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2020-10-12 15:57:55Oh my God! Baby are you still alive Don't leave me, you are the most important thing in my life! "I screamed, ran down the stairs and leaned down to my darling.
My sanctuary was on the floor, the display was completely cracked. No chance of resuscitation.
After this one, my dad wouldn't buy me another one. As dumb as I was, I unfortunately destroyed my cell phones quite often.
Frustrated and with a theatrical sigh, I sat lonely on the last step.
Today the usual summer heat had settled over the area; the sun was glowing and the only thing you could do in this heat was to hide in the house or jump in the pool, which I liked a lot better.
When I was bored, I didn't think twice about who to call and so I went straight down to our landline phone. I dialed Lacey's number there.
"Yeah?" Grumbled an exasperated voice from the receiver on the other end of the line.
"It's me," I said and twisted my mouth into a grin, her voice always sounding like a croak when you rang her out of bed. She also seemed to ignore the fact that it was 11:37 a.m.
"Oh, Apryl!", She squealed now much more friendly, "I'll come over quickly! Are we going to the pool right away?"
"I was about to ask you that," I replied with a smile.
How nice that she always invited herself without asking me. But I was probably powerless against my so-called "best friend".
"Well then, I'll be there in five minutes," she called into the receiver and hung up. I was still able to relax as their “five minutes” usually lasted an hour or more.
So I went down comfortably into the kitchen and was about to make myself a coffee when my father came towards me.
"We need to talk," my dad said in a serious tone that made me shiver. Whenever a conversation started like this, you should get out of the dust quickly, because then mostly the "I-know-what-is-so-going-at-your-age-tirades" came and I was fed up with them.
"Ohhh ... Unfortunately that doesn't work at all, because Lacey will be there soon and I still have to change", I babbled hectically and rushed up to my room. To my regret, I couldn't take my coffee with me.
My room was decorated harmoniously; white furniture, blue curtains. For decoration, I had seashells that I had collected over the years on my dresser.
The question of what to wear was self-evident since I only had a handful of bikinis. I just fished one out and got dressed quickly. I tied my hair in a high ponytail; several of my dark brown hair falling on my face.
When the doorbell rang, I ran down the stairs. When I arrived at the bottom, I opened the door.
"Lacey! Only 10 minutes? That's totally atypical for you," I greeted her effusively and pretended to be seriously surprised.
"Have a nice day, too," grumbled Lacey played annoyed.
She lived across the street and hadn't bothered to wear anything over her bikini. Why also?
She had thrown a towel over her shoulder and was walking with long strides towards our pool. I did the same, threw my towel on a lounger and jumped into the water with a halfway elegant plunge.
When I reappeared, I looked around for Lacey. Suddenly my head was dipped under water and I had to cry out in surprise. That was probably a mistake, because I felt the water flow into my lungs.
After endless seconds, Lacey let go of me and I hastily broke the surface of the water. Since I accidentally swallowed almost the entire pool underwater, I literally coughed my heart out and gasped desperately for air.
Despite the anger that rose in me because of this action, I automatically grinned back at Lacey's diabolical grin.
"Vengeance!" I shouted with a growl and threw myself on her and tried to dip her head under the water as well. However, unlike me, she had thought a little and held her breath beforehand, which is why she now looked like a bloated puffer fish.
My comparison didn't seem so bad, and I snorted as I imagined her to be a true, living, round and prickly fish. Lacey reappeared and was about to pounce on me again, so I made the peace sign; a sign of peace and as a substitute for a white flag.
"Okay. Let's go out," she said graciously and swung herself out of the pool, I did the same.
I grabbed a towel from the bed and rubbed my hair dry with it. Then I put it casually around my neck like a lifeguard. I went into our large kitchen and got two stick magnums from the freezer for both of us. Five minutes later we were lying on our sun beds and nibbling eagerly. Lacey had closed her eyes and I deduced from this that she wanted her quiet.
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