Her Only Secret

Start of Summer bonfire

Updated
Amelia and I shopped for a while and then decided to head to my house to get ready for the bon fire. The start of summer bonfire was the biggest party of the year that almost every one at the public schools and private schools in the area went to. It was held at a secluded area on the beach that most tourists didn't know about and most adults and families avoided due to the isolation. The party marked the end of the school year and beginning of summer vacation. When we arrived back at my house, we went up to my room to decide which of our new clothes we would wear. Amelia chose to wear some high waisted Jean shorts and a pink dressy off the shoulder top. I decided to also wear some high waisted Jean shorts to match hers but I couldn't decide what top to wear. Amelia's eyes lit up and she walked over to my shopping bags and pulled something out of it and threw it at me
It was a plain black T-shirt. Bryces t-shirt. I rolled my eyes at her and said "I'm not going to show up wearing his shirt. Besides. I wanted to dress cute like you. Not in a t-shirt. " She said "oh come on. It would be cute. You could tie it up to make it cute. Plus he will love to see you in his shirt. He would think it's hot.  Guys love seeing girls wear their clothes. " I just rolled my eyes again but I did think she had a point. I end up putting the shirt on and she squeals. I just laugh and turn to start brushing my hair and putting on make up. I just keep it mostly casual with just some light blush and nude eye shadow and mascara. Amelia on the other hand does some pink glittery eye look and bold red lips and fake lashes. She loves to shine and shine she does. She is always the center of attention with the guys in our school but she won't pay any of them any mind. She has her eyes on someone else. Someone she hasn't ever even met. Shes been texting this guy for almost a year now. He lives in California which is over 39 hours away from our home in  Kiawah island South Carolina. She can't let him go though. She connects with him more than almost anyone she's ever met. He's her perfect match and she believes that he's the one for her. We finish getting ready and head down the stairs to the foyer where my mom and dad are sitting at the bar with mountains of papers talking about business deals I'm sure. They turn and see us coming down and my mom waves and my dad nods and then back to their discussion they go. That's probably for the best. They would definitely not approve of me going to the bonfire if they knew about it. Even though the public and private school students alike attend, it's not a high class party and us rich kids are being watched by everyone. If someone lower class drinks and gets caught doing something, they might get in trouble with their parents or get picked on for a week at school maybe. But if one of us gets caught in the same situation, it would be pictures in tabloids or on the internet where all of our millions of followers and watchers can see and it reflects on our parents and entire family and the business.  Me and Amelia get in my car and drive over to the pier to meet Bryce. We get to the pier early and decide to walk down to the end of the pier and just wait. We walk down and watch the waves crashing against the beams below us and just chat and hang out. There's other people around us fishing and talking as well. We don't even realize when Bryce walks up until we hear his voice interrupt our conversations. "Hey" We both jump and turn to see a much cleaner Bryce standing behind us smiling. I smile and stand up with Amelia copying my actions beside me. "Hey. It's about time you showed up" I jokingly say to Bryce who just scoffs and goes along with my joke. "Hey. It's not easy looking this good. " me and Amelia laugh. Bryce gazes over at me and then looks down and recognizes that I'm wearing his t-shirt. I have it tied up in the front so that my stomach just above my belly button is showing. I see him grin and then he quickly looks away. I feel excited knowing that he actually did like that I wore his shirt. Amelia jumps in to interrupt my thoughts and says "Come on yall. We're burning daylight. We go through this every year Kay. I'm not walking 10 miles through the marsh to get to the party again this year. " I roll my eyes at how dramatic she is and laugh. "It wasn't that far Mel." She responds back "Well it sure felt that long. And I ruined my brand new shoes that night in the mud." I laughed and she scowls at me. We all walk to my car and I drive us to the back road that leads right to where the party is. Amelia and Bryce make small talk and I jump in occasionally to add my thoughts. Once we arrive, we all get out and amelia and i open the back of my jeep to reveal our secret stash of alcohol and mixers we brought. We dont like beer and thats usually all anyone else brings and its also for our safety because theres too many weirdos out there. We both grab one of the smirnoffs