My New Neighbor (Editing)

Chapter 11: French Fries and French Kisses

         

"I'm hungrrrry." I whine as Donny comes back to our spot.

"Me toooo." He mocks me

"Then let's go get food!" I jump up from sitting down.

"At least give a guy a second to dry off."

"That's going to take forever." I continue to whine.

"Then we'll dry off together."

"But I'm not eve-, "Then I'm suddenly embraced by Don.

Great.

"You can let go of me now."

"But you're so warm."

I wiggle out of the hug and wrap myself in my towel because I'm cold and wet.

"Can we get food now?"

"Yeah, let me just grab my shirt."

I remember I'm still in my bikini and throw on an oversized t-shirt as a cover up for now.

We then make our way to the small strip with a few shops for food and souvenirs. I spot a shop selling french fries with different kinds of toppings and a lemonade stand. This, my friends, is one of the high points of living life.

"Ooh, do you want french fries and lemonade?" Donny exclaims to me.

"You literally read my mind."

"Of course I did; I read minds in my free time."

"Please get over yourself so we can just get some food, I'm starving."

"After you then, my lady." He says while gesturing with his hands.

"Oh, why thank you." I play along

After looking at the menu I decide on chili cheese fries and a plain lemonade while Donny chooses to make his own concoction of a meal. Who puts garlic, mustard, onions, and sausage on french fries?

After making our way back to our spot, I eat the other half of my fries because I just couldn't resist eating them along the way.

"You really are an animal when it comes to food. But how are you so skinny?"

"When I say I'm hungry I don't joke around. And I don't know how I'm still skinny, I couldn't exercise if my life depended on it, call it luck.

"Do you wanna play Marco Polo when we're done with this?" Donny asks.

"Sure, but no more races please."

"And here I thought I'd be given the chance to eat your dust." He fakes disappointment

"We'll save that for another day, don't you worry."

After five minutes of playing Marco Polo, we realize we need more people if it's going to be fun. After asking this group of 6 younger boys they agree to play with us and then I realized how outnumbered I am. 7 boys to 1 girl.

I agree to be Marco to start and no less than a minute later I've caught one of the guys. He catches one of his friends who gets Donny. As it's his turn I can tell he's specifically after me and he gets close to catching me a couple of times but I make it out of his reach in time.

"Marco!"

"Polo!" We all respond.

"Marco!"

"Polo!"

Then it's silent; I turn around and can't see Donny anywhere. Suddenly I feel arms around my legs and I shriek as I'm being lifted up over someone's shoulder and thrown into the water. I resurface from under the water to see Donny and all the guys laughing at me. Oh it's on!

I swim over to Donny when he's too distracted laughing and jump onto his shoulders pushing all my weight onto him to shove him into the water. He's caught by surprise but takes me down with him. When we resurface we see the rest of the guys laughing at us. We turn to each other and know exactly what's on each other's minds.

We gang up on the boys one by one and I splash water on them as a distraction while Donny flips them into the water the same way he did to me. They try swimming away but we catch them all.

"Alright, alright can we please call a truce?" One of the boys says as we flip over the last one.

"I guess, we've all gotten each other." I agree.

"All these tricks and laughing has me starving!" Another of the boys exclaims

"Me too. You know what FRIES AND LEMONADE ON ME," I exclaim. Might as well put the 50 dollars to good use.

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We say our final good byes to the boys as we head back to the car to leave the beach. We throw our stuff in the trunk and I grab my phone before closing it. As we pull out of our parking spot I text my dad to let him know we're on our way home. Looking up from my phone, the sun is starting to set and the sky couldn't look more beautiful.

Donny turns on the radio and my favorite song is on-- Cold Water. To be honest, Justin Bieber himself I don't like much but his music lately is just too good to ignore. I start jamming out and dancing in my seat but Donny rolls his eyes while trying to hide a smirk.

"Come one! You know you love it." I exclaim to him

"No, I hate it."

"But you just gotta love it! Sing with me."

"No."

"And if you feel you're sinking I will jump right over into cold cold water for you." I sing along

"Oh, really you will?"

"Only if you sing with me!"

"And I hope you know...I won't let go!" We belt out together

And with that, we break out into a dance session as the base drops.

"I won't let go, no, I won't let go." Donny sings the background.

"I'll be your lifeline tonight!" I sing completely off key.

This day couldn't get any better.

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"Hey, Cas wake up, we're here." I was awoken from my short nap by Donny.

I see we're pulled into the driveway and the only light coming through the pitch black night came from the moon.

"What time is it?" I ask

"It's almost midnight. We left the beach pretty late and the traffic only slowed us down."

I check my phone and see a text from my dad saying he'll be asleep when I get home but I should be home when he wakes up.

"Oh."

"I'll help you get your things."

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that."

He grabs my bag from the trunk while I just hold onto my towel. We go up to my room and set the things down on my bed.

"Today was really fun; we should spend more time like this together." I sincerely tell Donny.

"Yeah, we should."

We hug it out bringing an end to our day. Or so I thought.

Next thing I know Donny's lips are on mine while I just stand there confused as to why this is happening.

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AHHHHH I HOPE Y'ALL ARE PROUD OF ME!

Rather than update in like a month (or 2) I UPDATED IN A DAY!

YES YOU HEARD RIGHT. I. UPDATED. IN. A. DAY.

Well, I hope y'all are proud of me or something but I'm starting to get back into the groove of writing and going back to the reason why I even started a book (because I love writing).

How do y'all feel about this little cliffhangerrr!? Do you think Cassie will slap him, kiss back, push him away, run away...?! Yo no sé.

Let your imaginations run wild and don't forget to LIKE AND COMMENT!!