White houses

It was her Aunts house, they spent every summer there since they were 8, that’s 10 years! Jenny and Alicia, they’ve been friends forever and well although they treat me as if we’ve all been friends for as long as they both have, I still sometimes think that I’m not as close to them as they think. First off they are both incredibly out going, once last year they both liked the same guy Ted Ranger, and instead of letting him go; they both decided to kiss him in front of everyone in study hall to see which one of them he liked best. Jenny won that, she always had better luck with guys then the rest of us, probably because she is freaking gorgeous. She has this long brown hair that is stick straight, I swear and to add on to that she has the most beautiful olive skin and the longest legs, she basically the Latino Heidi Klum. I’m not saying that Alicia isn’t beautiful because she is, with her platinum blond shoulder length hair and her muscular toned frame (I guess from all the volleyball she plays) and to top it off she has these crazy emerald green eyes. I don’t know how and why in the world they chose to be friends with me when they both look like two red carpet ready babes and I look like a contestant on flavor of love. I’m the shortest of all of them, plus I have these big unwanted boobs and according to seventeen magazine, I have an petite frame (yeah right that just a nicer way of saying “seriously you could grow a few inches) and unlike my two best friends, I’ve got long braids in my hair and dark skin.

I was finally getting to spend a weekend in the summer at Alicia’s aunts wicked cool beach house. I’ve never been so excited in my life. The whole year they’ve been rambling on about this house and the cute boys that reside near it and I only understood how amazing it was when we pulled up to the house on that cloudy day.

Wow they weren’t kidding the place was beautiful, with its large oak windows and island style patio, there was a hammock in the front of the house and there were palms trees all around and sand underneath my feet. It was a perfect tiny white house, the exact same copy as the others in this suburban lane.

“So do you love it or do you love it?” Alicia asked me, I can tell she was smiling hugely at my gapping eyes.

“I love it!” I said dreamily as they pushed me towards the house.

The door flew open as we stepped onto the patio and out came a middle aged, plastic surgery enhanced, curly haired women dressed in all pink (I’m guessing that’s her aunt).

“Licia, Jen bear, oh how I missed you” Mrs. Libby said as she swung her hands around them pulling them into a hug “I hope you’re in for the time of your life Angelina” she said pulling me into the circle of suffocation.

“Thanks for letting me stay Mrs. Libby, you have a beautiful home.”

“It’s even as beautiful inside honey. Oh! And wait until you see the beach!”

They gave me a special tour of the bungalow. Mrs. Libby was right, the inside was amazing, from its coral pink kitchen to the tropical style living room. I felt like I was on a vacation in the middle of the Caribbean instead of Miami, it did not matter to me at all now that I would have to sleep on the floor.

“Well I am leaving you girls soon to go downtown to that new club Heat,” Mrs. Libby said swishing her hips too and fro, “ I hope I can trust you all to have fun without me till I get back in the morning”

Jenny looked at me and winked and I knew she had a plan conjuring up in her head.

“No worries Miss, we will” she said pulling her gaze off me.

That evening when Mrs. Libby left for the club, I got to find out exactly what was going on in Jenny’s head.

“Time to call the boys!” Jenny screamed running to the phone, Alicia clapping her hands swiftly as she said this.

“What! Why? We’ve been here for 4 hours and u guys are thinking of boys already, this is ridiculous.”

“Come on Lina stop being a party pooper and have some fun” Alicia said throwing herself in a lounge chair in the living room.

“Yeah Lina lighten up” Jenny exclaimed as she looked through her phone book for the numbers.

“If anyone should be a party pooper it should be you, Lish you have a boyfriend remember.”  I said matter a factly folding my arms across my chest.

“Oh come of it Lina, it not like i'm going to make out with Mike and them. Plus they know I have a boyfriend so they won’t make any moves”

“Yeah that’s what you think until Mr. Mike has his tongue down your throat!”

“I can’t believe you-!”

