Page 71 of Tattooed Love

“Great. You have seen, you have been, and now you can piss off,” I shot in his direction, and then looked back at Cole as he played with my phone. “Stop touching that,” I barked at him.

He rolled his eyes as he chose a song and “Escape the Fate, Issues,” boomed from the speakers. I gasped as water sprayed across my face, as Tyler launched himself into the pool. I turned around to glare at him, but, before I could, two arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me under.

The music hit my ears with a boom as I re-surfaced, splashing a load of water at Tyler in rebellion.

“God, you are a tool,” I groaned in his direction. I noticed Cole running towards me, and I yelled out. “Don’t…”

But I was too late. My mouth filled with water as he landed with a thud in the water, and I reached to wipe the water from my eyes.

“I forgot how hot this pool can get,” Tyler said causally, as he floated on his back. Cole reached out and pulled a big ring from the side, and pulled himself into it, floating.

“So, what made you come back?” Cole said as he kicked off from the side, and floated into the middle of the water. As he spun around, I saw my name tattooed on the top of his back shoulder blade. I remembered the first time he had showed it to me; it was before they had all left.

I softened my tone, feeling nostalgic at the sight of the tattoo.

“It was time,” I announced, pushing the wet hair from my face. “I said I would be back.”

“No you didn’t. You just left,” Tyler grunted, leaning on the side of the pool opposite me. “You didn’t tell us anything.”

“Yeah, well I’m back now so it doesn’t matter.” I leaned my head back and stared up at the ceiling. “So, what has been going on around here?”

“You know… a bit of this, a bit of that. Dad’s gone to some conference; he has been gone all week… comes back next week I think,” Tyler said lightly.

I wasn’t surprised dad wasn’t here; he was a busy man. “So, that would explain why he didn’t surface last night, when you guys had your little...” I pulled my head forward and looked between the two. “What would you call that? A group booty call?”

Cole rolled his eyes at me, while Tyler chuckled.

“Yeah, yeah well we weren’t expecting you back,” Cole pointed out, before kicking off from the side again. “Seeing as you’re back now, you can go back to school as of Monday.”

“Oh joy,” I grunted. “What did I ever do to be so lucky.”

“I think Jax has been missing you there,” Tyler said, as he slowly began to creep in Cole’s direction.

“What do you mean?” I arched an eyebrow at him, as he slowly crept up to Cole who had his back to him, still floating on his giant ring.

Anyone could see what was going to happen next.

One.

Two.

Three.

Cole let out a surprised scream as he went flying into the water and Tyler claimed his giant ring, quickly pushing himself off in the other direction of the pool.

The pool sliding door slid open, and I quickly looked in another direction as Jax walked in, followed by Adam with his hand entangled with a pretty blondes.

Looks like someone hadn’t gotten rid of last night’s flame. Wait a sec, make that two someones; I noticed El out of the corner of my eye.

“Geez, this room is massive,” a light voice said, and I glared at Tyler and Cole as they wrestled for the giant ring. It was their fault that we now had more visitors. I wanted to whack them both over their stupid heads.

“Is the water warm?”

I turned my head to the Blonde as she went to dangle a toe in the water. They couldn’t possibly be thinking about swimming in here, right?

I saw the annoyance in Jax’s eyes as El slid out of her dress. I wanted to yell that a bra and undies were not a bathing suit, but what was the point?

The blonde followed in Ella’s footsteps, and pulled her dress off.

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