Plot.

Mattie and Ric are going out. They are best friends with Lucas. Mattie and Lucas get drunk and kiss. Ric finds out. Kirsty and Kane come back to the bay

Chapter 1.

Mattie's p.o.v

"Lucas!" I screamed as he carried me into the water. He dropped me into the sea laughing as I screamed again. We splashed each other for a while and then went back on to the beach and sat on our towels.

"Do you think he'll ever forgive us?" I asked Lucas as I saw Ric watching us. Lucas looked at Ric who had started to walk away.

"I hope so" he said smiling sadly at me as we both remembered what happened.

"Ric, please you have to come" I begged him over the phone.

"Sorry Mattie, I have to work I need the money." He said to me. I couldn't believe he was going to miss the party everyone had been talking about for months.

"Mattie you don't need me, Lucas is going you can hang out with him" Ric said to me trying to cheer me up.

"But Lucas isn't my boyfriend."

"Sorry Mattie I have to go to work now. I'll make it up to you I promise" Ric said sadly. I hung up the phone and started to get ready.

"Mattie cheer up" Lucas said as tears started to form in my eyes. He put his arm round me and then pulled me up.

"Lets go and get a milkshake" we dried off and went for our drinks. We sat in silence sipping on our chocolate milkshakes.

"Hey you two" Martha said as she sat next to Lucas. I smiled at her.

"You ok?" Jack asked us sitting down next to me. Me and Lucas just nodded our heads.

"Come on guys what's up we're not stupid" Martha said looking at me. I saw Lucas look towards the corner of the room and I followed his gaze to Ric who was sat with his granddad watching us.

"Ahhhh" Martha said as she saw Ric. "my cousin still not forgiven you yet" Lucas shook his head.

"He's stubborn like you then Martha" Jack said

"You ready Mattie?" I turned to see Lucas stood at my door. I nodded at him and got up. Lucas looked good, he had his blonde hair messed up and was wearing jeans with a black shirt that showed a bit of his chest at the top, he was popular with the girls. He took my hand and we walked to the party.

" Is Ric not coming then?" Lucas asked. I shook my head thinking about all the things he had been missing because of his work.

Lucas p.o.v

I lay on my bed thinking about Mattie. I could hear her crying herself to sleep. Every night I would listen to her crying and try to push away the regret we both felt ever since it happened. I lost my best friend and she lost her boyfriend because we made a mistake. I heard Beth go in to Mattie's room. I listened to them talking.

" Tilly, its going to be ok" Beth assured her.

" he hates me mum. I've lost him forever." She cried

" if Ric loves you he wont be able to stay away, you just have to give him time" they have the same conversation every night and I listen to it every night hoping Beth is right and we just need to give Ric more time.

I was so close to her as we danced. Her eyes sparkled at me when she smiled. Her shoes were on the floor somewhere but we didn't really care we just wanted to dance.

"Come on, everyone out!" someone shouted again. Mattie fell against me as she laughed at someone who had fallen. I held her hand and we went outside we walked for a while and ended up on the beach. Mattie giggled as I fell over. She sat on the sand next to me and pulled her denim skirt down a little. I looked at her and smiled. She looked amazing. Her curly brown hair tied back off her beautiful face. She wore a black halter neck with a short denim skirt.

I went to the kitchen for a drink and saw my dad sat at the table.

" hey mate, what are you doing up at this time?" he asked me.

"I couldn't sleep what about you?"

" Same as you" he answered me. We both sat drinking water listening to Mattie crying.

" Do you think she'll ever stop?" I asked my dad. He looked at me sadly.

"If Ric forgives her she will and if he doesn't not for a while. She loves him and that pain will be there for a while just like yours. Lucas you can be upset to you know Mattie wont kill you." I shook my head at him

" I have to stay strong for Matilda" I said

"Lucas your best friend hates you and your other best friend cries herself to sleep at night and you have been through a lot, and your still trying to deal with it all" dad said to me. Beth walked out of Mattie's room and sat next to dad.

" I don't know what to do anymore" she said sadly.

"Do you mind if I go and see her?" I asked. They both smiled at me and I walked into her room.

"Mattie" I said her name and she looked at me.

"What?" she asked

"I think we are a bit drunk" she laughed at me and I put my arms around her.

Our bodies were touching, my hand stroking her back. She smiled sadly.

"What are you thinking?" I asked her

"I'm thinking about Ric and how he's always at work and I hardly see him." She answered me. I smiled at her

"Matilda you don't need Ric. If you were my girlfriend I would spend all my time with you" I stroked her cheek and she leant into me and our mouths touched.

Mattie's p.o.v

Lucas walked over to my bed and sat next to me.

"Why did we do it?" I asked him

"We were drunk, confused and you were upset. We weren't thinking." He answered me.

"After everything we have all been through together I didn't think anything could break us apart but we ruined everything and now we might never get him back" I cried. He put his arms around me and we cried ourselves to sleep.

We kissed passionately hidden by rocks. I started to unbutton his shirt. I blocked Ric out from my mind. I loved him but he wasn't there and Lucas was. I wanted to feel loved. Lucas ran his hands up my legs as I touched his face, the face that wasn't Ric's.

"Matilda, Lucas." we jumped apart at his voice.

"Tilly, Lucas" mum and Tony walked into my room waking me and Lucas up. Lucas got out of the bed and took a glass of water that Tony handed to him while I got the other.

"Are you both ok?" mum asked us. I nodded my head while Lucas smiled at them. We were as ok as we could be.

"Mattie do you want to go to the beach when you're ready?" Lucas asked me.

"Sure better than staying in" Lucas nodded and left the room followed by his dad.

"Are you sure you and Lucas are ok?" mum asked me looking worried

"Mum we're fine" I assured her. She left the room leaving me to think about Ric.

Me and Lucas felt bad but what about Ric he's the one who got his heart broken when he didn't deserve it.

"Ric" I cried as I saw the look of anger, disappointment and hurt on his face.

"I thought I'd surprise you by coming to the party but when I arrived it had ended because the police had stopped it. So then I thought you and Lucas might be on the beach and it looks like I was right." He said to me. Lucas buttoned up his shirt and stood up, he held his hand out and pulled me up as well.

"Ric, I'm sorry" I didn't know what else I could say to him.

"I bought you this today. I borrowed the money of sally and have been working more so I could pay her back. It was supposed to be for your birthday next week but you might as well have it now." He threw a box at me, and then walked away leaving me and Lucas stood watching him. I picked the box up and opened it. Inside was a silver bracelet. On the back of it the words Ric and Mattie had been engraved on it and underneath that was the date we first met. I held it to me and cried because I'd always wanted something like that but now that I had, it didn't mean anything to me because I'd lost Ric.