The Rich Girl's Nerd

Chapter Twenty Six

Chapter Twenty Six

I walk through the dark car park dragging my suitcase behind me. My dad owns a private jet and we're at a private airport but he still insists on early morning flights. The flight is only two hours so I really don't see the need to be here at 5am, and I won't even be able to sleep for that long.

We get into the airport and twenty minutes later we are boarding the plane. I sit down on one of the first cream leather seats of the plane. There are a group of seats with a table just a little bit further down on which my family sit then Alex and his family sit right at the other end. The flight attendant goes through all the safety information; I could probably recite it from memory in her exact bland tone of voice with the amount of times I've heard her say it. After that boring, but necessary, experience, we finally take off.

About twenty minutes into the flight, just as I am nodding off to sleep, a body comes and sits itself in front of me which makes me open my eyes. I see Alex sat with a small smile on his face in front of me. We have a short conversation but not long after we both fall asleep.

I don't end up sleeping for long; I wake up about half an hour later. Alex is still asleep when I wake up and I just sit and stare at him for a little while because I don't have much else to do. I do need to stretch my legs though so I get up and head to the bathroom. There's a huge mirror in the bathroom so I fix up my makeup that was ruined by my nap. I stare and my clothes that are far from my best clothes; my old oversized grey jumper, blue skinny jeans and white trainers are extremely comfortable though. After evaluating my appearance, I go back to my seat. When I return, I see Alex has woken up. I give him a smile as I sit down. We don't really talk for the rest of the flight, just a few comments about the view and things like that.

The rest of the flight goes by quite quickly and we arrive in Spain. We get our luggage then all of us get into a large taxi in which I am squished between Alex and Joshua. We are driven to the villa that my parents share with Johnathan and Amanda. It doesn't take long for us to get there. Our villa backs on to a beach so I stare out at the sea as we get closer. He parks in the long driveway and helps us with our suitcases. I take my two suitcases and drag them inside, along with everyone else. My dad tells us to go unpack our things so I lug my suitcases up the stairs and find my bedroom.

I see the clean white sheets that cover the kingsize bed and just want to collapse onto it. First I have to put my clothes and other things away before I can do that though. I lift the cases on to the bed and open them up. I hang up my dresses up in the wardrobe and everything else in the chest of drawers. On the desk I put out my makeup and hair products along with my hair straighteners and curlers. Finally, I take my toiletries and put them in the en suite bathroom. When I walk back into the room I pull open the white curtains then the doors so I can walk out on to the balcony. This balcony is so much bigger and much better than the one I have at home. I sit down and stare at out at the beautiful view. If Alex was here he'd say I was more beautiful than the view. Right now, I'd have to disagree; this view is definitely more beautiful than anything I have ever seen.

Speak of the devil...

Not long after Alex knocks on my door and lets himself in. He pulls back the curtain and comes to sit with me. He joins me staring out at the sea for a little while before he asks if I want to go out to the beach. I agree and decide to put something a little less warm on as I'm still wearing the jumper and jeans I was wearing on the flight; it's around 11 o'clock now so it's starting to get really warm her. I make him wait outside while I get changed. I put on a blue bikini with a black dress over top and slip on some black sandals. I grab some sunglasses off the chest of drawers and go meet Alex outside my room.

When I go outside I realise that Alex has also got changed. He is wearing shorts, I don't think I've ever seen him wear shorts. Just as we get downstairs, Alex stops. He rummages around in his pocket and looks back upstairs; he grabs something and tells me he need to go back up to his room. He hesitantly goes, leaving me downstairs, and comes back a few minutes later. He's acting suspiciously again...

"Are you hiding something from me again?" I nudge at his arm.

"No, of course not Belle." He says, giving me a half hug.

He rarely hugs me like that which makes him seem even more suspicious. I just want to know what's going on with him. I try to ignore it again and we go out the back door of the villa which leads to a tall white staircase that we have to go down to get to the beach. It's a nice quiet walk and we enter a secluded part of the beach. Alex lays out a towel he brought and we both sit down on it. I stare out at the sea like I was up in my room. It's so much better up close though. I take a picture of the view for instagram then decide to just enjoy it with my own eyes with Alex next to me. He shuffles closer so we are almost cuddling but I won't let him do that. After that, I mindlessly run my hand through the soft sand at the edge of the towel.

The water looks so enticing. I decide I want to go in but I don't want to leave Alex here alone. I quickly stand up, take off my sandals, and stand in front of Alex. I put my hands out to help him up but he just looks at me like I'm insane. "Come on, lets go in the sea." I tell him, but he still doesn't seem sure. I walk backwards towards the sea, but Alex still isn't budging. I run back to him and grab him by the hands to pull him up. He reluctantly stands and I drag him to the sea. He's now smiling so I'm guessing he doesn't mind; it could just be because I'm holding his hand though. When we get to the sea, I start splashing Alex like a child would. The smile on his face keeps growing until eventually he bursts out laughing at my childish behaviour. He joins in too and we both end up in hysterics. My dress is soaked but I don't care, this is too fun. After carrying this on for a little while, out of nowhere Alex lifts me up and spins me around. I hold him tightly because I feel like I will fall. I'm enjoying this a lot, I let out a little happy scream while laughing. He stops spinning me but he continues to hold me in the air.

Kiss him.

Shut up brain...

But you want to.

I don't.

Yes you do.

I am adamant that I do not want to kiss Alex and I don't. Finally, he puts me down, and we both go further into the water. I walk a bit further ahead of Alex because he seems to have stopped without me realising until I turn around to see him stood a few metres away, starting off into nothingness. I shout his name to bring him back into reality and he does a little jog to catch up to me. I'm pretty much knee deep into the water so I decide not to go any further so I don't get my dress any more wet. Me and Alex stand and chat for a bit until we hear a familiar "Oy!" from across the beach. We both turn to see James and a woman coming towards us. Begrudgingly, we walk out of the water to meet them. Why am I not surprised that we've been here almost 5 hours and James has already found a girl.

"We saw your little lifting stunt, didn't know you were that strong, brother." James laughs. The girl whose name we still don't know seems to find what he said amusing too. Alex doesn't laugh, he just gives him a small smile. I change the subject by asking who the girl is. James introduces her as Maria; me and Alex both say "Hi" and she replies with "Hola." We walk back over to our towel and the four of us sit and talk for a while. Lucky, Maria speaks English; I was kinda worried that she couldn't. The only Spanish I know is 'Hola' and some numbers and colours. That would not be useful in conversation. During this conversation, me and Alex move closer together out of awkwardness. This obviously causes Maria to ask if we're together which we both deny because that's the truth. I wish it wasn't but it's just how it is.

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