Anything But Ordinary ☯ Josh Hutcherson [unedited]

Chapter 8

Part 1

Josh's POV

After taking a shower I got dressed in a white t-shirt, jean shorts and a pair of black vans. It took me about 20 minutes to get ready and I told I'll see her in an hour.... I guess I was a little nervous/ anxious.

She thought I was going to regret wanting her to give me a chance and honestly I wondered If I would end thinking that too but then again, nothing is lost by trying.

As soon as the clock passed the eight o'clock mark I was out the door to go up to her suite and pick her up.

When I knocked on her door, I heard feet shuffling around the room as if she was running to the other side and then back to where she was and about 20 seconds later she opened the door.

"I'm ready" she said taking a shaky breath.

She stepped out of the room and I finally took her in; she was wearing shorts and a over-sized blue t-shirt that matched her eyes, finishing the look with some white flip flops.

"You said to wear something comfortable, is this too comfortable?" she asked alarmed and I realized she was as nervous as I was, which made me relax a bit.

"No, you look beautiful" I said with a smile.

Liz's POV

I was so freaking nervous!

Is it possible that I, Liz Vega, am a complete nervous wreck because of a guy?

Now I will finally agree with the people who have been going on about the world ending in 2012....

"No one looks beautiful in flip flops, just sayin' " I joked and as he gave a small laugh, I took a relived breath. At that moment Josh motioned me to go on first and then walked beside me to were our 'date' was going to be.... which turned out to be the beach.

A very professional looking bonfire brightened the dark night while the flames drew weird shadows on the calm water surrounding us. Then I looked up to see the star filled sky and I couldn't decide which view was more beautiful... but I completely forgot about that when Josh who was observing me, smiled like a little kid in Christmas day and I guess it was contagious because I found myself smiling back.

I didn't smile... at all. Not real smiles, not since my mom passed away... until now.

Maybe giving him a chance wasn't going to be such a bad thing after all.

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"So what exactly are we going to do?" I asked as I sat down on a log in front of the fire; the warmth felt great on my skin which had goosebumps because it was a windy night.

"S'mores!" Josh chimed excitedly and I shook my head with a  laugh.

"Good luck with that" I said and he sat next to me and looked at my face.

"Why is that?" he asked confused and I shrugged.

"You know how much sugar one of those things have? and carbs? eww I rather take a bath with cold water!" I shrieked and he just stared at me, shocked at my words.

"What? You think you can have this kind of figure by eating s'mores? trust me, you don't" I stated and he seemed uncomfortable, as if he didn't know what to do now and when he was about to stand up I started laughing hysterically and he stopped to stare at me, confusion clouding his face.

"Are you okay?" he asked slowly when I was calming down which set me off again and had another outburst of giggles.

"Am I missing something?" he questioned and I forced myself to stop laughing while I cleaned tears off my cheek.

"I'm-so- sorry" I stuttered not stable yet.

"Why were you laughing?" he asked, serious.

"Your face....was priceless... you actually bought.... the whole ....diva act....so funny" I said between giggles and when his brain processed what I said he started laughing too.

"I can't believe you fooled me like that.... that's so mean!" he exclaimed and I shrugged as I ate my third s'more.

"I'm an actress, you should've seen it coming" I said nonchalantly, then he bumped his shoulder against mine and I did it back to him and he smiled down at me.

"See, I knew you weren't that bad, no matter how tough you acted" he told me and I looked down at my hands.

My brain went back to those five years ago, that rainy day where my mother had that car accident on her way home from work.... then to those two years after to that horrible night where that monster stole my innocence and then the memory of yesterday raced though my thoughts, where a tragedy almost repeated itself... if it hadn't been for Josh it would've happened.

"Thank you.. for yesterday" I whispered, looking at the dark water across the horizon.

"Hey.... no problem... I'm just glad I got there with help on time" he said it so softly as if  to not somehow set me off with his words.

I turned my face towards him and he surprised me by sticking melted marshmallow on the tip of my nose and I let out a little yelp and he laughed. I used a napkin I had on my shorts pocket and cleaned it off.

"You are so going to pay for that!" I declared and he stood up, ready to run but I jumped on his back and he caught me and I laughed as he walked around like if he was my horse. After a few minutes of this he faked extreme exhaustion and dropped to the floor on his back, so now he was the one on top of me. He turned around to face me and I smiled up at him.

"You can get off me now" I said in a snotty tone and he grinned.

"Like seriously, move!" I joked as I tried to push him away but he caught my hands and locked them with both of his on my both my sides. "You're enjoying yourself too much.... and I'm getting bored" I said with a pretend yawn and he snorted.

I tried getting up even with him on top of me but as soon as I lifted my head off the ground, he planted his mouth on mine, pushing me down again in the process. He deepened the kiss and his grip on my hands loosened but I was too caught up in the kiss to try to escape, instead my hands found his face and I held him in place as I kissed him back.

How could something so simple can feel so good.... I'm pretty sure I've never enjoyed kissing someone as much as I did kissing Josh.... did that mean something?  Why was he different? He seemed like any other guy, nothing special....

But I knew better, Josh was anything but ordinary....