Hi! Finally I'm able to post a quick update! Yay! I enjoyed writing this chapter so I hope that you will like it! But just a small warning for everyone, in this chapter there will be a few sex-references, so you are now warned. Enjoy!

Chapter 10 – The trip

Sawyer's POV

Sawyer tried to focus. He really tried, but he didn't like history. It was the most boring subject. The teacher kept on blabbering about the American civil war, he was supposed to take notes. He did, but they were quite vague.

Later today he was to take the plane to Houston, Texas. His uncle Dan lived there, and he was getting married. Sure a wedding would be nice, so he didn't detest the trip. But he didn't like the idea of leaving Winter, or Hazel. He didn't have the guts to tell Hazel how much he would miss her, even if it only was one weekend. Though he did tell her about not wanting to leave winter.

She told him that Winter would be fine, she had Hope to keep her company and it was only for three days. Hazel was right, as always… But the small knot of anxiousness still lingered.

Sawyer pushed all that out of his mind for now, for now he only wanted to focus on catching up on these notes. By the time the class ended, he was quite happy with the result.

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During the lunch break he didn't have much to do. He had read some of his other notes over and over a couple of times. Most of the students were already cramming, or maybe it wasn't so "already"? The finals did start on Monday, and it was Friday. It struck Sawyer that it was a good time to start cramming, Hazel had too, even though she had all of her finals at home in the calm boathouse.

But he didn't start just yet. He flipped through the pictures on his phone and his eyes caught a picture of Hazel, the same picture he used as her profile picture. It was taken on the latest New Years Eve. Sawyer thought she looked so beautiful that night, she had worn a black dress with purple sparkles. Her hair was half put up in a bun and she wore some make up, she almost never did that, which made her look incredibly stunning when she did.

At first she had refused to let him take the picture, but when the fireworks went off she cave and let him take it. It was beautiful. She was beautiful.

"Who's that?"

Sawyer looked up and saw Connor standing behind him, looking at the screen. Connor definitely wasn't his best friend, Hazel was. But he was a friend Sawyer could hang out with during school hours. Connor sat down beside him.

"Hazel" answered Sawyer.

"Oh? So that's Hazel… She looks good."

"Yeah… She does…" Sawyer felt really awkward. "But you have a girlfriend, Connor."

"I know. I'm just saying, she not a bad catch if you get her. You have been talking about her for quite some time." Sawyer felt himself blush and didn't answer. Nor did he need to, just then Connor's best friend Luke and girlfriend Emma appeared and sat down, Luke on the bench across them and Emma beside Connor who put his arm around her.

"Guys we really need to study" said Emma.

"Yeah you're right" answered Connor. They got started and the time seemed to fly by.

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Sawyer stood outside the house, leaning against the car. His mom sat in the driver's seat. They waited for his aunt, other uncle and cousin Kyle to drive by with their car so they could drive together to the airport.

Lorraine sat impatiently and looked around, they were late, and she hated being late. Sawyer didn't really like it either but, just this one time he didn't mind. Hazel had said that she would swing by just to say goodbye. She hadn't yet. If she didn't have the time, he understood but he hoped that he could see her one final time before they were off.

His aunt's car pulled in and Kyle opened the window from the back seat.

"You all set?" he asked.

"All set" answered Sawyer's mom. "Get in the car, Sawyer."

"Please just wait one more minute, mom" Sawyer begged.

"Honey, we're really late. We have to go, or we'll miss the plane."

"Yeah, I know, but please."

"Get in the car, honey." Sawyer looked around one final time with a pleading look on his face.

"Alright…" He opened the car door and was just about to step in when someone shouted his name.

"Sawyer!" Hazel came biking towards them.

"One second mom" said Sawyer. His mom nodded, smiling.

Sawyer ran towards her so they wouldn't have to stand beside his watching family.

"You made it" he said with a goofy smile on his face.

"Yeah. Sorry I'm late" answered Hazel.

"Don't worry about it." Hazel looked over his shoulder.

"So I guess you need to get going" she said. Sawyer nodded

"Yeah…"

"Well have fun. And text me!"

