"Who told you something was wrong?" she asked Bradin.

"I called you and you were in tears. I called Will who gave me Cassie's number who gave me your brother's cell phone number. I was worried about you," he told her.

Kandy then remembered that he did call and ran her hands over her face. "K, what's wrong?" Bradin asked.

"I just failed a paper that I've spent two weeks working on," she lied hoping they wouldn't catch on.

Her brother laughed. "Typical you," he said, "Call me later." He walked out.

Bradin walked up to Kandy. "Why are you really upset?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Kandy, come on," he said softly as he placed his hand on her cheek lightly. She looked up into his eyes to find them begging her. She didn't know that his eyes were the gorgeous. They'd hypnotize you within a second.

"Not tonight. You'll find out soon. I promise you that."

Bradin looked behind him to find the door opened. He peered out and saw Kandy's brother driving away. He shut the door, turned towards Kandy, walked up to her, and kissed her passionately. She pushed him away lightly. "Not tonight," she said.

"Kandy, please," he begged, "I've been wanting to kiss you and hold you all day. I don't know what you did to me. But it's making me want to be with you every second of every day."

"STOP!" she yelled covering her ears.

"Kandy," he said trying to move her hands away from her ears, "Kandy, you need to know this."

"No!"

"Kandy!" After several minutes of fighting with her, he won. He held her by the wrists. "Kandy, I think I'm falling in love with you."

She fell tothe ground shaking her head and repeating, 'no' every few seconds.

"I'm sorry," he said kneeling beside her, "But, how can not anyone fall in love with you?"

As she knelt there holding herself and crying, Bradin got up and left. He walked along the beach looking at the sand. He couldn't believe that he just told her that he fell for her. He couldn't believe that he promised her he wouldn't fall in love with her. How could I be so stupid? he thought to himself. He looked up at the sky and sighed. He continued walking to his house. He walked in and saw everyone watching a movie.

"Hey honey," his Aunt Ava said. He gave her a weak smile. "Are you okay?" she asked.

He quietly said, "Yeah." Then, he walked to his room and slammed his door.