to startnoff with and then let Bryce into the cooler to grab a drink. We start walking towards the part of the beach where people have already started to gather to drink and talk and wait on the bon fire to be lit. We see a few people we know from school and wave  One of our class mates Nicole waves us over to her. We go over and she is clearly already a little tipsy. "Heyyy you guys...." She slurs out. We all just reply hey back and she continues talking. "Oh my god. Can you belive We're seniors now. It's all gone by too fast." She looks up and notices Bryce standing behind us and her eyes light up "Well hi there. You must be new. I'm Nicole but you can call Me anytime." She awkwardly tries to flirt and use a terrible pick up line and we all just try not to laugh. She giggled and Bryce just politely smiles and says "good one. " she just smiles and winks at him and then sees another guy from school she constantly is flirting with and says "ooo. Sorry new guy...there's the real love of my life." And walks off. We all burst out laughing and Amelia notices some girls from her cheer team and says she's gonna go talk to them. She gives me a look as though to say "stop being so shy" and nods her head towards Bryce. I just rolled my eyes and smile and say "I know. Go." She heads off to the group and I look up at Bryce and he looks down at me. I smile and say "Wanna go over to the water" He shrugs and says "sounds good to me." We walk to the edge of the water were some lawn chairs are vacant and sit down. We sit in silence until Bryce breaks it and says "I see you wore my shirt after all." I laugh and say "Yeah. You were right. It does look better on me." He chuckles and says "Thats definitely true." He leans back in his chair and looks over at me. I ask him "what?" He just smiles and says "You never did text me after the party the other night." I just turn back to the water and say " I didn't know what to say." Bryce sighs and says  "Thats ok. Funny how life brought you back to me anyways. It's almost like fate or something." I just giggle and say "More like nosey friends who could double as an FBI agent." He laughs with me and then we both sigh and look back at the water. I hear movement from Bryce and then a moment later I'm being lifted out of my seat and carried over Bryces shoulder over to the water. I squeal and start pounding onto Bryces back yelling "Put me down!!! This isn't funny!!! Bryce!!!! STOP!!!" seconds later I'm submerged into the cold ocean water and I quickly come back up for air. I look around for Bryce and moments later he emerges from the water and is laughing and says "That was priceless." I scowl at him and say "This isn't funny. Now I'm freezing. " He just keeps laughing even harder this time and I walk over to him while he's too busy laughing to notice and jump on his back knocking over into the water. He re emerges and turns around looking for me. I smirk at him and say "Paybacks a bitch" He smirks and walks towards me. I turn to get as far away from him as possible but my legs are way shorter than his so I can't get through the water fast enough and I'm quickly lifted up again and tossed back into the water. This back and forth is repeated several times and by the end of it we're laughing and out of breath. Bryce is standing in front of me and staring and I quickly become self conscious and try to fix my wet tangled mess of hair. Bryce reaches over and pushes my hair away from my face and let's his hand linger on my chin before he puts his hand back down to his side. With a little bit more of a confidence boost from that move, and the alcohol I'm sure, I move closer to Bryce and reach out to touch his arm. He moves closer as well closing the distance between us. He puts his hand back on my face and Cups my cheek this time. His thumb slides back and and forth over my cheek and I lean into his touch and close my eyes. I wish this moment could last forever. Suddenly I feel Bryces lips press against my own and I realize that I take back my last wish and exchange it for wishing this moment could last forever. I kiss him back and he moves his hand from my cheek to my back where he pulls me closer to him. I move to wrap my arms around his neck and we continue to kiss until he pulls his head away and looks into my eyes. He places his hand back on my cheek and runs his thumb over my cheek again. I smile up at him and curiously ask "why did you stop?" He smiles and whispers "There's plenty of time for more of that later. I want to take my time with you. I want to make this last." He smiles down at me and then pecks my nose before moving his hand down to grab mine and we walk back to the chairs. I see Amelia standing close by with some other girls laughing. She turns and sees me and runs over. She is definitely working on her 3rd or 4th drink by now with the way she keeps nearly falling as she runs. When she gets to me she nearly falls again and I grab her and steady her. She is smiling and says "Hey!! I haven't seen you In a while. Where have you been?"  