"Our sandcastle soo pone's yours!" Joe shouted, jumping up to point at Katelyn, Frankie, Paige, and I. Anyone could look at Joe, Kevin and Amber's and tell that theirs was no where near as good ours. It basically just looked like a mountain of sand. Whereas ours was accompanied by a moat. Moats beat everything.
"Ok Joe," Katelyn rolled her eyes, smiling at my brother's goofy behavior.
"Kevin," Amber began, arms across her chest, "Next time we kick Joe out of the group and build this ourselves."
"I concur," Kevin said. What was I going to do with out Amber's snide remarks towards Joe when we went back home?
"Whatever guys," Joe pouted like a little kid, sitting down on the sand next to Katelyn, "Katelyn likes my sand castle, right?"
"Of course, Joe," she lied, obviously, and leaned over to give him a kiss. Joe smiled afterwards, sticking his tongue out to Amber and Kevin. Actually I think little kids were more mature than Joe, sometimes.
"Let's go back in the water!" Paige jumped up with Frankie, who cheered along.
"Ok," Katelyn smiled standing up, Joe and Kevin doing the same.
"I'm gonna stay here and catch some rays," Amber laid down on her towel, putting her sunglasses on.
"Me too," I smirked, eyeing Amber, I laid down next to her.
"Whatever," Katelyn rolled her eyes, grabbing Frankie and Paige's hands, the five of them headed to water.
I closed my eyes taking in the moment, listening to the chatter and screams of people having fun on the beach.
I felt Amber's eyes burning into me, slowly opening mine, I realized she had turned over onto her stomach and was in fact staring at me. I rolled over on to my stomach as well, staring back.
"Tomorrow's our last day," Amber's tone was monotonous.
"Yeah," My voice had come out more sad than I expected. I never wanted to leave this island, I never wanted to leave the girl laying next to me.
"I'm gonna miss you," Her tone didn't change.
"I'll miss you too," I diverted his eyes down, becoming upset just thinking about leaving all this, "But we'll talk everyday, and if you can, fly out and see us!"
"I will," I looked back up into her eyes, seeing her smile.
"It just kinda sucks," I looked down again, "I mean I love what we do and I love the fans, but things are starting to take off..."
I paused for a moment, my free hand playing with some sand. "We're starting to get recognized more and more, but here, we've been recognized like three times, we're normal, we don't have to worry about anything. I'm just scared about what's going to happen in the months to come."
"To me you'll always just be Nick, some kid I met in the Bahamas one summer," Amber smiled, her voice completely sincere, then jokingly she added, "You're my wittle rawkstar."
I chuckled, her words really meant something to me. It felt good to have met someone who knows me for me. "Do you want to ditch the beach and go watch a movie?"
"Yeah!" Amber's over excited personality began to once again show itself as she jumped up grabbing all her things, I laughed, doing the same thing.
"My room?" Amber asked me, when we got out of the elevator.
"Sure," I shrugged not really caring. We walked into her room, she threw her stuff down and jumped into her bed, getting under the covers. I walked over laying next to her, grabbing the remote out of her hand.
"Hey!" she shouted, glaring at me, I just shrugged and looked through all the movies on TV. After arguing about a movie, we finally decided on 'Scary Movie.' She snuggled into my side and wrapped her arm around my waist.
About twenty minutes into the movie I couldn't take it anymore, "Amber?"
"Hmm?" She looked up at me expectantly. I tried to speak but no words came out. Slowly I moved in closer to her face. Closing my eyes I leaned in, kissing her softly. I pulled away to see a shocked expression on her face.
"Nick..." she started. I really was an idiot.
"I'm sorry," I muttered shaking my head, looking away.
"No," she turned my head, forcing me to face her, "I liked it, but we just can't."
I was torn, happy because she liked it, but upset because of the last thing she said.
"Nick, I really, really like you," it was now she who was looking down, "But me and you, we can't be right now."
"Why not?" I asked, I was pretty sure she was single, so it couldn't be that she had a boyfriend. Perhaps she wasn't allowed to date? Millions of possibilities ran through my mind.
"It's just not right, the timing," she looked back up at me, "You know right now it isn't ment to be."
I thought it over for a minute and decided she was right. Kissing her felt so right, but the more I thought of 'us', we couldn't be right now. That didn't feel right.
"You're right,"I nodded, giving her smile, "I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry for," she was smiling back at me, "One day Nick, when it's the right time, everything happens for a reason."
"Do you really think one day we can be together?" I asked, looking into her eyes.
"Mmhm," she nodded, her smile had faded a little and she was intently focusing on me. This time it was she who leaned in, she wrapped her arms around my neck, playing with my hair. I smiled wrapping my arms around her. Pulling away for a second, I asked, "What about what you just said?"
"I said being with you didn't feel right," she replied, her voice low, her face inches from mine, "I didn't say kissing you didn't feel right."
I let out a small chuckled, leaning back into her. One day, and until then we'll be friends, and until then we'll keep this on the down-low. What happens in the Bahamas, stays in the Bahamas.