Ballads of Summer

Ring

Everything has passed. I celebrated my new year with Nathan. I became a little bit separated with my parents which I think is not so bad. January has been a great month for me and Nathan. We always went out during weekends. We go stroll in the beach and he taught me how to surf which is awesome.  We did alot of adventures like trekking, hiking and like what I said, surfing. Everything seems to be perfect around him. As if the world's not unfair. We got drunk last night but we bade goodbye. We decided to take a toke last January 4 I think and it was an awesome experience. Experiences that normal people do. We watched fireworks by the beach as we made out under the starry skies. It as really fast for the two of us. But it was worth it. It was Valentines Day and at the same time, it's my 18th Birthday. See? I think i'm old. I think I should be married by now. That's too fast though. I wanna take up college. Live my life.

The sun was low and i'm running in my red dress around the campus. I am never the girl who wanted some party stuffs during her 18th birthday. I just wanted to do the stuffs I wanna do. I wanna go to a nearby McDonald's and eat some fries. Simple as that. My schoolmates greeted me their merriest "Happy Birthday." I just gave them a smile. I spotted Nathan on his casual look. White shirt and neatly pressed shorts. He was carrying a huge boquet of roses. He was smiling at me.

No.

Not roses please.

I don't like this kind of publicity.

Every girl in the campus were looking at me. They didn't know that me and Nathan were together. I saw Josh staring at me. He was alone under the tree. Nathan gave me the roses and hugged me without any word.

"I hate you" I giigled.

"I love you" he whispered.

"I don't like this publicity"

"Don't you find it sweet or...?"

"It's fine but please not this public"

"Sorry, love. Hey can we grab a coffee later"

"Sure"

We just headed towards the building, hands intertwined. Everyone was looking at me as if something's wrong with me. I checked my hair, my clothing and even my damn feet which was newly pedicure. I looked up at him and I just feel so shy around these people who tried to underestimate me. I feel so embarassed by my own self.

"I don't like this attention, Nath" I mumbled.

"I'm just proud of you" he kissed my forehead.

I just hid behind him. I just walked looking at my feet. We headed to the gymnasium. It was a Valentines event. There were dancing stuffs which I don't like because I suck in dancing and some games too. There were red balloons on the dancefloor. There were red ribbons draped on the ceiling. There were laserlights. It's just 4 in the afternoon. People started arriving inside the gymnasium. The speakers started booming. I just sat down on the corner. Nathan just followed me.

"Are you okay?" he asked in his most concerned voice.

"Yes. Can we get out of here?" I smiled.

"Okay. Where are we going?"

"Beach"

We exited the gymnasium and headed to the parking lot. I jumped inside his car nad we headed to the beach. The waves were quite huge and the wind was quite cold. I just sat down the sand. He sat beside me. We stod there silently.