"I will, I promise." Sawyer leaned in and they hugged. Hazel's cheeks were slightly pink when they broke the hug. Sawyer smiled. For a moment he hesitated, he was afraid of the reaction. But he leaned in again and kissed Hazel on the cheek. Hazel's cheeks turned even pinker but she smiled at him.

"Bye" said Sawyer.

"Bye."

Sawyer walked back to the car, just before he got in he turned around towards Hazel again. She smiled and waved, he waved back.

Then he finally got in the car and they drove away.

Hazel's POV

He kissed her! She couldn't believe it! Well, it was only on the cheek, but still! He kissed her! Her heart still raced, even though she could barely see the cars anymore. On her way home she felt like she was biking on clouds.

The fact that he had, proved that he didn't like Scarlett even though it was obvious that she liked him. So maybe Hazel had a chance after all. She just felt happy, so happy. Maybe she could ask Sawyer out after this, she wanted to. But at the same time, she hoped Sawyer would be one asking her out. It would be so romantic!

"Maybe it could work…" Hazel whispered to herself on her way home.

Sawyer's POV

Sawyer still had his goofy smile on when they sat waiting for the boarding to start. His mom was sitting on her phone, his aunt and uncle both had a magazine they flipped through and Kyle was away to get a burger.

He couldn't focus on a magazine or anything. His mind drifted away to the fact the he kissed Hazel all the time and every time it did, it bubbled in his stomach and he couldn't help but smiling like crazy.

"Someone's in a good mood today" said Kyle when he came back and sat down next to Sawyer. "Does Hazel have anything to do with it? Or the fact that you kissed her before?"

"Um… Yes..?"

"So you two are going out now? 'Cause if you are, then why haven't you told me?"

"We're not going out. I am taking her out after the finals, though."

"Ooh!" Kyle nudged his arm with his. "Nice!"

"How's medical school going?" Sawyer asked, changing subject.

"Good, very good actually" answered Kyle and took a bite of his burger.

Soon after, it was time to board the plane. His mom and aunt chatted happily about the wedding while his uncle, Kyle's dad walked behind them. Sawyer and Kyle lingered.

"Look" started Kyle. "Hazel is a good girl, and I think you to really look great together. But I just want you to be careful, okay. Don't rush things, I now you've known each other for a long time, but when you become a couple, you might want to try things. And-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sawyer interrupted. "Are you going to have the talk with me?"

"A lot of people are going to have the talk with you now Sawyer, you are in that age and you'll soon have a girlfriend."

"How do you know that I'll soon have a girlfriend? How do you know that she'll even say yes?"

"I just do. Everyone can see that she will. Anyway, just be careful."

"I will…" Sawyer felt his face becoming redder than a tomato. It wasn't exactly like he was planning to have sex with Hazel next time he saw her. Maybe he'd pictured some kind of scenario of being with her, but not in that way. At least not until Kyle brought it up, and he didn't want to think about at the moment.

"Are you two coming?" asked Sawyer aunt suddenly.

"Yes! We're coming now!" said Kyle.

They boarded the plane and Sawyer said a quiet goodbye to everything we wouldn't see for a few days. Winter, Hope, Hazel, the CMA and his very comfortable bed. Then he dug around in his backpack after his geography notes, found them and was determent to cram until the plane landed.

He felt the tingle in his stomach when the plane lifted, beginning the three hour ride to Houston, Texas.

Chapter 10 done! Now, I'm not really sure if it takes three hours to take a plane from Miami to Houston, but when I researched it, that's what is said. So don't hate if I got it wrong, please. To be continued in "Texting". See you soon!

Simple Swedish of the chapter: Two words that doesn't exist in the English vocabulary.

"Lagom" – I think we can say that this word means 'just enough' or something like that, it's difficult to explain. Like: "Det är lagom med socker i kaffet" – "It is just enough sugar in the coffee."

"Fika" – Which basically means that people meet and eat something sweet, like cookies or cake, drink something (usually coffee or tea) and chat about something.