"I'm thankful for that beautiful girl who ran into me on her penny bored on the bored walk." I almost cry. I set down my cup and turn around to see Shawn standing there smiling like crazy. I get up and jump on him. He hugs me tight. "I missed you." He whispers." I missed you too." I whisper back. I get down and he grabs my hand. "Family this is Shawn." I smile and look up at him. "Shawn this is my family." I smile and look back at my family smiling. They all smile and greet him. "Alex take Shawn to his room." My aunt says. Alex happily gets up and guides Shawn to his room. I follow with Shawn at my side. He puts his bags down and sits on the bed. "I'll only be here for 3 days and after that I've got to go." He pauses. "But once you come back we'll leave for about a week." He smiles. "Where are we going?" I smile. "I'm not telling you." He smiles evilly. I roll my eyes because I know there's no way I'm getting it out of him. He turns off the lights and comes back to the bed. "I think we should get some sleep." I smiles and say "My aunt and uncle won't be very happy that we're sleeping in the same bed." "Well then I guess we should just talk for a little." He sits up and so do I. We just sit and talk till it's about 2 am. "Now I think we should get some sleep." I smile he puts his forehead on mine and looks at me. Our lips are less than an inch apart. I would do anything right about now to kiss him. He's so kind and generous, and he hasn't asked me for anything like every other guy i know would. He treats me better than I ever thought was possible. And i don't know how he's stuck with me this long. I mean he took a plane to freaking Mexico just to see me. There is no one else in this world who would do this all for me. But because he treats me with the utmost respect I will not push anything. I'm not trying to ruin this relationship. I lean in and kiss his cheek and hug him quickly before leaving. I walk up to my room and fall asleep. I wake up the next morning and check the time. It's 1;15 pm. I roll out of bed and throw my hair up in a messy bun. I walk downstairs to the main hallway and pound on Alex's door. "Get up Alex." I say then walk to Christine's door and do the same. I walk back to Alex's room and walk in. I yank off the covers and just say "Get up lazy." He groans and reluctantly gets up. I walk out to the hallway and Christine is leaning against her door frame half asleep. We walk down the rest of the stairs and into the kitchen. We pour ourselves cups of fresh brewed coffee and sit at the little kitchen table. "I forgot how nice it was sleeping in." I say while we add cream and sugar to our coffees. "Just wait till you get to college." Christine says. "It's a whole new story." Alex continues. We slowly finish our coffees and have small talk. I hear laughing in the back yard and I go out to see who it is. I see Shawn and my aunt just sitting out and talking. That's good, I rely on my aunt to tell me weather a boy is good or not. She always tells me the truth and doesn't leave anything out no matter how much it hurts. I smile watching them chat and walk back inside to get ready. I brush my teeth and take a quick shower and leave my hair in its' natural state and put on a bathing suit. I slip on shorts and one of Shawns t-shirts that I took from him last night. I slide on flip flops and grab my bag with beach stuff in it. I go out back to find Shawn and my aunt still talking. Once Shawn sees me he smiles and gets up "Good Morning Ashlynn." "Good Morning" I smile looking at him. "Do you mind if we go to the beach?" I say to my aunt after a few moments of staring at Shawn. "No go ahead, and while you're at it get your cousins to go out and do something." She smiles. Shawn grabs my hand I feel chills run through my body. We walk back in and I yell out "ALEX! CHRISTINE! JUSTINE!" They all come and the first thing they look at is my hand in Shawns. "We need to go out, Titi orders." I smile. They all go up and get ready. "So where are we going?" Alex walks into the living room where Shawn and I decided to sit. "Well Shawn and I are going to the beach, it doesn't matter what you guys do." He nods his head and sits down with us until Jackline and Christine are ready. It's a while until they're finished and Shawn and I went to the beach by ourselves. I'm laying out with Shawn next to me when I feel arms wrap around me I see Shawn with a devilish grin on his face. "Shawn" I yelled laughing a bit. "Oh my gosh no! Don't do this!" I squeal just before we hit the water. We mess around for a little until I see the paparazzi. I grab Shawn's hand and we try and get away without them noticing. I take him to one of these cliffs because It's almost Impossible to get up here with all of their equipment. We sit up there and watch the waves crash below us. I lay my head on his shoulder and just savor this perfect moment. Before I know it I hear people. I turn around and here come the paparazzi. I quickly stand up and so does Shawn. "We have to jump." I say. He grabs my hand looks at me. We both take a few steps before we jump off the rock. Once we hit the water I lose Shawns hand and come up. I see that he hasn't come back up yet. I frantically search for him seeing someone coming up. I go back under and pull him up. We make it to place in the rock that's cut out enough for us to hide out for a while. My breathing is heavy from jumping in. We had to have gone about thirty feet under, and then when I went back down for him just took a bit out of me. I look at Shawn to make sure that he's not hurt or anything. He's breathing just as heavily as I am, but it doesn't look like there's anything wrong