Doing My Own Thing by Nikki Carter

Author:Nikki Carter [Carter, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780758272232
Google: tyfVywEZOFkC
Amazon: 0758255586
Publisher: K-Teen/Dafina
Published: 2011-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

In less than fifteen minutes, we emerge from the bedroom, ready for the beach. Sam and Dilly both are wearing long trunks and flip-flops. Both of them are ripped in the abdominal area. Six-packs all over the place. I guess musicians work out too.

I’m wearing a cute tankini with boy shorts. It’s pink and green on top and white on the bottom. And both boys are appreciating Bethany’s too small bikini. She starts putting that bodacious backside on display.

“Y’all look hot!” Dilly exclaims. “We might have to fight some Bajan dudes over them, Sam.”

Sam chuckles. “Sunday is her own woman! If she wants to holla at a Bajan dude, who am I to stop her?”

I watch Dilly and Bethany exchange shocked glances. Sam gets on my nerves. I just roll my eyes at him and storm out of my suite. Oh well to the BET cameras getting all this on film. I’m too mad to worry about that right now.

As soon as I see the beach, my anger evaporates. I just can’t stay angry in the face of so much beauty. I run across the white sand, leaving my friends in the dust.

When I get to the edge of the water, I don’t stop, I just run right in! It’s high noon, the sun is beaming down, and the water is warm!

“Dang, Sunday!” Sam gasps when he finally catches up to me. “You’re like a mermaid or something! Just running to the water like it’s home.”

“I love the beach!” I say. “We hardly ever get to go back home.”

Bethany sticks a toe in the water. “Girl, this is cold. I think I’ll just sit myself on one of these beach chairs and get a tan.”

Dilly runs into the water too. He actually starts swimming as soon as he gets in.

“You’re a fish, boy! This water is kind of choppy,” I say as he pops back up out of the water.

“This is nothing. Sam, you coming in?”

He shakes his head. “I’m about to go down there and see about the kayak rental. That’s what you want to do, right, Sunday?”

I nod speechlessly. I don’t know what to make of Sam today. He disses me at the airport and then flirts with a pretty Bajan girl as soon as we touch down. Now he’s taking care of what I want to do? Something is not adding up.

“Are y’all a couple or not?” Dilly asks me after Sam leaves to get the kayak, mirroring the thoughts in my head.

“Not, I think. But I can’t figure Sam out to save my life. One day he’s crushing on me, the next he’s telling me to kick rocks.”

I didn’t mean to be that candid to Dilly, but he’s about as good as anyone right now. I really need to work on cultivating my friendships. Maybe Sam was onto something when he talked about me chasing dollars. If the only person I have to talk to is someone who hated me a couple weeks ago, then there is a serious problem.

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