Forgotten

Chapter 5

Alysson POV

That afternoon I had the driver drop me at the docks again. At first I just walked around checking out all the vendors. I stopped to get myself a hotdog and a cooldrink. I just walked around aimlessly. The clothes he wore looked like it was his work clothes so I am guessing that he works here somewhere. If I hang out long enough I’m bound to see him again. I passed by all the offices of the tourist boats. Most of the actual boats were already out on one of their many trips. I’ve never been on one of these tour. I sighed as I still haven’t seen him, I don’t know why I though this would be an easy task. My feet was tired from aimlessly walking around. I ended up deciding to walk to the path where we met. He was going somewhere on that path, he might just do it again. I saw a bench and decided to sit down on it and just wait. The chance of finding him when I stay put on one spot is greater than when I move around.

I sat on the bench and just looked around watching all the people doing their things. It was interesting to see all the people buzzing about with their daily life. While I just sat here wasting a perfect afternoon waiting for someone who might not even show up, that might not even want to see me again. I honestly don’t know what I’m doing. He had left so quickly the other day. Maybe he did only think that I was an annoying rich girl and he wanted to get rid of me as fast as he could. I couldn’t stay until to late since I am grounded and I got in trouble because I was late. The longer I waited the sadder I got when it was five pm I decided that it was time to go home. I didn’t want to miss the shuttle again. I thought about telling the driver to come and pick me up, but I decided against it because I want to go back to the hotel to see if he isn’t maybe looking there for me. Yes I know what I am doing is pretty creepy. It’s not stalking since I don’t know where he is, I’m just messing with fate by trying to force a meeting between us. I got on the shuttle and went to go and sit at the top of the bus so that I can feel the wind through my hair. It took longer than I thought to get to the hotel. His bike was a lot faster. As we got close to the hotel I started looking for his bike, but I didn’t see it.

I should have looked for his bike at the dock. If I saw the bike I would have known if he was there or not. I didn’t see any bike. I felt so disappointed as I got of the shuttle. I then waited for a taxi. I went home not feeling all that good. I had really thought that I would find him. I was to hopeful about it. Getting home I wasn’t really in the mood to deal with Lyssa so I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I climbed up the tree that was near my room. I struggled a bit since I haven’t done it in about two years. I climbed into the halls window and softly walked to my room. I have homework to do, I don’t have time to argue with Lyssa. I took a quick shower and got dressed in fluffy pajamas before I went to sit on my hanging chair and started my homework. I didn’t get very far because I had started daydreaming about my mystery guy with his curly brown shaggy hair, his bluer than blue eyes and his cocky lazy smile. My un-charming prince. I was pulled from my distracting thoughts when my phone started ringing. I frowned seeing my ‘dad’ flash on the screen. I answered the call.

“Where are you! Lyssa called me frantic telling me that you didn’t come home! She was waiting for you, you were supposed to give her your phone when you got home!” Damn it I forgot about that when I snuck into the house. Like who feels the need to sneak into their house instead of out of the house.

“I’m in my room, busy doing my homework. She wasn’t in the hall when I came home so I went to shower and to get started with my school work.” Lies, I’m just awful. Now he’ll wonder where Lyssa is. This isn’t who I am, I don’t want to make them fight or cause any problems. I’m just so tired of all the arguing and all her lies.

“Alright you need to inform her when you get home so that she doesn’t worry so unnecessarily.” Yes because she needs to track my every movement. I felt so frustrated again.

“Okay dad.” Was all I said the sad fact is that my dad expects her to raise me because he doesn’t have time for me. I only see him at night and usually he is on my case then. My dad ended the call with no “goodbye’s” or “love you’s”. I turned back to my homework. It wasn’t even five minute when my door flew open and Lyssa came storming in. She glared at me before walking over and grabbing my phone of my lap. I at least have a very complicated password, so all she can do is block my phone if she tries to many time.

“I won’t let you make a fool of me again!” I hate her so much at this moment. Really I stay out of her way why can’t she just offer me the same decency.

“You don’t need my help with that.” She was completely shocked at me snapping back at her. She was so shocked that she didn’t even say anything she just stormed out of the room. I can’t wait for this weekend, I might just sleep over at Liara’s this weekend, just for a tiny break from Lyssa. She didn’t even the close the door. She is ridiculous. I just went back to doing my homework. When I was done with my homework I went downstairs to get something to eat.

“So how was your boyfriend hunt?” Laira asked me as I got to her locker.

