Hey Guys this is the second-last chapter of this story. As said before I will post the sequel every monday continually (don´t know if I spelled that right). Anyway, hope you like it...

Chapter 10: Beach

Maria´s POV:

As I opened my eyes again, the sunlight blinded me. Dougie was standing by the window where he´d just pulled away the curtains. "Sorry, I didn´t mean to wake you," he apologized sweetly. "It´s okay," I told him though, my voice was so groggy that you´d thought I didn´t sleep at all. He chuckled lightly as he walked over to the bed. "Good morning," he told me and kissed me on the lips tenderly. "Good morning," I said while kissing him back so it became mumbled. He pulled away then and held out his hand. "Come on, let´s grab some breakfast, my mom´s in the town and Nikki is visiting an old friend, so there´s no one downstairs," he told me and I got up quickly. I changed into a pair of sweatpants and one of Dougie´s T-shirts, and we walked into the kitchen together. "What would you like?" he asked and opened the refrigerator.

It was sunny outside and the sound of the waves was comforting to my ears as we arrived at the beach. Dougie walked beside me holding my hand. I was already in my bikini and Dougie in his swimming trunks. There weren´t that many people on the beach today and I wondered why. I didn´t tell Dougie though. He led me to a little, old bathing jetty where a little old rowing boat were tied to it. He let go of my hand and carefully got into it. It started rocking dangerously but he obviously had it under control. He then held out his hand to help me into it. At first I was really scared but I grabbed his hand tightly and carefully stepped into it. I sat down as soon as I had both feet planted on the bottom. He chuckled at me and I faked a smile at him. He untied the boat from the bathing jetty and grabbed both oars. As he rowed we got further and further away from the seashore but still not too far away. Suddenly he lost one of the oars and we could sit and watch it flow further and further away from us. It wasn´t before then that I´d realized that my feet were getting wet. There were coming water into the boat and Dougie hadn´t even noticed it. "Doug, the boat´s sinking," I told him trying to keep from laughing. This was such a classic. Not long after the whole boat was gone, sinking under us and we both started swimming through the cold water. Dougie was swimming behind me the whole way obviously to make sure I didn´t drown. I just kept swimming until we reached the seashore. Dougie quickly grabbed out towels as soon as he saw I started shaking. He wrapped it around me and I immidiately stopped shaking. We stood there in the middle of the beach starring into each other´s eyes. Dougie looked gorgeous with his still wet hair and with the water that was dripping from his nose. My gaze lowered to his shoulders and his beautiful six-pack. Half of his upper part of his chest and his right shoulder were covered by a colorful tattoo. I couldn´t stop myself then.

Dougie´s POV:

I couldn´t help starring at the beauty in front of me, her long, blond hair was soaking wet. Her blue eyes were starring right into mine before lowering a little. Her body was skinnier now because of her "Depression". I blinked once and suddenly she was in my arms. The second her body hit mine, I fell. I landed on my back in the sand with Maria lying on top of me. She kissed me tenderly and kissed her back. The feeling of her lips moving with mine was amazing. As she pulled back she started laughing hysterically. I joined in and it felt like an eternity we were laughing.