[[there's a surprise in the end for all you who read the truth about forever. It's my gift to you, for reading this.]]

Chapter two

"So, Kickball, tonight?" I heard Adam come into the store

"Yeah," Maggie Ester, and Leah agreed.

"Is Auden in too?" he asked.

"Go ask her, she's in the back," Leah said.

"Ok," Adam said and a few second's later I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in," I said.

"Kick ball, tonight, you coming?" Adam said as he walked into the door.

"Yeah, when's the drawing?" I looked at the clock, almost time for the 9:00 dance, still a tradition, and I have finally joined it.

"At 10:15." He said.

"Ok, well I'll be there," I smiled as he closed the door.

At 8:59 I went into the main part of the store and saw Ester plugging her iPod up. At exactly 9:00 the pop song came on. Party in the USA by that Miley girl.

"Really?" Leah looked at her.

"What? It's my turn to pick the song." She started to dance.

Pretty soon we started dancing until the song came to an end. And we cleaned in silence. Pretty soon it was 10 and Eli was waiting outside.

"So, are you actually going to play kickball, or just ditch us?" he kissed me as we walked to the beach.

"I think that I will actually play today." I smiled and looked up at him.

"good," he smiled then when he looked up his smile went away.

"Auden?" a voice from my past said.

"Jason?" I looked up.

"Wow it is you!" he ran up to me, "How have you been?" he looked me up and down.

"Great, just graduated. What about you?" Eli was holding my hand.

"I graduated in January, and I got a job at a law firm in New York, I'm actually down here for a business trip," he smiled.

"Oh, well that's nice," I smiled.

"So who is he?"Jason looked at Eli.

"Oh, this is my boyfriend, Eli, we have been together for almost four years," I smiled.

"Oh, well isn't that nice?" Jason turned to the left and looked at a girl in a jogging suit running with a boy and frowned. "But I really need to get going, but it was great to see you," he smiled.

"Yeah, you too," he walked away as I said this.

"Wes! Macy!" Eli called out.

They ran over to where we were. "Eli! Man, it's great to see you!" the guy, Wes said.

"Hey, I'm Macy." The girl introduced herself to me. Macy! Jason's ex, that's why he left.

"I'm Auden," I smiled.

"We're going to play kick ball and could use a few extra people, ya'll want to come?" Eli asked.

"Yeah, if Macy is up to it," Wes looked at Macy.

"Of course." She smiled, something told me she would be up for anything that Wes would do.

"So how long have ya'll known each other?" I asked as I looked at Eli.

"Oh, well, Macy, she use to rent bike's with her family, and then Wes would buy the scrap bike metal from the shop, so a few summers ago when they showed up together, we just kind of became friends," he smiled.

"Oh," I smiled.

"You look really familiar," Macy said, "Where did you use to live?" she asked.

"Oh, uh, Lakeview," I smiled, "I was friend's with your ex Jason." I said.

"Oh, well that's cool." She smiled.

We finally got to the beach, five minutes late.

"About time! What did you have to talk to everyone on the board walk?"Adam came up to us.

"No, I ran into an old friend, and Eli recruited two more players," I said as I sat next to Maggie.

"Time to pick teams!" Wallace yelled. "Ok, the captain's are, Eli, and Auden," he smiled. "Auden get's first pick."

"gosh, ok, well, Maggie! Duh!" Maggie ran up.

"Leah,"

"Adam"

"Wallace"

"Ester"

"Wes"

"Macy"

"Hollis,"

"Jake!"

"Ok, this isn't fair, four girls on one team. We are so going to re-pick the teams!" Wallace said.

"Fine," I rolled my eyes.

"Auden picks first," he smiled.

"Maggie," I said

"Leah," Eli picked.

"Macy," I said.

"Ester," Eli picked.

"Adam," I smiled.

"Hollis," Eli smiled.

"Wes!" I pointed.

"Wallace!" Eli yelled.

"Jake, again," I laughed.

"is this better?" Eli asked.

"yeah, sure." Wallace said, "Auden you kick first."

"why did you pick us?" Macy ran up to ask before we started the game.

"Truthfully?" I looked at her.

"Yes," she frowned.

"Hollis, has no athletic ability, and Ester isn't coordinated," I smiled before I went up to kick.

The game went on for about two hours, in the end my team one 11-9. Two years ago we decided to make it interesting and so now the loosing team has to go skinny dipping in the ocean for thirty minutes. I have been on the loosing team, once. and after that, I never was again.

Eli was the first in the water, he took his shirt off before he went in, then his pants, when he was waste deep he took his boxers off and through them at me. Pretty soon the rest followed them and they just stood there shaking.

"Ya'll having fun yet?" Adam called out.

"hahaha, Tons!" he smiled.

"Wow, Auden how did you do it?" Wes asked.

"What?" I looked up.

"Eli, I've never seen him like this," he smiled. So I guess he hasn't seen Eli in the past four years.

"Well, he gave me something I never got to have," I smiled.

"What?" he looked curiously.

"A childhood," I moved a piece of hair out of my face.

"Oh," Wes smiled.

"Yeah," I didn't know what else to say.

