College mom-to-be

Chapter 4

The bell rings and I walk out of my last class, and worse class today. The teacher and class itself are fine I was just hoping I wouldn't be constantly stared at through the WHOLE class period. I change into some yoga shorts, a white tank top and walk outside to the field where some of the cheerleaders and football players already are. I introduce my self and learn the rest of the girls names. We stretched for a while and I've been working on some routine ideas so I decided to show them what I had in mind for the first part of the routine. They picked it up really fast so we got done sooner than we usually would. You might be thinking, 'if you're a freshman in college how do you have the captain slot already?'. Well, after some family stuff happened a guy that was friends with my mom got me a chance to try out for captain since the last one had graduated last year. I walk over to my cheer bag and hear someone walking up to me. I turn around and see Conner.

"Can I help you?" I ask.

"Wanna go somewhere? Your practice is over and so is mine." I dont know what I was thinking but I nodded and said sure. I changed out of my workout clothes and met him at his truck. He takes my bag and puts it in the back seat along with his and then he opens the door for me to get in. I hop up into his Ram 3500 while he goes around to the other side. He starts up the vehicle and pulls out of the parking lot.

"So where are we going?" I ask.

"Well there is two choices. 1- we go to get some food at a restaurant. Or 2- we go to the beach."

"beach" I decide because it's really hot out today.

He nods and we go to the beach. We pull in and it's packed here. This must be the place to be once school is over. I realize I don't even have a bathing suit but Conner's already ahead of me as I see him walking towards the surf shop a few feet away. He gets himself a pair of swim shorts and then tells me to get myself something. I pick out a simple black bikini. A strapless to make sure I don't have weird tan lines. We both get a towel too. He then checks out and we head to the bathrooms to get changed. When we get out I take a second to look at him. He has a tan and a six pack. Could this get any better. I realize that I'm staring and I look away but he doesn't seem to notice as he stares at me too. I clear my throat and he snaps out of it. He doesn't say anything but he takes my hand and leads me over to some people that look our age.

"Lindsey these are my friends. This is Talon, his girlfriend Mary-Ann, Derrick and his girl Kylie, Liam and his girl Danica, and then mason and you know Braydon. Guys this is Lindsey." He said pointing to everyone as he said their names. I waved to everyone and said it was nice to meet them. Hey I know Mason too, he's Kate's friend. Oh speaking of Kate I should probably tell her I'm not gonna be come for at least a couple hours maybe. So I grab my iPhone out of my bag and text her then set my stuff down. Conner, still with my hand in his, starts pulling me towards the water.

"Noooo", I laugh "I'm just gonna tan here." He doesn't like that idea because soon enough I'm over his shoulder and he's running towards the water. I start hitting his back not wanting to go in the water.

"Let me down!!" I yell.

"Alright!" and before I know it I'm being thrown in the water. Once I get up I see he's enjoying this. He's laughing so hard with his eyes closed and his hand holding his stomach. Before he can see I jump on his back and attempt to push him under the water but my 4'11" self doesn't compare to the 6 foot man underneath me. He laughs at my try and soon I'm laughing too. I get off of him and start walking to the sand. He comes up from behind me and pulls me back dunking me once again. I come up and splash him. He splashes back and suddenly it's a splashing war and were both laughing so hard that we can barely even splash anymore. Then the five of his guy friends all decide to dog pile on top of Conner so I take my chance to get out of the water and go dry up. I lay out the towel and lay down hoping to get a tan once I dry myself off. The other girls are here too and one, I think it's Kylie, speaks up.

"Ya know, I've never seen Conner like this." Kylie says.

Then Danica speaks, "Me either. Honestly I've never even seen him with a girl."

"Wait what do you mean??"

"Your the first girl he's brought around before..." she trails off.

"Before what?" I ask with much curiosity now.

"About two years ago, when Conner was just a freshman here, he was engaged. Five months before they were supposed to get married, she got in a really bad car accident. She was in a coma for 7 months and everyday Conner was there for her, but she died and he was heartbroken. He hasn't been with another girl since." Mary-Ann answers.

"You shouldn't have told her! That should have been something Conner would tell her eventually!" Kylie says raising her voice.

I was speechless. Kate said he'd been single because of sports, I never expected this. I look over and the guys are racing to a little piece of land in the water.

"Earth to Lindsey!" One of the girls said. I look over and it was Danica.

"I'm sorry what'd you say?"

"I said, where and when'd you guys meet?" she repeats.

"Oh um. We met last Friday at the party."

She nodded and then closed her eyes. When I look over Conner was looking at me and when we caught eye contact he smiled. I returned the gesture and then layed down and put on my sunglasses. I'm not really sure how to feel about what the girls said. I do think I shouldn't have found that out from them though. I'm broke out of thought when Conner runs up and lays down right beside me.

"Hey" he said with a cheeky smile.

"Hey" I return.

"Uh I meant to say I was sorry about earlier. I was being a little weird." He apologizes.

"It's fine." I reassure.

"I didn't know how gorgeous Del Mar, CA was." I say.

"Yeah the sights great." He says still looking at me. Then he looks up and just lays there with me to tan.