Summer Love

TWO

I parked my burgundy colored 2012 Chrysler 200 in the designated parking lot at the airport because I didn't need anyone driving my baby while I'm gone. My parents offered to drive us, but I didn't want them losing sleep because of me, so I drove Daniela and myself to the airport. We pulled our luggage out of my trunk and rolled them into the busy airport. Considering it's 5:30 in the morning, the airport was buzzing with noise and people yelling for their family members; saying that their plane was boarding.

Daniela and I walked through the airport concourse and waited in line for a teller. After waiting almost 10 minutes, we handed the lady our tickets to scan and passed our luggage, keeping our carry on bags. We passed security with no problem and headed into the terminal waiting area. There was still 10 minutes left before our flight was meant to take off, so I made a quick run to the nearest coffee station. I needed something to keep me up during this 2 hour flight to Miami.

When boarding the plane, we noticed that the number of our seats weren't together. Fuck. Did my parents not care to inform me? Really hoping I'm not seated with a pair of old people. Don't get me wrong, I love old people and they smell wonderful, but I'm not going to spoon feed them their applesauce the whole time we're on this flight. I took the window seat although mine was in the middle; pretty sure old people wouldn't care to notice I was in one of their seats. I looked back to locate Daniela and realized she wasn't too far behind me; she was seated on the other side of me, but a couple rows back. I slumped back into my seat with a sigh, and decided to pull out my headphones for this flight. Keeping one earphone out, I put on Chris Brown's new album -it is honestly the best thing ever- and I looked out the window.

In the middle of Came To Do I heard laughter coming down the aisle; cutting off my gaze from the window, I saw a pair of teenage guys around my age walking in my direction. When inspecting each of them from head to toe, I accidentally made eye contact with one of them; causing his laughter to stop as he shot me a beautiful, eye-crinkling smile. I gave a small smile back, and turned my head downward to look at my phone. What was I thinking? God his smile was beautiful. And those eyes! Oh my-

"Hey, I think you're in my seat." I heard a voice say. I quickly looked up from my phone and saw the same boy I made eye contact with. He was smiling down at me, and I was lost for words.

"I-uh... Sorry." I stammered and started to get up, but he shook his head with a small chuckle.

"Don't worry about it." He took the middle seat next to me, and the flight attendant announced our departure.

I fastened my seatbelt and tuned out her voice by turning up my music. I've been on a plane enough times to know the safety procedures. I turned around to look at Daniela and see who she was seated with. To my surprise, neither of us had bad seats; she was seated with two cute guys. I turned my phone screen on to text her, when I felt a small tap on my shoulder. I looked up to see a smiling Austin. Taking out and earbud and turning down my music, I gave him a questioning look.

"Oh, I was just saying that I really like that song." He pointed down at my phone; Stereotype was playing.

"Me too. I really love the organ at the beginning." He looked at me with a surprise smile. "I know a thing or two about music." I laughed.

"That makes two of us." He responded above a whisper.

I turned to actually look at him, and realized there was another boy sitting next to him. I started to feel bad that I didn't notice him before. I'm not much of a staring type of person, but Austin seemed to be.

"What?" I asked him, starting to feel self conscious. I never really liked when people stared at me. He just smiled and shook his head. I turned my gaze back out the window and put my earbud back into my ear.

"Who's that?" I heard a voice ask quietly. I could tell it wasn't Austin's because I've talked to him long enough to distinguish his voice, so it has to be the other kid. I didn't want to look, so I kept my gaze out the window and secretly listened to their conversation.

"Her name is Rosy." I heard Austin reply. I couldn't quite hear them, so I turned the volume on my music down.

"She's pretty hot." The other voice replied, and I got the strange feeling they were staring at me. I felt my face get hot, and continued to stare out the window. I mean, getting called 'hot' wasn't necessarily a compliment in my book, but when I heard Austin say the words I'd least expect any guy to say, I knew he meant it as a compliment.

"She's beautiful." There was a short moment of silence before Austin yelled, "Dibs!" I heard a groan before the other voice spoke.

"You always get the cute ones." My face was burning hot right about now. I quickly calmed myself and turned to the two boys.

"You do know I'm sitting right here, right? I can hear you." Austin looked at me with an unreadable look on his face while the other boy sent me a shy smile. Where this came from is beyond me. Austin looked so cute when his face flushed from embarrassment. I don't even know the kid, but he was making my heart beat so fast!

"I didn't mean to be disrespectful when calling you hot." The other boy quickly said. I smiled and nodded.

"I know. Thanks by the way." His shyness seemed to have vanished because he winked at me, causing me to blush. These boys will be the death of me!

"I'm Robert by the way." He stuck his hand out for me to shake. I gladly took it and when he wouldn't let go, Austin cleared his throat; making us look at him and let go.

"So are you headed to Miami as well?" Austin tried changing the subject.

"Yeah. My friend and I got split up, but yeah, we're going for the summer." He seemed content with my answer, and asked another question.

"So you're staying for the whole summer?" It sounded more as a rhetorical question, but I answered anyway.

"Well, when you live in Atlanta your whole life, you start to get bored and I needed a break from the same shit every day. But then again, I'm sure that's the case no matter where you live. Need a new view for a while." They looked stunned from my answer. "Why are you two looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"

"Oh, no. No, you didn't." Austin replied.

"Shit was deep." Robert chuckled. I shrugged and smiled.

"So what do you have waiting for you in the grand city of Miami?" I asked as I wrapped my headphones around my phone.

"We live there." Robert answered. "We moved in with Austin once we graduated. We came to help him stay grounded wi-"

"You know. So many people in Miami, didn't want to lose myself in the craziness, so I flew my friends down to live with me." Austin quickly cut in.

"We?" I questioned confused.

"Yeah. I flew 3 of my best friends from Texas down here almost a year ago. I needed them around me." Aw he was the cutest, kind-hearted boy I've ever met! I need a boy like this in my life.

"Don't get soft on me now." I joked, "So where are your other friends?" I asked curiously. He turned around to look for them, but I felt my phone vibrate and saw I had a message from Daniela. I opened it, and it read:

You'll never guess who I'm sitting with!

Before I could reply another message came in:

OMFG! I'll just tell you! I'M SITTING NEXT TO 2 OF AUSTIN CARTER MAHONE'S BEST FRIENDS! HE HAS TO BE ON THIS PLANE!

"Found them." Austin's voice pulled me away from my phone. I looked to where he said his friends were sitting. I saw a blondish brownish hair colored boy. He was really working the facial hair. Next to him was a brown haired boy. Both their hair was set in a stylish way, and you could tell right away they weren't from here. I looked at them quickly, but not fast enough to not notice how attractive they were. I suddenly remembered looking back there before and seeing the same guys with Daniela. I quickly turned back to my phone and replied to her:

I know... I'm sitting next to him.