Love Bug

Chapter 5

Lillian’s POV

Nate’s face was masked in fear. I wasn’t expecting him to be that scared of goats. I mean, really. He’s, like, a lot bigger than them and these ones are so sweet. 

I latched Nate’s and my arms together and skipped over to the fence- well, I skipped and Nate... trudged.

We climbed the old wooden fence and were soon in the field with the goats. Nate’s hand found mine and I felt hour fingers intertwine. A goat came over to us and I crouched down to pet it. Nate leaned down too, but the minute the goat came an inch closer, he shot up like a rocket. 

Baaaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaa, the goat called, staring Nate right in the face. Nate for some reason couldn’t make eye contact with it and all he did was nervously look around and grip my hand harder. 

After another two minutes of the goat staring at Nate, which after three minutes gets kinda creepy, Nate dropped my hand and sprinted away.

He ran past the creepy goat and sprinted farther into the field, not a smart move. The goats ran after him, which made Nate run faster. I couldn’t control my laughing. Every time a goat would come near him, he’d jump about three feet in the air and keep running. 

“Nate, just stop- stop running!” I managed to choke out while still laughing.

“NO!” he cried back. 

I just went back to laughing and leaning against the fence. Too bad I hadn’t brought my video camera...

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Nate’s POV

I looked behind me and saw a stampede of goats chasing me. Every goat in the field was after me. Why did this have to happen! Now I looked like a complete fool to Lilly, who was laughing by the fence, probably wishing she had brought a camcorder to tape this. 

All of a sudden, I felt a goat touch my leg. I yelped and heard a ripping noise. My eyes widened as I felt the back of my shorts. The goat had bit a huge hole in the seat of my shorts!

I sprinted faster, towards Lilly. Once I reached her, I leaped the fence and collapsed onto my back- partly from exhaustion and trauma of being chased by a mad stampede of goats and partly because I didn’t want Lilly to see my boxers.... they were kind of embarrassing. 

Suddenly, Lilly was standing over me, still giggling. 

“What’s so funny?” I shot, even though I knew perfectly well what was so funny- me being chased by goats.

“You- you should. have. seen. your. self. It- it was hi. larious,” she choked out, extending a hand out to help me up. I grabbed it and was soon on my feet, “You know, you should never run from a goat.”

“Now you tell me.”

She laughed again but quickly sobered up, “All they wanted was food,” she said.

“No, they wanted to eat my butt off!” 

“Oh, please,” she said, sauntering off towards the Vespa. She looked behind her shoulder and burst out laughing, “You- you’re wearing. boxers that have- have talking. cheese heads. on. them.”

I quickly covered up the back of my pants,“Shut up, Lilly.”

She walked towards me again, “Okay, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to traumatize you with the goats. I just thought it’s be funny, which it was, but really, I didn’t mean for your pants to get ripped off or anything,” she leaned closer and stood on her tiptoes until she reached my ear, “Forgive me?” she whispered.

I nodded my head. I leaned in until our heads were nearly touching. Lilly’s big blue eyes stared up at me from behind her thick eyelashes. Her pasty, flawless skin shone and her lips curved into a gentle smile. 

I closed my eyes and kissed her.

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Lillian’s POV

All of a sudden we were kissing. The minute Nate’s lips touched mine, a shock of electricity ran through my body. I wrapped my arms around Nate after he enclosed me in his grasp. His hands slid down to my lower back and I reached my hands up to his hair, where I ran my fingers through it. 

We pulled away at the same time and I opened my eyes to find Nate’s cool blue eyes burning with compassion as he stared at me. It was the best first kiss ever.

I grabbed his hand and stood close to him, staring at the low rolling hills and blue sky.

Nate’s face fell. “Nate, what- what’s wrong?” I asked, nervously.

“Lilly, I- I have a girlfriend," he said, with his eyes sad.

I felt my eyes tear up, and believe me, I’m not a crier. “A... girlfriend?” I gulped.

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hi guys! so, chapter 5- what do you think. funny, cute, and sad right? I know this chapter is short and all but I felt like this was a better place to end the chapter, so I hope you liked it! More to come. Suggestions or comments, feel free to comment. xoxo, Lucie