Chapter 68: Ocean - Date Part 3
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Ocean
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After the movie, we went to the beach. I had never actually been to the beaches here in LA so I was excited to see them. The problem was that I liked the beaches back home better. I wanted to just sit at my usual spot and watch the sun set there. I think Makai could tell too.
"This isn't where you want to be, is it?" He asked me with a knowing look.
"Not really." I frowned. "I mean, it's a nice beach, and I would love to swim in the water if I had a suit with me, but as far as feeling comfortable at the locale, I prefer the beach back home."
"Do you want to go there now? We can make it in time for the sunset." He was smiling at me.
"You could tell?" I ran a hand over the back of my head, a little embarrassed by the fact that he knew exactly what it was that I wanted.
"I could see it in your eyes. I could tell that you wanted to be back there and watch it from your spot."
"How do you already know me so well?" I asked the question without thinking, letting my honesty and vulnerability show.
"Because I can't take my eyes off of you, Ocean. You're all I ever see, and all I ever want to see. When I go to school every day, I look forward to seeing you. Even before you would talk to me, all I did was watch you like a creeper."
"I..I..I uhm, I watched you too, sometimes." I looked down, hiding my flaming cheeks. "I watched you across the classroom, I watched you swimming, I watched you as you got out of the pool with the water glistening off of your body. I don't know when it started, but it was before that night on the beach."
"I knew that you were watching me." He got closer to me then, his face inching toward mine. "I felt your eyes on me, and it made me happy."
"I..I..I..I..I..-"
"Don't worry, Ocean. I'm not going to kiss you. I just wanted to get some of that closeness with you for a minute."
After that he pulled away and started walking towards his car again.
"Come on, we need to hurry to make it in time for the sunset. We can call and order a few pizzas and pick them up on the way, that can be dinner." I ran after him, hurrying to catch up to him. I didn't want to delay us at all.
We got on the road immediately and listened to music on the way back, singing along with songs that we liked. Makai could actually sing pretty good, which was the same thing that he said about me. When we got closer, I called and ordered three large pepperoni pizzas. I insisted on paying for those since Makai had paid for everything else. He agreed since I was so adamant. I also got us dessert and a few two liter bottles of soda.
When we got to the beach, Makai parked where I usually did, and we walked to the tree that I usually sat on. There was no one on this part of the beach right now. And there was no one in the parking lot as well. It was as private as we could get right now.
We sat and started eating, sharing the pizzas and talking. I was the one who started the conversation, but it quickly took a turn that I wasn't prepared for.
"So, Ocean, did you have fun today?" I didn't look at him so I couldn't see Makai's face, but I could hear his seductive voice as he tried to lure me in.
"Y..yeah I did." I answered him honestly. I didn't even want to hide it from him.
"Would you want to do it again sometime, soon?" That time he sounded nervous.
"I don't know if I would want to go to LA again so soon." I smirked knowing he was going to get a little frustrated by my answer.
"That's not what I meant. We could go anywhere. Would you want to spend a day with me again? Would you want to hang out with me more often?"
"I wouldn't be against it. But, do we really need to go somewhere?" I asked him as I finally turned to look at him.
"What do you mean?" He didn't look like he understood.
"We could just go to my place or yours. Do we really need a big day out like this every time? Rich or not this shit adds up, doesn't it? You can't afford to keep spending money on me like that."
"I would, if you wanted me to." He grinned, knowing that I wasn't against us hanging out now.
"Well, I don't. I think we would be just fine watching a movie, or just hanging out with each other at my place or yours. We can practice together. Come here to the beach and hang out. There are a lot of things that don't involve shopping like we're in some sort of movie montage." I glared at him then, because I felt like he had done that on purpose.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. I may or may not have seen a few romcoms in my life as well, and well, I know they have those scenes. I wanted to make today special for you."
"By basically making me the hooker in Pretty Woman?" He laughed at that and even I couldn't keep a straight face.