“I wasn’t hunting for a boyfriend, but no I didn’t find him. I looked around the dock and the hotel, but no luck. I’ll go and see again today.” I told her fidgeting with the books in my hand.

“Really? He must be one hell of a guy. Okay I’ll come with you. We can eat somewhere that you can review and keep an eye out for this guy and then you don’t need to actually take a slow shuttle and a taxi.” She had a point her taking me is a lot better. I just think I’ll feel a bit embarrassed when we find him having her watching me flirt. Although it worth it if I don’t have to take the shuttle again. The day took so much longer than it usually does, because it felt like it should have been the afternoon already when it was only lunch. We walked to the cafeteria and quickly got some food nothing big since we are going to go do a review this afternoon. I only took a small fruit salad with some milk. When we got to our usual table it was full, people crowding around. I took my usual seat. I wasn’t really in the mood to socialize right now, I wanted to eat and I wanted the time to fly by.

“I can’t wait for the party on the beach Saturday!” Party? Who said anything about a party I was thinking more along the line of fun day on the beach…Silliness not sexiness.

“Yeah it’s going to be so much fun. How late should we all get together?” Suddenly all the eyes were on me. It was my plan, but I wasn’t planning on arranging the whole thing and it being a party. I need to fix this so that my day at the beach isn’t ruined.

“How about sunset? We can make a big bonfire and have some music and snacks.” That way I can tell only my closest friends to meet me there during the day for swimming, volleyball and picnics and then all the randoms who want to tag along can join us at night for a beach party.

“That sounds perfect, we can set up while the sun sets and when the moon comes out so can the fun.” Another random said. Honestly I don’t care that other people are coming, I care that I’m being roped into the planning. I wanted a relaxing time to get away from everything. The last thing I wanted was to be responsible for everything.

“What snacks are we going to do?” I stared longingly at the snack in front of me. I just wanted to eat in silence and daydream about my stranger.

“We can do smores, we’ll need biscuits, chocolate and marshmallow.” I suggested since there will be a bonfire. It’s the perfect snack.

“Oh do you know what else we should have, a fruit bar! Because then we can snack on the fruits and use them for our drinks!” Another girl added. Obviously people are going to drink, I’m not going to do that, because it just isn’t my scene, but to each their own.

“That sounds great I can go with a gin with some frozen berries in. Is everyone going to bring their own drinks then? “ I took a few bites of my salad since the conversation seemed to run away from me. Not that I am complaining.

“Yeah because everyone has there own taste when it comes to drinks. Who is going to bring the rest of the things?” Once again I saw eyes turning my way. I’m not telling anyone what they need to bring they can decide on their own.

“I’ll bring the ice and a bunch of cooldrink and mixes. I can also bring the stuff for the smores.” I said hoping that they catch on that this is an offer situation and not an allocation type of thing.

“We’ll bring the stuff for the bonfire.” A couple of guys said and so it went on with everyone saying what they would bring. Five minutes later everything was sorted out.

“So will I be seeing you at the party?” Vance asked. I know this is him showing interest in me, but I am not interested and I’m the one who planned everything so of course I am going to be there, he could have thought of another way to ask me.

“Yes I will be there, so you are bound to see me at some point.” I told him. I couldn’t be rude, at least he had the guts to ask me unlike my stranger. Which just brings me back to the point, what if he didn’t want to see me again. The rest of the day went by just as slow. When the bell rang I was more than happy to leave the building. We quickly went to Liara’s house to get dressed since she didn’t pack clothes like I usually do. It didn’t take us long. While she looked for something to wear I quickly searched for a place to eat. Then we were on our way. We went to a restaurant that was called ‘The lighthouse’ it was actually build like a lighthouse. It was quite interesting.

We sat on the second story, next to the light of the lighthouse on the wrap around porch. They had some nice cocktails, so we tried some of them. The nice thing about this place was I could see everything from up here, so I will be able to spot him. My cocktail was a nice mixture of sweet and salty. It was blue and sweet while the glass was rimmed with with brown salt. The drink was meant to mimic the ocean. It’s called a salty breeze. While Liara took the most colourful thing on the menu, it had seven different colors. For our starters we took some fried calamari with butter and garlic sauce. It was nice I must admit that Calamari is my favorite when it comes to seafood. For our main we took an Ocean Basket which consisted of a bunch of different fish based foods with a bunch of dips. We finished it off with salted caramel tarts. The whole time we were eating I was looking around trying to spot him. Once again I wasn’t lucky. I didn’t seem him at all. I guess the chances of running into a stranger was pretty scarce. I just though if I hoped hard enough I would actually be able to meet him again. We made our way slowly to the car, mostly due to me walking like a slug, dragging my whole body.

