It's love that keeps fueling me(Austin Carlile fanfic)

Chapter 6: I haven't been honest either

Author's note: Hey to that unfortunately small fraction of you reading my story :p It would make me so very happy if someone left me a comment. But, more importantly than that, it would be great if someone would give me some suggestions or tips to make this fanfic better, since it is my first one. Thank you darling.

Audree POV

We hadn't found any sign of the others, but Austin and I did find this nice secluded location from most of the beach dwellers and decided to stay put for a bit. We set up our small little spot and watched the waves for a bit, completely relaxed in calming bliss for a few moments. I sat on the beach blanket next to Austin the entire time, and felt his eyes flick back to me and back to waves. I did the same, hoping to be less obvious. At some point, we both looked and met each other's eyes.

A slow smile gradually spread over his face as we hald eye contact, and I scrunched my nose in response. "What?" was all I could squeak before he started giggling. It was a beautiful sound, but at that moment it pained me because I felt he was laughing at me. Freaking lovely.

His smile widened "Oh, I'm just waiting for you to be ready to surf. You have the best expression on your face right now." I imagined I was red with some steam coming out of both ears, like in those old cartoons. "Pffft, I was BORN ready, I was just waiting for you to be ready to teach me." I flipped my hair at him and felt satisfied with my witty comeback.

"Oh, grasshopper, I thought you were checking out the master to analyze why I am such an accomplished surfer."

Damn. Shit.

Was I really that obvious?

I cleared my throat and shot straight up. "Er, well, yeah we should go and get started on the surfing and stuff. I wanna beat those buttheads when we find them later." I smiled at the thought of the both of them freaking out over me out-surfing them. I looked over to Austin and saw already with his shirt over his head and he flung it gracefully behind him. He had an entire sleeve from what I remembered and had a piece on his chest now....It's not like I spend much time watching him shirtless, however.

I had my bathing suit under my normal clothes, but with Austin standing right in front of me while I had to undress made me unable to function for perhaps a few minutes. So, I did what any girl who was in a situation where she had to undress in front of the boy she was attracted to. I ripped my clothes off in a chaotic frenzy and rushed into the water to distance my embarrassed self. It was colder than Anartica, but I didn't care in those moments. I dove under for a few minutes and finally got up for air.

When I looked back to the shore, Austin wasn't there. I started swimming a little back to see if I could gain a wider perspective of the beach and I felt myself bump into something hard. I started freaking out and was about to dive forward when I felt something strong around me restrain me.

"Hey, HEY, Audree cool it" Austin's voice came down above me. I relaxed and he let go of me. I turned to face him. "What, were you gonna force me to bring both of our boards into the water?" I could hear the sarcasm ooze out of his voice. I quickly blurted "I just wanted to get ready and get used to the water."

"Hmmm, well the tide is still a little low so I guess we could just swim normally for now.."

"Yeah.." And with that I dove back under. There it was again, those stupid confusing feelings I've been getting lately when I'm alone with Austin. It felt like a flood that I was getting deeper and deeper under, there was no other way to explain it.

I submerged and saw Austin was still in the same place just moments before. "Hey, you with the face!" His head snapped back to me. "I bet you can't catch up to me!" and with that he was off like a bullet on my trail. I tried to keep things as normal as before by just messing around like all the times we did before, but it got more difficult everyday to do so. Part of me wanted to scream my feelings at him and hope we would have a magical love revelation like in those cheesy romance movies, and another part of me worked against that cause it was too afraid to get hurt.