Hayes Grier fanfic: beneath the stars

Chapter 59

Althea's POV:

We landed around 12 pm. Everyone was still pretty tired and they seemed overdosed on jet lag.

We took another bus as a class and we arrived at a hotel. It wasn't fancy but it wasn't bad either. It smelt like chlorine though, probably because of the pool.

The hotel was empty, a few families here and there.

"Okay, girls down this right hallway and boys down this hallway. Since just arrived today we won't do any lessons, it's sort of a fun-do-what-you-want sort of day" our teacher said,

The girls and boys divided up. Us girls took the right hallway and the boys took the left. I did my best to avoid hayes. And id say I did pretty well.

Anna whispered to me a few times about how Hayes was "staring" at me when our teacher was talking,

I didn't really care. Sure it was nice that he was staring and all, and I liked how I was teasing him. Like I was playing with him,

Some little game only he and I could play,

Maybe I did still love hayes, but I wasn't going to forgive him just like that. No,

That's to easy.

I'm such a tease, but hey,

Don't tell me that it doesn't work.

When Maria, Mae, Anna, Andrea, Jen and I found our room, room 302 we opened the door.

The room was big, it had 6 beds lined up perfectly, 3 on each side of the room. The walls were painted grey but we had a big window. The big window had a great view of the city. California was a nice place to be in,

I took the bed near the window. With Maria and Mae on my side as well. Andrea, Anna and Jen took the other side of the room. After that we all unpacked.

It took us a while but we finished eventually, we realized we packed longer than we thought we would.

"Do you guys wanna head over to the pool and just check it out?" Maria asked,

We all agreed, so we left our room and went to the pool.

Hayes's POV:
I couldn't stop staring at Althea as our teacher was talking, actually, I don't even know if he WAS talking. My eyes were on Althea and all I could hear was my heart beat getting caught in my ears.

Jeff nudged me as we walked to our room, room 298.

The room was an okay size. Wasn't big nor was it small. Just right for 4 people. I was sharing a room with Jeff, raffy, chandler. Our room had a big window, a great view of city and the sky..

I took the bed near the window,

I thought being able to look at the sky at night was great..

The stars... The moon.

And that was all I thought about as I unpacked.

"Hey, Hayes, you wanna come with me to the pool? I wanna check it out, and who knows maybe I'll meet a girl there" Jeff said,

I laughed, as if.

Just kidding,

"Sure," and I grabbed my phone and we went to the pool