I slam my locker door.

"Hey." Matthew says.

"Hi."

"So tonight? 8:00."

"Yup."

"I heard you and your friends aren't talking. What happened?"

"Can I not tell you everything."

"Sorry."

"I have to go."

I walk to my class and sit down.

I run my fingers through my hair and put my blue floral dress on. I grab my tan boots and head for the bathroom. I hear the doorbell ring. That must be Matthew. I run downstairs and open the door.

"Hi." He says.

"Hey."

"Ready?"

"Yeah." I say closing the door.

We drive to a cafe and order coffee. There's this nice waitress there and she's got long, blond hair that goes down to her butt. She's eyeing Matthew and I feel a tint of jealousy. Stop. I don't like him AT ALL. It's pretty quiet in there. Just us.

We both order sandwiches. I feel awkward so I go to the bathroom. Someone grabs me by the waist. I can feel his hot breath on my neck. I elbow him in the gut. I hear and grunt and turn around to see Aaron.

"What the fuck?" I whisper.

"Come on Bridget I know you don't like that dork."

"What?"

"Come back to me. I love you."

"I have to go."

I turn around but he grabs my wrist. He's pulling on it tightly. I try to twist out.

"Let me go."

"Never."

"Matt-." I start as Aaron covers up my mouth.

"Shut the fuck up."

I squirm out of his grip and go to the table.

"Matthew we have to get out of here."

"What? Why? What did I do?"

"Please take me home I'll explain on the way."

He gets up and we rush out to his car. A hands grabs me by the wrist and pulls me to itself.

"Bridg-." Matthew begins but looks behind him to see Aaron holding me.

"What the fuck? Let go of her."

"Why? She's mine."

"No she's not." Matthew lunges at him. Aaron pushes me aside and pushes Matt. They start fighting.

"Aaron stop!" I yell.

Matthew shoved him to the ground as he takes my hand and pulls me to his car.

"GO!" I shout. He starts the car and pulls off.

"Who the hell was that?" Matthew yells.

"My um ex-boyfriend."

"Why ex?"

"He cheated on me in the beginning of the school year."

He stays silent for a while before asking, "did you ever, you know, spend the night with him?"

"N-no." I look down at my hands that are in my lap.

"Did you with anybody?" He asks blatantly.

"No."

He quickly changes the subject by asking, "So, are you parents going to be home tonight? I wouldn't leave you alone if that dudes coming back."

"I'll be fine. My parents won't be home until 2:00." And it was only 9:30. They were in a date themselves.

"Oh well how about I stay with you until nine?"

"Okay."

We go inside where it gets awkward. I don't know what to do with him. It was weird.

"Want to watch t.v?" He asks making himself at home.

"Uh we're getting a new t.v because a cousin threw our Xbox machine at it."

"Really?"

I nod. We go and sit on the couch.

"Well we can watch some from my iPad." I say grabbing it from the counter. He shrugs and we both sit on the couch. I start to fall asleep on his shoulder. What am I doing? I shouldn't be doing this! But it feels so right.

The doorbells rings and I wake up.

"Who is that?" I say looking at the time. My iPad read 10:00. Matthew wakes up and looks around groggily.

"What?" He speaks.

The doorbell rings again.

"Who do you think it is?" I ask.

"How should I know I don't live here."

"What if it's Aaron?" I question.

"I'll get it."

"Wait- no I-I don't want you to get into another fight." I say shyly.

"I won't, I'll check through the peephole. Okay?"

I nod yes and there comes a bang on the door this time. I grab onto Matthews shoulders as he walks to the door. He looks through the hole.

"Who is it?" I ask Matthew.

"Postman."

"At this hour?"

He shrugs and says, "it's fine." And goes to open the door.

"No please I don't trust whoever it is."

"Why? It's the stupid postman."

"Please? He can leave it on the doorstep."

He shakes his head and says, "Fine."

We go back to the couch and the man leaves.

"So I'm guessing you liked it?"

"Liked what?"

"Our date."

A smile creeps on my face. I say, "yeah I guess so."

He smiles back. "My parents have a cabin in Florida with a nice pool, I was thinking of inviting you. My parents won't be there. It'll just be the two of us. I get it, if you do-."

I cut him off, "yeah I'd like to go. When?"

"Next weekend."

"Okay."

//the weekend\

(No pun intended)

"Are you ready to go to Lisa's?" My mom asks.

"Yup." I respond packing my bags in my car.

I lied to my parents saying I was going over my old friend,Lisa, house. I was of course going with Matt. I hadn't talked to Lisa in six years. They didn't know that though. She lives in Florida the last time I checked so it was perfect. I was technically going to Florida, just not to Lisa's. I hop in the front seat of my car and wave goodbye to my parents. I speed off down the road and I can sense my mom cringing. I smirk at this. Seeing my mom cringe made me laugh all the time.

I meet up with Matt and we're headed on a plane to Florida. Sure, it was risky but this is what you do for people you love I mean like. What am I saying? Am I really falling for him? We get comfy in our seats and I rest my head on his shoulder.

"I hope you don't have lice." He jokes.

"Haha very funny." I say punching him lightly.

"Bridget?"

"Yeah." I look up at him.

"Can I ask you a serious question?"

"Go for it."

"Have you ever been in love?"

"Uh well Uh." I think hard, "no,not really."

"Okay." He says quickly and pulls out his phone. I don't stop him. I really don't want to get into this conversation right now with him.

The lake house was huge. It was gigantic. Bigger than my own house. It had a pool and a hot tub. It had tons of rooms and three living rooms. The patio was beautiful. It has white umbrella shades and white table cloth. The pool had lights that changed color and the hot tub had a place to hook up your phone and play music. Some of the things I hadn't even seen before. I looked at it all in awe.

"You like it?" Matt asked.

I nodded still in awe. He giggled and took my hand leading my up a staircase.

"Uh we'll have separate rooms of course."

"Okay."

"The weatherman said there might be a storm tonight so I wouldn't keep you window open."

"Okay." I stand in awe my mouth WIDE open.

He opens the door to this huge bedroom. It's aqua and huge.

"I My god I love it!" I squealed.

"I'm glad." Matt turns to me. I see something spark in his eye. He leans down to kiss me, but he stops himself.

"Wanna go swimming?" He asks.

"Sure." I say and get ready.

I come out with a teal bikini on and he comes out at the exact same time. He grabs my hand and we go to the hot tub first. We sit right next to each other. He has his arm draped over my shoulder. We're laughing and talking when everything goes quiet. He gets that look again and he leans down to kiss me. He stops himself again.

"Why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"You lean down to kiss me but you never do."

"I um I don't want you to jerk away. I want you to want the kiss too."

"I do."

"So I can kiss you?"

I nod yes. This time he actually does kiss me. It's a long one and he puts his hand under my hair, the other on my waist. I grab his neck getting into it. Soon enough we're making out. He's on top of me, kissing my neck. Why was I letting him do this? Because I love him.

"Matthew?"

"Hmm?" He hums into my neck which makes my skin tickle.