"Yeah, well, they end up together in the end so... You know, it was worth a shot." I just rolled my eyes and finished my dessert.
"You're lucky I like you." I laughed at him while watching the water.
"Yeah? How much do you like me?" He grinned. "Are you willing to go out with me?"
"Didn't I just go out with you?" I was confused.
"That's not what I meant. I mean, even though there is no one I can tell in this entire town, can I call you my boyfriend? Will you date me? Will we have something between us every time we see each other even if no one else knows? When we're alone can I expect to have random kisses or make out sessions? Can we be together?"
There was a heated intensity in his eyes that was melting me from the inside out. If he continued to look at me like he was I would end up a pile of goo or something before long. Why did he have this power over me?
"Ocean, will you let me date you with hopes of, when you're ready, taking our relationship further?" He was leaning in towards me now, his face coming closer, and the heat in his eyes melting me even more. That moment I thought my skin was going to start burning from the heat, I needed to answer him. I nodded my head before I could manage to get the word out.
"Y..y..yes."
His lips were barely an inch from mine. I was waiting for him to kiss me. I could practically feel it already, I could taste that orange and vanilla cream flavor of him on my tongue already. Right when I thought he was going to press his lips to mine, he pulled away.
"Huh?" I blink bewildered, suddenly lost and confused. "I..I thought you were going to kiss me."
"I told you, I was going to keep my hands and my kisses to myself unless you ask for something. Why? Did you want me to kiss you?" He grinned knowingly; he knew that I wanted it, and that made me blush. I wanted to tell him no, I wanted to tell him that I was stronger than that, but I couldn't.
"Y..yes."
He had been waiting for my answer, and the second the word was past my lips, he threw himself at me and pressed his lips to mine. I felt myself land in the sand behind the fallen tree that I was sitting on. Makai fell on top of me and held me close to him. Unlike the last time that we were at the beach, he didn't straddle me and hold himself away from me, this time he was trying to get as close to me as he could.
"I've wanted to kiss you all day." He whispered into my ear after he broke the kiss, his lips trailing over my ear.
"I wanted to kiss you, too. I wanted it so bad that it was driving me insane." I held the back of his head in my hands, holding him in place as I whispered into his ear, I followed the whisper with a slow swipe of my tongue along the shell of his ear.
"I feel like I could kiss you all night and not get enough of it." Makai's voice was heated, but that was nothing compared to his hands that were inching their way up my shirt.
"Ahh." I felt the hot heat as he rubbed across my stomach and I shuddered. "Makai." I called his name, not sure what it was that I was wanting at that moment.
Things were getting heated, and I didn't want them to stop. I wanted to keep going. And I could tell that Makai was all for that as well.
Then the familiar sound of my mom's ringtone cut through the silence of the night around us.
"Dammit." I swore as I tore myself away from Makai.
"My sentiment exactly." Makai agreed.
I rushed forward and grabbed the phone from where I left it on the tree.
"Yeah, Mom?" I asked her when I answered the phone.
"Don't you yeah me, Ocean. Do you know what time it is?" She was angry.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to text you. I was hanging out with someone after school."
"Uh huh." She sounded pissed. "Ocean, you better not be drinking again."
"I'm not, Mom. I promise. I will come home right now, I'm sorry." She still remembered the night that I had passed out on the beach and came home hungover.
"I will be waiting at the door for you." I knew she was serious about that too.
"Dammit." I swore again after she hung up the phone.
"So, I take it she's angry."
"She thought I was out drinking again. I kind of made her really mad at me that night."
"I'll take you home now. If you want, I can tell your mom that you were just hanging out with me all night. She will know you weren't drinking."
"I don't know if she would believe you any more than she would believe me."
"It's worth a shot."
Makai drove me home, speeding a little to get there quicker. When we got there, I got out of the car like I was a prisoner on death row trying to avoid their sentence. I knew she was going to be pissed at me.
