I see Brax and Dixon looking at me funny as I say a quick “Bye” and walk quickly to the SUV keeping my back to her, getting into the truck without looking her way. I start the SUV and pull away with the Pontoon, glad that I already had everything hooked up and secured before they got here.
Brax and Dixon look at each other, and then back at the SUV heading down the driveway. They were both wondering what had gotten into Asher.
“I want to get packed up as soon as possible and if we can get it all loaded up now, we can get on the road early tomorrow morning and be able to have a full day on the Lake”. They groan playfully at me. “I know I am annoying, it’s just this will be my first trip to a lake, and my first Vacation. I’m just excited. I am sorry for being bossy,” Jade tells us.
We quickly load Tyler’s, Tate’s, and Travis’ bikes onto the trailer behind my brother’s Jeep. We load my, Brax’s, and Dixon’s bikes onto the trailer behind Mason’s truck. We will be storing duffle bags and supplies, cases of water, cases of Gatorade, sodas, beer, snacks, and chips into the back of the Jeeps and any large items like the coolers and suitcases, into the back of Mason’s truck. He got a tri-fold Tonneau cover on the back of his truck so anything stored in there can be kept safe and secure. Tyler will be driving and will take Tate, Travis, and Dixon with him in their Jeep. I will be driving the girls (Me, Bree, Nicole, and Jessica in mine and Brax and Mason will be coming in Mason’s truck. They got off for the week and all training is canceled. They rarely get to take off and since Bryan is there now as the new Gamma, Alpha Andrew said that they could both come with us, especially since his teenagers are going on this trip too.
I am probably the most excited about taking this trip. We rented a 6-room, and 4 bath rental house there, and it has got an awesome pool in the backyard that overlooks a large area of the Lake. We all chipped in and shared the rental fee, but only Mason and Brax will be getting rooms by themselves. The rest of us are sharing two to a room. My dad said we could use the pontoon boat that he took down and rented a slip for at the marina, and I had already made plans to do some free site-seeing while we are there, with the London Bridge and the numerous lighthouses both being on my list of things to do and see.
This is my first vacation, my family at Howling Wolf never really took one with me, they would do a few weekends out of town usually on holidays, but since I had to work, I couldn’t go with them. Especially since they “Uninvited me” by telling me the morning of the day that they were leaving, so I couldn’t trade with someone else, to be able to come with them. It was ok, the last 2 years I would just invite Nicole and Jessica over and we would have sleepovers and they would leave about 5 pm the day that they would be coming back. I smile thinking about Nicole and Jessica, they were truly great friends, and I was so thankful I had them in my life. Lately, though Bree and I had been pretty getting close too, I trust her completely even though she is my newest friend. She always takes up for me and I know she would fight for me I saw it when she came to get me when I was cornered in the bathroom at school by Brittany and her pack of morons. I no longer need her to fight my battles, but I still avoid Brittany and her group, because they aren’t worth me getting suspended or anything going on my school record for. I just plan on avoiding her for the next 2 months until we graduate.
The girls and I had gone to the mall to shop last weekend and dad had insisted on giving me the same allowance that the boys get which is $1,000 a month, for gas, clothes, shoes, and whatever comes up I have not used it much since I got it, so I had almost $2,500 in there, I have only been using it for gas for my bike and Jeep. Now that I am at the size I want to stay at, I am just going into maintenance mode so I can eat a little more, and occasionally splurge, and since I enjoy working out, it shouldn’t be hard to stay here. I decided that I would go ahead and get a full wardrobe, and I doubled every pair of jeans that looked good on me. I will be taking 4 pairs of them to Dark Moon along with shirts dress, shoes, and bathing suits, as dad has a large pool area, complete with a covered area to eat outside and comfortable padded deck chairs to layout on. I also have some cute workout clothes I ordered online I got my favorite outfit that is an ombre beautiful teal green down to lilac in a racerback tank, and the matching pants that go from lilac at the waist and down to the teal color again, one for both packs, because it is my favorite workout out to wear. I also got some cute crisscross sports bras and capris, some loose flowy tanks to go over them for modesty, and some cute biker shorts for when it gets really hot in the Summer.
