ONE SUNSET IN FLORIDA

Chapter 12

AMANDA’S P.O.V

“Morning sleepyhead,” Riley greeted from inside the fridge.  Wait.

“Hey what are you doing there?”

“It’s snowing inside here!”  He first spoke like a little girl with a teddy bear but gave me the sarcastic expression the next second, as I rolled my eyes.  “I’m looking for a sauce.”

“Oh,” was all I got before eating my toast.

Not after a single 15 minutes, everybody was downstairs.  We’ve packed and all ready to go to the beach.  James and George had to go to the next tour venue so they wouldn’t join us today.

Riley was being the driver accompanied by Thomas, and the rest of us were at the back seats.  Connor brought along his guitar so we ended up singing together.

“Amanda, show the boys what you got!”  Samantha yelled which I didn't know what for since she was sitting an inch away from me.

“Oh yeah, M, show them!”  Emily followed her.

“What is that?”  Connor looked at me when I shook my head.  “No no, I’m bad at it.”

“That’s fine, just show us.”  He once again smiled and handed me the guitar.

“Okay, so what’s this going to be?”  I asked the girls unsure.

“How about the Little Mix’s Wings?” Emily gave us good idea to sing.

And by that, we started to sing.  Connor sat across me and looked at me in the eyes when I was playing the guitar.  Seriously, I was still good at it.  The fact that the boys didn’t know was that I played almost all instruments when we were recording the song.  Like when we did official cover of Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful, I was the one who played the piano.

“You didn’t tell me you can play guitar.”  Connor was finally speaking after his stunned expression.

“And piano, and drums, and bass.”  Chloe informed Connor.

“Holy moly, you play all instruments and why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because you didn’t ask probably?”  I said and laughed at him.

We sang again for the rest of the ride, until Riley told us we arrived.  All of us jumped out from the mini bus and ran straightly to the beach.  We played the beach volley, hide and seek, throwing one another, pranked Thomas, and we had so much fun.  Florida is good. 

“Guys, I need Starbucks!”  Toby suddenly yelled from Samantha’s side. 

“Oh right, me too!”  Riley agreed.

“Starbucks it is, come on guys!”  Connor commanded all of us like a father.  We were walking to Starbucks store right there at the beach. 

Connor opened the door for me, as I walked inside followed by the rest.  Wait.  I was stunned by the decoration of inside, I should admit.  It’s different than the normal store we had in town.  Once I looked back, I seen they’ve already took seats at the corner of the room, leaving me standing alone.  I knew what to do when it came to this.

“What do you guys need?”  I asked them one by one.

Could you imagine how to take orders from 7 never-stop-complaining kinds of people?  That’s what happened.

“Um, where’s Connor?”

“Oh I don’t know,” Toby shook his head.  I looked at everybody else, they gave me innocent look so yeah, it didn’t work.

“Okay I just give him his usual then.”  I walked closer to the counter but nobody was there.  This Starbucks was even creepier.

I was about to screamed everywhere but a note on the counter table attracted my eyes.

You said to me you don’t believe me.

Let me prove you then.

Con… wait, Connor?  Was this Connor?

“Amanda,” Somebody called my name as I looked back.

“Connor…”

He handed a bouquet of flower.  That’s just so beautiful.

“You first told me you didn’t believe me.  The ‘I love you’ line wasn’t just a line, it neither a joke, M.  I love you so much.  You’ve attracted my eyes ever since we searched about Dancing Harmony.  I love your spirit.  I love the way you sing.  I love the way you dance. That’s just so pure and perfect.  I love the fact that you’d never complaining.  I knew you once still loved Brian for whatever he’s done for you.  By that, I know I can be better than him and you’ll no longer waste your love for the person that doesn’t deserve one.”

I was crying already. 

“I’m sorry I made you thinking I was messing around.  But I wasn’t.  Every word I spell to you, that all true.  I love you, Amanda.”

I was crying and freezing already.  He kneeled and handed me the flower bouquet.

“Would you be my girlfriend?  Promise you that you won’t just a tour joke for me.  I want a forever kind of relationship.”

This time I was giving my death glare to Samantha.  She gave me a puppy eyes and rested her head on Toby’s shoulder.  I knew they were all on this.

“I…uh, thank you Connor but you don’t have to kneel.”

“I kneel at my own risk, and I would kneel another hour for you.  Just answer the question.”  He winked at me.

“Umm…yeah, sure, I would love to be your girlfriend.”

This time I seriously helped him to standing and we finally kissed in front of everybody.

“Whoooops Connor’s no longer single!”  Riley cheered when we were kissing.

“Yeah, and sorry I'm leaving you alone.”  Connor mocked his little brother once he released me from the kiss and put his hand on my waist.

“Who said so?”  Riley stick his tongue and suddenly wrapped Emily’s waist.

“HELL NO!” I was all shocked.  What has they done during these couple days until we got two couples right here?

“HELL YEAH, AMANDA MCDONOUGH!”  Chloe hugged me so tight and congratulated me.

We’re all cheered one another celebrating our relationship.  Life couldn’t be better.