Summer Love

Chapter 17

June 9, 2013
8:00 pm
"It's beautiful isn't it?" I said, looking out at the sunset, still in Beau's grasp.
"Yeah, you are" he agreed
"Wait, what?" I looked at him
"I mean yeah! The sunset! That's what I meant." I looked at him in the eyes.
"Sure" I laughed and poked his cheek. There was more awkward eye contact for awhile before I noticed his eyes were dilated, people say your pupils dilate when you're looking at something pleasing or when you're attracted to someone or something, of course I knew he was still attracted to me, but it's still weird. I quickly looked back at the sunset trying to forget that he still likes me. With my head resting on his shoulder, I said "I'm tired" A giant yawn came out of nowhere.
"It's only 8:00!" He chuckled, slowly moving his hand down above my waist. I glanced down at it, but I just ignored it. I overheard him humming a familiar song, one of my favorite songs, he was humming Drops of Jupiter by Train.
"But tell me, did you fall for a shooting star? One without a permanent scar?" I started to quietly sing,
"And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there" He joined in singing. He finished the song with a final hum, and I dozed off. My head was still on his shoulder.
-Beau's POV-
She fell asleep on my shoulder. I wasn't just going to leave her here, so I called Luke. I thought he would want to put her to bed, not me.
"Hey, come out here, your girlfriend fell asleep." I hung up the phone. The back door to the house creaked open and footsteps traveled down the stairs to where we were sitting.
"Here, I've got her" Luke started to pick her up bridal style and carried her away. "Thanks, by the way." He looked back at me.
"No problem" I stood up and followed them into the house.
-Maddie's POV-
June 10, 2013
I woke up in my bed, around 10:00. I felt someone's arms around me, so I rolled over. Luke was laying there wide awake; as if he'd been awake for hours. "Hey" I whispered looking him in the eyes.
"Good morning, beautiful" he smiled
"Good morning" I smiled, he looked like he was in a daze. "Penny for your thoughts" I reached for a copper colored coin off of the bedside table and handed it to him.
"How lucky I am" he began as he took the penny and started fiddling with it "to have you" he looked me in the eyes "sometimes I think that you were something that was supposed to come into my life, that it was fate, that god sent you. If you wouldn't have gone out with me, I would've..." He trailed off
"Would've what?" I put my hand on his face, moving his hair out of the way.
"I don't know," he said "I just don't know."
"Luke.." Hand still on his cheek, by this time we were both a little teary eyed. "Where'd that come from?"
"What do you mean?" He asked
"From everything I've done, like kiss both your brothers.. I just don't know. I think I'm the lucky one"
"Maybe we're both a little lucky" he pulled me closer, as if we could get any. We kissed, for at least a solid three minutes. I laid my forehead against his.
"I love you" I whispered
"I love you too" he smiled, kissing me one more time. "Oh yeah!" he sat up on the bed. "Guess what day it is!"
"Um.. I should know this shouldn't I?" I sat up facing him
"You don't remember do you?" he gasped
".....No" I said a little confused
"WOW! What a change this is! Usually the guy forgets!" He laid back down with his hands behind his head.
"Tell me what day it is!" I laughed "And you know I'm bad with dates!"
"It's our one month anniversary!' He shouted, sitting up again.
"Oh my god! I completely forgot! Happy one month baby" I gave him another kiss. "So do you have anything special planned?" I threw my arms around his neck with a little too much excitement.
"Well.." He began "I was actually planning something, but it's not quite finished" a devious grin appeared on his handsome face.
"Can I have a hint as to what we're doing at all?" I begged him
"Ummmmmm... No" he laughed "but I will make you some breakfast"
"Oh, I'd love to see that" I giggled, He pulled me off the bed to go downstairs. Once his back was turned, I jumped on him, unfortunately my grip failed....the first time.
"Woah!" He shouted. I hopped up on his back once more, but this time it was a definite piggy back ride. I held on as he ran down the stairs, arms around his neck and legs around his waist. We were laughing so hard I almost fell off, twice. As we walked into the kitchen, everyone was just staring at us while the tv blared.
"So what are we having?" I sat down on the stool at the table very excited to see if he could cook or not.
"I'm thinking pancakes" he smiled, getting all the ingredients out. "This is how my mom makes them" he said as he added....Applesauce? Oh well! I laughed to myself.
I heard Megan yell from the living room "We're going down to the beach! You guys can join us if you want!"
"Maybe later! Bye guys" I yelled back
"Soo, how're the pancakes comin'?" I walked over to the stove to see how it was going. "Oh.. Man... No offense babe but you suck." I stated
"Uh.." He scratched his head "no one ever really taught me how to make pancakes..." We both broke out into laughter.
"Here" I grabbed his spatula from his hand. "see" I pointed to the outer edges of the pancake. "Once the outer edges look like lace then they're ready to flip"
"Like lace?" He questioned
"Yeah! There's a ton of little bubbles.. Duh" I nudged him
"Ooh" he grinned
"Let me finish this one and you can try if you want" I looked back at him, he had his arms around my waist and head on my right shoulder.
"You smell nice, like vanilla and musty flowers" he said through continuous sniffs of my shirt and hair.
"Musty flowers?" I laughed "I'm gonna take that as a compliment"
"It's a good smell" Luke rested his head against mine. I looked over and smelled his head. It sounds weird when you say it like that...
"And you smell like a bottle of sexy" I looked back to the now dark brown pancake.
"What did you say?" He looked at me laughing
"I said.. We should turn on some music!" I ran off to the stereo and plugged my phone in, the song Timber by Pitbull instantly blasted out the speakers. I looked at him after a few seconds into the song and he was ALREADY attempting to twerk. "LUKE!" I yelled
"What?" He stood straight up
"Let's keep the dancing PG. Okay?" I laughed, the song switched to Say Something by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera. "Oh I love this song" I turned it up some. This song gives me chills, or was it just that I felt his strong arms wrap around me pulling us face to face. Yeah, pretty sure it was that..
"Wanna dance?" He grinned that goofy grin of his.
"Sure" I smiled back, we began dancing and just acting like complete weirdos, but weirdos in love. He dipped me down at one point of the song and said he loved me, and kissed me. Wow, I've never had a guy do that to me, ever. He's so sweet, the best boyfriend I've ever had. "I love you too" I whispered into his ear as he pulled me back up to my feet. I felt the hot breath on my neck, his lips slowly making me melt with every little touch.
"Babe" he said, still kissing my neck.
"Y-Yes?" I managed to say between faint moans.
"The pancake is on fire." He breathed out sort of laughing.
"What?!" I quickly whipped around to the sight of bright orange flames. 'Oh my god!" I grabbed the fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed it frantically all over the stove.
"Well, so much for breakfast." He waved his hand trying to clear the air.
"We could go somewhere I guess..." I suggested "I'm pretty sure there's a Cafe down the road."
"Sounds good" he pulled me close for one last kiss, but before our lips met he smiled and said "let's go get ready" and took off. Damn he's good. I went up to my room and pulled out my favorite short sleeved dress, only for a special occasion. You know, our anniversary.. It's light pink with black bird shapes on it and a tiny black belt. I did my hair in a braid like Katniss Everdeen's, and my makeup look consisted of mascara, taupe colored eyeshadow, and pale pink lipstick. I slipped on my black flats and raced down the stairs. It sounds kinda fancy for a cafe, but....oh well..
"You look gorgeous" he held out his hand, while standing at the bottom of the stairs.
"Thanks" I started to blush, grabbing his hand I jumped off the third step. "So, you ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be...to go get breakfast.." he laughed as I guided him out the door, and we drove off.