A/N please ignore the bad punctuation, I'm a lazy bum.

Chapter 1

The beach was sunny today, as soon as I got out of the car, I was almost blinded from the sunlight. I suppose that's why Nika forced me to go. I was wearing a black biking with green stripes, but that didn't matter since I was wearing a tank top and shorts over top. Nika, who was driving was wearing just her bikini, she tried to get me to do the same. I imagined it my head and realized how weird it would actually look for Nike to be driving down the streets of Las Vegas in just a bathing suit. But then again, it is Las Vegas.

"Selena? What are you staring at?" Nika asked me as she walked past and towards the beach.

"Nothing," I mumbled and pushed up my glasses on my face. They were like ray ban sunglasses, but regular glasses. I followed Nika onto the middle of the beach. She rolled out her towel on the beach and laid down on it. She didn't have to put on any suntan lotion since her skin didn't burn or tan because her skin was dark, like the color of mocha's. Her Bright red hair, inspired by Rihanna, was up on the top of her head in a bun and her black sunglasses covered her stormy, grey eyes.

"You know you don't tan, right?" I asked and sat gingerly down on the sand beside her. The sand was soft and white under my fingers, but that's not what I was worried about. It was the bugs that were travelling in it. It didn't look too bad, so I relaxed slightly.

"Yes, I know," She said exhaustedly. "I just look better this way."

I couldn't help but laugh "Alright, Nika, you just keep believing that."

Nika lowered her sunglasses and looked at me over them "I don't see you getting looks from guys all the time." She said and put her sunglasses back up.

I rolled my eyes at her, even though I knew she wouldn't see "Nika, you're forgetting which of us has a boyfriend."

A smile broke out across Nika's face "touché"

I but my arms behind me and rest my weight on them while stretching my legs out in front of me.

Nika stood up. "I'll be right back" she told me and started walking off.

"Where are you going?" I asked her, but she was already quite a ways away. A few seconds later, Nika came up to a good looking guy with dark hair and started talking to him. From here I could tell she was turning on the Nika charm. I just shook my head and moved over onto her towel.

I was just getting comfy on the towel, my eyes were closed and I could almost fall asleep, but I heard someone's voice. My eyes flew open and I stared up. It was a guy, a good looking one for a matter of fact. That's what quite surprised me, usually guys never wanted to talk to me. Especially not when I was with Nika, wherever she went she turned heads.

When I say good looking, believe me, I was telling the truth. His hair was a bit shaggy, but not long. It was golden blonde, layered, and had a bit of a wavy curl in it. No, that wasn't exactly right either. It was like he had just got out of bed and finger combed his hair into a perfect mess. His eyes were emerald green and were ringed with those dark, thick lashes every girl wanted, but every guy could care less about. For a moment I was confused by why he wasn't wearing a shirt, but then I remembered we were at the beach and it was perfectly ok for him to show off his 6-pack.

"Hello…?" he said again, a hint of uncertainty in his voice.

I blinked again and realized I had been staring. "umm… hello."

"what's a pretty girl like you doing here all alone?" He asked.

"I-I'm not alone," I said blushing at my stutter, it kicked in at the worst times… Like when I was nervous. "I'm here with my friend, Nika." I told him and pointed to Nika, luckily I didn't stutter again.

He nodded "ah, I see,"

I nodded as well and nervously fingered my braid. I did that when I was nervous too. I always kept my hair in a braid, it was easier than dealing with my normal hair. No matter what I did to it, it would always flip out. It was the long version of Kristy Mcnichol's hair in Little Darlings. It would be cool… if I lived in the 80's.

"So does this beautiful lady have a name?" The guy asked.

I eyed him warily, strangers asking me for my name… this was odd. I really hoped it wasn't the scene from a murder movie, because I knew the audience would be screaming for me not too tell him. But I never could follow directions.

"Selena," I told him, a small smile played at my lips.

"A beautiful name for a beautiful girl" He murmured in a low voice that just barely reached my ears.

That didn't faze me. On the rare occasion a guy would flirt with me it never really changed anything.

"Isn't customary when someone gives you their name for you to give yours back?" I asked.

He smirked "Blake."

"Huh?" I asked confused.

"My name, Blake."

I laughed "oh, I get it now."

I squinted against the glaring sun and tried to ignore it.

"No offence, but why are you talking to me?" I asked as I reached forward to grab my sunglasses. I didn't mean to try and sound too good for him or something, but I was confused because he was kind of too good for me.

Blake grabbed my sunglasses and passed them to me, when he did our hands brushed. I felt a little spark where they touched and laughed

"oops! Sorry, stupid static"

I familiar voice from behind me cut off Blake's reply.

"Who the hell are you and why are you flirting with my girlfriend?" I turned to see it was Josh. His soft, brown hair was tousled a bit, but still was swooshed to the side. His deep, dark, brown eyes looked like if he was any angrier that they would burst into flames.

"What's it to you?" Blake asked, "She's not your property."

Josh glared at him darkly. "I suggest you leave… now." Josh told him, not bothering to answer his question.

The two stared at each other, seeing which would break first. Josh won, and Blake got up "see you Selena," he told me and left.

"What was that?" Josh asked "why were you flirting with a complete stranger?" Josh asked sounding quite angry as he sat beside me on the towel.

I rolled my eyes "Josh, I wasn't flirting with him, and if I didn't talk to strangers how would I make friends? I wouldn't have met you."

Josh pauses for a moment, thinking. "I guess I see your point…" he told me. My words had totally deflated his anger.

I smiled "you always do."

Josh laughed and pulled me closer kissing me on the head.

Nika walked back over "Selena, what are you doing…" she asked then noticed it was Josh and not a stranger "Oh! Hey Josh," She said with a grin.

"Hey Nika," he replied with a small smiled

Nika sat on the tiny corner of her towel that we weren't taking up "so what did I miss?"

"Oh, not much really." I said with a soft laugh