Chapter 12
Ethan had just dumped Teresa into the water and was laughing so hard he was easy target and Teresa who was still under the water pulled his legs out from underneath him.
He fell down and was now kneeling in the water still laughing. Teresa resurfaced slightly angry.
'Hey you're not supposed to be laughing that
was my payback for you dumping me' she said mocking anger.
'Yeah I know but it's so funny. I was just doing what you asked me to do. You wanted to be put down and I did.' He said still laughing.
'Okay,' she replied lightening up, 'but did you really have to just drop me? You could have just put me down'
'Now where is the fun in that?'
'Fine but I think my payback was not enough, perhaps we need to go on another shopping spree' she said raising her eyebrow at the suggestion. Immediately his laughter ceased.
Ethan's mind flashed back to their last shopping spree and pictures of Teresa modeling dresses went running through his head.
'No, no. Really I think that you got your payback.' He said hoping she wouldn't subject him to more shopping.
'Come on Ethan, our shopping spree wasn't that bad was it?' she asked curious at his resistance.
'No but I have a limit of shopping that I can cope with and I pretty much reached that when I went with you.'
Teresa was slightly hurt by his comment but pushed it down. They continued to play and swim in the water for about another half hour.
'I'm going to go work on my tan okay' she announced to Ethan and made her way out of the water lying down on her back when she got to her towel. She put her sunglasses on and closed her eyes.
Ethan watched as she walked out of the water. His eyes followed her the entire way as she walked up the beach. He settled back into the water near the shores edge lying on his stomach watching Teresa. He had a wonderful vantage point and spent a very long time just watching her. He had never met anyone like her, she was such a breathe of fresh air. She had swept into his life and he was not about to let her leave. He had a week to get her to be his, fortunately she would be spending most of that time with him thanks to his mother. He had many thoughts of what they could do for the next week. Hopefully they would work and she would be his.
Teresa had been sun baking in the sun for a fairly long time turning over every now and then to get an even tan. Suddenly a weird feeling ran through her body, it was like someone was watching her. Okay she knew she was okay to look at and she really shouldn't have worn the bikini she was wearing, that was for Ethan's benefit. Not that it was going to do much good. Sitting up she looked around and saw someone coming towards her. Taking her glasses off she saw a young guy making his way over. In the background behind him she saw a group of guys obviously his friends cheering him on. When he got to her he kneeled down next to her and spoke.
'Hi gorgeous, I'm Patrick and my friends have just dared me $50 to come over here and ask you out, so how about it??'
Teresa looked at him he was quite cute he had dark brown hair and eyes a decent tan and great body. He was definitely easy on the eyes.
'Um sorry Patrick, but I'm not interested. Beside I don't know anything about you' She answered.
'Well can I at least have you name before I give you my life story' he smiled
'Sorry, I'm Teresa' she replied extending her hand. He shook her hand and continued.
'Well I'm a business major freshman year at Harmony Uni. I am 19years old and I'm originally from Castleton. Now let me guess. You are a model probably 19 or 20yrs old. Taking a break from the Paris catwalks and you've come to Harmony because it is a quiet town and you don't want to deal with fans. How right am I?' he said laughing
'Well as flattered as I am that you think that, you are not even close. I am 18yrs old, doing my last year at Harmony High and have never done any modeling in my life.' She laughed actually enjoying his company.
Ethan had been watching Teresa ever since she had laid down, he had seen the group of guys checking his Teresa out and was not impressed at all. When one of them had approached Teresa his tempered went soaring. But what could he do she didn't belong to him. He was forced to watch this guy flirt with Teresa. She seemed to be buying the act. This guy was only talking to her because of her looks. He had no idea what a beautiful person she was beneath the exterior. He knew how guys thought and when he couldn't stand it any more he got out of the water and began walking over to their spot. He plastered a fake smile on.
'Hey Teresa how was you nap?' he asked while bending over and picking up his towel to dry himself off. Teresa broke from her conversation when Ethan came back.
'Ethan hey it was good. Oh Patrick this is Ethan, Ethan Patrick' she said introducing the two males. Ethan and Patrick shook hands and exchanged greetings.
'Hey have I seen you around before. You look very familiar' Patrick asked
'I don't think so' Ethan replied hoping he wasn't about to be recognized as the Crane heir.
'I know what it is. You're Ethan Crane.' *damn* Ethan thought. 'Wow! Pleasure to meet you. Oh my Teresa I didn't realize you were with someone. Ethan I am so sorry for hitting on your girlfriend.' Patrick apologized. 'You have a great girlfriend Ethan, you're a lucky guy. I'll see you around Teresa. You should really think about that career I mentioned, I think that you'd be great' Teresa stared at him as he left; he had thought Ethan was her boyfriend. 'If only' she thought.
Ethan was also stunned, had this guy seen something between him and Teresa. He didn't know what he had seen but it gave him hope. Breaking out of his daze, he needed to change the topic.
'Okay so what are we doing next??' Teresa had been in a daze also but was bought back by Ethan's voice.
'Um I don't know it is your day after all'
'Okay how about we get some takeaway for lunch and go back to the mansion and watch videos all afternoon. I think the sun is getting a bit too hot' he said but really referring to his body temperature while looking at Teresa in next to nothing.
'Yeah okay sounds good' she agreed.
So that got dressed packed up their stuff and headed to Ethan's car to get the food. They made their way to a take out shop to get hamburgers and chips, and then headed to the house.
'So what movies do you have that we can watch?' Teresa asked.
'Well I we have a video library of nearing 500, so there are lots to choose from. My favorites I keep in my room though.' He answered
'So who's going to choose the first video?' she asked when they pulled up at the mansion.
'Well,' he smiled 'I say the first to get to my room get to pick' at that he started to race out of the car. Unfortunately Teresa read his mind and was already ahead of him and inside. Ethan was also weighed down with the bag of food. But made up for it with his legs. They were a lot longer than Teresa's and he could take the steps two at a time. When they reached his door they were even and both went crashing through the door at the same time laughing.
'I won' Ethan announced.
'No you didn't I did' Teresa protested. They were so busy arguing that they didn't see the visitor sitting on Ethan's bed.
'What makes you think you won? I beat you through the door' Teresa debated.
'Yes and who had to carry the food?' he said moving forward to get past Teresa and put it down. But froze when he noticed the third person in the room. Teresa noticed him stop and turned around to see what was happening.
The visitor spoke, 'Hello Ethan'
'Gwen' he chocked

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