Once in California

CHAPTER 8

Kit turned around in the bed. Since Stiles came back to the room he couldn’t go back to sleep. He tried a bunch of different positions, but nothing. His head was spinning with thoughts at a huge level. He couldn’t stop thinking about Emilia, and the way she acted that day. Was she really avoiding him or it was just what he thought. Why would she? unless she remembered the events of the previous night and she felt ashamed. She should talk to him, he could clear a lot of things up, but she didn’t and at some point that broke his heart a little, he really wanted her to remember everything so they could talk about their feelings, but if she remembered and now was avoiding him, he started to think that those feelings were just his imagination.

He turned over again and looked at the clock on the opposite wall. ‘5:30 am crap’ he was never going back to sleep.

“That’s it, I’m getting up” he said and Stiles snorted. Kit shook his head.

He got up and grabbed a jacket and his camera. He knew that taking pictures was going to distract him, photography was his passion after all.

He went down the beach,  all the way to the pier, the sun was rising so the light was going to give him some really good pictures. He felt calm and relaxed, he needed time for himself sometimes. That was one of the reasons he decided to take this trip, to enjoy moments like this one, were he could clear his mind from stuff like, university, work and girls drama.

He closed his eyes and felt the morning breeze caressed his face, he breathe the ocean air and he could feel all his thought and doubts slowly going away as his mind began to clear.

He opened his eyes and looked around,  maybe he could lay there and sleep. No he was not tired anymore,  he wanted to take more pictures. He saw a lifeguard wood house near the coast. It was not big but it looked quite abandoned so he approach to take some pictures of it.

He froze when he came close enough to see who was sitting on the deck of the cottage.

“Em?” he asked

The brunette looked up and her eyes went wide.

There she was trying to relax and clear her head because of course she couldn’t sleep. The only place where she thought would be alone, away from him and her fears, was now her doom. She wanted to avoid him and here he was, looking at her with those dark eyes full of sweetness and confusion. Of course he was confused, she was acting like a little girl who just wanted to run away from the boy she liked just to save herself from embarrassment.

She looked around, she was trapped, there was no way of getting out of this without at least mention some of the events about the other night.

She took a deep breath.

“Hey… what are you doing here?” she said without looking straight at him.

“I couldn’t sleep” he stepped forward and got closer to where she was sitting “ I’m glad you’re here, are you feeling better?” he asked.

“What?” she said confused

Kit smirked, he knew Lydia was lying to him.

“Lydia told me you weren’t feeling ok yesterday” he took another step, and put his camera away, every time one step closer to the deck.

Emilia blushed. She completely forgot she asked Lydia to lie for her. Great now he knew she was lying.

“Oh yeaah… I am! I feel a lot better now” she smiled awkwardly.

He was facing her now.

“You know what? You’re a terrible liar!” he said still wearing that smirk on his face.