"Liv be careful," Mia laughs. Liv is drunkenly dancing next to the fire, swinging her crop top around in her hand.

Talia passes one of the bottles Aleks brought to Julian. Everyone's just laughing and chatting as we slowly make our way through a couple bottles.

Keanu seems to be in a better mood now that Talia is here and the two are all over each other chatting up gossip and things. The amount of times I've heard Keanu rant about Elle. Well, she calls her by her full name, Stella.

I can hear music playing from someone's phone but I can't quite place who's.

"Come dance with me," Liv holds her hand out to Aleks who gets up in a second.

"M'lady," he jokes grabbing her hand.

The others laugh.

"I want to swim," Leo whispers in my ear. His hot breath on my neck gives me shivers.

"Me too."

We both get interrupted when Talia stands in front of us holding a bag of marshmallows. She hands us both one.

"Where are your guys' skewers?" She asks me.

"Er... There should be four in the kitchen next to the fridge. Everyone else has to grab a stick and burn the end."

Talia nods her head before repeating what I said to everyone else so that they can find themselves sticks. When she leaves to the kitchen I shove the marshmallow in my mouth.

Leo does the same but then he tries to say something. I laugh at the amount of times he has to repeat himself but no matter what all I can hear is gibberish while he's eating the marshmallow.

He laughs too which only makes it more difficult for him to talk then we're both laughing our heads off with our mouths full.

Talia returns to give us both a skewer and more marshmallows.

"I was trying to say," he says as he puts the marshmallow on, "that after we should go swim."

I smile and nod my head.

We both cook our marshmallows and I watch mine catch on fire and burn till it melts off the skewer.

"What a waste," he says.

"I can still eat it," I reach to grab it in the pit of the fire and he grabs my shirt to stop me.

"Are you dumb?"

"What?"

"Fire," he says. "It's fucking hot."

I laugh. Shit this is why I shouldn't of drank so much.

"Right."

"I want to go down to the water!" Liv says as she drops her stick to the ground and runs down the stairs leading to the dock. There's lights in the railings, illuminating the steps all the way down but the dock is pitch black. The only thing lighting the water is the moon light and stars.

"Dang she took our idea," Leo says.

I step over Livs shirt that she dropped and watch her strip to her underwear. Mia follows and does the same.

"These girls are crazy," Julian says to Aleks.

"I love them," Aleks laughs before heading down to the water. He takes off his shirt as he walks.

Nobody bothers the five minutes it would take to go inside and put on our damp bathing suits but instead everyone strips to under garments and jumps in. Except Liv who isn't wearing a bra but she's already in the water and it's too dark to even notice.

"It's so cold," Mia squeals as she resurfaces from her jump.

"C'mon Aleks. Strip down and jump in. I know you want to."

Talia and Keanu both look conflicted but eventually Talia starts undressing and jumps in. Giggling the whole time. Julian and Aleks also jump into the water leaving just Keanu, Leo and I.

I'm too busy looking at Keanu to notice Leo has jumped in. They're all splashing each other like children and laughing.

"You going to go in?" I ask her.

"Um," she looks at the water. "It looks cold."

I can hear some of the others climb back on the dock to jump in.

"C'mon," I can hear Leo say.

"It's not that bad," I say pulling Keanu towards the water by her wrist. Of course by doing this I am close to the water making it easy for Leo to push me in.

Which is exactly what he does.

I think I dragged Keanu down with me.

The first thing I hear when I reach the surface again is, "Fuck my phone is on me. Leo you fucking prick."

"Maybe if you didn't have it on you twenty four seven and enjoyed the moment." I look around to find where they are. His voice shows zero regret.

The others are off in the distance swimming or whatever.

Keanu gets out of the water and stomps up the stairs. Nobody even notices her going up.

I go to follow her but Leo stops me.

"She's just going to whine and ruin your night."

"So? I can't just leave her by herself."

He shrugs and lets me swim past him. I follow after Keanu who by the time we've reached the cottage, she's sobbing.

"Kea?" I ask when I enter the cottage.

She turns to me and cries into my chest.

"What's wrong?"

"Everyone's having so much fun and I just want to go home."

She's homesick.