“Come on slow poke it’s starting to get late. We don’t want Lyssa to be on you again.” Liara told me as she saw what I was doing. I sighed and decided to get a move on after I looked around one last time. We got in the car and started to drive.

“Don’t look so disappointed. I’m sure you’ll find him. We’ll try again tomorrow. I still can’t believe you are interested in a guy, you haven’t showed interest in any boys at school and it’s not like they haven’t tried because they have. Even Vance tried this morning.” She was right I’ve never been interested in dating mostly because I didn’t want the drama of it all. My father has made it pretty clear that he wanted me to date some of his partners sons. He has even gone as far to introduce me to them. They aren’t my type all snobby and self obsessed.

I don’t want to live like that and I don’t want to marry anyone that is like my father. Maybe that is why I took to my stranger, he is so different and he doesn’t treat me like a princess even though he calls me princess. Maybe it was the look in his blue eyes when we stopped at the hotel and stared at one another. Or the way it felt when our bodies touched each other. This is ridiculous to think but maybe he was the one person made just for me. I full heartily believe in soulmates. I believed that my parents were soulmates. They use to be so in love before my mother became sick. They way my father looked at my mother, I’ve longed for someone to look at me like that. I don’t even know this person there is no way that I can be thinking he might be my one love. If he was we were bound to have met again. I’m just being silly, a silly girl with silly romantic thought. I’m over romanticizing what happened. He has probably forgotten about me already.

“Yeah I guess I’m over doing it since it’s my first crush. He was just so different from anyone I’ve ever met before. I’ve been ridiculous haven’t I?” She smiled at me before looking back at the road.

“I don’t think you are being silly and even if you are, you deserve to be. You are so grown up all the time with your morals. Doing this seems like just what you need to me. It’s your own little adventure…Oh look at that cute shop let’s quickly stop there.” She pointed at a tiny coffee shop. I saw it yesterday it’s positioned here in the pass, which is idle because people could stop and get something to drink since it’s one of the only shops here. It’s to bad that the shuttle doesn’t stop there.

The place would make a killing with all the tourists. Liara stopped. She has a coffee problem and she hasn’t had a cup since this morning. She didn’t want to spoil the mood at the restaurant by ordering coffee when we could have fancy mocktails. We got out of the car and walked in the place could really need some more advertising. Their special board outside just says coffee. Once inside my senses was taken over. They tiny place smelled of coffee and freshly baked goods. It was mouthwatering. I just wanted everything that was for sale. I’d love to do a review of this place. I started grabbing baggies of cookies from the shelve before we went to the counter to order our drinks.

“How can I help you dears?” The old lady asked from behind the counter.

“I’d take a tea please. It’s pretty late I don’t want to be all wired up.” The old lady smiled at me. She seemed way to happy with my order.

“Such a sensible girl, and for you dear?” She said looking at Liara.

“What is your strongest drink, I have some studying to catch up with?” The old lady frowned at Liara before she shook her head and went to go and make our drinks she didn’t even answer Liara. She clearly doesn’t have good people skills.

“You are just like him, pumping your body with this dark poison, you should be more like you dear old friend. Sensible. Men don’t look for girls that overwork themselves. I had this argument with him only minutes ago. Kids of today not caring about their health.” She just kept on ranting. I felt sorry for the guy she ranted to earlier on. She brought our cups smiling at me as she gave me my cup.

“Coffee with an extra shot of espresso.” She sneered at Liara. She took the coffee taking a big sip probably burning her tongue, but she sighed out loud like it was joy in a cup. Not wanting to stir up more trouble I took out my card and handed it to her.

“You have a lovely place I’ll definitely be coming back.” I complimented her place while she was busy putting in my amount.

“Me to, I’ll be ordering more of this delicious poison.” Liara said from behind me. I gave the lady a big smile hoping she doesn’t focus to much on my friend. She smiled back at me as she handed me the machine for my password. I paid and greeted the lady before we left. I shook my head at Liara as we got to the car.

“I think we should go shopping tomorrow afternoon for everything we’ll need for the beach. I was thinking that I can sleep over at your house, since it’s going to be a late night. I don’t want to even try and get that one passed my dad and Lyssa. We can store the things at your house and quickly go get ready for the party after our day at the beach with our friends. If you don’t mind.”

