Reason 50 // m.c

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Giovanna's POV

"It's really late though, are you sure you want to do this?" Emma asks as we walk back home.

"If you guys don't want to go, Michael and I could surely go by ourselves." I suggest as everyone sighs in relief, "Thank GOD because you and Michael are way too energetic at 8pm." Calum says; opening the front door.

"But I'm gonna need keys to the car." Michael says to Ashton, "Yeah, yeah." Ashton mumbles; tossing him the keys.

"Love you guys!" I say and everyone responds with a simple wave of a hand.

I laugh; running to catch up with Michael.

"Get in loser, we're going shopping." Michael says; rolling down the window.

"Classic Mean Girls quote, never gets old." I say; sitting down in the seat next to him.

"Can we talk? Heart to heart?" Michael asks me as he starts driving.

"Aw, Mikey has a heart?" I joke as Michael smiles softly.

Michael dodges my joke and instead decides to attack me in the heart with a question, "Don't your parents ever worry about you?" He asks me.

"My parents are gone, does that answer your question?" I reply numbly.

Michael nods; stopping at a traffic light.

"I didn't mean to make you sad." Michael says immedietly; making me smile.

"It's fine, as long as they don't care about me, I won't care about them." I say to Michael

''But don't they ever worry about you not being home?'' he asks,

''Michael, I left them years ago after they left me, then decided to come back. They ruined everything we could've had when they first left. It's their fault I'm not home.'' I say truthfully,

''.. Well then. Let's go to the beach shall we?'' Michael says after a few minutes in silence.

''What about your parents? Don't they miss you too?'' I ask Michael.

"Sure they do, I'm always traveling and it's become sorta casual now." Michael says as he pulls up to the curb.

"It's like, 'Oh you just went all over the world? That's cool.' You know?" Michael says.

I nod as he comes to a complete stop; opening his door.

"Are you gonna get out of the car, princess?" Michael jokes; slamming the door behind him.

"This is some shitty beach." I say as I step out of the car; taking in the view.

"I used to come here a while ago..." Michael says; drifting away in thought.

"But anyway, are you up for a late night swim?" Michael asks me as he wiggles his eyebrows deviously.

"Michael don't you dare." I say, but it's too late.

Michael scoops me up over his shoulder and starts running to the crashing waves, "MICHAEL FUCKING CLIFFORD PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT." I say as I slam my fists on his back.

"My middle name isn't fucking, it's Gordon." Michael says as he dumps me down into the water.

I instantly become soaked from head to toe and my vision becomes blinded with the waves.

I start gasping for air, almost as if the water was infinite.

It kept crowding my vision and I couldn't see Michael anymore.

"Holy crap, Gio." Michael says as he pulls me out from the waters.

"I thought you could swim." He says as he puts me down on the sand.