Rejected, My Jaded Love
Episode 41

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.

We arrive at the marina and head to my dad’s slip. We enter the slip and I see the pontoon and I am amazed by the size of the Pontoon; it has a second level on it that has an awning that can swing out and cover the seated area of the second floor, and a fiberglass slide coming down from the second level and seats at least 16 people. It has tan seats and black trim and a ladder at the back between the two engines to climb back onto the pontoon. The top-level allows some of the bottom seats to be in the shade, with the front seats all in the sun for us to sit on or lay across to get some sun. This is a total party boat. My brother Tyler looks back at me and starts laughing at my expression, I know I look completely impressed by the boat. I grin back and say, “let’s get going”, I am so ready to go swimming. The girls are super excited, and the guys are impressed by the boat. It is super nice. We load the three coolers onto the boat, and we untie the boat and slowly start heading out of the marina. It is 1 pm and the lake is packed. I stand behind Tyler as he drives us to where he wants to float today on the lake.

I am smiling as we glide across the water, with the twin engines, we are moving faster than I thought we could in a pontoon. I see several boats come into view and I wonder where we are going. Tyler cuts down his speed and he glides the boat about 300 feet from a small-looking island. There are a lot of boats already there and he kept us a little further back from them as we were planning on swimming a little and totally using the slide. The guys open up the cooler and each grab a beer and I put the sandwich cooler into the big cooler to keep the sandwiches cold. All of us girls go upstairs and take off our clothes get down to our bikinis.

Jessica is wearing a small red suit that looks great with her tan complexion and dark hair and eyes. Bree is wearing a navy blue, bikini that helps showcase her beautiful dark blue eyes with white polka dots. The spaghetti straps tie behind her neck and it looks like it was made for her, and Nicole is wearing a strapless baby-blue bikini that totally makes her look like a Goddess, showcasing her hourglass figure. They all comment on my suit and tell me how cute I look in it. I know that they are worried about me, and my body image issues, and I love them even more for trying to keep my anxiety down.

Bree turns on the water line at the top of the fiberglass slide and lets the water run down it for a minute before sitting at the top of the slide. She slides down screaming her head off and we all start laughing, we are here to have a good time, and we all follow her down into the water all yelling out as well, Nicole, then Jessica, and then me. We gave it a short amount of time between us so that the previous person could swim out of the way before the next person comes down.

I come up for air and I hear some loud music coming from our boat. We end up floating and swimming around for about an hour until we get tired. We all swim over and get out of the water. Braxton had been jumping in doing flips from the lower level at the end of the boat. He, Dixon, Tate, and Travis all swam with us, and we had a good time. I asked Tyler where the music was coming from, and he pointed out all the hidden speakers on the boat. He also expanded the boat to make room for us to be able to dance. He turns down the music for us to be able to talk while we eat. I go grab the sandwiches from the cooler for our lunch. I had gotten six, foot-long sandwiches, and four 6-inch sandwiches, and we sit around eating and drinking and occasionally dancing before we go swimming again.

Tyler said that we were at the Sandbar. I noticed we had more boats around us now and heard Bree and Dixon both g***n. I look at them and see that they are looking at a boat two down from us and that Mason and Brax are looking at it as well.

“what’s the problem, do you know them?” I ask Dixon.

“Yes, we recognize the boat, it’s my i***t brother and that slut, Ashley” Dixon replies.