Cherry || Owen Joyner

six

When we meet with the boys on the beach the next day, there was only two people instead of three.

I scan around and I don't see the blonde anywhere. "Where's Owen?" I ask the boys. Kira was helping Nash bring some stuff down.

"Oh, you mean your boyfriend?" Charlie teased as I glared at him.

"No, he's just a friend." I want him to get that idea out of his head. "He's not feeling well so he stayed at the suite." Jeremy pouted.

I pouted along with him. "Do you mind if I go check on him? I have some medicine he might need." Jeremy nodded as he handed me their key.

"I'll be right back." I tell them. "You think they're gonna make out?" I hear Charlie ask Jeremy.

I flip him off jokingly as he laughs. As I walk towards the hotel, my two friends looked at me strangely.

"Where are you going?" Nash asked as I looked at them.

"Owen's not feeling well so I'm gonna go check on him." I tell them. They look at each other and start giggling.

I just roll my eyes as I walk up to the hotel. After a few minutes, I finally get to their suite.

"Owen!" I yell so he knows it's me walking in. It was quiet for a moment.

I don't see him in the living room so that must mean he's in his room.

When I walk to him, he was asleep on his bed. He was facing the door and his hair was covering parts of his face.

He looked so peaceful as he slept. I walk over to him and bend down.

I move his hair out of his face. "Hey, wake up." I say softly.

After a moment, his eyes flutter open and he looks at me. His nose scrunches as he realizes it's me.

"Charlie told me you weren't feeling well." I frown to him. He frowns to me too. "I don't wanna get you sick." I could hear the congestion in his voice.

"I'm okay. How're you feeling?" I ask him. He sniffed as he shrugged. "Headache and congested." He listed off.

I sigh as I look at him. "Stay here, I have medicine for you." I stand up as he looks at me.

"Hurry up, I have a marathon to run." He joked. Even when he's feeling bad, he still jokes around. I go to my room and quickly grab medicine.

He was in the same spot, scrolling through his phone when I come back. "Take these and you should be feeling better soon." I smile towards him.

He slowly sits up as I hand him the medicine. He takes it dry which makes me cringe.

"Why are you making that face towards me?" He asked as he laid back down.

"You took your medicine dry. I don't think I can trust you after seeing that." I joke with him.

He wraps himself into his blanket, which was adorable. "Whatever." I could tell he was getting tired so I sighed.

"Take as much time to rest as you want." Before I knew it, Owen had already fell back asleep.

I could tell he was feeling bad knowing he's not as energetic. I sigh as I leave.

I walk back down to the beach where everyone else is.

When I get back, Charlie and Jeremy were passing a football while Kira and Nash were laying out. I go towards my friends and pout.

Nash looked over and noticed I was alone. "Owen's still feeling bad?" He asked as I nodded.

"He basically passed out by the time I left." I tell him. Kira snored a little showing she was asleep.

I slapped her back causing her to jolt up. "What the hell?" She complained.

"Saylor just came back from being with Owen." Nash stuck a piece of pretzel in his mouth as Kira sat up.

"I'm going in the water. Nash, wanna come?" He agreed so they went into the water.

As I laid my stuff out, Jeremy and Charlie come over to us.

"Jeremy and I were gonna jam out and we brought Owen's box." Charlie explained.

"We wondered if you would take his place since he's not into it." Jeremy suggested. They wanted to jam out with me.

"It sounds fun. Whenever you want to, let's do it." I agree. "Okay I think we were gonna cool off in the water."

I didn't wanna be alone, so I went to the water with them. The waves were a little strong today so we were getting rocked.

"You wanna see a cool trick?" Nash asked when we all get to them. We agreed so we waited for him to do it.

His whole trick was to do a front flip as a strong wave came. He came back up a few feet away causing us to laugh.

"I got rocked pretty hard there." He laughed as we did the same.

It was weird not having Owen here with us. During the day, I couldn't help but think about if he was okay.

I was laying out while Kira and Nash were in the water still. They rented out paddle boards and were trying to ride them.

As I laid out, someone came and sat next to me. I open my eyes to see it was Charlie.

"I'm surprised you're not paddle boarding." I tell him.

After spending time with him, I learned that he was outgoing and adventurous. He enjoyed trying new things outside.

"I tried to see if they had more but they're out." He pouts towards me. He cracks open a white claw and starts drinking it.

I figured this is a good time to ask him about Kira. "So, you and Kira?" I ask with a light smirk on my face.

He smiled a little bit but he bit his lip to hide it. "She's cute. And super funny." They had the same since of humor.

Kira isn't the type to easily fall for people. But with Charlie, I could tell she really likes him.

She's so focused on her career, it was nice to see her let loose.

Charlie's a good person too, I can tell he's not going to hurt her.

"You like her?" I ask raising an eyebrow towards him. "Psh. No." He lied. I rolled my eyes as I laid my head back down.

"If we're talking on crushes, can we talk about your crush on a certain blonde boy?" He teased.

I could feel my face heat up. But I shake my head. "We're just friends." We were just friends though.

"Isn't that him right there?" I sit up and look around. But Owen wasn't around anywhere.

Charlie couldn't hold his laughter back as he looked at me. "I hate you." I glare at him. He stuck a pretzel in his mouth as he looked at me.

"You just proved me right." He cheekily told me. I laid back down so I could work on my tan.

"No, I'm just worried about him as a friend." I try to tell him.

Either way, I knew he wasn't going to believe me. I can tell that me and Charlie are going to have that sibling bond.

Jeremy came over with a box so I guess we were gonna jam out.

I walk over towards it so I could play. We jammed out on the beach for a few hours.

But we wanted to go back up to the hotel. Owen was feeling better.

"Do you wanna go to a bar?" Charlie asked as we stood around. "Owen and Saylor aren't twenty-one." Nash brings up.

"I brought my fake id." I tell them honestly. Owen smirked over towards me. "I brought mine too." I bent over and gave him a high-five.

We all look at each other and smile. I think we all know what we're thinking.

"Well, let's all get ready for the bar."