Love Takes Trust

8

Romeo

"We're at the beach, why do still have your shirts on!" Rose tugs at Hunter shirt slightly causing him to hold his shirt in place so she doesn't accidentally ripping it off him. "Come on, We're all models besides Alex and Romeo. Why are you trying to cover up." Hunter and Santiago sigh as they take their shirts off finally giving to Rose antics. I swear no matter how many times I see Hunter shirtless it still manages to take me by surprise. I look next to me to see that Alex is starting to have trouble breathing and maybe slightly drooling at the two. Hunter tries helplessly to cover his abs and chest, his cheeks turning red from embarrassment.

There's a difference between on-camera Hunter and off-camera Hunter. Off-camera Hunter is extremely shy while on-camera Hunter is extremely confident in himself. But on-camera Hunter isn't who he really is. He is a dork who embarassed to be shirtless at the beach.

A rather loud sigh comes from Rose before she walks towards the water, shouting "Let's go swimming!"

"Is she okay?"

"Yea she's fine?"

"That sounded more like a question than answer, Santi." Alex says sarcastically with a hint of concern in her voice.

"I don't know. She's going through tough shit."

Alex and I both nod in understanding. After a while Alex leaves to go join Rose so people don't make assumptions if they see her with Hunter and Santiago. Then Santiago leaves to go find out where Leona ran off to. Which I'm grateful he did that, just the thought of her alone in a crowded beach like this made me feel uneasy.

Hunter groans in frustration, "This is bum! We can't all hang out together without people noticing us."

"I mean you look like this even if you weren't a model you'd still get noticed."

He looks up from his whining to glare at me.

"What? It's the truth."

A smile forms across his face, "Like you're any better."

"What's that's supposed to mean?"

"You're just as attractive. You have pretty boy looks, if you met my manager she would lose her shit."

The comment took me off guard. "Just as attractive" and "pretty boy looks" were two things I've never expected him to say.

"How so?"

"Well she would like to put different kinds of clothes on you, I guess. Things that she can't exactly put on me because they wouldn't look good."

"You could wear a clown suit and still look good."

Hunter's head tilts back as he laughs, "don't give her any ideas."

How can someone be so attractive while doing normal things. He could be sick with the flu and still look good.

"Leona can't swim?"

I look in the direction he was looking in, the first thing I notice is Santiago hold Leona up as she floats in the water. Their both far away from everyone else so they don't capture any attention from people around them.

We watch as Santiago tried to not so subtly move his hands from under Leona so she can float on her own. Sadly for him she realizes before he can even pulled them all the way out.

"She's afraid of the ocean. I never knew why but I'm surprised he convinced her to go into the water."

"They're cute."

"Definitely."

—-

Santiago

"Santiago!"

Leona yells as she wraps her arms around my neck, jumping up into my arms.

"Sorry."

"Not funny," She says as she shakes violently.

So hard I was a afraid I would lose my balance and drop us both into the water.

"Hey, calm down. I've got you, I promised I wasn't gonna let you fall but if you keep shaking like this we might actually fall."

Her shaking stops a bit but it was obvious she was still shaking slightly.

"I know you're scared but you have to trust me, okay?"

She nods slightly. Her legs drop from where they were wrapped around my waist but she was still holding onto me.

Everything she was doing took me by surprise. In the amount of time I've gotten to know Leona I learned she hated physical contact no matter how touch starved she was.

She didn't want hugs even if she needed one. She'd flinch if it even looked like you were about to hug her.

But right now was different.

Right now she was holding onto me like her life depended on it.

"Trust me, Leon. Do you trust me?"

Obviously she didn't answer.

I wasn't expecting her to.

Instead of answering she let's go of me, takes a deep breath, then answers.

"Try again."

"Do you-"

"No the floating thing."

"Oh. So you do trust me?"

"If you let me go then the trust is broken, deal?"

"Deal."

—

These four own my whole ass heart omg.
You could hear me crying over how hesitant and shy Romeo and Santiago act around Leona and Hunter from a mile away.