Seventeen

15) Crowds, Pools & Late nights.

~Lily's POV~

I stare in amazement at Nate and Sophia for a second, I really wasn't expecting that. I carry on looking around for my brother. I spot Austin on the dance floor, and I walk over to him hoping he would have seen Levi as it was getting late and the party was still in full steam.

"This party is better than we could have planned!" Says Austin as I get to him. "Serious everyone has turned up" He laughs and carries on dancing to a repetitive dance beat.

"Hey have you seen Levi?" I ask him rather loudly over the music.

"Nope, but you should dance, come on, it'll be so fun!" He grabs my hand and dances out control spilling the drink in his hand. Suddenly I fall from the force that he's moving me and I feel him catch me before I hit the ground.

However I look up to see Drew smiling down at me holding me in his arms, not Austin.

"Thank you" I say getting to my feet "Some how your always behind me"

Drew looks thoughtfully before looking up at me and smiling again.

"Have you seen Sophia?" He asks with a raised eyebrow

"Unfortunately" I say rolling my eyes laughing

We dance for a while ignoring Nate and Sophia, and Austin seemed to be doing his own thing. In the crowd of people dancing, we were swarmed, there was no way I would find Levi.

"Have you seen Levi?" I ask Drew after a while "Its just that I haven't seen him in a while, and there's so many people here..."

"I saw him in the garden, just before I found you actually." I sighed in relief "Do you wanna go and see if we can find him?" Drew looks at me his head slightly to one side.

"Do you mind?" I say apologetically.

He shakes his head, and then leads me towards the garden. When we go outside, there's loads of people out there too. We make our way through more people dancing to the blaring music, seeing people jumping into our lit up pool, and a mix of singing and talking from all corners of the garden. Drew grabs my hand making sure we don't separate in the sea of people. As we make our way through the crowd I spot Levi on a nearby bench with some of his old school friends, and I quickly drop Drew's hand. I run over to him, and wave to the collection of boys who I grew up knowing when Levi was in high school.

"Here you are!" I say to Levi "I've been looking for you"

"What do you need Lil?" He asks me

"Just thought I'd let you know its extremely late, the neighbors might complain"

"It'll be fine Lil, the guys next door are in here somewhere, I invited them to avoid the problem" He high fives one of the guys I know as Kev.

"Oh Okay" I say looking back at Drew

"Lily" Says Kev "I haven't seen you in ages" He stands up walking towards me and I'm about to say 'Hi' before he picks me up and throws me into the pool, fully clothed.

"KEV!" I scream, getting to the surface of the water "Why would you do that?!"

The group of boys on the bench with Levi break out into fits of laughter. I swim to the edge seeing Drew holding his hand out to help me get out. I grab hold of his hand, and try to pull myself up, but I end up pulling him in as well, and the people around us erupt into loud laughter. I look over at Drew who swims to the surface, and he begins laughing too, soon we are both laughing so much we can barely keep our heads above water. My hair is wet and tangle, and my make up is ruined, but somehow when I look into Drew's eyes he makes me feel beautiful.

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We get out of the pool huddling together, and run inside leaving a trail of water behind us. I lead Drew to the bath room where I hand him a towel to dry off.

"Thanks" He says ruffling his hair, somehow making him look twice as attractive. I dry off too, cleaning my face from makeup and patting my hair to make it slightly dryer with my towel. Drew waits outside my bedroom door as I change into some comfier clothes, and he goes to change too.

~Drew's POV~

I get change into some dry clothes and make my way back to Lily's room. I knock before I enter to make sure I'm allowed in, and when I open the door I see her laying on her bed, asleep. I walk over to her, and re-position her so that her heads on the pillow, and I pull the blankets over her. I watch her for a second, as she peacefully dreams, it must be two in the morning, no wonder she's tired.

"I wish I could just tell you how amazing you are" I say stroking her hair "I wish it didn't have to be this difficult"

I look at her for a few more moments before placing a kiss on her temple, and whispering:

"I love you"