Alex's POV
We took a long break from swimming, Johnnie opened the back of Damon's car and layed towels down in it and we sat in the trunk, we cuddled and looked at the sunset through the trees.
I started to zone out looking at Johnnie he seemed so infatuated with the beautiful sky.
"I'm not that good looking" Johnnie said while he laughed a little bit.
"Huh?" I said with a blank face.
"You've been staring at me for like ten minutes now" he says to me kind of emotionlessly.
My eyes lit up, I could feel my face turning bright red. "I, uh, I'm so sorry" I said as I got up.
"Alex", he said as I started to walk away, back up the path we came.
"Hey what's with with her?" Carson asked in a concerned tone.
"Nothing, she just wants to take a walk", I hear Johnnie tell her unsurely.
I finally got to the road minutes later, I knew Johnnie was somewhere behind me, I didn't want him to see me, I was so embarrassed. I went and sat under a tree. I knew he wouldn't be able to see me because there was a wall of branches and leaves.
A minute or two later Johnnie walked to the road, he looked around and didn't see me. He walked over to the tree I was under and sat on the other side of the branch wall. I held my breath and listened to him mumble to himself.
"Why did she even freak out?" He asked himself.
After that it was quiet, I still heard him breathing and slowly bang his head against the tree. I wanted to tell him to stop but I just couldn't.
"I stare at you too", he said.
I let out a small gasp but held my breath again.
"You're just so beautiful it's hard not too. Alex, you know I love you and you don't have to run off like that, right?" He said, I could hear the sadness in his voice. I didn't even have to look at him to know.
I started to tear up, "I'm so sorry Johnnie" I said, I started to cry.
Johnnie walked over to the side of the tree I was at and sat next to me. He put him arm around me and I soon stopped crying. I'm not sure why I was crying, I just kinda felt I had let him down somehow.
"You know I will love you no matter what, right?" He said as he shifted his head and looked at me.
"I love you so fucking much Johnnie you don't understand", I trembled as I said that and Johnnie's arm tightened a small bit around me. It made me feel safe. We sat in silence for a while. It slowly started to get colder, it wasnt cold, it was just kinda chilly.
Johnnie's POV
"We should start walking back", I told Alex as I stood up. I grabbed her hand and helped her up. I'm not sure if it was from the water or crying but most of her makeup had run down her cheeks and it made me sad because it reminded me that she gets sad and I never want her to be sad because she doesn't deserve that.
I pulled her in front of me and wiped away the runny makeup away, before I moved my hands, we had this, moment, you could call it. I stared into her eyes and she stared into mine, she slowly leaned in and so did I. We kissed once again, this time it was different though, it's like we both really, needed it.
After that happened we started to walk back, it takes like fifteen minutes to get back and it was dark so we got a little lost for a minute, I ended up carrying her back.
When we got back everyone was chilling, laying on the blankets, Damon and Carson were cuddling and stuff. It was peaceful.
We all chilled for hours just talking and listening to music.
It was like 2:00am and everyone was asleep. Except for Alex and I, we just kept talking and talking.
We eventually got bored just laying there so we went and sat down at the edge of the water. I got up really quick and grabbed my ukulele. I sat back down and started to play a melody. I started to play kids in the dark and Alex and I sang together, she has a beautiful voice.
We slowly started to fall asleep there.
I woke up to Alex shaking me, "Johnnie wake up!" She whisper screamed at me.
"Huh?" I asked, half asleep and very confused. It was still dark out, so we've probably been over here for like an hour.
She helped me up and walked me back to the blankets to lay back down, on the way walking there my arm got caught up on a stick and cut, it wasn't really serious but it was bleeding. "Ow!" I yelled, nobody from the group heard me but Alex did since she was walking with me.
"What happened?!" Alex said with concern.
I showed her my arm and she ran her finger across it causing it to sting even more and I let out a small gasp.
"Sorry", she said as her head snapped up at my face, "You okay?", she asked me.
"Yeah I'm fine, I guess", I said pulling my arm away.
We walked over to the cars and Alex got some napkins from the little glove box thing to wipe off the blood.
She held the napkins on my arms for me and kissed me on the cheek, "You sure you're good?" She asked me.
"I am now", I said kissing her back on the cheek.
