It Could Be More

Chapter 3

Nicholas walked out of the bathroom in his shorts without a shirt on, showing off his muscled body. I stop staring and look up at him trying to forget what I had just seen. "We should leave..like as soon as possible." I say stuttering over some of my words. "Someone's excited." He lifts one of his eyebrows up and smirks slightly. I nod "Definitely, so let's go." I turn to run downstairs and get in the car, but I hear a ring at the doorbell. My heart stops and so do I. "You gonna go answer that?" He looks over at me confused "Yeah..wait right here, I'll be back." I slowly descend the staircase and walk in front of the door. The doorbell rings again and I put my hand on the doorknob slowly turning it. I slowly open it and see him. Scott was standing before me, except he had gotten taller since I had last seen him and he had gotten more muscular. "Maddie." He smiles genuinely and steps forward, his arms open for a hug. I pull back and just stare at him in disbelief. "What are you doing here..?" I look away and say quietly. "We moved back." He smiled and put his hand on my cheek making me look up at him. "God you're beautiful." He says before leaning in. I turn my head. "I-I'm sorry..I have company and we'll be leaving soon so we'll have to catch up another time.." I start to shut the door and he keeps it open with his foot. "Is it a guy?" I see the look on his face. It was the face he always gave me when me and him were together, he always gave it when he got mad at me for talking to another guy. "I-I-I..." I stutter and I can see the anger growing in him. "I guess I WILL see you later." He turns and walks back to his house. "Nick come on, lets go!" I yell as I can still feel my heart beating out of my chest.

~At the Beach~
I laid down on my towel and let the ultraviolet rays of the sun sink into my skin. I sigh and slightly smile, as I have always loved the warmth. Nick was laying beside me and I felt his hand grab mine. I smile to myself. "What's this for?" I ask and squeeze his hand. "We don't need some guy thinking he can hit on you." I look over at him, one of my eyes closed because of the bright sun and I lightly punch his chest. "Oh whatever." I smirk and stand up. I hear him mumble something and I turn to look back at him. "What was that?" He laughed and stood up after me. "I said, nice butt." He walks towards the water and I run up behind him pushing him in. "Pervert!" I tease and his swims back up and gives me an evil look. "You shouldn't have done that." He gets out of the water and runs after me he grabs me from behind and spins me around getting me all wet, from his body. I squeal in excitement and then he throws me into the water. I swim back up to the surface and just give him a dirty look. I start to get out of the water and walk towards him, "Come on, I'm hungry." I say and start to walk towards the food shack that's by the beach. Before walking all the way to the food shack I grab my purse and my towel and I then go to the food shock. He follows me and before I get food I sit down under one of the tables that has an umbrella opened on top. I sit my stuff down and walk over there getting an order of nachos and a soft drink. He just gets a slice of pizza and we decided to just share a drink. We sit back down and I happily eat all my nachos. I look back at the water seeing the nice sunset behind it making it a perfect view. I then look over at Nicholas, I smirk. He has grease from the pizza all over his face and I just laugh. "Here," I hand him a napkin to wipe his face off. He wipes it off and then sets the napkin back on the table, crumpled up. After we eat, we both just sit there staring at the sunset for a little while and he smiles at me. "Ready to go home?" Home. I shake off all the good feelings then remember the events from earlier. "I..uhm..yeah." I lie and he looks confused. "What's wrong?" He asks and looks straight at me. I don't give him direct eyes contact. "I just have a lot on my mind." I say not exactly lying. "Want me to spend the night again?" He asks with a sweet smile." He asks that and my thoughts about Scott diminish. "Yes, please." I nod and smile. He gently grabs my hand. "Lets go."

~Back At The House~
As we pull up I look over at Scott's new house and I sigh quietly before hopping out of the car. I look over at the house, I could see him up in his room. The curtain was open and he was standing in his room shirtless. I couldn't help, but stare. His body was the same as o had always known except he had obviously been working out a lot more. He looks out the window and notices me. He does a small wave and I could see a smirk on his face. I quickly turn and Nicholas holds my sides "Come on slowpoke." He says and drags me inside my house. He drags me to the couch and sits me down. "Spill it Maddie, you've been distant and I can't help, but notice how much more distant you become." I shake my head. "Just a lot of things. My mom, you," I pause "Scott." I mumble out his name, but he obviously heard by the way he looked at me. "Why are you thinking about him? He's a piece of crap and you know he won't hurt you anymore, he left a long time ago and he's not gonna come.." I cut him off "He's back." He looks confused. "What are you talking about?" He asks and grabs my hand. The doorbell rings and I look up shocked. "Hold on." I walk to the door and I open it. Scott stands there smiling. "When are we gonna catch up..?" He smirks and I stand there speechless. "Nicholas is still here.." I say quietly and his eyes widen. "Nicholas..as in.." I pause him. "Yeah, the one you don't like." His expression falls and it turns to anger. "I'm gonna come back tomorrow to catch up and hang out and he better be gone or I'll smash his teeth in like last time." He turns and walks off. I had always wanted to stand up to him, but I couldn't. His anger scared me and I had always hoped he would go back to the guy I knew when I first met him.