"Ocean Riptide Shores, do you have any idea how-?!" She stopped her question in the middle when she saw who was walking behind me. "Oh, Makai? I didn't know he was with you." Mom smiled like everything was OK now.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Shores. I should have had him call you. It was rude of us to leave you with no information as to where he would be." Makai was always so polite with my Mom.
"No, it's fine. I probably overreacted. I'm sorry to make you bring him home so soon."
"It's alright, we weren't doing anything really. We were just talking on the beach." Not doing anything my ass, she interrupted us.
"That's sweet. I'm glad you were together. I hate the idea of you being alone. You know what, you should come to Ocean's birthday party. I am sure he would like to have you there, won't you sweetie? And I promise that we parents won't be here or interfere at all, just as long as you all promise not to destroy the house." Mom was just making things worse right now.
"I would love to come, and I will make sure that no one destroys anything. When is it?" Makai looked at me like he was not happy to have found out about the party from my mom.
"Oh, in two and a half weeks, on the thirtieth. The day before halloween. He's always had a Halloween themed party." Ugh, why can't mom just stop talking?
"That sounds great, Mrs. Shores, I will definitely be there."
"I was going to invite you myself." I looked down, blushing.
"I'm glad. And I look forward to the party."
Makai left with a wave, and I went up to my room. I did not miss the smirk that mom was giving me as I walked up the stairs. What was up with her?
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Ocean
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After the movie, we went to the beach. I had never actually been to the beaches here in LA so I was excited to see them. The problem was that I liked the beaches back home better. I wanted to just sit at my usual spot and watch the sun set there. I think Makai could tell too.
"This isn't where you want to be, is it?" He asked me with a knowing look.
"Not really." I frowned. "I mean, it's a nice beach, and I would love to swim in the water if I had a suit with me, but as far as feeling comfortable at the locale, I prefer the beach back home."
"Do you want to go there now? We can make it in time for the sunset." He was smiling at me.
"You could tell?" I ran a hand over the back of my head, a little embarrassed by the fact that he knew exactly what it was that I wanted.
"I could see it in your eyes. I could tell that you wanted to be back there and watch it from your spot."
"How do you already know me so well?" I asked the question without thinking, letting my honesty and vulnerability show.
"Because I can't take my eyes off of you, Ocean. You're all I ever see, and all I ever want to see. When I go to school every day, I look forward to seeing you. Even before you would talk to me, all I did was watch you like a creeper."
"I..I..I uhm, I watched you too, sometimes." I looked down, hiding my flaming cheeks. "I watched you across the classroom, I watched you swimming, I watched you as you got out of the pool with the water glistening off of your body. I don't know when it started, but it was before that night on the beach."
"I knew that you were watching me." He got closer to me then, his face inching toward mine. "I felt your eyes on me, and it made me happy."
"I..I..I..I..I..-"
"Don't worry, Ocean. I'm not going to kiss you. I just wanted to get some of that closeness with you for a minute."
After that he pulled away and started walking towards his car again.
"Come on, we need to hurry to make it in time for the sunset. We can call and order a few pizzas and pick them up on the way, that can be dinner." I ran after him, hurrying to catch up to him. I didn't want to delay us at all.
We got on the road immediately and listened to music on the way back, singing along with songs that we liked. Makai could actually sing pretty good, which was the same thing that he said about me. When we got closer, I called and ordered three large pepperoni pizzas. I insisted on paying for those since Makai had paid for everything else. He agreed since I was so adamant. I also got us dessert and a few two liter bottles of soda.
When we got to the beach, Makai parked where I usually did, and we walked to the tree that I usually sat on. There was no one on this part of the beach right now. And there was no one in the parking lot as well. It was as private as we could get right now.
We sat and started eating, sharing the pizzas and talking. I was the one who started the conversation, but it quickly took a turn that I wasn't prepared for.
