Chapter 2
(Chapter song: Avril Lavigne Stop Standing There)
The sound of crashing waves and sea gulls invade my ears, somehow in a relaxing way.
"You thirsty?", I ask Haley, standing up.
"For a guy? I ain't looking right now, but for a beverage, yeah."
I roll my eyes at her comment. As I walk further down the beach I notice the cameraman and blocked off section. Filming, something never seen in Maryland. Looking down into my bag, I search for my wallet. A strong arm bumps into my ribs.
"Shit, I'm so sorry!", a medium height male tells me. He's attractive, I won't lie.
"No, it was my fault. I'm just clumsy.", I answer, before hurrying from him.
Grabbing the water, I head back to Haley. "Thanks!", she says taking it. I sit next to her on the beach towel and after a while she says, "Stella, you look like you jut ran into a brick wall." My head whips around to scowl at her but I get distracted by him. The same guy I ran into, he's entering the caution tape outlining the west side of the beach.
"What do you think is filming over there?", I point to the mass of equipment while Haley shrugs.
Sitting in this booth, eating perfectly greased fries, I come to conclusion that I'm going crazy. I see the guy again, from the beach, when I ran into him. It's a bit weird. After I finish eating he exits the same time I do. "Well, if I didn't know any better I'd think you were stalking me?", he asks me while laughing, "I'm Josh.", he extends his hand to me.
I shake it and say," Stella." His hand is large and warm. "So, what's with all of the filming?", I ask with an edge of annoyance.
"Oh!", he seems to perk up, "I'm an actor." I nod at him as he tells me about this movie he's going to be in and we talk about a lot of things. "So Maryland, eh?", Josh asks.
"It sucked living there. Nothing. Small towns.", I explain, blowing the hair out of my face that always lands in front of my right eye.
"The Chesapeake bay?", Josh suggests and I nod, wow, mr. Actor knows about Maryland?
"I gotta get home, see ya later?", I tell him and he nods and walks away after we exchange numbers.
When I get home I go straight to bed and fall asleep instantly. I wake due to a terrific nightmare where I was strapped into a table and a man in a white suit severed my limbs. I shake my head from the horrid image and glance at the clock. 3:37am. There's nothing I can do to fall asleep again, there's no point to even trying. I stand up and go into the bathroom. Washing my face, I see my reflection. Brown hair that comes to my hip bone, brown eyes. My round face may be lead someone to think that I have a bit of Asian in me, as they have asked before, but I don't. I look just as my mother did. People say she was beautiful. I don't have much memory of her. My mind flips back to Josh. I have never thought of a guy this much and it's kinda weird. I shake my head of the thought and go back to bed.
