Forgotten

Chapter 8

Our skin was warm and sticky, just the way the ocean can make it when we left. It was a fun day for sure and even with the sunscreen I got a bit of a tan going on. I’m lucky I burn brownish red. I don’t get red and I don’t stay as is. It’s thanks to my mom, she had a sun kissed complexion. She loved the sun. We made it to Liara’s house. We unloaded the car before going inside. Before we went to take well deserved showers. I borrowed a pair of pajamas from Liara. It was still to early to get ready and we wanted to eat before that. It felt nice to be clean. It’s has always been my favorite part of a beach day when you get home and get to take that relaxing shower before just falling down on a couch or bed. You can feel your muscles got a work out and you can feel the heat of the sun still radiating in you.

After our showers we went down to the kitchen to prepare some food. I offered to cook because I never really get the chance to to it at my house. Liara sat at the counter and watched me as I went. I decided to make some pineapple fried rice. It’s a Thai recipe. I had it once at a restaurant and searched for a recipe. I can never get it to taste as it did at the restaurant, but it is still very delicious. It has garlic, onions, green pepper, pineapple, bell peppers, sugar and rice. I make mine with soy sauce instead of fish sauce mostly because Liara doesn’t have fish or oyster sauce. With that I made a cashew chicken. I used some more soy sauce along with chicken, cashews and chilies. I made enough for her parents as well. The food was done by three pm. We ate it in the living room while watching some random movie.

“I can smell that Alysson has been in my kitchen.” Liara’s mom, Maggie said. I just smiled they knew I licked experimenting here and they always benefit from it by getting to eat the tasty food. I have thought about being a chef one day, but I also love doing reviews. Although I would love to go into business with my father I am his heir after all. Not that I think I would enjoy the corporate world.

“This looks delicious sweetie!” She yelled from the kitchen again. I smiled at the compliment. It wasn’t long before they joined us in the living room. Both of them with big plates of food.

“You dad must love it when you cook for him.” Maggie said.

“He has never had my food. We have a chef and he doesn’t allow me to make food there. Anyway Lyssa would have a heart attack if she had to eat something that actually has fat in it. She is all about lean and tasteless food.” I explained to him just as I finished my food. I’m stuffed we at least have about an hour to get ready.

“We need to go and get ready, we still need to go and set up for tonight.” Liara said as she also finished her meal and got up.

“Do you need money for anything?” Liara’s dad asked her.

“No daddy. We’ve already bought everything we need. Thank you.” As we got up to leave the room he held out some money for her. She took it and smiled at him. We went up to her room. Her room was beautiful it was filled with memories. There was so many photos all over her walls with fairy lights hanging around them highlighting them. She has a big white canopy bed with lights on it too. Then she has a corner for studying. That was over cluttered with books, notes and stationary. I threw all the clothes I brought out on her bed.

“I couldn’t decide on what to wear, it’s such a big moment tonight.” I told her staring at all the clothes on the bed, it was like half my wardrobe.

“Have you heard anything from, Jacin?” She asked me as she started to go through all the clothes. I knew she wasn’t fishing, she just wanted to know if I was putting my heart on this and if I might be let down by him.

“Yes we texted each other last night…we flirted a bit.” Since she was asking I went to my phone to see if he replied me back today. He did text me back, I felt so giddy at seeing his text. He had text me back just after we went to the beach I had just missed his text message.

[I’ll see you then, I can’t wait to see you. I still feel like I need to reassure myself that I met you again and it wasn’t all a dream. I read or messages again this morning to make sure.]

I blushed at his text message. I can’t believe that he felt just like me. It was more than just wanting to see each other. It was a need to see each other. It was urgent. Urgent enough to make us search for each other.

“So are you excited?” She asked me still going through my clothes.

“I am so excited and nervous I’m afraid that he won’t like me as soon as he actually gets to know me.” The thought kept popping up in my mind.

“Don’t be ridiculous the more he gets to know you the more he’ll love you. You don’t have anything to worry about because you don’t have any bad qualities. You are any guys wish. You are utterly gorgeous and you like food and being independent.” She told me as she finished looking through my clothes.

“Nope none of these will work. All if these are so drab. It’s a beach party not a funeral you seriously need to move away from white, nude, brown, black and green. We need to go shopping at some point and liven you up. The brightest thing you own is your costume. I have the perfect outfit for you. Just keep in mind it’s a bit out there for you, but it will looked great with you sun kissed skin. So no complaining just put it on okay.” I was scared from what she said, but I knew she wouldn’t lead me astray so I nodded as she went to get the outfit.

It was a yellow and white striped outfit. The short was high wasted that was loose and wide. The top on the other hand is what she warned me about. It was a maxi cardigan. It tied together between my breasts showing of ample cleavage. The top self looks like a halter top exposing not only my breast, but a bit of my stomach. Then it goes down to my ankle. She was right I looked amazing in the outfit, but I felt a bit nervous it felt like to much. With it I put on a pair of white sandals. I’m probably going to take of the sandals since it will be irritating having the sand in my shoes the whole night. I curled my hair, with tight curls and then I shook it out to make it look like a messy natural curl. I only applied mascara and lipgloss.

Liara dressed in a short white jumper with her hair pulled up in a high sleek ponytail. She went all out with her make-up, she even had a winged her eyes making them look like they pulled up just like her hair. She looked like a goddess. Once we were done we went to go pack everything for the beach party. She greeted her parents and then we were off to the beach again. When we arrived a few people were already buzzing around setting things up. We walked to the tables where we set up the cups, party favors and the snacks. Next to the table we put all the cooldrink and ice in the bins. The spares we pushed under the table. It looked cute. The music was blasting and everyone was starting to arrive. It wasn’t long before I noticed that the party was out of hand. There was so many people on the beach. Most of which I didn’t recognize and the one I wanted to arrive hadn’t arrived yet.