"So, Ocean, did you have fun today?" I didn't look at him so I couldn't see Makai's face, but I could hear his seductive voice as he tried to lure me in.
"Y..yeah I did." I answered him honestly. I didn't even want to hide it from him.
"Would you want to do it again sometime, soon?" That time he sounded nervous.
"I don't know if I would want to go to LA again so soon." I smirked knowing he was going to get a little frustrated by my answer.
"That's not what I meant. We could go anywhere. Would you want to spend a day with me again? Would you want to hang out with me more often?"
"I wouldn't be against it. But, do we really need to go somewhere?" I asked him as I finally turned to look at him.
"What do you mean?" He didn't look like he understood.
"We could just go to my place or yours. Do we really need a big day out like this every time? Rich or not this shit adds up, doesn't it? You can't afford to keep spending money on me like that."
"I would, if you wanted me to." He grinned, knowing that I wasn't against us hanging out now.
"Well, I don't. I think we would be just fine watching a movie, or just hanging out with each other at my place or yours. We can practice together. Come here to the beach and hang out. There are a lot of things that don't involve shopping like we're in some sort of movie montage." I glared at him then, because I felt like he had done that on purpose.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. I may or may not have seen a few romcoms in my life as well, and well, I know they have those scenes. I wanted to make today special for you."
"By basically making me the hooker in Pretty Woman?" He laughed at that and even I couldn't keep a straight face.
"Yeah, well, they end up together in the end so... You know, it was worth a shot." I just rolled my eyes and finished my dessert.
"You're lucky I like you." I laughed at him while watching the water.
"Yeah? How much do you like me?" He grinned. "Are you willing to go out with me?"
"Didn't I just go out with you?" I was confused.
"That's not what I meant. I mean, even though there is no one I can tell in this entire town, can I call you my boyfriend? Will you date me? Will we have something between us every time we see each other even if no one else knows? When we're alone can I expect to have random kisses or make out sessions? Can we be together?"
There was a heated intensity in his eyes that was melting me from the inside out. If he continued to look at me like he was I would end up a pile of goo or something before long. Why did he have this power over me?
"Ocean, will you let me date you with hopes of, when you're ready, taking our relationship further?" He was leaning in towards me now, his face coming closer, and the heat in his eyes melting me even more. That moment I thought my skin was going to start burning from the heat, I needed to answer him. I nodded my head before I could manage to get the word out.
"Y..y..yes."
His lips were barely an inch from mine. I was waiting for him to kiss me. I could practically feel it already, I could taste that orange and vanilla cream flavor of him on my tongue already. Right when I thought he was going to press his lips to mine, he pulled away.
"Huh?" I blink bewildered, suddenly lost and confused. "I..I thought you were going to kiss me."
"I told you, I was going to keep my hands and my kisses to myself unless you ask for something. Why? Did you want me to kiss you?" He grinned knowingly; he knew that I wanted it, and that made me blush. I wanted to tell him no, I wanted to tell him that I was stronger than that, but I couldn't.
"Y..yes."
He had been waiting for my answer, and the second the word was past my lips, he threw himself at me and pressed his lips to mine. I felt myself land in the sand behind the fallen tree that I was sitting on. Makai fell on top of me and held me close to him. Unlike the last time that we were at the beach, he didn't straddle me and hold himself away from me, this time he was trying to get as close to me as he could.
"I've wanted to kiss you all day." He whispered into my ear after he broke the kiss, his lips trailing over my ear.
"I wanted to kiss you, too. I wanted it so bad that it was driving me insane." I held the back of his head in my hands, holding him in place as I whispered into his ear, I followed the whisper with a slow swipe of my tongue along the shell of his ear.
"I feel like I could kiss you all night and not get enough of it." Makai's voice was heated, but that was nothing compared to his hands that were inching their way up my shirt.
"Ahh." I felt the hot heat as he rubbed across my stomach and I shuddered. "Makai." I called his name, not sure what it was that I was wanting at that moment.