“Shut it both of you I’m trying to make a call here” Jen shouted over us.

Reluctantly I sat down in the couch next to Alicia and gave up my argument. It’s no use fighting with the daredevil queens, they always end up pushing me into things I don’t want to do. Oh how I hate peer pressure!

Later that night, there was a knock at the front door. Jenny ran to answer it and through the door came 2 of the hottest guys I have ever seen. Jen and Lish weren’t kidding when they said the guys they hang with here are smoking hot. Jenny hugged both of them a little too seductively, trying to show off her short sundress she slipped on right before they came. I rolled my eyes at her; sometimes she can be such a skank. Alicia came skipping from the back patio which she just finished clearing up, and hugged them both innocently enough even though I think that halter top she was wearing showed a little too much skin for someone who has a boyfriend back home.

“This is our friend Angelina we were telling you about, Lina this is Mike.” Alicia said as she introduced the tall dreadlocked, blue eyed boy to me.

“Hey” I said back to him, suddenly feeling underdressed as he scanned over my blue spaghetti strapped top and jeans and gave me a nod of notification.

“And this is Fred” Alicia continued introducing me to the boy who would too soon change the way I saw myself and the people around me. He was tall as well and had the most appealing emerald green eyes like Lish’s but darker, to contrast with that on top of his head was a mass of light red hair that came to his shoulders, he was beautiful.

“Hey” he said to me reaching out a hand. I almost forgot how to function my body as I starred at him with my mouth slightly open.

“Hi” I said shyly reaching out my hand to his finally. I felt a strange electric sensation come over me as our skinned touched, I quickly took my hand out of his and followed Jenny as she led them to the back patio.

“Spin the bottle!” Jenny suggested.

“Of course you want to play that” Alicia said looking at her sharply.

We were all sitting in a circle on the floor on the back patio with the beach view as our back drop. Alicia sitting on the right side of me and Jenny on my left side with Mike next to her and right across from me was Fred. I secretly was excited to play spin the bottle, I’ve never played it before and if I did now, I would be potentially kissing some of the cutest guys I will ever see in my lifetime.

“Your turn to spin Lina” Jenny said as she looked over at Lish smiling sickly at her. I hesitated a bit reaching out to the bottle and spinning it clockwise. I couldn’t help but stare up at Fred as the bottle spun round and by my surprise he was staring back at me.

“AH!” Lish screamed. “You have to kiss Fred!”

He was smiling wickedly at me as I timidly got up from my space on the ground and walked over to him. I kneeled down in front of him so that we were face to face, I could hear Lish and Jen making kissing noises in the back, which made me blush. Thank goodness he wouldn’t notice it because of my dark skin.

“Well what you waiting for, babe! Put one on him.” Mike said rather cocky from behind me.

I thought of how easy Jen kissed Mike before me, she was so confident and sexy; two words that would never enter my frame of mind.

“Don’t be shy I won’t bite” Fred whispered to me staring into my eyes. I stared back at him and smiled as I leaned in and pecked his lips softly. Talk about electricity, I swear I got shocked sometime during that kiss.

“Woohoo! Go Angelina” Jenny screamed out getting up to dance playfully around the group as I pulled away from Fred and went back to my spot next to Alicia.

The night went on as we all began to become more comfortable. I smiled to myself when I looked at Jenny whisper something into Alicia’s ear as she danced around her, causing the Bud Light that the guys brought to burst though her noise. I quietly sat watching Jenny continuing to dance, gradually luring in Mike with the movement of her hips and I could feel Fred’s eyes on me as he silently approached where I was sitting and sat down next to me. His body heat was radiating off of him, I turned to face him as I said bravely.

“How come you cam over” Obviously I was out of my mind for saying that but I really wanted to know.

“Because I wanted to tell you how good of a kisser you are” he looked straight into my eyes as he said this. I couldn’t believe the words coming out of his mouth; I must have been imagining him.