I ordered a total of 5 bathing suits, and this was the tricky part. I kept them all with me as I knew I would be going through them this week and didn’t want to have to keep wearing the same bathing suits. Bree and Nicole talked me in to get my bikinis online with them and when I balked Bree told me “Jade, honestly you are in better shape than any of us”. I went to argue with her, and she held up her hand to stop me and continued on, “You look like a swimsuit model, you look fantastic. You have exercised up to 4 hours a day and watched everything single thing that you ate for over 2 and a half months. You look FANTASTIC! Trust me, you need to get over this because it is ALL in your head. I know it is hard to change a mindset, but we” and she points to herself, Nicole, and Jessica, “would never lie to you. We are going to have a blast. Let’s get you in some cute swimsuits and see if we can’t all meet our mates this week at the Lake”. We then made our orders as you have a much bigger selection online to find something you like, not too many swimsuits to look at in the local store. They had come on Monday, and we washed them and got them packed away. I am glad I had also ordered a sheer coverup, one black tie at the waist skirt and one of my bikinis had come with a see-through, flowy skirt that ties around the waist and goes to the floor, It had a ruffle that went down the sides of the skirt and the tied bow at the waist was just so feminine and cute that I just couldn’t resist, the bikini top had the same cute little ruffles attached to the spaghetti straps as the skirt and the outfit was in a marble pattern with greys (from light to very dark greys) and lilac being the base color in it. It was my favorite of all my suits, although there was more cleavage exposed in this suit, than the other ones. It had a high leg cut to it and more of my butt was showing, but thanks to all the work Mason had shown me in the gym my butt was my third best feature to me, right behind my eyes and my chest. Thankfully I was still a 36 C, so I still had a chest after all the weight loss. I hope I look ok this trip. I know that they are my friends and my brother’s, and no one would be mean to me in our group, I just didn’t want to get embarrassed in front of strangers, it is not our group that I worry about.
No, no negative thoughts, I look fine in all my suits, and I tried each one of them on and modeled them one at a time for Bree, Nicole, and Jessica and they said I looked like a model now. So, no more doubts, this week is all about fun, and we were going to have a blast.
We get on the road at 8 am after everyone rests in, because we stayed up late, too excited to sleep, at least I was. We had breakfast and we all met in the driveway to hug everyone goodbye. I was super excited to be hitting the road with my friends. We had started laying out last month on our balconies together so we could build up a base tan so we wouldn’t get burned at the Lake. We all had sprayed ourselves well with sunscreen as we would be spending about 4 hours in the Jeep driving there. Tyler led the way there with Tate, Travis, and Dixon, with me and Bree, Nicole, Jessica in my Jeep behind him and Mason and Braxton behind us. We made good time and only stop once about 30 miles away from the lake to fill up our vehicles and the bikes, use the restroom and grab some cold drinks. We went ahead and grabbed bags of ice to fill up the three coolers we had brought with us one for water and Gatorade, one for sodas, and one for beer, we were going to keep hydrated. We went straight to the rental place and picked up the two keys to the house and headed to the house to unload the bikes and trailers into the 3-car garage and to change our clothes. The bikes were put into the first area of the garage, the trailers were parked in the middle part of the garage, and we parked Mason’s truck into the third part of the garage. We would be taking the Jeeps around in the town. We all went to get changed in our rooms. I was rooming with Bree, Nicole and Jessica were together. Tyler and Travis were bunking together, and Tate and Dixon were bunking together. Mason and Braxton went into their own rooms to unpack as well and change into their swim trunks. I had grabbed us 10 sandwiches from the fridge before we left the pack and grabbed 9 bags of chips and a bag of pretzels for me, so we could hit the Lake as soon as possible. I put on my black and white bikini, it had a black and white wrapped bikini top and a black bottom with a dye cut-out making my waist look even smaller with how it is cut. I put on a loose white tank top over it, black shorts, and some flip-flops. I leave my hair loose as I plan on swimming, and just flip my hair forward and toss a baseball cap over my hair, keeping it tucked under my cap. I Grab the insulated bag with our sandwiches in it and the now unfreezing freezer packs and head to the living room. Soon we are all ready to go with Mason riding upfront with me and the girls hopping in the back seat. They are chatting away and I and Mason look at each other and laugh at their conversation about how many hot guys they hope are going to be here this weekend.
“How are you doing?” Mason asks me. “Any problems from the rejection? No more pain waking you in the night anymore?”
“Thankfully no, no more problems. It was so scary the first time it happened. I thought I was dying. I am glad it is over with I hope I do get a second chance mate, my first one was horrible” I tell him.
“I am sure you will find your second chance mate Jade, and even if you don’t you should open yourself up to dating eventually, even if you don’t find a true mate. You are such a good person I hope you find someone great to love. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to have a great man and to have children, you would be a great mom”. Mason tells me.
He is so sweet, I wish he could have been my second chance mate, I thought I smelled a wonderful scent when we got back home last night after I got my helmet off, and kind of hoped that Mason would be my second chance mate, but the scent went away, so I guess I was mistaken. I am embarrassed to tell him that though because he would probably think it is just a crush, but he has been so sweet and helpful, I can depend on him, and I love being around him. Too bad it isn’t him. Maybe if I don’t find my second chance mate, and he doesn’t find his mate, maybe we can date.
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