"I was there, the night that Abe died," Wes looked at me. "Macy and I were two car's behind him, we saw the whole thing, Macy was the one that called the cops." He frowned.

"Oh my gosh," I frowned.

"Yeah, we were at the same party, I had helped Eli get Abe into the car," he frowned. "He was dating my friend, Kristy at the time, they meet when she came here with Macy. It broke her heart. The first extraordinary guy she ever found was taken away from her in the worst way possible. But she never blamed Eli. She knew it wasn't his fought. At the funeral she and Eli stayed toward the back, never said one word to each other. Eli couldn't look her in her eyes, he felt horrible," he shook his head.

"Oh, wow so you were there, you actually saw the whole thing," I looked toward Eli, he was smiling, and getting ready to come out of the water.

"Yeah, Macy was the one that saved Eli's life, she pulled him out of the car and did CPR until the cops and ambulance arrived. When I pulled Abe out, he was dead, already, but I still tried everything, and I got a response, he opened his eyes, and then shut them. It was horrible," he shook his head.

I owe Macy, and Wes everything I have, because they are the ones that saved my Eli, my life. Eli was out of the water and wrapped with a towel he started walking over to me. "Tell Macy I said thank you. For keeping Eli alive," I smiled.

"No problem, just let us know when the next hotdog party is." He smiled.

"Yeah, sure, no problem," Eli set down next to me.

"What's no problem?" he smiled.

"they want to come to the next hotdog party," I looked at him.

"yeah, of course," Eli kissed my forehead.

"Ready to go home? So you get some clothes on," I smiled, and took his hand and pulled him up.

"I don't really know, I mean, since I'm already naked I might as well make the most of it tonight," he brought me closer to him.

"Oh, really now?" I smiled at him.

"yeah, and the sooner we get home, the sooner we get to do these things," he kissed me.

"Ok, uh, Bye everyone. Hollis, Maggie, and Adam I'll see ya'll at home, everyone else I'll see ya'll tomorrow," I pulled Eli behind me.

"Get some Auden!" Leah yelled.

"Dude, that's my sister you're talking about! I don't want to picture her like that!" Hollis said.

I didn't pay any attention to any of them, I just dragged Eli off the beach. When we got home, I'm not going to go into the details, but let's just say, it was bliss. The next morning when I woke up, I smelt someone cooking; I decide to investigate, so I put on a pair of Eli's boxer's and one of his tee-shirts.

I walked down stairs and saw Maggie, Hollis, and Adam at the table, and Eli was standing by the stove. He had cooked breakfast.

"Auden, whatever you did last night, you need to do it again! This food is amazing!" Hollis said with his mouth full.

"Hahaha! Eli what time did you get up?" I looked at him, he was frying two eggs.

"about thirty minutes ago, everyone else woke up when they smelt the food," he smiled.

"Oh," I walked over to him and kissed him.

"here you go, two eggs, yoke's popped, just how you like them," he slid them on a plate loaded with sausage and grits.

"Thank you," I smiled.

"Heidi called, she said that Ester and Leah was running the store today, and she was going to do all the finance stuff. So we could just hang out today," Maggie smiled.

"Ok, so what do you want to do?" I sat down and started to eat.

"Uh, well, I was thinking we could go shopping, at Lakeview, we could see if that girl that was there with us last night wants to go with us," she said as she drunk her orange juice.

"That sound's like a great thing to do, Aud, a girls day out," Hollis smiled.

"OK, sure," I said.

"good, well we can go by her beach house, and then we will be on our way there," she jumped up.

"Ok, well I just have to get a shower then we will be on our way," I smiled.

"Hey, uh, Wes's number is on the dresser, so you can call that," Eli smiled.

"Ok," I smiled and kissed him. I walked up the stair's and got the number off of the dresser and dialed it.

"Hello?" Wes said.

"Hey, it's Auden, from last night, is Macy there?" I said.

"Oh, hey, yeah, one minute she is in the other room, so how have you been?" he asked.

"Good, I don't have to work today, so Maggie and I are going to Lakeveiw and wanted Macy to come with us," I said nervously.

"Oh, that sound's great! One second, here she is," I heard the phone being handed over.

"Hello?" Macy was on the phone now.

"Hey, Macy, it's Auden, from last night, uh, if you don't have any plan's today, Maggie and I were going to go to Lakeview to shop, and if you want to you can come. I mean there's no pressure," I said nervously.

"Oh, yeah, I just have to get dressed," she said.

"Ok, if you have any friend's that are in Lakeview, when we get there I can pick them up." I smiled.

"Ok, yeah, I'll call Kristy," she sounded excited.

"Ok, well we'll be there in like an hour," I said.

"Ok, well bye." She hung up the phone.

"is she coming?" Eli walked into the room.

"Yup, then we have to get Kristy," I saw him frown when I said her name.

"oh, well that will be good," he turned away from me.

"Yeah well uh, you need to get to work," I walked over to him.

"Yeah, your right," he smiled. "What time will you be back?" he looked at me.

"Around 5 or 6, why?" he usually never asks.

"We are going on a date," he smiled.

"A date?" wow.

"Yeah, just me and you, no one else." He ran his fingers through his hair.

"Ok," I smiled.

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