Summer Lover

It hurt.

Chapter 4:

What I thought it would be an amazing day turned out to be unexpected. When Liam and the others got out of the water and came back for their towel, I could see a grin forming on Liam's face. He gave me the "get in there" look. I just rolled my eyes.

Emily and Lea started to get along really quickly. They had the same taste of music and loved shopping. While the girls were talking to each other, I decided to get up and get the rugby ball that Maya had brought.

"Who wants to play a match?"

Everyone literally got up and to my unfortunate surprise Lea decided she would want to play as well. Consequently, we decided that Liam and I would be the captains of each other's teams. A little bit after, we were down to two girls, Lea and Maya. It was my turn to pick and clearly I was not going to choose squirrel face. So Maya came to my team and Lea to Liam's.

Later in the game, my team was losing twenty-four to eighteen. It was Liam's team to do their play, thus Liam passed the ball to Emily, who managed to catch the ball and ran forward. Emily threw the ball, like it was something that she did casually back to Lea. Lea grabbed the ball, and as soon as she tried to get a look at the game, I knocked her down on the floor. We ended up on top of each other and looked intensely into each other's' eyes. It was like no one else was around us. We stayed like that for what felt like minutes.

"Err... Err... I-I'm s-sorry." I said nervously, breaking the silence.

"Hum... I-It's okay." She whispered breathlessly, from both playing and what had happened.

I was breathless and hypnotized by such beauty. That's how I felt. I sensed my heart increasing the beating, 'why am I so nervous?' I thought. I'm sure at some point our hearts become one. For the first time, I saw the beautiful features of a girl's face. Her desirable pink lips, cute nose and eyes that you made me want to look at them for the rest of your life.

Abruptly, someone coughed and woke us up from the trance.

"As cute and adorable as this looks, can we go back to the game, please?" Liam laughed. Everyone was looking at us.

I got up as quickly I could and replied. "There's nothing adorable about that!" pointing at Lea.

"You've got to be kidding? You call that thing cute? Even a monster looks better than him!" She answered my insinuation as she got up from the sand.

"Even a dog looks better than you, squirrel face!" I shouted now stepping backwards.

"Ian! Stop calling me that!"

"Why? Don't you like my new name for you, squirrel face?" I laughed.

"Ian! I'm going to kill you. You are such an ass!" she said, clearly getting on her nerves.

Before I could say anything else, Maya intervened on what would have been a fight.

"All right guys, no one is going to kill anybody. Ian, stop it and you too Lea. Come on guys, let's have fun and play!" She warned while trying to contain herself from laughing.

The game ended and Liam's team won by 35-30.

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It was getting late, so we packed our things and started to leave the beach. Everyone went their separate ways. Liam took Emily home and I was stuck with Lea and Maya. I don't mind Maya but Lea, wow. I actually couldn't stand her.

As we were walking to the bus stop that we had previously met up, Maya spoke up,

"Guys, I think I'm gonna have to leave you. I got a text from my mom to meet her up. Sorry. I will see you later though." She said and before I had a chance to reply she was already gone.