True love is forever

Chapter ~ 6

"There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one." ― Mary Hoffman

- Viviana -

"So do you always get up to swim at 9am or are you stalking me again?"

Harry smiled down at me, lying on the sunbed by our hotel pool, his hair still scruffled. I could see him contemplate and an answer but instead of answering with words he just leaned down to kiss me on the lips. It was so brief my heart barely lifted but I loved the fact that he kissed me because he could though I'm pretty sure he wanted to too!

Harry dragged another sunbed over so that it was touching mine and then took off his shirt so he could lay down and tan. I admit i did swoon at another glance at those stone abs however I pretended to be engrosed in my book though when I sneaked a peek from the corner of my eye I could see him smirking.

The pool was fairly quiet apart from one or two families. One family in particular sat across from Harry and I and I couldn't help but stare at them. There were three kids. The girl who I assumed was the oldest looked around thirteen and was preteneding to not know the family while texting on her phone, her younger brother who looked around eleven was making horrendous facial expressions while he played his on his gameboy next to her. The youngest boy, about eight and was slowly being lathered in suncream by his hefty and hairy father. They were your average family from the outside but I could see the mother beside them, pretending like me to be reading but secretly watching. She was bald with the same face as mine and there was no doubt in my mind she either had or was recovering from cancer. I knew by the way her face came in around her cheekbones and her stomach was flatter than mine. She had one visible bruise under her right arm, clearly where the trainee nurse couldn't find a vein and she was, like me happy, but in a way you couldn't describe.

I thought about the stress her family must'be been put through when she discovered she had cancer. Did she tell them at first or did she wait awhile? Did they dumb it down so as not to upset the youngest boy? Did she wish she could keep it from them and go through it alone so no one would treat her like china in the Queen's kitchen?

It all brought my thoughts back to Harry. I knew after that kiss last night that I had fallen for him and as selfish as it seemed I really, really didn't want to just let him go. He was the final piece to my puzzle, the piece you pretended you couldn't see but was eventually going to drive you mad. Somewhere inside I knew I was going to give in and now here he was, actually fancying me and actually wanting to take it further that a quick snog but the thing was, I had to decide. Tell him the truth and hope he doesn't run or keep it from him and pray it doesn't go far enough for it to break his heart.

I felt myself tear up and reached for my ipod only to knock over my glass of lemondate and bring my bag with it. Sonnolento, the word my mother used for a ditzy or dozy person. She always used it to describe me, especially at times when I'd space out and end up falling over.

"Crap!"I muttered jumping up and reaching for the glass before it drowned anything else.

"Here let me help" Harry sat up swiftly and reached for the things that fell out of my bag. He put my purse and my makeup back in but stopped on the open notebook, picking it up to read it. It was my bucket list.

I froze, now how the hell was I going to explain this?

"Oh cool and bucket list, I've always wanted to make one of these" He said, sifting through the paper and nodding in agreement. I stared at him shocked, he must be mental if he thinks people just make these for no reason. That was easier than I expected.

"Yeah I guess Iwas just bored on the plane and thought what better time to start than on a holiday right?"I was lying through my teeth.

"Ok well then I'm going to help you!"