reckless ; a short story

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A/N** Which do you ship more? Noah and Dakotah or Jeremy and Dakotah? And for those for which who ship Noah and Dakotah more, don't worry!! There will be more of them soon. I'm just giving Jeremy and Dakotah some time together first. But trust me, It will be hard to pick by the end of this book. I promise you will see more of Noah soon! xoxo

"I'm starving, drive faster, West." I say. "Quit complaining and I will Evans." He says. I laugh at him, he just look over at me and shakes his head, smiling. We pull into my favorite Mexican restaurant, The Cantina. Their salsa is the best! We got in and got seated. We ordered and ate, I never considered someone I know might be here and tell Liz. But I'm probably just overthinking. I get a text. It's from Liz, I don't want to get on my phone and be rude but I just glance down and see it's from Liz. I look at Jeremy. "What?" He says. "Liz texted me." I say grabbing my phone. She said. "Guess where I am!" I texted back and asked where. "She probably doesn't know anything." Jeremy says. "yeah you're right." She answers. "The Cantina, You want anything?" My face drops. "Oh shit." I say. "What?" Jeremy says. "She's here." I say. "Oh fuck." He says. I answer and tell her my order because she would be suspicious if I didn't want anything because this is my favorite restaurant. Then I ask her if she's dining in or taking out, because today is supposed to be her cleaning day since its her day off from work. "I think she's dining in the other room." I say. Then I start laughing, this is so stupid. "What's funny?" Jeremy asks. "This is so dumb! Why do we think we would get away with this?" I say, Jeremy starts laughing too. "I don't know I just wanted you to have a good day." He says. I swoon a little bit, that's really sweet.

"Yeah, today I'm cleaning, Just taking out some food for us tonight, you should invite Brie. And that boy you're with. ;)" Liz says. "She knows." I say shaking my head, but I'm smiling. "Why are you smiling aren't we busted?" He asks, "Nope." I say shutting off my phone and finishing up eating. Jeremy is obviously confused but I tell him that I'll explain everything on the way to south pier.

After I explain everything to Jeremy he's practically cracking up. "Your aunt is so fucking cool!" He says. "I get away with a lot of shit with her, because of my parents. But that will end soon, so I should just enjoy it while it lasts" I say. He nods, probably not knowing what to say. We pull up to the pier and its as gorgeous as always here. We get out and I take my shoes off and walk in the sand with Jeremy. It's really windy today, and the waves are really high too. "Do you remember last night when you were talking about that dumb game?" I ask Jeremy, breaking the silence. "Yeah, What about it?" He asks. "I'll do it, but I'm going to win." I say. Then I walk to the edge of the water and let the waves hit my ankles. "You think so?" He asks "Oh, I know so." I say kicking a little bit of water at him. He pauses and then looks at me. "The only way you would win is if I let you win, Evans." He says with a smirk, Kicking a little bit of water back at me. I reach down and grab a seashell from the sand, then I take a handful of water and throw it at Jeremy. "Take that, West!" I say running away. "Oh you're gonna get it now." He starts chasing me. He's a lot faster than me, he finally catches up to me and he grabs me by my waist and picks me up and throws me into the water. It's a good thing we left our phone and money in the car. I come back up and run back to him. I jump on his back getting him soaked. I jump off and run back out into the water. "Im gonna kill you, Evans!" He yells running after me. I stand up and we splash eachother back and forth and then I start to run away again, but this time he grabs my arm and pulls me back to him. We're laughing and I'm trying to get away, He pick me up off the ground and I think he's about to throw my again but he just looks at me. Our hair is soaked, our clothes are most likely ruined, But he just stares at me, "you'res so beautiful." He says.

I look away. "no, look at me." He says seriously, His eyes are going back and forth from my blue eyes to my bare lips. "You think I'm a coward?" He says, leaning in. Our lips are centimeters apart. "Try me." He says. my heart is racing, I have butterflies in my stomach. But I'm terrified that I'm going to feel that spark that he was talking about this morning. I was about to close the sustained distance between us, until he did. And all my fears came true. The spark was absolutely undeniable, and I could feel that damn smirk I've come to recognize so easily.