“Of course I don’t mind silly. It sounds like a great plan. We haven’t done anything fun like this in awhile. It will be funny to get ready together. Your face was beyond funny when people started talking about a party in the cafeteria and still you said it was fine. You my dear are a people pleaser. It isn’t always a good trait. It just that why Lyssa walks all over you.”

“She doesn’t walk all over me. I just try to avoid conflict. Can you imagine how it would have been if I always talked back and fought with her like she does with me. There wouldn’t be any peace.” I explained to her for the millionth time.

“Like there isn’t any peace now.” I wasn’t in the mood to argue with Liara so I took my tea and started to sip at it. I looked out the windows and got lost in my own thoughts and the spectacular view. Before I knew it we were at my house. I got out of the car and walked up the driveway. As I opened the door Lyssa was standing there with her hand held out so I handed her the dummy phone I have without a word and then I left to go to my room. I don’t want to get into it tonight.

“So what do we need to get?” Liara said as we walked into the supermarket. We went to one that sells bulk too, because we need to get a lot of cooldrink and ice.

“A lot of things. We’ll just have to walk down all the isle and see what we need.” I told her as we grabbed a trolley and started walking into the shop. As we went I started putting things into the trolley. Since it’s my party I decided to go a bit out.

I got a bunch of red cups and plates. I got some steal bins for the ice and drinks. I also got funny straws, glow sticks and LED party favors to throw in the drinks to make it funner. I also grabbed a pack LED Glasses. We will definitely lighting up the beach. After we have sorted out the utensils and decorations we headed over to the food section. I started placing a wide variety of six packs cooldrinks into the trolley. We need a variety because not everyone likes the same drinks. It’s when I was about done that my eyes caught a bunch of curls bending down to grab a bottle of coca cola. I couldn’t believe my eyes I was sure it was my head playing tricks on me, but the other reason we came here was because it was near the dock because I wanted to go see if I could find him. After he got his cooldrink he looked up. Our eyes collided.

“It’s you.” He said as soon as he recognized me. I was a bit frozen because all this felt way so unreal. I never expected to see him here. Liara gave me a slight push to get me out of my frozen state.

“This is the last place I thought I would be seeing you.” He continued. I smiled at him because I already saw where this was going.

“Why because a princess could never be doing her own grocery shopping?” I teased knowing he was going to say something in that line. I walked closer to him, all to aware of Liara that was following behind me. Listening to every word.

“Something like that…no, I’ve actually been looking for you since the other day.” He was looking for me like I was looking for him. I wanted to smile like the giddy i***t I was feeling. He had also came closer to me. We were standing right in front of each other. I had to look up at him as he was taller than me.

“It can’t be on account of me forgetting something in your car, because we were on your bike.” I joked shyly.

“No on account that I thought you owed me a cup of coffee princess. You did after all spill mine all over my shirt.” Was he asking me out on a date or was he being jerky again, before I could overthink this he talked again.

“I shouldn’t have drove of so fast. I regretted not asking your name.” So he regretted it just as much as I regretted it.

“Yeah you took of really fast, I looked back to get a last glimpse of you, but you had already left.” I admitted too. Hoping this was going where I wanted it to go.

“I’ve been looking for you ever since. I kept going back to where we met. I stayed there until late at night.” I couldn’t believe what he was saying. He was actually looking for me like I was looking for him. I blushed as I smiled up at him.

“She has been going there everyday too, looking for you.” My head shot back to Liara. I can’t believe she told him. I looked back at him and saw that same cocky smile he had the other day.

“I’m Jacin.” I can’t believe I finally know his name now I don’t have to refer to him as my Jacin.

“I’m Alysson.” I said back, the smile that spread on his face wasn’t at all cocky he looked so happy in that moment.

“Jacin, Alysson is holding a party tomorrow at South beach. You should come she will be there and I’m sure she would love it if you could come.” He looked at me for confirmation.

“Yeah I would really like it if you came.” I told him so that he knew I really wanted him to come.

“If you want me to come I will be there, but I want your number because I’m not losing contact with you again.” He held out his phone for me. I took it and put in my number. I saw him saving it as Princess. I just shook my head at that.

“Okay we need to go. We have a party to arrange. Liara said grabbing my arm and pulling me along with her. I looked over my shoulder and saw him staring after me.

“Always leave him wanting more.” Liara whispered to me.