Pentatonix - Summer at the Beach

Final Chapter

(Scott’s POV)
I need to talk to Emma and get her away from Matt, who does he think he’s flirting with, this is my girlfriend.  I clear my throat and both Emma and Matt turn to me and I reach for Emma’s hand and say, “Em, can we talk in private?”
Matt looks at my hand on top of Emma’s and gives me a confusing glance and I smile and say, “Matt, have you met my girlfriend, Emma?”
Matt sits back in his chair with an understanding now and says, “Um, yeah, but I, didn’t know that she was your girlfriend.  That’s, uh, great.”
Emma tilts her head over to me and gives me a look and I say, “What?”
I squeeze her hand and say, “Please, can we go talk?”
She gradually gets up and I hold her hand and I walk to my room.  I feel eyes on us as we head into my room.  We walk in and Emma lets go of my hand and walks over to the far chair by the window.  I sit on my bed and face her. 
She looks at me with the same look she just gave me at the table and said, “What was that about?  Introducing me to Matt as your girlfriend?”
I smile and say, “He didn’t seem to know that you were taken, so I told him.”
She laughs and says, “You acted like a jealous boyfriend?”
I say, “I don’t know, maybe.  That’s not what I want to talk about.”
We sit in silence for a long while before she looks at me and says, “What did you want to talk about Scott?”
“I’m sorry about earlier, I’m sorry that I got mad,” I say.
“I’m sorry too, Scott.  I don’t want to hurt you, I really do like you,” she says as she stands up and walks over to the bed and sits beside me.
I put my arm around her and pull her in and hug her and she pulls away and turns to me and says, “Scott, you have to know something, okay.”
“What?” I ask.
“I wanted to take some time to think about my decision because I feel that this is all happening so fast, my life has changed so much in the past week.  But, know that no matter what I decide, it will not change the fact that I care so much about you.  Needing more time isn’t anything about us; it’s about my school, my work, my life back at home.  Leaving all of that is hard, but knowing that I would be around you, Kirstie, and everyone else, is the easy part.  I would absolutely love to be with you all the time, you have to know that,” she says as she leans in and gives me a hug. 
I pull in her close and say, “I guess I didn’t really give you a chance to explain earlier.” 
She leaned back and looked me in the face and said, “Are you still upset with me?”
I shake my head and pull her in for a kiss.  Our kiss turned into more as I pull her into my lap and we fall back onto my bed.  She giggles and I pull her in closer.  She says, “We should head back out.”
“We don’t have too, we could just stay here,” I say as I wrap my arms around her waist and lean towards her and kiss her again.
She smiles and pulls herself away and stands up beside the bed looking down at me.  She pulls me up and I stand next to her looking at her and I give her a flirtatious smile.  She smiles and says, “Let’s go, boyfriend.” 
“Can you say that in front of Matt when we get out there, just want to make sure that he knows,” I say laughing.
“You are so crazy, he was not flirting with me at all,” Emma says.
“You just don’t realize how beautiful you are, do you?”
We walk into the living room and Mitch looks up and says, “Everything okay with you two?”
I nod and say, “Yes.”
Mitch smiles back and walks over to us and says, “Good, I hate to see you two not talking, it’s not fun for the rest of us, either.”

(Emma’s POV)
I walk over to Kirstie and tell her that Scott and I made up and she smiled.  She got up from the table and we both headed into the kitchen.  We started looking for something to make for dinner and decide to just grill out hamburgers because it was easy.  We thought that Avi would love to use the grill for the first time.  Kirstie finally looks at me and says, “Any thoughts about the question I asked you?”
“Yes, I thought a lot about it today,” I say.
“And, please tell me you will consider it, I would love to have you join us and I know someone else who would love to have you there as well,” Kirstie says with a smile.
I smile back and say, “I know, I would love to be there too, but what about school, my job?”
“You could always work at the camp when we are not touring and you could take online courses,” Kirstie said.
“You have figured this all out, haven’t you,” I say.
“Yes, I do, so please say yes,” she says.
I look at her and my decision is clear in my mind and I say, “Yes, I would love to be your assistant, Kirstie.”
Kirstie turns to the group and says, “Yay, we have a new Pentatonix crew member everyone!”
I laugh because of how happy she is.  Everyone cheers and comes into the kitchen to welcome me and Scott pulls me into a hug and whispers, “Thank you” into my ear and kisses me on my cheek.

(Epilogue)
Three months later…
Pentatonix is on tour in Europe again and Emma has been busier than ever balancing school work and helping Kirstie out.  Emma and Scott are stronger than ever and spend as much time as they can together.  Avi and Kirstie are still madly in love and it shows so clearly in the shows, they try their best to avoid questions about their close relationship, as they don’t want it to affect the group at all.  But, it’s hard to hide their love for one another on stage and especially off stage, but they try their best.  Mitch has continued talking with Paul and they have formed a very close friendship and are taking it one day at a time.  Mitch speaks with Paul via Skype and texts him a lot.  Kevin has thrown himself into some new songs and is looking forward to their next album being released. 

(A/N:  Thank you for reading and I hope that you have enjoyed this crazy little story.  I will start a new story soon, but not sure when. : ) I felt that I took this story as far as I wanted it to go.  I do always love happy endings.  This was the first story I wrote in POV’s as I normally write in 3rd person POV only.  Thanks again and I look forward to sharing my future stories with you all.)