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Chapter Five. ♥

This is soooooo late and I'm soooooooo sorry. Please don't hate me. 

Grace's swimsuit is on the link in the summary. 

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John Luke’s Point of View:

I hadn’t meant to kiss her tonight, but she just looked so beautiful underneath the moonlight that I couldn’t help it. Her soft lips pressed against mine and her smooth cheeks held tightly in my hands as our mouths moved together was the best thing I’d ever felt.

She had her arms around my neck and her fingers were playing with the wet curls at the nape of my neck. I realized that she had to be standing on her tiptoes and they had to be getting tired so I used her waist and the water to place her on my hips. She wrapped her legs around me and licked my lip, shyly asking for entrance.

I couldn’t hold in my groan as I parted my lips and let her inside. The kiss was getting a little too hot when she pulled away and pressed her forehead against mine. Our breathing was ragged as we tried to calm it down, matching smiles on our lips.

I realized after I dropped her feet back down that she was in love with another guy. What if she was just using me to get back at him? To make him jealous or something? I don’t know if I could handle that, it would be the worst.

“Grace, we need to talk,” I said, walking out of the pond and pulling on my jeans. When she was standing next to me again I went in for the kill. “Why did you let me kiss you when you’re in love with someone else? I didn’t think you were the kind of girl to use another person to your advantage.”

She paused with her shorts sitting on her hips unbuttoned. “What are you talking about, John Luke? I’m not taking advantage of you.”

I pulled my shirt over my head and shook my hair out. “Don’t lie to me, Grace. I’ve known you for too long for you to be able to lie to me.”

She buttoned her shorts before throwing her arms out to the side. ‘I’m not lying to you. Why would I lie about this? If I didn’t want to kiss you I wouldn’t have. “

“You already told me that you’re in love with someone else. Why would you kiss me when I know for sure that I’m not the one you’re in love with?” I shouted, making her flinch. “I’m not stupid, Grace.”

She had her tank top on by now and was standing in front of me. “I never said you were stupid! What makes you think that you’re not the boy I’m in love with?”

“If you were in love with me you wouldn’t have been all over that guy at the mall today. I heard him ask you out and you even told me that you said yes,” I shouted, throwing my hands up too.

She just stayed quiet after that and I knew I’d hit the nail on the head. She was in love with that Evan guy already and I was just stupid. I’d actually thought for a minute that I wasn’t the only one who was in love, that maybe she returned the feelings.

“Just get on the Mule and I’ll take you home. I don’t want to be out here anymore,” I said, shoving my feet into my boots.

“That’s fine with me,” she said with venom in her voice.

The ride back to Mamaw Kay and Papaw Phil’s was completely silent and I hated it. But then again, I didn’t do it she did. She hurt me and I don’t know if I could forgive her for it. 

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Grace’s Point of View:

It had been two whole days since I’d talked to John Luke. I hadn’t really talked to anyone in all honesty; I’d just sat around in my pajamas all day. Sadie had texted, called, and tried to Skype with me but I just ignored her. Evan gave up after a couple of ignore text messages, he was totes the perf guy for me –not.

 I heard someone knocking on my door so I rolled out of bed and drug myself downstairs. I didn’t want to talk to anyone; I was so happy that my mom and dad worked most of the time so I could avoid them. I didn’t want to tell anyone why I couldn’t stop crying.

I opened the door and saw Cole and Sadie standing on my door step. “You’ve been avoiding us for two days and it’s not sitting well with the Robertson clan. We’re all going to this water park the guys put together and you’re coming with us. You don’t have a choice.”

I sighed before stepping back and letting them inside with me. Sadie dragged me back upstairs and pulled out a one-piece swimsuit for me before sending me to the bathroom to change. When I came back she had a pair of shorts and a tank top sitting on the bed for me.

“I don’t know what happened with John Luke but you can’t just shut everyone out like this. It ain’t healthy,” Cole said as Sadie and I walked downstairs.

“I know I can’t, I just don’t want to talk about it anymore,” I said, braiding my hair as we walked down to the swimming hole.

I saw that the entire clan was already there and we were the last ones. John Luke was with Reed out in the water so I stuck to the edge with the women. They were talking about how good the guys did with making the water park.

I was sitting on one of the blankets when Jep’s daughter Priscilla came over to me. She took my hand and said, “Come play with me in the water.”

I nodded and pulled off my tank top and shorts before following her. She giggled and pulled me with her, going as deep in the water as her short little legs would let her. I crouched down so I was level with her and started chasing her through the water.

“Did you find someone to play with you, ‘Cilla?” a familiar voice asked from behind us. “Do you care if I play with you and Gracie?”

“No, come play!” she giggled, taking John Luke’s hand in hers and pulling him down into the water with us. “We’re chasing Gracie around. It’s fun!”

We played around for a while and I avoided John Luke as best as I could. Then Korie called for a bathroom break and Priscilla left us alone. I mentally face-palmed because I was alone with John Luke despite all of my efforts to avoid him.

“I know that we’re not talking right now but you look cute in that swimsuit. It suits you,” he said quietly. “I’m sorry I’m such a jerk sometimes. I shouldn’t have kissed you last night, I made things awkward and it was stupid.”

He was giving me a way out and I was grateful, “I think some things happened that shouldn’t have. I care about you a lot John Luke, but maybe a relationship isn’t what we need right now.”

He nodded and held his arms open for me. I exhaled the breath I hadn’t realized I was holding and wrapped my arms around his torso. I missed the feel of him in my arms; I may have just done the stupidest thing possible.

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John Luke’s Point of View:

It’s not like I wanted to be just friends with Grace, but I’d really stepped in it. I couldn’t be just friends with her after know how her lips felt pressed against mine. She was so addictive, but I would do whatever I needed to to keep her close to me.

We kept splashing around in the water until she started getting tired. I lowered myself into the water and took her onto my back, gliding through the water lazily. We stayed in it until Mamaw Kay called us in for dinner.

Grace slid off of my back and walked over to the big picnic tale. She sat next to mom and I sat on her other side, with our legs pressed together. I was going to have a harder time being just friends with her than I thought.