Things were getting heated, and I didn't want them to stop. I wanted to keep going. And I could tell that Makai was all for that as well.
Then the familiar sound of my mom's ringtone cut through the silence of the night around us.
"Dammit." I swore as I tore myself away from Makai.
"My sentiment exactly." Makai agreed.
I rushed forward and grabbed the phone from where I left it on the tree.
"Yeah, Mom?" I asked her when I answered the phone.
"Don't you yeah me, Ocean. Do you know what time it is?" She was angry.
"I'm sorry, I forgot to text you. I was hanging out with someone after school."
"Uh huh." She sounded pissed. "Ocean, you better not be drinking again."
"I'm not, Mom. I promise. I will come home right now, I'm sorry." She still remembered the night that I had passed out on the beach and came home hungover.
"I will be waiting at the door for you." I knew she was serious about that too.
"Dammit." I swore again after she hung up the phone.
"So, I take it she's angry."
"She thought I was out drinking again. I kind of made her really mad at me that night."
"I'll take you home now. If you want, I can tell your mom that you were just hanging out with me all night. She will know you weren't drinking."
"I don't know if she would believe you any more than she would believe me."
"It's worth a shot."
Makai drove me home, speeding a little to get there quicker. When we got there, I got out of the car like I was a prisoner on death row trying to avoid their sentence. I knew she was going to be pissed at me.
"Ocean Riptide Shores, do you have any idea how-?!" She stopped her question in the middle when she saw who was walking behind me. "Oh, Makai? I didn't know he was with you." Mom smiled like everything was OK now.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Shores. I should have had him call you. It was rude of us to leave you with no information as to where he would be." Makai was always so polite with my Mom.
"No, it's fine. I probably overreacted. I'm sorry to make you bring him home so soon."
"It's alright, we weren't doing anything really. We were just talking on the beach." Not doing anything my ass, she interrupted us.
"That's sweet. I'm glad you were together. I hate the idea of you being alone. You know what, you should come to Ocean's birthday party. I am sure he would like to have you there, won't you sweetie? And I promise that we parents won't be here or interfere at all, just as long as you all promise not to destroy the house." Mom was just making things worse right now.
"I would love to come, and I will make sure that no one destroys anything. When is it?" Makai looked at me like he was not happy to have found out about the party from my mom.
"Oh, in two and a half weeks, on the thirtieth. The day before halloween. He's always had a Halloween themed party." Ugh, why can't mom just stop talking?
"That sounds great, Mrs. Shores, I will definitely be there."
"I was going to invite you myself." I looked down, blushing.
"I'm glad. And I look forward to the party."
Makai left with a wave, and I went up to my room. I did not miss the smirk that mom was giving me as I walked up the stairs. What was up with her?
