Three Whole Words Only Eight Letters Long (Sequel to LCDD)

Chapter 61

"This is ridiculous, do you know that?" I asked, glaring at Summer in the mirror as I took in my appearance. She laughed at me before pointing at my legs.

"You have nice legs though Liz and I swear you have tanned already. Me? Yeah I get sunburned so don't complain" I rolled my eyes and snorted a laugh.

"We only got here yesterday morning you twit. I haven't tanned and you haven't gotten sun burnt yet" I fired back and she stuck her tongue out at me as she flicked through the gossip magazine she'd bought at the local shop this morning. Thank god people spoke English here as well as Spanish.

"You look fine Lizzie, besides we aren't going anywhere until later. The girls decided we should relax today since we went sightseeing yesterday. We're only hanging by the pool, besides we actually want to go home with tans" my best friend sighed and I rolled my eyes at her before lying down on my stomach next to her so that we could read the magazine together. Oli had already gone out to the pool that was part of our villa. Summer flicked through the pages, I swear she didn't read the magazine, she just looked at the photographs, but I wasn't too bothered with it, since gossip magazines weren't my thing really.

     Two weeks had passed since Adrian and I had come third in the competition and those two weeks had consisted of relaxation and just hanging out with everyone. Anna hadn't gone home, instead both she and Oli had stayed with us, which Adrian had been happy about since he apparently missed his sister a lot more than he let on. Oli had arranged for someone to cover Anna in the shop and the two of them took care of their manager roles over the phone, although Hadley had everything under control.

     Those two weeks had been great, a lot better than the weeks before since I felt more like myself and hadn't gotten upset over the thought of Louise. Although that may have been because Dylan had stayed with Adrian, Oli and myself in those last two weeks and we had caught up on the last two years. I even got to speak to his girlfriend on the phone and liked her so much that I now had her number. I'd chatted to her on the phone for about an hour when we got to the Villa yesterday and she said everything was fine, Dylan was doing great and she was happy that things had mended between the two of us. According to her he seemed so much more carefree. That had made me feel better and I of course had spoken to Dylan as well, either on the phone or through texts since he had left about three days before we all went on holiday.

     It had been Anna and Oli's idea actually for all of us to go on holiday. We had invited Dylan too, but it was short notice for him since he was back in University and doing a Law degree. Instead Anna, Adrian, Josh, Max, Matt, Dan, Chris, Oli, Ivy, Christy, Kay, Summer and myself had all gone on holiday again. Since everything had been an emotional rollercoaster ride everyone was in agreement that we needed to get away from Birmingham, this time as a large group of friends and just relax and spend time together having fun. It had been decided that we would go to Spain, since it was easy to reach and none of us girls had ever been there on holiday before. Ferry tickets were bought and the Villa we were currently in was booked and we arrived yesterday afternoon. After checking into the Villa, sorting out rooms and dumping our luggage in the rooms we set back outside and went sightseeing. Although our sightseeing consisted of buying a shitload of souvenirs, which had made the boys complain.

     Throughout the whole of the day Adrian had stayed close to me and every now and then kept brushing against me. I still didn't know if he realised what he was doing, but even so my body reacted to it. Every time he brushed against me it was an instant reaction, sort of like an electric shock but not painful. It felt weird but pleasant at the same time. And there were times when Adrian started and looked at me, that made me question whether he had felt it too? But I thought it was impossible that he had felt it too although I could hope I suppose.