The Summer That Changed Everything

Chapter 3

We make it back to the room, all of us go straight to our rooms to change. I take my bikini off and wrap a towel around me as I figure out what I want to wear. All of a sudden, I realize that I am extremely thirsty. I was alone in the bedroom, Riley was in the bathroom taking a shower. I opened the door a crack and looked around, Cadence's door was closed I figured he was in there. I didn't hear any movement in the room. I wrap the towel around me tighter and make a B-line for the kitchen.

No ones in there, so I fix myself a glass of water and stand there at the bar and drink it. "uuuummm" I hear Cadence say. I turn around so quickly, I can feel my face turn so red.

"I'm s-sorry I thought you were in your room and...." He started laughing before I could finish. I just wanted to cry, It was so embarrassing. I think he could tell I was about to start crying because his face softened along with his voice. "Bailze it's fine. Go put some clothes on and you can come with me to the store." He smiled that smile of his that makes my heart melt. I knew I was blushing, I couldn't get any words out so all I did was smile and shake my head yea.

I went back to my room and found a baby blue t-shirt and some white shorts. I threw those on and slipped my flip flops onto my feet. I walked over to the mirror and took my hair down, it was still wet from the beach. I turned the blow dryer on and dried my hair a little. My hair was wavy from it being wet, it looked cute, so I left it like that.

I walked out the room to meet with Cadence. Before we left I knocked on the bathroom door just to tell Riley that I was going to the store with Cadence. My heart was fluttering, he invited me to go with him. He could have invited Riley, but he didn't. He invited me!

There was a store right down the street, it was walking distance. So we walked there, side by side. I wanted so badly to grab his hand and hold it, but I didn't. We walked into the store, Cadence grabs a buggy and goes down the first aisle, I follow right behind him. "Soooooo, what do we need to get?" I asked just trying to make conversation because the silence was driving me crazy.

"Well, we definitely need alcohol" he says with a smirk on his face

"Yea, and how do you expect to get that? You're not 21 yet."

He then reaches for his back pocket and takes out his wallet. He hands me his ID, well his fake ID. I just shook my head and looked at him. I handed the ID back to him and he put it back into his wallet. He looks at me and says with no expression which kind of confuses me, "your hair looks cute like that" he then goes back to looking at the types of bread they had on the shelf.

"Thanks." I tried to say just as expressionless as he did. I follow him down the next aisle which has stuff like cookies and snacks. He goes down the aisle until he finds what he's looking for, which is honey buns. He knows that those have always been my favorite. That makes me smile, he thought about me. I guess he noticed me smiling because he asks, "what are you smiling about?" I looked up at him, "You thought about me, you know honey buns are my favorite."

"Yea I do." He says expressionless again. He's being weird, I don't know why. I decide not to ask though. I decide to just get lost in my head. That ends quickly when I realize that his hand accidentally grazed mine. That made my stomach flip. I wish he knew, I wish he knew how I feel. After hours and hours of shopping we finally check out. He hands me a few of the bags to carry back to the hotel. We got a variety of alcohol, I didn't think the whole fake ID thing was going to work but it did.

We get back to the hotel room, my feet hurt so bad from all that shopping, so I throw myself onto the couch. Riley then comes out of our room and starts to look through the bags and picks up the bottle of vodka and yells, "Who's ready to get wasted tonight?"

Cadence pipes up, "I don't think I'm going to drink tonight, not really up for it"

"Okay, whatever only me and Riley will drink tonight" I didn't care about the plan no more I wanted to have fun tonight we could do the plan another night. "You have to stay in here with us though"

He looked at me and just shook his head okay.