hatred | miniminter

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"what's wrong?" my attention is quickly turned back to freya, as i bring the glass up to my lips, trying to think of an answer.

"last night was a bit weird wasn't it?" i raise my eyebrows, echoing everyone else today.

"yeah, it was a bit." she looks behind her, glancing over to simon, then bringing her focus back onto me. "maybe you two could be friends now?" i let out an audible groan at her response.

"if he wants to make the effort frey, then sure."

"he won't if you keep ignoring him, eden." she raises an eyebrow at me.

"i'll think about it." i respond knowing full well it's something i won't consider, chewing at the inside of my cheek as i focus on him again, but he's stood chatting to tobi.

time passes, i find myself feeling slightly drunk and it appears that everyone else does too. as the boat sets back to shore, i throw my dress back on and allow the breeze to pass through my hair. i look down at the sea, the gushing waves felt somewhat comforting. and as we finally reach the shore and step off the boat, discussing where we should go eat.

tucking into my meal, i glance at the sunset blossoming upon the horizon, the colour stretching far and wide. "i kind of want to walk along the beach." i glance to everyone else, lifting the fork up to my mouth. "anyone up for it?" most nod in agreement, apart from jj, freya, josh, vik and ellie who want to head back to the villa.

finishing off our food and paying the bill, we walk out of the restaurant - most of us heading different directions. i walk with ethan as we head towards the beach, and i quickly remove my shoes before stepping onto the sand, carrying them in my hand as light ocean breeze causes me to shiver. the beach stretched out along the water as the waves softly doused the sand and my feet instantly melt into the sand. "this is nice." i grin at ethan, appreciating the peach coloured sky in front of me.

"this was a good suggestion, ede." tobi shouts to me, causing me to turn around. but i instantly notice him walking with simon.

"i know." i smile back at him, swiftly turning my head back around to ethan. we all still appear slightly tipsy from the amount of alcohol consumed on the boat and i find myself swaying slightly, struggling to walk on the sand.

"someone's still drunk." cal cackles, leaning to grab my hand.

"shut up!" i yell, "it's the sand."

"excuses, excuses, eden." lux grins, "you're just drunk." i jokingly scowl at him, intertwining cal's fingers with my own.

"c'mon, i'll give you a piggyback." cal turns to me and we stop for a moment as he kneels down for me to jump on my back and harry grabs my shoes and bag to carry.

"please be careful." i whisper down at him, snaking my arms around his neck as he holds onto my legs, carrying me along the shore.

"wait, wait!" harry yells, causing us all to stop. "tobi, get on my back and we'll have a piggyback race!" he suggests, now passing my things to lux.

"nah man!" tobi shakes his head, clearly afraid of what could go wrong.

"come on man!" ethan chuckles, causing tobi to shake his head and step over to harry. harry bends on his knees slightly, lifting tobi onto his back and slight fear consumes me.

"fucksakes!" i yell, burying my face into cal's shoulder. i lift it up as ethan counts us down, telling the boys to race to a random sun lounger that has been left behind. breathing in, i grip even tighter onto cal as he begins running, holding all my weight onto his back. i close my eyes tightly, worrying over what could go wrong. and it did go wrong. he hadn't even ran very far and he trips over his own two feet, sending us both flying to the floor. "ow!" i yell, tears of laughter falling from my eyes as i roll around in the sand. my stomach already begins to ache from the laughter as i notice lux filming us.

"bloody hell!" ethan exclaims, falling to the floor in hysterics and lux holds his phone in mine and cal's faces whilst still holding my things, laughing at us both. simon strolls over with a face like a smacked ass, raising his eyebrows at me. and considering everyone else appeared occupied, he reaches an arm out to help me up. but being too distracted from giggling, i put all my weight onto him and pull him to the floor with me.

"great." he mumbles, sighing, which only causes everyone else to laugh even more and my cheeks begin to ache from laughing too much as my face burns red.

"sorry." i bite my lip, trying to stop the chuckles from coming, but they only emerge even more from my chest and my head slumps back into the sand. simon scrambles up from the floor, brushing the sand down from his clothes and stands over me. i stare up at him for a moment, my laughter instantly stopping as our eyes lock and he reaches both hands out this time to help me. i lift myself up and grab his arms, pulling my body up to meet his.

"thanks." i mutter, smacking the sand off my body and hair. "fucking hell." i moan at the amount of sand covering me as cal comes up to me, attempting to help.

"well, i think i won." harry chuckles softly as we now walk back on ourselves and head back towards the villa.

"shut up!" cal shouts at him.

"mate, you had a stinker!" harry shakes his head, grinning.

walking back into the villa, me, cal and simon still covered in sand, i instantly begin to walk up the stairs to shower, "what happened to you lot?" vik stares at us all.

"freezy nearly killed eden." harry explains, turning to us all with a grin across his lips.

"shut up! harry suggested a piggybag race and i sent me and ede flying, then simon tried helping eden and she pulled him down with her."

"by accident." i roll my eyes, continuing to walk up the stairs and simon follows behind me.

"not ignoring me anymore then?" he mutters as we meet on the landing. i look up at him, my breath hitching in my throat. i guess i'm not.

"don't know." i shrug my shoulders, smirking at him and stroll into my room, closing the door behind me.