Lost In The Hamptons

Chapter 1

"But mother, I don't want to go to the summer house this year." Ryan Swatson complained to her mother, Valerie Swatson. "I want to stay in the city! Janessa is having a barbecue tonight and if we go to the Hamptons I won't be able to go."

"Ryan, we have been over this, you know that the summer house is a tradition of ours," Valerie calmly said back.

"I don't care, there isn't going to be anything to do up there, I will be bored out of my mind. I don't want to go." Ryan whined.

"It doesn't matter whether you want to go or not, honey, you're going, and that's final."

Ryan hated when her mother called her honey, it made her feel bad about fighting with her after all Valerie rarely said no to her and she was always buying her clothes and matching shoes to go with her new clothes. But it still wasn't fair. Knowing that she wasn't go to win this argument, Ryan decided to go to her room and call her best friends to tell them the bad news.

She dialed Ava's number and she answered on the first ring.

"Hey Ryan, what's up?" Ava said once she answered.

"Hang on let me get Janessa and Niki," Ryan said as she called their numbers to add them to a four-way call.

"Hey Nes, Nik, I've got Ava on the line too," Ryan said once both girls had answered.

"Hey guys," both girls answered at the same time.

"So I have some bad news," Ryan said, gettin straight to the point. "I can't go to the barbeque tonight."

"What do you mean you can't go?" Janessa exclaimed, completely shocked.

"Yeah Ryan! We've been planning this for the past two weeks, how can you just not be allowed to come?" Ava asked now very upset that her friend wasn't going to be there.

"My mom just told me that we have to go to our summer house in the Hamptons," Ryan explained sighing, very upset about the situation.

"That's so unfair!" Niki said also upset. "Why can't you just go some other time?"

"Yeah it won't be the same with you not there!" Janessa said, not sounding the least bit upset.

"Can't you just like, stay with me?" Niki asked, and as she said it she got more excited. "That would be so awesome, you should totally stay at my place, your parents can go with out you!"

"Nik, you know I would absolutely love that," Ryan said, wishing her parents would go for an idea like that. "But you know that our parents wouldn't let us, besides, I'd be staying with you for a whole month, you wouldn't want me with you for that long."

"Well you could stay at all of our houses for different parts of the summer," Ava suggested hopefully.

"I really don't think my parents would go for that," Ryan said, wishing that she could stay at one of their houses.

"Well I have an idea!" Janessa said excitedly. "We could come over and help you pack!"

"Yeah!" Ava squealed happily, "I love to pack."

"Would you guys really help me?" Ryan asked, now happy again. "That would be so awesome."

"Okay, well we can be over in like, 10 minutes." Niki said, "does that work for you?"

"Yeah, that would be awesome!" Ryan said smiling at the thought of how nice her friends were to her. "I'll see you in a bit!"

"I love my friends," Ryan said to herself as she snapped her cell phone shut. She then walked across her room, the shaggy light blue carpet squishing under her feet with every step she took. The carpet was one of the many colorful things in Ryan's room, secretly she liked to think that she lived in a rainbow, her room was so colorful, it actually seemed like it was a real rainbow. After walking across the room she opened her white door, one of the few things that didn't have the slightest bit of color on it in her room, and walked into the hallway to the closet where her parents kept their suitcases. After standing there for a few minutes trying to decide how many suitcases she would need the doorbell rang. Ryan just stood there, she knew it was her friends, but she never answered the door, that's what their live-in housekeeper, Adelina, was for.

Five minutes later Niki, Ava, and Janessa were at Ryan's side helping her drag the suitcases into her bedroom.

"I still can't believe you won't be coming tonight," Janessa Sinclair said, her usually sparkly and full of life, emerald green eyes, looked sad as she said this. Janessa, with her long, light brown hair, naturally white straight toothed smile, and bright emerald green eyes, was by far way prettier than most of the girls her age at J.B. Starrett High. The high school that the girls attended

Ava Corbey, also pretty like Janessa, had sparkling ocean blue eyes, framed by dark full lashes, and wavy blond hair that rested nicely right on top of her chest. Ava, pretty, but not that bright, was always asking stupid questions and was known for being somewhat of an air head.

Then there was Niki, as pretty as she is smart, Niki had shoulder length chestnut brown hair and baby blue eyes, tall and slim, could be a model someday, if she could get over the fact that she was the clumsiest girl in the ninth grade.

The leader of the girls, Ryan, had Carmel colored shoulder length hair, bright hazel eyes, and was 5'5. She had great style and loves shoes. Her friends look up to her for almost everything, and she feeds off of the power that they give her.

After an hour and a half of packing, Ryan's bags were finally full, all 6 of them. Her family's private jet would be leaving for the Hamptons in an hour which gave them half an hour to get all the bags in the family car, get Ryan's friends to Janessa's house for the barbeque and then drive to the airport to be there before the plane leaves without them.

As the girls walked to the car they tried to think of how they could get Ryan to stay. They had already begged her parents but they weren't budging. They had made up their minds and their was nothing the girls could say that would change them. But Niki decided to give it one last shot. Maybe if she made her cute face, like the one Puss makes in Shrek 2.

"Valerie, are you sure Ryan can't stay at my house while you guys go?" Niki asked for the tenth time.

"Yes Niki, Ryan is coming with us, she will have her laptop to IM you girls, and her cell phone to text and call you, while she's there," Valerie said to the four hopeful girls. "Trust me, it will seem as if she's here with you, now get in the car before I get Craig to lift you in." Craig Swatson, Ryan's father, and Valerie's husband. A successful lawyer, about 6'3, with dark brown hair, bright blue eyes, a surprisingly handsome man despite the fact that he was in his 40's and a father. His wife, Valerie, younger than he, in her mid to late 30's, looks like Ryan only older and more mom like, and with a stylish blond bob.