Falling for Finn

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Getting to sleep Saturday night was harder than you think. When all of these bizarre and crazy thoughts are shooting through my head. But out of all those thoughts, there was one, and one person only, who was on my mind. Finn Hayes. But so far, this spring break was exactly how I wanted it to be.

And after a long night of literally 3 hours of sleep, I woke up to my phone blaring the Miley Cyrus ringtone that I had set. I get up faster than the speed of light, and reach for the phone. It's Finn.

"Hello?" The tone of my voice makes me sound really mad, but in reality I was tired.

"Sorry it's so early, but I was wondering if you wanted to drive around today, just you and me? I'll pick you up and stuff" He says to me.

"Yea! What time will you be here?"

"12?"

Without even looking at what time it is now, I blurt out "yea!!!"

After hanging up the phone and I realize the time. It's 11:30. I have a half hour to shower, do my hair and makeup, and change. Oh how fun.

I quickly fun to the bathroom and turn the water on to lukewarm. Changing out of my spandex and bob Marley t-shirt and getting in. I don't even have time to wash my hair, so I use conditioner and my new bath and body works scented shower gel (it smells perf) and I hop out.

After my shower, I ran to my room to do my makeup. Some light concealer and powder to cover some of my imperfections, a coat of my favorite mascara and a little bit of Chapstick do the trick. I then blow dry my hair and straighten it.

To my outfit, I pick out a pair of hollister jean shorts, a white crop too (as you can tell, I am literally obsessed with crop tops) and some plain black Vans. I am ready by 11:58.

I go downstairs to my mom and my little brother, Carter watching a Nick jr. show.

"Well don't you look nice!" My mom said, getting up from the recliner she was on. "Going on a date?"

"It's not really a date, but it's a guy" I confess, trying not to sound like a 12 year old that's going a dinner date.

"Well you have fun, sweetie" my mom states, moving back to her recliner. The one that dad bought her before he, um, passed away.

And as I'm walking towards the front door to wait outside, I hear a honk. It must be Finn. I walk outside and I see his blue, beat up truck in my driveway. I run to it and open the passenger door.

"Hey!!" I greet him, kind of out of breathe, only cause I'm out of shape.

"Hey" he says back. He is wearing a Metallica t-shirt and skinny jeans to fit his tall and skinny figure.

I buckle my seat belt, trying to hide my huge smile. I can't help it to just tell him how happy I am to be here.

"So I was thinking we can drive along the coast line, maybe stopping in brookings or something" he offers, one hand on the wheel, and one hand on my thigh.

"Totally" I say, smiling.

He takes his hand off of my thigh and turns on the radio to the heavy metal station. He turns the volume down where you can just barely hear it, and it turns into background noise. He puts his hand back on thigh.

And just like yesterday, we are laughing, telling stories, and having a fun time, just being with each other. I wouldn't rather be any where else but here.

"Welcome to Brookings Population 6,000" a sign reads. I haven't been to Brookings in a while. It's a nice town, lots of hotels because of tourists.

"Do you like fast food?" He asks me, trying hard not to laugh because of something funny he had just said before that.

"Yea" I reply back, just like him, trying not to laugh.

He pulled into the McDonald's drive-thru, and asked me what I wanted.

"Mcchicken" I say, realizing how overweight I sound saying it.

He smiles and orders.

We drive around and wait for the line of cars. And soon, we have a huge bag of food, and we are pigging out in the car.

As we get more and more out of town, we find a beach view/access point and pull in. There are absolutely no cars, or people. It's one of those beach access points where it's hard to find and completely deserted. We both get out.

Finn jumps up and gets into the 'bed' of the truck. He reaches his hand out to help me get in too. I take advantage and use his hand to help me into it.

After we are finished eating, we are just staring at the ocean. It's beautiful. At the corner of my eye, I can see him staring at me. I turn to look at him him back. Our eyes meet and he put his hand on my cheek. We lean in for a kiss. It is a long kiss, and I part my lips, he does too. It's a full makeout session. We slowly fall down to where we are now laying down, in a cuddle position and we are making out. We stop, and look at each other.

"Ashley, you're the most amazing girl I have ever met" he smiles, his eyes are literally sparkling as he stares into mine.

"And you are the most amazing I have ever met" I tell him, mimicking him a little bit.

He squeezes me while his long arms are around me. I feel like I couldn't care less about anything in the world. And all of a sudden, all my worries washed away like the sea taking grains of sand.

"My place?" He asks, looking at me.