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“Hello Mrs. Basso.” I say.
“Hi Maddy, I assumed you would be in town this week” she comes over giving me a short hug. Cold compared to how she used to hug me. “Why are you guys driving together?” She seems irritated.
“We ran into each other at the airport, thought we would share a rental car this week.” Gabe tosses the keys in my direction.
Catching them I hear Ian clear his throat behind me.
“Oh I’m sorry. Mrs. Basso this is my friend Ian. Ian this is Gabe’s mom Mrs. Basso.” I motion back and forth.
She eyes him up and down. “Please, call me Wendy.” She extends her hand.
“Nice to meet you…Wendy.” Ian shakes back.
“Alright then, let’s go.” I say to Ian. “Nice to see you again Mrs. Basso. Gabe, let me know if you want the car.” I turn around before either one of them can say anything back heading back to the driver side of the blue monster.
“Wait Maddy.” Gabe is jogging over to me.
“What’s up?” I impatiently say.
“I don’t have your number. Give me your phone.” He demands.
I dig it out of my purse and hand it to him. He programs his number and then calls himself. After he hands it back to me I see he stored himself as the Hot Basso Brother.
“Nice” I smirk up to him.
“It’s not my fault my brothers got stuck at the shallow end of the gene pool.” He puts his hands out for me to disagree. I don’t.
We pull out of the driveway of what I considered my home once and I want to cry for what has happened between myself and the Bassos. I won’t let myself get dragged into it again, I promised myself. I see Mrs. Basso giving Gabe the third degree about why he would be with me and he is shaking his head back and forth.
“She’s a trip.” Ian says. “What is her problem with you?”
“She used to be nice. I was like a daughter to her.” I say staring at the road ahead of me.
“What happened?” He asks.
I don’t answer. I don’t want to talk about it. I can’t tell him that I took something from her that I could never replace.
Chapter 3 – 12 years old
Trent and I “went out” for about two weeks before we broke up. We were able to keep our friendship going surprisingly when Trent started “going out” with Candice Montgomery, Katie Pierce, Amanda Schmidt and Je
Over the year Trent, Bryan, Macke
There were some days I talked more to Trent than I did to Macke
We were staying in a hotel with a pool, which we were so excited about. We threw our bags in our rooms, changed into our swimsuits to meet down there.
“Macke
“Well Mad, it’s called a bikini.” She says sarcastically.
“I know that but why are you wearing it?” She looks gorgeous. I stare down at my one-piece pink swimsuit.
“Duh, I am going swimming.” She puts her hands on her hips.
Suddenly, I am not so excited to go swimming. Macke
“I have another one if you want to borrow it?” She puts her hand on my shoulder. “But I think you look amazing”
Isn’t that what best friends are for, to boost you up.
“Thanks Ke
“They aren’t that great Mad, believe me.” Her looks goes from happy to sad.
“I know, but you look gorgeous Ke
She smiles back. It’s fu
When we walk closer to the pool the smell of chlorine fills the air making my body itch to get in the water. The boys are already diving and splashing each other. In fact it’s not just Trent and Bryan but all the Little’s and a lot of the Bigs too. They are all fixated on Macke
I sit next to her putting my hand on hers “Ke
She shrugs her shoulders and I see her eyes watering.
“Don’t let these boys get you upset.”
“Come on Ke
I wave my hand telling them to give us a minute but when I turn around Macke
I take off my cover up and the only person I see staring is Trent as I enter the water, go figure. When I fully submerge into the water Trent comes up to me asking me if I want to go first. I think that is his way of making me feel better that no one is looking at me.
After a half hour of diving for pe
I look down and I am on top of Gabe’s shoulders and Ke
“What am I supposed to do?” I look towards Trent and Bryan for advice. They are sitting on the edge of the pool with scowls on their faces.
“Knock her off Paul’s shoulders.” Gabe yells up to me.
Before I know it Ke
I see Ke
Gabe goes underwater letting me off his shoulder and then puts his hand up to give him high five. “Way to go Madgirl.”
“Thanks, couldn’t have done it without you.” I slap his hand back.
All the parents come walking into the poolroom with handfuls of pizzas a few minutes later. We all hop out and grab our towels. Ke
I don’t know what made the boys so upset but they seemed to be over it the next day. We went to the football game and Jack’s team won State for the third year in a row. It was exciting since Gabe was part of the team as well being one of only two freshman playing varsity. The other being Paul. I knew Bryan and Trent secretly thought the streak would continue until they played. One day they would be the state champs like their brothers.