with him. "Do you know how to get back?" He asks still breathing heavily. "Um" I pause to breath more. "I uh think we have to climb back up and make our way down the same way we came up." I listen and can't hear anything other than the waves crashing. I think the paparazzi would be gone now since we've been down here for a few minuets. I lay on my back and calm my breathing. After about ten minutes we start walking back up in an awkward silence. We finally make it back to our stuff and I have a text from a name that I haven't seen in ages. iMessage from Christian. I open it and it reads. Ash I miss you, and Alex told me you were back here and I'm waiting for you back at the house so we can catch up. I smile and happily reply with "I'm on my way." We head back to Shawns car and I text Chris the entire way. He was my bestfriend as a kid. I've known him all of my life and I've missed him so much! He knows everything about me and I know everything about him. I can't wait to see him again. We pull up in front of the house and I see his truck sitting in the driveway. I run into the house and see him standing there waiting. I drop my bags and jump on him. I hug him so tight and he hugs back equally as tight. we hug for a good 5 minuets not moving and not saying a thing. I get down and say "I missed you so much." I smile and he kisses me quick "I missed you too." My aunt gives me a weird look, but it's normal for us. See when we we're younger and first meeting our parents made us introduce ourselves to eachother, and we were maybe 3 and he accidentally kissed me. A few years back we watched a home movie and that was in it, so now we made it a joke. It's the same as kissing cheeks but we're just kissing. We catch up and go out to eat. Once we come back I ask my aunt if he can stay and she says of coarse. Not only is he my best friend, but he's also close friends with my cousins. I bring him up to his room and help him get settled. I kiss his cheek and wish him a good night and go to find Shawn. I go to his room and go to open the door, but It's locked. I jiggle it a little and nothing. "Shawn?" I say and knock. I wait a few moments and hear movement, but he's not coming to the door. I knock a little harder and still nothing. I hit the door out of anger and storm upstairs. I throw on some sweat pants and and a tank top, before running downstairs. I slide on my slippers and slam the door closed. I turn my phone on airplane mode and plug in my head phones. I walk to a park that we all used to hang out at, and sit on a bench. I lay on it to get comfortable, and before I know it my eyes close even though I'm trying to fight it. I'm awoken by a small kid poking my head. I open my eyes and then he walks away. I get up and look around. Oh shit. I turn my phone back on and my phone begins to blow up. I throw my hair up in a bun and walk back home. Man am I going to get yelled at. I think before walking inside of the house. "Ashlynn Nicole Anderson!" I hear my mother yelling. "What the hell is going on with you?" She yells to me. "I'm sorry I got upset and instead of taking it out on someone else i went for a walk to calm myself down. And yes i should have told someone where I was, but i always go to the same place mom." I get out before I can be interrupted. I see Shawn walk down with Alex and I walk right past him. I don't want to even look at Shawn at the moment. He needs to know the back story before he gets upset. And it makes me even more upset that he thinks that I would just kiss someone in front of him. I walk up to my room and slam the door. I sit on my bed and just collapse. A few minuets go by before I hear a knock on the door. I pretend like I don't hear it. "Ash?" Christian says. I roll over and look at the wall. "Talk to me." He says and walks in. I still don't say anything. "Babe whats wrong?" He asks and I get upset. He puts a hand on my shoulder and I look at him with tear filled eyes. He pulls me up into a tight hug and I start crying. Once I get myself together he asked "You must really like this boy." I nodded my head. "He's not like anyone else Chris. He's kind, and he makes me happy, and he didn't try and jump into bed with me the first chance he got. And he just makes me happy. He makes me completely 100 percent happy and I've never had that before. So when he gets upset with me I'm terrified that I'm going to lose him. And I-I don't want to lose him." I say getting upset again. There's another knock on the door. It's Shawn. I wipe my tears and look away from him. "Ashlynn." Shawn says. I don't move. "I'm going to leave you two alone." Christian said and i gave him the look, but it didn't bother him. I grabbed the blanket and pulled it over my shoulders and wrapped it around my body. Shawn came and sat next to me on the bed. Neither of us said anything for a few minutes. He broke the silence with "Listen. I really like you Ashlynn and when you are around other men it ,makes me upset. I guess it's because I'm afraid of loosing you. You mean so much to me and you're so different than all the other girls that I've dated, and you're not your typical teenager living in California. You want to go on adventures, and you love to actually help people, and you're so strong, but I love when you tell me that you're not okay. I want you to be able to come and talk to me if anything is bothering you. And" He pauses. "Ashlynn." "Ashlynn look at me please" He says. I try and fight back the tears so I bite my lip. "Ashlynn." He says before grabbing my face and turning it. We look at each other in the eyes, and he see's the tears threatening to fall. He pulls me into a hug and I start to cry again.
