Ruining Us

Chapter 8: Beach Party

Hey people! Hope you enjoy...that's all I have to say for this chapter! Onwards!

.:Recap:.

As I tried to weigh up how I felt about the whole thing, I realised I had felt this way before, only not with Spencer and Maria; with Zack and Jamie. When I had found out he 'cheated' on me. I had been really, insanely, furiously jealous. I couldn't stand the thought of those two together. The feeling was exactly the same with Spencer and Maria.

Not to mention I liked the way his skin felt against mine, I liked it when we touched, skin or not. I was always checking him out, thinking about him, wondering what he thought. Earlier I had tried to make him jealous. There could only be one explanation for it. My previous theory of only feeling lust for him was complete B.S. as I now realised.

I liked Spencer Richmond. I really liked Spencer Richmond. So what would I do now?

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{~Spencer POV~}

The holiday wasn't going quite as badly as I thought it might. There wasn’t a great deal of tension between us, and she seemed happy, which made me happy. But then something happened, after a week in Spain, that totally crushed our enjoyable holiday.

I was just walking up the stairs to my room that night when I heard, unmistakeably, Zack. Obviously Jess was talking to him on webcam. I felt my fists clenched as I thought about them - jealousy filled me to the brim and I nearly knocked the door down in fury.

"...I really like it here, there are really nice views from the hills and we went to Barcelona yesterday, it was great! Oh and the ice cream is much nicer here than in England, plus the beaches are much better. No tides here!" Jess exclaimed enthusiastically. I smiled despite my anger - I was glad she was enjoying herself. Zack laughed. I turned around and went back downstairs before I punched something in anger.

I played a video game with Eddie and Danny for a while, but my mind was on Zack. The jealousy still flowed through my veins, I wanted Jess to be mine. But I knew it was never going to happen. I gave up the game after a while and went back upstairs, hoping they'd stopped talking. I listened, and to my relief they had.

I opened the door, and started walking to my bed, and then I caught sight of Jess. To my horror, she was curled up on her bed, crying. I walked over to her, worrying about her, my mood instantly lowering. What was wrong? What had Zack said? What had happened?

She looked up as I walked towards her, and as I took in her tear soaked face, looking thoroughly heartbroken, I just wanted to give her a huge hug, but I restrained myself. To my surprise, a second after seeing me, she glared at me and threw her pillow at me. I caught it, frowning.

"Get lost," she said harshly, before I could speak. That hurt - I was only trying to help. "It's your fault. You could just quietly sit on the sidelines and leave me be but no, you have to put your foot in it, don't you. Why can't you just leave me alone?!"

I widened my eyes. What was she talking about? What had I done? Guilt haunted me even though I didn't know why.

"W-what do you mean?" I asked.

"I just had an argument with Zack because you couldn't keep your freaking hands off me," she said, still crying, and I frowned, suddenly realising that she had told him about the sun cream incident. He was going to kill me now. But I hadn't meant to, it just kind of happened...

"It doesn't matter if you didn't mean to! You still did it," she cut me off as I voiced my thoughts, burying her face in her hands. "Why does it always seem like you're wrecking mine and Zack's relationship?! You're so selfish! The last time you did it was with freaking Jamie just after Zack and I got together. That wasn't cool. This isn't cool. It has to stop! I love Zack, now will you stop trying to get in the way?!"