She notices my wet hair and clothes and says "Did you go swimming without me?" I laugh and say "No Bryce threw me in" She laughs and says "I guess you could say he made you wet!!" She busts out laughing and I smack her arm, embarrassed and blushing. I exclaim "I need another drink" and I ask Bryce if he does too and he says sure so me and Amelia walk back to the jeep to get another drink. I tell her about the kiss and she gets excited and asks for all the details of course. We gather several drinks, including our hard liquor to start taking shots and head back to Bryce. We all start drinking some more and loosening up and pretty soon we're all drunk and dancing together. I couldn't remember how many drinks and shots I had but it must have been alot because sober me would have never had the confidence to start grinding on Bryce like I was doing. I turned around and reached up to pull Bryces face down to mine and I start to kiss him. He kisses me back and pulls me closer to him. I try to deepen the kiss but Bryce pulls away and says, I think its time I get you and Amelia home. I pout and turn to see where Amelia is and she's still dancing on strangers and taking shots. I see Bryce walk over to her and tell her something. I run over and hear him telling her it's time for us to go but when she sees me she ignores him and runs over and throws her arms around me to dance with me. We both start dancing together and she goes to pour us more shots. I reach to take mine and Bryce says "Don't yall think you've had enough?" We both just look at him and say "no" and laugh as we take the shots.  I walk over to Bryce and start dancing on him again. He puts his hands on my waist and dances with me. I reach up and put my arms around his neck and look up at his eyes while we dance. He looks back into my eyes. He slowly leans down and places his lips on mine. Its starts out slow and soft but the longer it goes on, I start to deepen it and hungrily kiss him. This time, I pull away, and breathlessly whisper, follow me. I leaf Bryce to the woods nearby and lead Bryce behind one of the trees where I practically tackle him and begin to kiss him again. I pull him down to my lips and kiss him hungrily again. He responds back with the same amount of want. Bryce runs his hands down my waist and to the backs of my thighs where he urges me to jump and wrap my legs around his waist and I do just that. He turns us around so my back is against the tree and he pushes into me and continues to kiss me passionately. I run my hands all over his chest and back. He pulls away from my lips only to start kissing and biting down my neck and to my chest where his t-shirt is just a tad too big and hangs down. I moan at the feeling and he groans and then pulls away and slowly and regretfully puts me back down to the ground. Disappointed again, I say "what did you do that for?" Bryce just sighs and says "We're going too fast. And you're way to drunk to know if you actually want this right now. " I drunkenly respond "I'm not that drunk. I know what I want and that's you." Bryce just chuckles and says "you are definitely drunk. I know for a fact if you were sober you would be blushing at just the idea of saying something like that to me." I roll my eyes and say "I don't know what you're talking about. I don't blush." Bryce says "yeah ok beautiful. Whatever you say and he turns to walk away. I suddenly feel a pang in my stomach. I stop walking and try to breathe and let it subside. Once it does I start walking again. I suddenly feel the pain again and then I start feeling queasy and have to stop and lean on the tree. I hear Bryce say my name and walk over to where I'm standing. I start to say something but then I all of the shots and drinks from the night come up and spill out onto the ground. Bryce grabs my hair and starts holding it back while I continue spilling my guts. When I'm finally feeling better I stand up and Bryce hands me his t-shirt he had on under his button down shirt and prompts me to wipe my mouth with it. After I do I groan and start apologizing. He cuts me off and says "Don't apologize when there's nothing to apologize for. Let's just get you home and cleaned up. We start to walk but I stumble and  catch myself on a tree where I lean and giggle. I look over at Bryce who chuckles and walks over and in one swift motion picks me up bridal style and walks us back. I start laughing and wrap my arms around his neck. We get back to the party and see Amelia still dancing. Bryce calls out to her and when she sees him carrying me she realizes it's time to go and tells everyone bye and follows us back to the car. I start to feel tired and place my face on Bryces neck and snuggle into it. I feel him chuckle gently and I smile. We get to my car and  Bryce walks over to the passenger side and sets my on the seat and buckles me in. I must have fallen asleep almost instantly because I don't remember anything  after that.