~~Ocean~~After the movie, we went to the beach. I had never actually been to the beaches here in LA so I was excited to see them. The problem was that I liked the beaches back home better. I wanted to just sit at my usual spot and watch the sun set there. I think Makai could tell too."This isn't where you want to be, is it?" He asked me with a knowing look."Not really." I frowned. "I mean, it's a nice beach, and I would love to swim in the water if I had a suit with me, but as far as feeling comfortable at the locale, I prefer the beach back home.""Do you want to go there now? We can make it in time for the sunset." He was smiling at me."You could tell?" I ran a hand over the back of my head, a little embarrassed by the fact that he knew exactly what it was that I wanted."I could see it in your eyes. I could tell that you wanted to be back there and watch it from your spot.""How do you already know me so well?" I asked the question without thinking, letting my honesty and vulnerability show."Because I can't take my eyes off of you, Ocean. You're all I ever see, and all I ever want to see. When I go to school every day, I look forward to seeing you. Even before you would talk to me, all I did was watch you like a creeper.""I..I..I uhm, I watched you too, sometimes." I looked down, hiding my flaming cheeks. "I watched you across the classroom, I watched you swimming, I watched you as you got out of the pool with the water glistening off of your body. I don't know when it started, but it was before that night on the beach.""I knew that you were watching me." He got closer to me then, his face inching toward mine. "I felt your eyes on me, and it made me happy.""I..I..I..I..I..-""Don't worry, Ocean. I'm not going to kiss you. I just wanted to get some of that closeness with you for a minute."After that he pulled away and started walking towards his car again."Come on, we need to hurry to make it in time for the sunset. We can call and order a few pizzas and pick them up on the way, that can be dinner." I ran after him, hurrying to catch up to him. I didn't want to delay us at all.We got on the road immediately and listened to music on the way back, singing along with songs that we liked. Makai could actually sing pretty good, which was the same thing that he said about me. When we got closer, I called and ordered three large pepperoni pizzas. I insisted on paying for those since Makai had paid for everything else. He agreed since I was so adamant. I also got us dessert and a few two liter bottles of soda.When we got to the beach, Makai parked where I usually did, and we walked to the tree that I usually sat on. There was no one on this part of the beach right now. And there was no one in the parking lot as well. It was as private as we could get right now.We sat and started eating, sharing the pizzas and talking. I was the one who started the conversation, but it quickly took a turn that I wasn't prepared for."So, Ocean, did you have fun today?" I didn't look at him so I couldn't see Makai's face, but I could hear his seductive voice as he tried to lure me in."Y..yeah I did." I answered him honestly. I didn't even want to hide it from him."Would you want to do it again sometime, soon?" That time he sounded nervous."I don't know if I would want to go to LA again so soon." I smirked knowing he was going to get a little frustrated by my answer."That's not what I meant. We could go anywhere. Would you want to spend a day with me again? Would you want to hang out with me more often?""I wouldn't be against it. But, do we really need to go somewhere?" I asked him as I finally turned to look at him."What do you mean?" He didn't look like he understood."We could just go to my place or yours. Do we really need a big day out like this every time? Rich or not this shit adds up, doesn't it? You can't afford to keep spending money on me like that.""I would, if you wanted me to." He grinned, knowing that I wasn't against us hanging out now."Well, I don't. I think we would be just fine watching a movie, or just hanging out with each other at my place or yours. We can practice together. Come here to the beach and hang out. There are a lot of things that don't involve shopping like we're in some sort of movie montage." I glared at him then, because I felt like he had done that on purpose."I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. I may or may not have seen a few romcoms in my life as well, and well, I know they have those scenes. I wanted to make today special for you.""By basically making me the hooker in Pretty Woman?" He laughed at that and even I couldn't keep a straight face."Yeah, well, they end up together in the end so... You know, it was worth a shot." I just rolled my eyes and finished my dessert."You're lucky I like you." I laughed at him while watching the water."Yeah? How much do you like me?" He grinned. "Are you willing to go out with me?""Didn't I just go out with you?" I was confused."That's not what I meant. I mean, even though there is no one I can tell in this entire town, can I call you my boyfriend? Will you date me? Will we have something between us every time we see each other even if no one else knows? When we're alone can I expect to have random kisses or make out sessions? Can we be together?"There was a heated intensity in his eyes that was melting me from the inside out. If he