I pull her away and smile to her. "Dry off and you and I will go watch a movie."

"Okay," she sniffles.

She's with Talia in the spare room tonight. Liv and Mia are still in the master room and Julian and Aleks will take the couches.

In about five minutes we've both changed into dry clothes and under the covers to the spare bedroom bed.

We watch a random movie from the millions of disks I've slowly collected over time. She chose Mulan.

Within forty minutes she's fallen asleep next to me and I get up and leave the room once I hear the others.

I signal for them to be quiet because Keanu is sleeping. Talia goes straight to their room to sleep and the others stay in the sitting room to play some games and chat. Leo isn't with them though.

I look around the cottage trying to find him before going down to the dock. The trees block the view of the dock from the top of the stairs so I have to go all the way down.

The lights illuminating the stairs are so pretty with the trees and nature at this time.

Finally I reach the dock where Leo is sitting with his feet in the water.

"Whatcha doing?" I ask startling him a bit.

"Nothing."

I sit down next to him.

For a bit it's just silence, nothing but the crickets and small splashes from fish.

"Was she homesick?" Leo asks.

"Yeah."

"I figured. She always gets homesick."

Sometimes I forget they're siblings when everyone's hanging out like this. They don't talk much and the only way someone would know is because they look a bit alike.

"Well she's asleep now. We were watching Mulan."

I see him smile to himself. "Did she pick it?"

"Yeah?"

"I always wanted to watch..." he laughs. "I always wanted to watch Beauty and The Beast and she always wanted Mulan."

"Beauty and The Beast?"

"Yes be quiet."

His curly hair is even more curly when it's damp. One second he can be a miserable moody twit and the next he's just a cute kid who likes Beauty and The Beast.

He looks out into the water and I can tell he's thinking about Keanu. They both miss each other, they live in the same house, what's stopping them from being close again?

"What're the others up to?"

"Talia went to bed and the others are just chatting I think." He nods his head. "Why aren't you up there?"

"In case you haven't noticed I'm not a real big people person," he smiles to me.

"I've noticed. Some days you hate me some days you don't."

He looks back out at the water. It's so calm right now and looks so smooth.

"Plus I don't know them very well and I like it down here. I'd get my sketchbook but you're here."

"Go get it," I shrug. "Maybe I'll swim I don't know."

"I don't know."

"C'mon go get it."

"Yeah okay," he says standing up. "If somebody at the cottage starts a conversation with me I'm blaming you."

"They're all too drunk and self absorbed to notice you, you'll be fine."

He goes upstairs and I wait patiently in the dark kicking at the water.

He's right. The silence is nice. I used to always sit down here when I was younger and the mosquitos would always be a struggle.

Eventually I decide to take off my shirt and shorts before jumping in. I already got my other clothes soaked I'm not getting my sweatpants soaked too.

I get a little brave and swim far out into the pitch black water. It's not as fun alone but it's peaceful and I like that. When I swim back Leo is sitting again with his feet in the water and using a clip on light for reading to light up his page.

"The others went to bed," he says.

Out of boredom I attempt to float on my back like a starfish but I can't do it. Keanu always does it and laughs that I can't.

"What are you doing?"

"Tryna float."

He doesn't answer and it's quiet again.

"I'm going to go to bed," I say moving towards the dock and pulling myself up.

"I am too." He snaps the sketchbook shut.

"Your not gonna draw?"

"Nah, I'm pretty tired."

I shrug before picking up my clothes I left on the lounge chair. "Okay."

When we enter the cottage all the lights are off. He goes upstairs to my room and I walk around making sure all the doors are locked before heading upstairs to the washroom to put on not wet boxers and brush my teeth.

When I get into bed Leo is already in bed. I lay for a bit kinda missing how clingy Keanu is. At times it can't be annoying but she likes to cuddle all the time.

For a bit I stare at the pitch black ceiling thinking about how school is going to come back and bite me in the ass.

I want to stay at the cottage forever. Just a chill time with friends.

How could Keanu ever want to leave?

"You awake?" Leo whispers.

"Yeah."

"Okay," is all he says before I hear him shuffle. I laugh a bit at how random it was. Still completely awake.