Mike: Do I need to come over with heartbreak food? (Ice cream)
Maya: Hahahaha wow. No, that won’t be necessary. Naira and I are going to do something fun together today.
Mike: Oh nice! What are you going to do?
Maya: We’re going to the beach.

Maya’s POV
I didn’t fear much. I didn’t fear big crowds or big heights. I wasn’t afraid of spiders or snakes. In an amusement park I went in pretty much every roller coaster, no matter how steep or fast the thing was.
But one of the few things that actually gave me the creeps, were beaches. I could feel my heart start to beat faster just thinking about the word. Beaches. Brrrrr.
Well, the thing I hated the most about it was wearing a bikini. It was probably my imagination, but I could just feel people judge my body. I could just feel them stare at my legs, my stomach and my arms in a bad way. I hated looking at all those perfect bodies and subconsciously comparing them to mine.
But here I was, wearing my bikini that I had never worn, trying to postpone leaving to the hell on earth. I knew Naira was already done getting dressed, but I just figured the longer I stayed in my room, the shorter our little trip would be.
I felt kind of bad thinking about it that way though. We had thought of this trip to make our bond better again after that fight we had. We were having dinner the evening after we had taken revenge on Jaime and we had suddenly realized that we never did anything fun together. Well, we never went out together (except for the night out after she had moved to San Diego). And this would be the perfect time for us to do that, to forget about all the bad things that have happened lately.
I was so enthusiastic about this plan at first. But I should've known this would've ended in us going to the beach. Naira had wanted to go there since she moved here and when she offered to go there yesterday, I couldn't say no. I just couldn't think of an excuse out of it and the last thing I wanted to do was start another fight.
I sighed and wrapped my lace cardigan tightly around me. I put on a pair of shorts and a tank top over my bikini for on the way there. It was time now, there was no turning back.
I stood up and walked down the stairs to see Naira scroll through something on her phone. She was already wearing her bikini too, but she wore a grey sweater over it. I rolled my eyes. Naira and her sweaters were inseparable. “Are you ready?” I asked, fake confidence dripping from my words.
Naira looked up to me with a smile and traced her eyes over my appearance. I was secretly begging her to look away even though I wasn't in my bikini yet. “Yes! I can't wait to see the californian beach!” She said enthusiastic. She had grown up in a way colder state, so I guess this was a big thing for her.
I grinned at her. “Of course you are. But you got to be the only person who would wear a sweater to the beach.” I said as she stood up from the couch.
She rolled her eyes and pushed me softly as we left the house. “Just leave me and my sweaters alone okay.” She said and I heard her grin through her words.
I stepped into my side of the car. “Believe me, I wouldn't dare break you too up. You have an amazing relationship going on.” I said with a mocking tone in my voice.
“We're planning on a spring wedding. The relationship with my sweaters is the only relationship I’m able to maintain somehow.” She said and I laughed.
I started the car and drove away from my house. “What about Vic then? Aren't you going to give him a shot?” I said, being the nosy best friend that wanted to know all about her love life.
A soft shade of pink crept on her cheeks, but she rolled her eyes. “No, it's all me and my sweaters from now on.” She said as we drove in the direction of the beach.
I grinned. I wasn't planning on dropping this topic soon. I really wanted Vic and Naira to be together. They could be a cute tiny couple who would have cute tiny children. I mean, children are small in general, but just imagine how small Vic and Naira’s would be!
My fun mood was soon destroyed by the white sand coming in view. I could just feel myself getting nervous as I heard the sounds of screaming children and the tides of the waves.
The more uncomfortable I got, the more enthusiastic Naira seemed to get though. She was looking in awe at the bright blue ocean and all the people swimming in it. She looked like a toddler seeing something for the first time. My best friend really was a child at heart.
As we got to the parking space, I parked wrongly on purpose, just so I had to do it again and I could postpone getting out of the car. It didn't matter anyway, Naira already knew I was a bad driver; I was pretty sure everyone I ever passed on the road knew that though.
We eventually got out of the car and Naira immediately ran towards the massive beach. On her way, she accidentally tripped over a sand castle of a little boy and kicked sand in his face in the process. No matter how out of place I felt, I still laughed about this. The little boy started crying and Naira started apologizing immediately while standing up again. When the mother of the child started to shoot her death glares, Naira decided to move on.
I caught up with her, feeling the sand creep in my shoes. I was still laughing at her and she shot me a glare too, although it didn't seem as convincing as the one the mother had shot her. Partly because a smile was tugging at the corners of her mouth.
After a while she had found a free spot on a reasonable distance from the angry mother and sat down on the sand. I layed down my beach towel as slowly as I could, I was still in the process while Naira had already put down her towel and was now pulling her grey sweater over her head.
I got a little sick when I saw Naira in her pretty pink bikini. Naira was not that tall, but she still had an amazing body. Her bikini bottom hugged her small, but curvy hips and her stomach was as flat as I wished mine to be. I saw three guys that were lying a few feet away from us glance at her in awe.
I looked away and focused on straightening the crinkles of my towel.
“C’mon Maya, let’s go swimming! I know you must’ve seen this place a thousand times, but this is all new and exciting to me!” Naira said and she tugged at my arm.
I got up and shot her a weak attempt of a smile. I looked around to see if there was no one looking at me. Luckily for me, even the staring boys had moved on.
I realized I had put this off enough now and I really needed to get undressed. I took off my cardigan, shorts and tank top, so I was left in my red bikini. I had liked it so much on the picture on internet, but it looked disappointing on me.
“You look pretty, Maya. I love your bikini!” Naira said smiling as I tried to cover up as much of my body as I could without looking like a fool.
