First Summer of Us

Chapter 4

Amber's POV:

"suprise!" I call to mum as I walk into the house. It's 6pm another broken curfew. She expected me home at 4, and probably with my foot still in tact.

I'm grounded. Mum went crazy at me and I can't say I blame her. She's very protective of me, especially with all our family's been through. My older sister, grace, was diagnosed from cancer when I was 12 and she was 13. She put up a strong battle, until 2 years ago, when she was 16, it finally got her. Dad couldn't cope and moved back to America, with his sister. So it's just mum and I now.

So yeah, I'm grounded for a week. A week of my summer taken away plus my foot has pretty much grounded me too. So I guess I'm grounded for 3 weeks. Great. That only leaves about 3 weeks of fun, sun and activities.

Two days in and all I've done is ... Well nothing. I've done nothing. It's awful! I love summer! I don't want to waste it inside! I tried to do some sun baking in the back yard, but the huge gum tree made it virtually impossible. Mum has bent the rules a little though, thank god! She is letting Sofia visit every now and then, but that's all. Oh well, better than nothing.

"Sofia!" I squeal. She sits down on my purple beanbag. "Sofia." I say. "what?" she replies. "you and Louis! What happened?!" I say. "well.. He was just talking to me nonstop and I couldn't be bothered answering properly and we got into an argument. He said some pretty stupid things." she says. "so why on earth are you guys going out tomorrow?!" I say, totally confused now. "I don't know. Just, while we were arguing something just like clicked in me." she says. "ok ok." I say.

Sofia's POV:

It's Friday night and I'm waiting for Louis to pick me up. I'm wearing a pair of shorts and a flowy, black tank top with 'YODO' printed on the front. My hair falls into dark ringlets.  I put some pink streaks in it yesterday afternoon, they look pretty cool. I'm just touching up my make up in the upstairs bathroom, when I hear a car pull up outside. I look out the window to see Louis getting out of it and walking up to the front porch.

There's a nervous flutter in my tummy as I hear a knock at the door and run down to answer it.

There stands Louis... Holding a... Carrot? "I thought flowers might be too 'fancy'." he says and offers me the carrot. "haha thankyou Louis." I say with a smile. We make our way out to his car, but just before we get everything suddenly goes black.

"Louis! What are you doing?!!" I say as he puts the blindfold over my eyes and secures it at the back. "are you trying to kidnap me?!" I say. "don't worry! Haha I'm not kidnapping you!" he says and helps me into the car. "well can you at least tell me WHERE we're going?" I say, signing. "it's a surprise!" he says cheekily.

After a bit of driving, Louis pulls up and helps me back out of the car. He links arms with me and guides me along the path. I can tell there are a lot of people inside from the amount of noise I can hear. We get inside and Louis says "ready?" standing behind me. "yep." I say and he untied the blindfold. We're at a roller rink, I love roller skating! I used to do it as a kid with amber, but I haven't since I was about 12 or something! "aw yay!" I say, I look at Louis, who looks very pleased with himself. "come on!" he says pulling me towards the front desk.

We get our roller blades and wobble onto the rink. He's. Booked. A. Private. Rink. We skate around for a bit. I picked it up pretty well but Louis was hopeless! It was hilarious. He kept falling and actually spent most of the time trying to stand up again. After about half an hour, Louis and I were skating around the rink, holding hands, when he stumbled and fell and I fell too. We laid there, side by side, when he turned to face me.

Louis' POV:

We stated into each others eyes. Hers are a deep blue, I could look at them forever. This is it. I go in for the kiss, but she turns away and stands up quickly. "come on, clumsy." sofia says, holding out her hand to me. Not exactly what I was planing, but I'm not going to give up on this.

Sofia's POV:

I'm not exactly sure why I didn't kiss Louis. Any girl would think I'm out of my freaking mind! But.. Idk it didn't feel right.

After an hour of skating, (well, for lou, mostly falling) it was time to head back home. Louis walked me to the door. "I really like you, you know." I say. "I like you too." he says, looking a little bashful. "you want to know what made me know I liked you?" I ask. "definitely." Louis says, taking me around the waste. "our argument on the way to the hospital." I say, waiting for a reaction. "what?" he says, looking really confused. "I'd finally met my match." I say.

Now I'm certain. I put my arms around him and kiss him.