In The Dark

Chapter 8

Shannon

Holding the sides of my shorts, I let Derek take multiple pictures of me until I had the right one. He sighed handing me my phone while I just rolled my eyes at him.

"I am not your fucking photographer, Shannon," he said as we made our way to the boat. Some of his friends and their girlfriends had already got on the boat but since I wanted to take pictures we was the last one to get on. I slapped the back of his head for the way he had been talking too. He grabbed me by my waist putting me on the side of the boat railing as I held onto him for dear life. I was actually scared because the boat had began moving and now were in the deeper part of the ocean.

"Put me down, D. Pleaseee," I screamed wrapping my legs around his waist and arms around his neck. If he was going to drop me, then he was going with me too. He laughed as he gently put me back on my feet moving away from me completely. I huffed putting my arms across my chest.

"Are you deadass crying right now," he asked seizing his laughter. I didn't even notice I was crying until he wiped the tears from my eyes. He pulled me closer to him hugging me. "I'm sorry, pooh."

I didn't hug him back which caused him to start tickling my sides. I busted out laughing trying to move away from him.

"Your forgiven," I said through laughter and he let me go. I went and sat on one of the empty seats that nobody was near. I had made acquaintances with some of his friends that he had already knew here and they kinda kept to themselves most of the time. I would try to get in on the conversation and they acted like they couldn't hear me so I said fuck them and kept to myself. They hadn't did anything but ignore and only one of his friends named Ashley was rude to me altogether. I felt that she had a crush on him but Derek had barely acknowledge the girl's existence since I was here. She kept saying little slick comments and giving me death glares but I just chose to ignore it. If she knew what was best for her, she would just keep it at that.

Derek came and sat next to me putting his head on my lap. I smiled down at him rubbing my hands through his hair. Today we decided to go on a boat ride and do the tubing and parasailing. I only had two more days left here before I had to head back to New York for classes and work and I didn't want to leave. Derek had us doing a lot of fun or interesting things that I usually wouldn't do like today he expected me to get on the tube with him. I had only it did it once and was scared shitless.

When the boat finally stopped in the middle of the ocean, my heart raced because I was scared. The boating instructor came to us giving us instructions and started passing us all life jackets.

"This should be fun," Derek said smiling at me. I rolled my eyes at him. My palms were starting to get sweaty as he helped me with putting my life vest on. "You ready?" I slowly nodded my head.

"We going first," I mumbled. He nodded his head. I palmed my face.

"If you don't want to go with him, I will Shannon. You acting like a scared bitch it's just water," Ashley said. I turned around trying to see who the fuck she was talking to me.

"She can't be calling me a bitch. Derek get your friend," I said before getting up and in the process bumping her.

"Ashley, you better watch that bitch word, you feel me. I don't play about her ass," he said before coming over there to me. I held onto my vest as I jumped into the water. I swam my way to the float and with the help of Derek literally pushing my ass up onto the float.

After he got his self situated, we both put up the thumbs up for the instructor and that's when the boat took off. I screamed to the top of my lungs as the water splashed in my face and mouth. I was so happy when it was time for us to get off, I practically swam as fast as could back to the boat leaving Derek. When he got back on the boat, he couldn't stop laughing at how scared I was.