“Thanks” I said as my voice cracked, stirring my gaze off of his flesh pink lips.

“No problem, I’ve never kissed someone so beautiful”. I was definitely imagining this. No boy has ever called me beautiful before.

“And don’t tell me no boy has ever called you beautiful before cause I would find that very hard to believe” he said smiling. I smiled back at him feeling a burning sensation in my chest that wasn’t at all similar to heart burn.

We talked for a while about anything and everything. He was so easy to talk to and was really funny. I was so wrapped up in our conversation that I didn’t notice that Alicia had gone to bed and Jenny was outside on the beach cuddling up to Mike. I suddenly felt awkward as we both turned and watched secretly as Mike and Jenny made out in the sand.

“They sure move fast” Fred said looking at me with a sort of twinkle in his eye.

“Yeah that’s Jen alright; she doesn’t like wasting time getting to know anyone, just leaps into any guy’s arms.” I said laughing a bit to hide the cruelness of my words.

“Well we’ve gotten to know each other, right?” He said rather rhetorically placing his hand over mine and pushing a lock of my hair behind my ear. I took my gaze off from his eyes and directed them at the sleeve of his red shirt as he went on. “And I do miss those lips of yours”

“I…umm...uh”

“Want to come see my car?”

Of course I noticed there was a different meaning behind his statement but staring into those eyes of his I couldn’t help but trust him. And now as I lay on the hammock in the back porch, looking out at the ocean waves as sunlight approaches, I reflect on the early morning events. I remember his sweet cool voice as he whispered “Trust me” in the back of his car, and I remember the taste of beer on his lips as they came colliding down on mine, and I remember the wondering hands, the touching of bare skin, the look in his eyes as he got what he wanted. I felt a tear fall down my face as I also remembered the sound of the door slam when he drove off and left me with my broken heart as the thunder roared around me. 

I got through the weekend without admitting to Jenny and Alicia what Fred and I did that night. Of course they asked constantly but I just responded with a simple “nothing”. They both didn’t seem to notice the vacant look in my eyes or the empty tone in my voice just like he hadn’t, because they had a good time that night, everyone did, including me. We spent are last day lounging at the beach. My thoughts wondered off as Jen and Lish chatted around me. I realized how different I was from those girls, I mean I knew I was different from the beginning but as the day ended and we drove off from that place, I could hear the anticipation in there voices when talking about coming back next year. I knew then my heart wasn’t with them, because it was stolen from me, one hot summer night outside one of those white houses.

The inspiration:

Crashed on the floor when I moved in
This little bungalow with some strange new friends
Stay up too late, and I'm too thin
We promise each other it's 'til the end
Now we're spinning empty bottles
It's the five of us
With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust
I can't resist the day
No, I can't resist the day

Jenny screams out and it's no pose
'Cause when she dances she goes and goes
Beer through the nose on an inside joke
And I'm so excited, I haven't spoken
And she's so pretty, and she's so sure
Maybe I'm more clever than a girl like her
Summer's all in bloom
Summer is ending soon

It's alright and it's nice not to be so alone
But I hold on to your secrets in white houses

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head
I come undone at the things he said
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt
We were all in love and we all got hurt
I sneak into his car's cracked leather seat
The smell of gasoline in the summer heat
Boy, we're going way too fast
It's all too sweet to last

It's alright
And I put myself in his hands
But I hold on to your secrets in white houses
Love, or something ignites in my veins
And I pray it never fades in white houses

My first time, hard to explain
Rush of blood, oh, and a little bit of pain
On a cloudy day, it's more common than you think
He's my first mistake

Maybe you were all faster than me
We gave each other up so easily
These silly little wounds will never mend
I feel so far from where I've been
So I go, and I will not be back here again
I'm gone as the day is fading on white houses
I lied, wrote my injuries all in the dust
In my heart is the five of us
In white houses

And you, maybe you'll remember me
What I gave is yours to keep
In white houses