Holding On

Chapter 5| Not So Bad

**UNEDITED**

I had hung with Sebastian for a while after his shift had ended and it was nothing like I had expected, I have come to the conclusion that mayber, just mayber, Sebastian isn't so bad after all. In fact, I was kind of excited to go the beach with Sebastian and his friends, counting on the fact that they weren't all that different to him. 

I had hardly slept the previous night because in all my excitement for the next day I couldn't seem to lay still long enough for there to ever be any chance of me falling asleep. Alas, my adrenaline soon wore off because by morning I was very ready to sleep.

"Must sleep... But also must finish season 2 of Gossip Girl..." Needless to say, I was torn.

 I checked the clock on my bedside table and seeing that I had only half an hour to get ready I bolted out of my bed and raced to get ready. You would think that living in California I would have at least a few different bikinis but since I rarely ever went to the beach I only had one, that I had received from the nurses at the hospital for Christmas, since most nurses there were in their mid twenties I found that I actually liked the dark purple matching top on bottom, they were plain but still quite nice.

After my record breaking three minute shower, I changed into the bikini slipping over a light tee and some denim shorts. I had a chocolate chip muffin as my breakfast, ignoring the questioning stares of my mother. What? I'm eighteen, I don't need to tell them where I was going. I'm an adult now. 

That's a scary thought...

I got a small bad with my essentials inside, you know, towel, flip-flops, SPF 50... I poured some of the sunblock in my hand and started to, quite generously apply it. I was about to attempt to put some on my back when the door bell rang.

"I'll get it!" I yelled. Please don't answer it. Please don't answer it. I silently begged, willing my mother to stay seated.

My prayers weren't answered When my mother, obviouslay thinking she was helping out, called out, "No, no, honey it's quite alright, I'm already at the do– Sebastian?" She finished in a quizzical tone.

"Hey Mrs Scott. Is your daughter here? I'm picking her up to go to the beach." Thank god my dad isn't there is all I can say. 

"Oh. Well that explains why she is running around the place like a chicken with its head cut off." That's graphic..

"Mom please, go take a seat. I'll be back later today." I begged, silently telling her to go away.

But my mother being, well, my mother, did not get the message. "Well, Sebastian simply can't leave just yet, that'll be twice I've had the opportunity to get to know him and twice I will have let him slip right through my fingers. Now I just can't have that, so Sebastian, please, stay for a little while, I know that Kennedy isn't finished getting ready, after all, she still needs to have a proper breakfast." She replied, putting emphasis on 'proper'.

"Well I can't say no that now can I? I guess I could afford to stay for another ten minutes." Mom seemed most displeased that it wasn't longer, but she was not going to let those precious ten minutes get away from her too easily. She tugged on Sebastian's arm and whisked him away from safety.  I shook my head, another soldier lost.

I guess there was an upside, I had another ten minutes but the down side was that I didn't really need those ten minutes. Five minutes of doing nothing but sitting all by myself I decided to go grab Sebastian.

"Hey Mom, can I steal Sebastian back." I interrupted my mother mid sentence and I wish I could say that it was rude of me but judging by the relief on Sebastian's face, I realised that I was his saviour in the moment.