Summer Love - A One Shot [COMPLETED]

Summer Love (One Shot)

If I opened up a thesaurus right now to look up a synonym for distraction, I'm pretty sure it would say Jesse Adler. There are actually a few other words he might be listed under as well.

Let's see. How about hot, athletic, handsome, funny, smart, and heartbreaker? He should also be listed as my-brother's-best-friend-who's-off-limits, but somehow I have a feeling there is no entry for that.

"Hey, Dylan!" I sit up straight at the sound of my name, hoping Jesse didn't catch me staring at him. "Wanna come down to the beach with us?"

Just then I notice that my twin brother Alex and his girlfriend Avery are standing next to Jesse, and all three of them are staring at me.

"Yeah." My brother yells from the other side of the pool. "Give your poor brain a break. You've had your nose stuck in that book for hours. That can't be good for anyone." He chuckles and Avery giggles next to him. Good thing they don't know that I'm still on the same page I started on. Thank goodness for sunglasses and their concealing magic.

"Sure. Why not?" I shrug my shoulders and grab my cover-up from the back of the lounge chair. I follow the three of them down the private stairs that lead to a quiet part of Malibu Beach. The Californian weather hasn't disappointed us yet again, and the sun is beating down on us with its blistering heat.

My brother, Jesse, and I have vacationed here every summer for as long as I can remember. As always, we stay at this beautiful house sitting right on top of the Malibu cliffs, overlooking the ocean.

It belongs to Jesse's uncle, who's some big-shot entertainment lawyer in LA. He mostly lives in the city, because it's more convenient for his job. That means he doesn't use his beach house a lot, and he always keeps it empty for us during the summer months.

Usually someone else from one of our families is with us, even if it's just Jesse's older brother Camden. This year all the adults are super busy though, so we begged to go by ourselves. I mean, we all turned 18 in the last half year and will be off to college once the summer is done anyway.

We've been here for only a few days now, but I can already see how different it is this year. Not only being here without the parents and Camden, but also because Avery is here.

Avery is my brother's first serious girlfriend, and they try to spend as much time together as possible. I really like her, but I can't deny that I'm a little sad about the dynamic change it has caused between all of us. I'm slowly getting used to it though, especially since I've always known that it was going to happen eventually.

"Dylan, come on." Jesse's voice is coming closer. I look up and see him running back to where I'm still standing at the bottom of the stairs. When he reaches me a moment later, he's a little out of breath. Looking over his shoulder I can see that Alex and Avery are out in the ocean.

"You're zoning out a lot these days. Everything ok?" His green eyes bore into mine as if he could find the answer to his question in them. I love his eyes. They make me think of nature and being alive. Sometimes I feel like he can see right through me and my pretense of -

"You're doing it again." A shiver runs down my spine when I feel his hands on my upper arms, shaking me slightly. "You have a tendency to zone out, but these last few weeks have been extreme. What's going on in that pretty head of yours?"

My eyes widen at his words. His lips move up into his heart melting smile that I've dreamed about so often. He's still touching me, and my heartbeat is so off the charts that I'm afraid my heart might break through my chest.

One of his hands suddenly drops to his side, while the other one moves up my arm to casually swing it over my shoulders. If that boy only knew what he does to me, he wouldn't chance my impending cardiac arrest that will probably happen at any moment now.