I was starting to think that he wasn’t going to show up. He was just a half an hour late, but it felt longer to me because I’ve been here since five. Liara was having a blast dancing like a mad women in the sand kicking it about as she went. She loved dancing, but she doesn’t have time for dance teams or cheerleading. Mika was sitting at the bonfire trying to soak up all the heat that she could and Zielle was playing volleyball with a bunch of guys, she was on the winning team showing them who is boss. I felt my phone vibrating. It was a text from Jacin that said he was here. I felt giddy all over again. I started looking for him, but couldn’t find him so I texted him to hear where he was. The message didn’t go threw so I had to look for him.

It wasn’t long before I bumped into someone at least not to hard. I looked up to see Jacin smiling down at me. I instantly blushed. His smile was so great.

“I’ve been looking for you. This party is crazy. I can’t believe it’s your party.” he told me. This is not what I expected it to be like. I thought I would see him from a distant, I’d walk up to him and hug him. I can’t hug him now it would be weird, a conversation had already been struck. I will just hug him goodbye. I guess I just want to feel him, I just want to be in his arms.

“Yeah no this isn’t my party anymore. It’s way out of hand. I didn’t even want to have a party to start with. I just wanted a relaxing day at the beach with my friends and then the next thing I knew people was asking about my party. I just went along, but then this happened. I didn’t bring enough drinks at all.” I told him looking at the empty bins. There was so many people.

“You bought all the drinks? Why didn’t you just tell everyone to bring their own drinks?” He looked at me like I was insane, he is probably thinking that I just like to spend money.

“We were talking at school and everyone decided what they wanted to bring, but I went over the top and brought a lot of things. I just felt like it’s my party so it’s my responsibility. I never expected this.”

“School? You mean university?” He asked staring at me. So he thought I was older than I am I wonder how old he is. We really don’t know each other.

“No high school I’m seventeen. I’m turning eighteen in two months.” I told him to see his reaction. He only nodded. I think my age is secretly freaking him out. I was afraid this was going to happen.

“Let’s take a walk away from this craziness. You don’t mind right? Since you didn’t want this anyway.” He asked me, holding his hand out to me. I placed my hand in his and let him lead me away. We walked down alongside the beach not saying anything until we were away from all the craziness. It was so nice to have my hand in his. His hand felt so warm around mine.

“That’s better we can actually hear each other now. You look beautiful by the way. It was the first thing that popped into my head. I don’t know why I didn’t lead with that, instead I talked about the party. I was nervous about coming tonight. I was nervous to see you again. I was really afraid that you were just saying what you thought I wanted to hear.” He was feeling just like me. He was just as nervous as me about tonight.

“Thank you. I’m not just saying what I think you want to hear. I really wanted to see you to I was just as nervous. I’ve waited the whole day for this and I got even more nervous when you were late. I thought you might have decided against coming.” I told him I don’t understand why I was being so honest with him. I can’t keep being so truthful I must be coming off as desperate.

“No I was definitely coming, I just couldn’t decide on what to wear. I don’t have a lot of beach appropriate clothes. I also didn’t want to look to casual so I settled for rolled up jeans instead of swimming trunks.” It was funny how I had the same problem when I was getting ready. I’m glad that he was just as nervous as I was.

“You look very handsome.” I told him. I blushed and looked away. He stopped walking and turned me towards him. He put his hand on my cheek and lift my head up so that I could look at him. He just stared at me. It made me blush even more. I tried looking away, but he wasn’t let me.

“I love it when you blush like that. I love it even more that is me causing the blush.” He smiled at me his thumb brushing over my reddened cheek.

“Does it bother you that I am still in high school?” I asked him looking up into that blue eyes of his. Worrying that he might say yes.

“No it doesn’t I know that it should, but I can’t get myself to care. There isn’t do much of an age difference. I just though that you were older, but I promise you I don’t care.” He told me and I knew he was telling me the truth.

“How old are you?” I asked him. He now knew how old she was. It was only fair.

“I am 20, see it’s only a two year difference. Does it bother you?”

“No not at all. It never bothered me.” I told him honestly again. We were still in that close position with me staring up in his eyes.

“Can I kiss you?” he asked me looking at my lips. I licked my lips in anticipation. I didn’t know if it was to early, but I really wanted him to kiss me. Clearly he could see that because he didn’t wait for me to answer him. His lips touched mine, the touch was so soft. I looked at him as he looked at me, he kissed me again, this time it was more than just a lingering touch. It was soft and sensual as his lips stoked mine. I place my hands on his chest and stepped closer. It was an amazing kiss one of those that made your heart accelerate and your toes curl over. It was the perfect first kiss with the waves breaking in the distant.

“I should have done that when I met you, but I was to stupid…Was that okay?” It was more than okay I loved it and I wanted more. So I went on the tips of my toes and placed my lips against his. His arms wound around my body pulling me tight against his chest. My arms went around his neck as the kiss deepened. The kiss felt sinful like we shouldn’t be doing it, but it was so nice. We were basically stranger, but this kiss also felt like we’ve known each other for so long. I was obviously having many mixed wonderful feelings about it. The kiss was getting more heated by the moment and no one was close enough to stop us. I jumped as water splashed against my feet. It was cold and made me jump back a bit. It was so unexpected. I took a breath and looked up at him.

“I guess we needed to cool down.” I joked with him. I took his hand and led him back to the party. Now that I know his intention, I feel a lot more relaxed. Now that I know he is really into me. I don’t have to be afraid of letting him see me and how I feel.