Coming Home

Chapter 6, Getting Close

I had just arrived at Peyton's beautiful house. We walk into her room and I instantly fall in love. "Peyton your room is gorgeous, along with your house. I love your style."
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I had a really great time with Peyton & Brooke. I really felt like us three were connecting and now we have each other's numbers. I decided to go to the River Court to see if anybody was there. Even if Lucas wasn't, maybe I'd see Skillz or Mouth. I take a run down to the court. When I get there, they've all got squirt guns. Thankfully I changed to shorts when I got home early so I just grab one and join. "Prepare to get wet," I look at Skillz and smirk. "Baby I'll get you wet like no guys have before." My jaw just drops at how bad he is. I do admit though, he's clever.  Just as he tries to squirt me I run behind the basketball hoop so he misses. However I got him shooting in the crossfire. We run after each other and after awhile we are soaked. "I told you," Skillz said laughing. "Ha ha Skillz, you're so funny." He thinks that this is over though. Yeah no, I always get the last remark. I get him right in the face with the last of the water from the squirt gun. He looks kind of mad so I start running but I accidentally 'bump' into Lucas. And by 'bump' I mean run into so hard I cause us both to fall down, him tripping on top of me. "Kirsten, are you okay?"
"Luc.. I ran into you, are you okay?"
"I'm good," he says looking in my eyes. His are so beautiful and kind.
"Me too," I say. In this moment everything seems to be in place. The whole world stops. Our eyes only looking at one another's. His lips just inches away from mine. I just want to-
"Need help up?" He offers his hand. I take it and get up.. That's actually really disappointing. Just then all of the water buckets are poured on me. I turn around to see Mouth and Skillz laughing. They look down and their faces are blank. "Okay I'm confused, I get what was funny but I don't understand the faces." I look down and realize that I'm in a white shirt and its wet, good thing Skillz took his off before the fight. I run and grab his, go and hid behind a few bushes and take off my sopping wet shirt and put on the cut off. It's just a bra they will get over themselves. "Is that better?" I ask with a smirk. "Well- wait that's mine."
"You'll survive."
Lucas and I talked a little bit about our days and Peyton. How he likes her and she's my sister and everything. I'm so happy to have a guy like him in my life. He said that he's introducing me to his best friend Haley tomorrow. I'm actually excited for it. Any friend of Lucas' is a friend of mine. I go home and laying in bed all I can think about is how perfect the moment I had with home was. Before he got up anyway. I just felt like it was what's supposed to happen - or what's going to be really bad. I feel safe when I'm with Nathan and whole with Lucas. Nathan is a jerk around his friends for sure, but Dan has a lot to do with that. Always pushing him to the max. And Lucas is anything but. He is so sweet and outgoing. Do I fall for the one who is good for me or the one who intrigues me to do whatever I want?