I let out a short grin. “Thanks, yours is nice too.” I said. Naira just responded by grabbing my arm and pulling me to the ocean. She ran over the white sand, this time being a little more cautious for suddenly appearing toddlers.
I felt the burning sand underneath my feet until they collided with the water. Cold water drops splattered against my legs and stomach as Naira was pulling us further and further into the water. When the water already came until my stomach, Naira suddenly pulled my arm with a lot more force. It resulted in me falling into the water face first and I jumped a little at the contact of the cold water.
When I got back to the surface again, I saw Naira laugh at me, holding her stomach. I grinned at her, but wasn’t going to leave it at this. I pushed the sparkly water so it would splatter all over her. She squeezed her eyes shut and put up her hands in defense as a wave of water rushed over her.
She just laughed and splashed me in response. And that was how we came to have a water splashing fight. It went on like that for a few minutes. After that we just sat in the water and talked about everything and nothing. Of course I had teased her with Vic a couple of times. She was saying she didn’t like him that way the whole time, but I knew it hit her at least a little because her cheeks turned red every time I brought him up. Maybe she just didn’t realize she liked him yet. Well, I was sure as hell gonna make her realize it. That’s just the kind of friend I am.
Honestly, it felt great talking to Naira like this. It kind of felt like we were on a mini holiday trip. I even felt a little less uncomfortable showing my body. Well, I mostly just hid it under water, but having Naira as a distraction kind of helped ease my anxiety.
After a while, Naira decided that she wanted to go out of the water and so we did. I told her it was up to her what we were gonna do today, since she had never been to the beach before.
She decided to tan on our towels and she first needed to put on a shit ton of sunscreen. I laughed at her because of that, because she was so scared of getting a sunburn.
At one moment I turned around on my towel to lay on my back. I had been lying on my stomach the entire time, for obvious reasons, but after a while the position I was in was going to hurt. So I turned around, immediately feeling more uncomfortable. It was stupid this weird fear of showing my body. I was not shy, not at all, I was actually loud. I talked to everyone I didn’t know with ease. Getting undressed wasn’t even an issue to me during sex. I guess it was because here I felt like everyone judged me and when I was having sex I was more focused on other things, if you know what I mean.
Suddenly I felt two fingers glide over my stomach. I flinched and opened my eyes, which I had closed because of the sunlight.
I looked up to see Naira tracing her fingers over the tattoos on my stomach. “I haven’t seen those yet.” She said staring at the pictures that were now visible because I wore a bikini.
I had black roses that trailed from between my breasts, over my right ribcase. I also had a quite new one on my left ribcase of a small alien head. I got it because aliens were just straight up awesome. The last one was just above my bikini bottom. It was the lyrics of a song I really liked. “Her conscience calls the guilty to come home” it said.It might seem weird, but this quote reminded me that you had to work hard for something you wanted and that nothing came for nothing.
“Why don't you ever show them off?” She asked, looking up to me and stopped tracing them.
I was kind of blown away by this question. For a little while I really didn’t know what to say. I think I had been quite successful in hiding my anxiety from her, but I was still a little scared that she knew.
“Uhm, well, I don’t know. Maybe I need to start doing that.” I said and I shot her a weak smile.
There was no way I was going to start doing that. She would forget about the whole thing in a few days anyway.
She nodded and laid back down on her towel. “You really should. They’re really pretty.” She said.
I let out a soft chuckle and then a silence followed. I hated this silence, because I was afraid Naira might be using it to overthink everything I had said. I always did the same when a friend was acting weird.
“You don’t really like the beach, do you?” Naira asked, breaking the silence. I rolled my head to the side and busted out laughing when I saw her grinning face.
“Honestly?” I asked her.
“Well, of course.”
“I fucking hate everything about it.” I said laughing and she laughed along with me.
Naira sat up a little, leaning on her elbows and looked over the bright blue ocean. “Well, I guess I expected a bit more of it too. But I do really like it here.” she said closing her eyes and rolled her face towards the bright sun.
“Well, I guess you’ll just have to go with Vic from now on then.” I said grinning and waiting for her response.
She shot her head back to me and glared at me. She started to hit my arm with her hand. I just let it happen while I laughed at her. She didn’t really hit very hard. Although, I have heard from a particularly source that she was very good at kicking people in the balls. Tony told me Jaime still walked a bit funny, even though it had been a day.
“I. Don’t. Like. Him. Like. That. ” she said, hitting my arm with every word.
I took my arm away when she was done, tracing my arm with a fake hurt expression on my face. “I didn’t say anything, Naira. I just suggested that you should go to the beach with him.” I said. Her expression softened until I started humming the melody of ‘Sex on the Beach’.
She just let out a sigh and stood up, picking up her clothes and her towel in the process. “I’m out. You’re horrible.” she said and she turned away from me like she was walking away from me.
“I’ve heard that before. But good idea, Naira. We should really get away from this place.” I said mimicking her actions and picking up all my stuff.
“I’m not going anywhere with you.” she said while starting to walk towards the parking lot. I saw that she had to try to hold back a grin.
“We could watch The Green Lantern…” I said, trying to catch up and walk next to her. I wiggled my eyes at her and a chuckle escaped her lips.
She sighed and shook her head. “You know I can’t say no to that. Not even when you’re being this annoying.” She said as we walked onto the concrete of the parking lot.
I grinned. I really hoped we would be friends for a long time. We had only been fighting for two days, but I could already tell I would miss her a lot if we wouldn’t have made up.
“Let’s just say you know these kind of things about each other when you have been friends for so long. You know the really important stuff.” I said sarcastic and Naira chuckled as she got into the car.

Notes

heyyyy guys!

Sorry it took so long for us to update!! we were both on holiday, but here's a little chapter for you now :)
Shit will go down real soon now
xxxx

Nicky