dylan ivy conklin went back to cousins beach every year hoping to see that one familiar face from seventh grade latin convention. but when she does, he's into her fraternal twin sister isabel.
"and then he left me for someone who looks just like me...
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— 024. crying and throwing up —
DYLAN SLEPT HORRIBLE THAT night. after she had went up she couldn't get much sleep as she twisted and turned. something was way off. the next morning she woke up to the sound of chatter as she got out of bed and brushed her teeth before heading downstairs.
as she turned the corner to the kitchen she saw aunt julia telling belly off for trying to take a muffin. as julia turned her back, dylan swiftly grabbed a large chocolate muffin as she turned to corner and bumped into a figure shorter than her.
"oh shit, i'm sorry." dylan says as she realizes she's holding into her muffin for dear life. "it's alright, you're dylan right?" the person asks. "yeah, and you?" she asks cautiously. "i'm skye." they say with a smile. "oh, connie and jeremiah's cousin!" dylan says as she realizes.
"well i'm gonna go get changed and try to figure out a way to keep your mom from selling the house.." dylan says, not knowing it came off as passive aggressive. "have fun..?" skye says as dylan goes up to her bedroom.
she then changed into her whale watchers shirt that was a size to big for her and some black denim shorts as she heard a knock at the door. as she opened it she was shocked to see jeremiah there.
"can we talk dylan?" he asks as she holds in an obnoxious laugh. "sure." she says, regaining her composure. they then walk over to dylan's bay window as she takes a seat next to the older boy. "i'm really sorry." he blurts out.
"i've been so... shitty to you. and i even made up with belly first even though you did nothing to me at all." he explains. "jere... i wanna forgive you, i really do. but that hurt. you promised me that no matter what happened with you, or with belly or even with conrad- that nothing would get in between us. you're one of my best friends..." dylan begins.
"we grew up together. so you not picking up the phone and responding to my texts when we needed each other most was hard. so i do accept your apology, but i'm not sure if i forgive you yet." dylan says as jeremiah sighs.
without saying a word dylan gets up and leaves jeremiah there sitting alone as she walks downstairs. conrad was in the middle of arguing with julia as belly placed a hand on his shoulder, making him stop.
"we should go to the boardwalk." belly suggests. "i'm not leaving." comrad said. it's took some time but he finally agreed as they got ready to leave. "skye you coming?" dylan asks. "nah, i don't really think they'd want me there." she says.
"yeah jeremiah and conrad can deal with me later. you're coming." dylan says as she tugs skyes hand. soon they get to the board walk as they all get ice cream from casey's. it gave dylan a sense of nostalgia which belly definitely noticed as dylan order grasshopper ice cream.
dylan was almost to caught up in her thought but she couldn't help but laugh when conrad began to speak. "you know what else my mom loved...? the beach house." he says sassily as dylan lets out a snort.
"sasrad has entered the chat." dylan mumbles as steven nudges her with a laugh. "you know susannah wasn't a saint either." skye says which makes the group fall silent. dylan saw the change in the aura as she cleared her throat.
"who remembers when we'd do that challenge every year? whoever lost rode the scariest ride, whoever won got all that candy?" dylan begins and the next thing they know they're in a match of laser tag.
of course the boys complained about the uneven numbers even though they won anyway but it was super fun. after they exited the laser tag place they made their way over to the rock climbing wall.
first was steven and taylor, but as soon as they tried to climb they heard a concerned voice behind them. "wait you can't do that without a safety harness!" he says loudly. dylan froze in her spot.
her heart turned along with her stomach. it couldn't be him. she then turned around as it in fact was him. she felt like crying and throwing up. him and jere were talking as he caught sight of dylan. his conversation quieted down a bit as the pair locked eyes.
dylan tried to make her presence more invisible as she tried to casually hide behind conrad. just as their eyes began to unlock they were startled out of their staring contest by the shouts and laughs of steven and taylor.
up next was dylan and jere. cameron first helped jere with his harness and dylan struggled since she tried so quickly to get it on. "here let me help." cam says softly as dylan looks up at him. she could notice the others staring but she didn't care.
she hadn't looked into his coffee brown eyes for so long it felt so new to her. she then felt his hand softly and respectfully snake around her waist helping her buckle the harness as she cleared her throat and turned. "thanks." she mumbled lowly as she began climbing.
she couldn't help but look down every so often, staring at the boy who broke her heart two times. but there was just something so pure about his presence that she couldn't understand and she hated herself for it.
n, cam and dylan are back in the present time!! (i'm lowkey probably still gonna have flashbacks tho🙈)
