.

"So your childhood crush was Shego?" Skylar laughs a little and I nod, "Who was yours?" I ask seeing her lean against the wall next to me still holding my hand. "Mine was Repunzel, always have been in love with Repunzel the Disney movie version specifically. I've always been drawn to girls but not in a creepy way but I just thought it was because I was surrounded by boys all the time, you know because I was a tomboy but nope I actually like girls, saw them differently even tried to take some girls out you know without knowing if they like girls too." She shakes her head, "Well were any of them like us?" I ask, "Yeah a few but with how everything in my life goes, I knew they wouldn't be fucking permanent." She sighs. "Only the right thing becomes permanent, sometimes they go away but if they come back then you know." I squeezed her hand a little and she looks at me with a soft smile.


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