"Do you even know where you're going?" I ask. I wouldn't know how to get there without directions and I go to the coast all the time. I don't know how he could have the whole drive memorized.
"Yes yes I'm sure don't worry," he looks at me dead in the eyes and smiles. "Wanna put on some music?" He asked rhetorically. This is the moment I have been waiting for since junior year. Wait what am I saying? I like Logan not Zach. Geez Grace get your shit together. I put on my 'Teenage Dream' playlist and immediately '3:15' comes on. He gasps and starts singing it word for word. In awe I look at him with my jaw dropped. At the pre-chorus I join in and start singing along. He rolls the windows down and we both have one arm out. While we sing we look at each other periodically. We do this with every song that comes on. He knew everything in my playlist. Even songs from the Starstruck soundtrack.
We are nearing the coast and we can already see the water. Suddenly my favorite song 'Just A Dream' by Nelly comes on. He reaches for the stereo and turns it up. We are both yelling the lyrics. I'm singing while looking out the window but I can feel his eyes on me. I try to ignore his gaze because if my eyes meet his in this moment I will be back where I started. I've already spent six years hopelessly devoted to him and I don't see a need to continue when me and Logan are getting along so well.
When we arrive at the beach Zach walks to the trunk and take out blankets that are already sandy. "Do you just keep sandy blankets in your trunk?" I ask teasingly.
"I mean yeah it's more convenient than taking them out every time I go to the beach since I go like every weekend," he says matter-of-factly. I was surprised to hear that he comes here so often.
"Well what do you do here?" I ask curiously.
"I mostly go surfing at Doran beach. It's the best spot around here," he answers. Wow I literally wanna marry him. No what am I saying. I like Logan. Do I?
"Really? So do I, me and my dad go all the time," I was interrupted by my phone vibrating in my back pocket. I looked and Logan texted me. I did the half slidy thing on Snapchat to see what he said without "opening" it. He just said "heyyyy". Shit. We talk all the time but he has never blatantly hit me up before.
"What? Is everything okay?" Zach asks sincerely. I guess I was zoning out and he noticed.
"What? Oh nothing it's just that um...Logan texted me?" He shares my confusion and responds
"Oh, really? Huh thats weird."
"Yeah," i turn my phone off and shove it in my back pocket as Zach closes his trunk. "Race ya to the water!"
I start running to the beach and I hear him yell from behind me, "Hey! Totally not fair!" He definitely beat me but I still celebrated as if I had won and it makes him laugh. We put his beach blanket down and start eating our burritos and milkshakes and joking about the other people on the beach. I'm getting texts from Savannah who is flipping her shit that we ditched together. She is talking about some nonsense and saying she wrote this exact scene in some fan fiction or something. Sometimes i have no idea what she's talking about. Anyways, we finish our food and we still are sitting there just talking. It was like we were the only two people in the world. I started thinking about if I really should go after Logan or if I should pursue Zach. Just as I decide to push that thought out of my head, Zach changes the conversation a little bit.
"So, you and Logan, huh?" He says with a sigh. I couldn't read him or figure out why he would bring that up. I couldn't figure out if he was asking this as my friend or if he was slightly disappointed.
"Oh um I really don't know," I reply vaguely, "that's all up to him I guess."
"How so?" he asks. Zach really do be stupid.
"Well if he makes a move I will go for it but if he doesn't I won't be devastated," I say trying to sound kinda badass. I think it's working because he starts to get a little defensive.
"Yeah well Ari has been pretty flirty with me lately and I don't really know that to do about that," he spits out quickly. The whole conversation we have been speaking to each other while staring out at the ocean. I suddenly turn to him to respond.
"So, what are you going to do?" I ask.
He turns to look at me. I didn't realize how close we were to each other until our faces were only a few inches apart. "I don't know, what do you think I should do?"
I think about leaning in but I stall for a second. Suddenly I feel a drop on my head. Then another. And another. We both simultaneously look up at the sky then back at each other and smile. We both stand up and he quickly grabs the blanket while I grab our trash. We run back up to the car but we struggle a little bit which is making us both laugh really hard. We get back into his car and both start cracking up. I check the time and it is already six. My parents and Savannah have both been blowing up my phone. I ask Savannah if it was okay if I could stay the night at her house since it was Friday and we had plans the next day anyways. I texted my mom the plan, set my phone down and sighed happily.
"Music?" Zach says with a smirk. He starts playing 'Collie Man' by Slightly Stoopid and we both start singing along. Little does he know I started listening to this after I found out he listened to it. We were heading back to the school so I could get my car and part ways which kind of made me sad that this is going to end.
We arrive at the school when I notice it is still raining. I turn to Zach excitedly and say, "Can I show you something?" He says yes and I jump out of the car and somehow find the courage to grab his hand. We run all the way across the parking lots and to the field gates. They're locked. I stop and sadly say "Well never mind I guess."
He looks at me and then at the gate and starts climbing it. I start smiling and start climbing after him. I jump down and we run to the field. while we are running i turn around and realize he is running at me super fast. i pull a bad ass move i saw in the movie G-Force and duck to the ground. i laid down and he fell in a push-up position over me. i stopped breathing for a moment. suddenly when his face moved closer to mine my phone's snapchat sound went off. we both turned our heads and saw it was a chat from logan. he cleared his throat and rolled to lay next to me. our arms are touching and i just know that he notices it too. my theory is proven correct when he puts his hand closer to mine and puts his pinkie over mine. (jk he doesn't have one lol). I turn on the song Fix You and we lay there talking about everything there is to talk about for what seems like only a few minutes. I realized it was completely dark and check the time. Only to see that it was already 11 o'clock. We had arrived at 8. The rain stopped and we walked back while pushing and tripping each other playfully. Our cars were parked across from each other and we are both standing in the door way leaning on the driver's side. I was about to get in when Zach surprisingly said something. "Hey, um... thank you." He says sincerely.
"For what?" I ask, genuinely confused.
"This day. I really needed it." He said and got into his car. He backed out and did some doughnuts before waving his hand out the window saying bye very loudly.
I turn on my driving playlist even though it is a like a two minute drive to Snog's house. I walk in and wake up all her dogs and walk into her room. We have chips and ice cream and talk about everything that happened. After we finish fangirling we watch One Tree Hill and fall asleep. Of course she falls asleep first. I have a hard time falling asleep because Shiloh can't shut the fuck up.
