Love Lake

Chapter One

Amber's P.O.V.

We have just finished our annual class boating trip, which means that we have the whole summer ahead of us. And this is our last before college. Jake offers to help me clean my speed boat. I scowl. He had given me a hard drive while water skiing. I fell and everyone laughed. 'Stupid,' I think. 'You just want to embarrass me again!'

"Look, Amber, I know you're mad, but I want to make up for it. I'm sorry. Please, just let me help you clean your boat," Jake apologizes.

I turn away to a three-quarter view and cross my arms. He sighs and I just have to turn back to face him. He gives me the puppy eyes. Jake's goddamn specialty. His black hair is brushed away from one eyebrow, but not the other. His blue-green eyes blazing warmth. He is pretty cute, and I guess he can be really funny, he also is kinda nice- no. I hate him. But I can't say no.

"Shit, stop. You look dumb. You can help me just stop making a fool of yourself. No one will think your ready for college now," I gruff. I do hate him. A lot. He broke Jessica's heart to the point where she killed herself. I will never forgive him. Ever.

He can see the pain and anger in my eyes because he relaxes his face.

"Just come on already!" I say over my shoulder as I'm walking away. He does a fancy technical-stand-up thingy that looks pretty cool and follows me to the dock. I know he feels bad about Jessica and will do anything to make me not hate him. But I hate him. I hate him with a passion. I always will.

We keep walking down the dock, him smirking, and me scowling. Then I get a brilliant idea. I look up at him, tilt my chin up, and smirked evilly.

SPLASH!!! I push the a-hole in the lake.

"Dammit! I try to be nice, to make up for the ski drive, to apologize, to maybe even be friends before we never see each other again, and you PUSH ME INTO A LAKE!?!"

Drama queen much?? I hope I never see you again....

I reach my hand out. Jake grabs it and smirks. Oh, no. I fell for it. He pulls me in.

"BITCH!!!" I scream as I'm falling.

I fell pretty close to Jake, so I cling to him for warmth. Don't think I forgive him, the water is just SO cold.

"Now you expect me to forgive you for everything?!?" I growl.

"No Amber. I just said all that shit so you would reach down to me," he replies. "Now will you let go of me. I don't want all your dumbass to rub off onto my badass."

He goes to push me off of him, but then he stops. The water isn't cold anymore. I get a weird feeling in my gut and then a strong pull to Jake. Next thing I know, we're inches apart. All of a sudden my body isn't tense anymore. I look into his purple eyes. He looks right back.

Then he leans down and kisses me. His soft, warm lips meet my cold ones for the first time and a smooth shock shoots through my body. I kiss him back. Jake's forearms rest on my high waist as my arms rest on his broad shoulders. We kiss for what seems to be an eternity. There we are, in the middle of a cold lake, but I wasn't cold. I have Jake. And just the thought makes me warm. I pull away and gasp. Jake rests his forehead on mine and smiles into my eyes. We break eye contact and the cold rushes back to me.

Jake lifts me by my waist and sets me down on the dock. Then he walks up the bank and grabs his jacket out of my boat. He starts putting it on then freezes.

Damn, I think. I want a jacket. I said that out loud because Jake chuckles and walks over to me. Then he drapes his coat around my shoulders, kissing my forehead. He sits next to me and I feel warm. Then instantly guilty.

"You're going to freeze! I don't want that!" I burst.

"Well, why not?" Jake jokes.

After about twenty seconds of me twisting my face so it looks like I'm "thinking." I answer with this, "you'll turn into the hottest icicle ever. And I won't be able to kiss you."

"Now we wouldn't want that!" he flirts. I kiss him. He smiles against my lips. I break away from the quick kiss and Jake wolf whistles.

"What?" I ask. One of my first steps to embarrassing myself to the point of my face putting Ron Weasley's hair to shame.

"You're a REALLY good kisser."

I blush and hide my face in my hands. Second step.

Jake takes them off my face gently and puts them on his chest. "Don't hide your face, you're extra cute when you blush."

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I scream inside my mind. This time I turn my head so Jake can't see.

"C'mon!" He complains. "Am I really that ugly?!?"

"You're mean," I say in a very serious tone. But I'm fighting my hardest not to burst out laughing.

"Am I really?" he asks. I can hear it in his voice that I put a hole in his ego. I feel horrible about hurting his feelings so I turn back to him, mumble a quick "no", and snuggle into his chest.

We sit hand in hand, knee on knee, watching the sunset. The last thing I remember before falling asleep is Jake putting his arm around me and kissing my head.

I wake up in my boat with Jake next to me with his shirt and coat over my body. He isn't awake yet so I just watch him sleep. He looks so peaceful. My eyes just kinda drift over his head and the land on his chest. All soft but sharp edges of muscle. I decided to stop being a creep and kiss his jaw.

"You missed," Jake says sleepily.

I laugh softly. Then Jake sits up and pulls me onto his lap. I kiss his soft lips and just sit there to enjoy his company. We break apart.

"What a way to wake up!" Jake laughs. I giggle along with him then try to get up. Jake grabs my waist and pulls me down gently. I place my hands on his and slowly pull them off of me.

I stand up and through his shirt back to him watching as he puts it back on. Jake catches me looking and gives me a big lopsided grin that makes me blush. I've never had anyone who makes me feel the way Jake does.

"I'm hungry. Let's get something to eat," Jake says.

I laugh and nod my head. We go to some random breakfast place that is right by the lake. The food was horrible and we hardly ate. After that, we go our separate ways. I go home to my apartment, and Jake goes to basketball practice.

All I know is that I'm suddenly in love. With someone other than my boyfriend. Someone I hated. Well, until I fell in the lake....