continued to look at me like he was I would end up a pile of goo or something before long. Why did he have this power over me?"Ocean, will you let me date you with hopes of, when you're ready, taking our relationship further?" He was leaning in towards me now, his face coming closer, and the heat in his eyes melting me even more. That moment I thought my skin was going to start burning from the heat, I needed to answer him. I nodded my head before I could manage to get the word out."Y..y..yes."His lips were barely an inch from mine. I was waiting for him to kiss me. I could practically feel it already, I could taste that orange and vanilla cream flavor of him on my tongue already. Right when I thought he was going to press his lips to mine, he pulled away."Huh?" I blink bewildered, suddenly lost and confused. "I..I thought you were going to kiss me.""I told you, I was going to keep my hands and my kisses to myself unless you ask for something. Why? Did you want me to kiss you?" He grinned knowingly; he knew that I wanted it, and that made me blush. I wanted to tell him no, I wanted to tell him that I was stronger than that, but I couldn't."Y..yes."He had been waiting for my answer, and the second the word was past my lips, he threw himself at me and pressed his lips to mine. I felt myself land in the sand behind the fallen tree that I was sitting on. Makai fell on top of me and held me close to him. Unlike the last time that we were at the beach, he didn't straddle me and hold himself away from me, this time he was trying to get as close to me as he could."I've wanted to kiss you all day." He whispered into my ear after he broke the kiss, his lips trailing over my ear."I wanted to kiss you, too. I wanted it so bad that it was driving me insane." I held the back of his head in my hands, holding him in place as I whispered into his ear, I followed the whisper with a slow swipe of my tongue along the shell of his ear."I feel like I could kiss you all night and not get enough of it." Makai's voice was heated, but that was nothing compared to his hands that were inching their way up my shirt."Ahh." I felt the hot heat as he rubbed across my stomach and I shuddered. "Makai." I called his name, not sure what it was that I was wanting at that moment.Things were getting heated, and I didn't want them to stop. I wanted to keep going. And I could tell that Makai was all for that as well.Then the familiar sound of my mom's ringtone cut through the silence of the night around us."Dammit." I swore as I tore myself away from Makai."My sentiment exactly." Makai agreed.I rushed forward and grabbed the phone from where I left it on the tree."Yeah, Mom?" I asked her when I answered the phone."Don't you yeah me, Ocean. Do you know what time it is?" She was angry."I'm sorry, I forgot to text you. I was hanging out with someone after school.""Uh huh." She sounded pissed. "Ocean, you better not be drinking again.""I'm not, Mom. I promise. I will come home right now, I'm sorry." She still remembered the night that I had passed out on the beach and came home hungover."I will be waiting at the door for you." I knew she was serious about that too."Dammit." I swore again after she hung up the phone."So, I take it she's angry.""She thought I was out drinking again. I kind of made her really mad at me that night.""I'll take you home now. If you want, I can tell your mom that you were just hanging out with me all night. She will know you weren't drinking.""I don't know if she would believe you any more than she would believe me.""It's worth a shot."Makai drove me home, speeding a little to get there quicker. When we got there, I got out of the car like I was a prisoner on death row trying to avoid their sentence. I knew she was going to be pissed at me."Ocean Riptide Shores, do you have any idea how-?!" She stopped her question in the middle when she saw who was walking behind me. "Oh, Makai? I didn't know he was with you." Mom smiled like everything was OK now."I'm sorry Mrs. Shores. I should have had him call you. It was rude of us to leave you with no information as to where he would be." Makai was always so polite with my Mom."No, it's fine. I probably overreacted. I'm sorry to make you bring him home so soon.""It's alright, we weren't doing anything really. We were just talking on the beach." Not doing anything my ass, she interrupted us."That's sweet. I'm glad you were together. I hate the idea of you being alone. You know what, you should come to Ocean's birthday party. I am sure he would like to have you there, won't you sweetie? And I promise that we parents won't be here or interfere at all, just as long as you all promise not to destroy the house." Mom was just making things worse right now. "I would love to come, and I will make sure that no one destroys anything. When is it?" Makai looked at me like he was not happy to have found out about the party from my mom. "Oh, in two and a half weeks, on the thirtieth. The day before halloween. He's always had a Halloween themed party." Ugh, why can't mom just stop talking?"That sounds great, Mrs. Shores, I will definitely be there.""I was going to invite you myself." I looked down, blushing."I'm glad. And I look forward to the party."Makai left with a wave, and I went up to my room. I did not miss the smirk that mom was giving me as I walked up the stairs. What was up with her?
