Starting over

Chapter 20

They only have one bathroom and shower in the campsite. It takes us all about 3 hours after we wake up to take showers. We then decide that the guys don't get to shower everyday but Tess and I do. Once we are all clean we try to decide on what to do.

"We should go fishing!" Liam says smiling.

"Then afterwards we can go swimming in the lake." Niall says smiling. We all get our bathing suits on and head down to the pond.

"I am going to sunbath with you guys fish." I say and I lay out on the dock. I close my eyes and put my earbuds in. After a while I turn onto my stomach.

I scream when I feel something cold and slimy on my stomach. I open my eyes and see louis and zayn touching a fish to my back. I smack their legs and the laugh. I dry off my stomach and lay down again.

Someone pulls out one of my earbuds. "Now what?!" I ask annoyed.

Harry puts his hands up as a defense. "I was wondering if you wanted to swim." He has his shirt off and his skin is nicely tan. More of his tattoos are showing and I have to keep myself from staring at his toned body.

"I don't really swim." I say.

"Why not? It's so fun!" He says smiling.

"I don't know how too." I blush. I am embarrassed that I don't know how to swim, but I never really got around to it.

"I can teach you." He says and grabbing my arms and gently pulling me up.

"Harry I don't want to go." I pout and stand where I am.

"Fine." He says and I think he will leave me alone but he comes up and carries me bridal style to the waters edge. I guides me into the water until I am knee deep. "Are you afraid of water?"

"No. I just never learned." I say and he looks at me kindly.

"Well good thing you met me." He says and I laugh.

"This isn't the only good thing." I say and we both blush. Now we are hip deep.

"We won't get any deeper then this. Hold onto my hands and don't let your feet touch the bottom. Then start to kick." He says and I do as I am told. "Good. Now let's work on the arms." He teaches me the rest of the basic skills you need to swim.

"Thanks Harry." I say standing in tw water.

"Anytime." He says.

"Beat you to the dock." I say and start to swim towards the dock. He beats me but not by much.

"You aren't that bad considering you just learned today." Zayn says from the dock.

"Thanks." I blush. "Why aren't you swimming?"

"It's not my thing." He says but I don't push him.

"Hey look at who is in the water?!" Tess says smiling.

"Harry taught me." I say and Harry blushes.

"Nice work Styles." Josh says smiling at him.

"Did anyone other then zayn and louis catch a fish?" I ask.

"I caught one." Liam says.

"But it bite me and the hook got stuck in my bum." Harry says showing me the cut on his finger. "Do you want to see the other cut?" He says smirking at me.

"No. It's fine." I blush.

"I know you want to." He says and josh punches him in the arm hard. "Ouch. Sorry." I roll my eyes.

"You are so cocky sometimes." I say climbing onto the dock.

"Is that a bad thing?" He smirks at me and looks up and down my body. I roll my eyes and I ignore his question.

"So you aren't going to answer me?" He says and grabs my leg. I scream and kick at him.

"Stop it Harry." I say and I turn around to see him smiling.

"Sorry." He says letting go of my leg and I get up and walk to my towel. I lay down and put my earbuds. I dry off in the sun while everyone else still plays in the water. Someone blocks the sun and I open my eyes to see zayn standing over me.

"Hey." I say as I take on earbud out.

"Hey." He says sitting down. "Harry can be like that sometimes."

I turn on my side to face him. "Oh. Why?"

"I don't know. But all guys are cocky. Some just don't show it as often. Harry has his moments." He says. I am sure that Harry had him come talk to me about this.

"Ok." It honestly wasn't that big of a deal. I am not that upset. But I won't let Harry know that.

"You aren't that mad are you?" Zayn says smirking at me.

"No not really. But he doesn't need to know about it." He smiles and pats my leg.

"I knew I liked you." He smiles and his perfect teeth nearly sparkle in the sunlight.

"What can I say?" I smile. "He is fun to mess with." Zayn nods.

"So do you have a thing?" I look up surprised.

"Um. It's complicated." I say that doesn't seem like enough for me. "Do you know about the accident?"

"Yeah. Harry told us all before we met you. I am so sorry." He says and he looks sincere.

"Thank you. But since then, I don't know if I am ready for dating. I love Harry. But I don't know it I am ready." He nods.

"That is understandable."

"But Harry said that he would wait. But I feel bad because he is working so hard and I like him but I'm not over Daniel yet." I look down at my hands.

"Harry will wait no matter how long it takes you. He really loves you Becca. He told me last night that his love grows strong everyday that he spends with you." I start to tear up. I wipe my eyes and zayn holds me hand.

"Thank you. I am better but just not one hundred percent." He smiles kindly at me.

"You will get there and when you get there Harry will be there waiting for you." I smile and he walks away. I see Harry was watching us and he glares at zayn. He can't be jealous can he? I lay back down and fall asleep.

(Ok. So I know I said that I would update when I got 200 reads. But i don't think that would happen anytime soon anyway. So here is the next chapter. I love you all! Keep reading!)