I Was Here All Along. (Lisa Cimorelli)

Lisa, do you like him?

Lisa's POV

T- That's ok Lise. I didn't mean to come off like that.I know you can make your own decisions and I'm sorry for trying to intervene. (:

I only somewhat half smiled at the text. It was great that he understood, but something about it made me feel tense. Even though there was a smiley face at the end of it, they're much easier to type than to mean. I still felt as he was angry at me and I couldn't get over it.

I finally decided to text him back.

L- Ty. I really am sorry. We're cool right?

I waited a few seconds and I got a text back right away.

T-Lisa I told you it's fine. :DD btw, I'm going for a job interview today so we can't really hanggg. SOWWYY ):

L-Daww, well that's great.. oh well. Good Luck on your interview! :DD xx

T-Thank You! I'll need it. Bye (:

Well that was great. Now what was I going to do for the rest of the day. I sighed. I put my phone down and went to get dressed and do my hair. I went back to my room around 8 minutes later and grabbed my phone to find a text from Matt.

M- Hey babe, wanna hang?

Babe? This was something new to me. Ty never called me babe, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Oh well. I didn't know what to text back. I wanted to go, but I didn't know if I should. I mean, what if I make a fool of myself...

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

I remembered the quote Ty once told me. I decided to go with it. If I never took a chance I would never know.

I texted him back.

L- Yeah, alright. Where abouts?

M- Just head by the beach around 1. (:

L- Yeah, sure I'll be there (:

I smiled at myself. Good going Lisa. You look normal yet! Except things were going to be different in real life. I just kept thinking of that quote.

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"

I decided to tweet it, so maybe others that might be having the same situation would get some encouragement from it.

Lisa Cimorelli @LisaCim
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game" Always give it a go!! (:

I watched as the number of retweets and favourites went up. I read around 20 replies that told me they needed that and that it helped them. I smiled at myself. Knowing that I can help people just makes my really happy and cheerful.

Soon, I decided that it was probably time to get ready and head to the beach. I put on a nice floral beach dress as it was pretty hot outside and applied minimal make-up. I left my hair as it was and headed down to the beach.

I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know who would be there or what we would do. I didn't know if it would be awkward or not. I tried to act as casual and normal as possible as I stepped onto the sandy beach. I looked around for Matt but he was nowhere to be seen.

I checked the time. 1:04. It was already 4 minutes past 1. Where would he be?

Ok Lisa. You're being delirious. He'll be here soon. What does 4 minutes matter?

I waited for another 10 minutes for him but he never showed. I didn't know what to think. I didn't know what to feel. My thoughts kept thinking the worst. What if he played me? What if he never actually meant to show up? I could see it clearly.