Emily saw the face of the person who ran away, Bradin only saw long blonde hair fly through the air as the person turned and ran.
"Shit" Emily said as she pushed Bradin off of her. She grabbed her bag and sprinted toward the person.
Bradin stayed on the ground a moment, totally confused of what had just happened. Who was that person? he thought. He decided it was better to find out than wait there all by himself. He got up and ran toward the direction Emily and the mystery person had run to. When he reached the beach neither person was to be seen. He sat on the beach, now really confused. He had just kissed his best friend's girlfriend, somehow caused some blonde to get really mad, and caused a rift between this person and Emily. He was batting 0-3 today.
"Wait, oh my God, please wait!" Emily yelled as she started to catch up to the mystery person. "Sarah wait!" The person stopped and turned, with what seemed like fire in her eyes. Emily lead her to an area far away from anyone so no one could see them
"Emily Danielle Anderson I'm going to kill you!" she yelled in a matter-of-fact tone
"Sarah stop it, it wasn't what it looked like" Emily responded, a bit insulted that her best friend just called her by her full name
"Really, because it looked like my best friend was making out with my ex-boyfriend, the same ex-boyfriend she promised me she would help me get back, or did you trip and his lips broke your fall?" Sarah responded angrily
"Ok, so we did kiss, but it meant nothing; you on the other hand, could have very well just ruined our whole plan. You have to let me do this MY way. What if he saw you? Then where would we be, he still thinks you're south of nowhere."
Sarah sighed, she knew Emily was right. "Well, I didn't go there expecting to see him, Greg said you were up there so I went to see you."
"It's ok, I don't think he saw your face, I'm pretty sure he would have flipped had he seen it was you. You need to lay low. No one who knows you and him can see you. I'm going to break him up with Callie if it's the last thing I do. I ALAWYS keep my promises Sarah, this ones no different."
"Good, because I loved him first and I'm not going to let that goodie-goodie keep me away from him"
"Ok, you keep that mentality, but I just have to pray he doesn't tell Lucas, if I loose him over this, you're so dead"
"Fine." She sighed. "Isn't he a good kisser" she added, pushing Emily
"I'm going to plea the 5th, you could use something like that against me. Come on, I'll drive you back to the pool house, my dad's so clueless he hasn't even realized you're there." The two walked together to her car and drove toward the gate to Admiral's Bay.
I kissed Emily…I kissed my best friend's girlfriend…I just cheated on Callie… I kissed Emily… these thoughts continually ran through Bradin's head all night. He couldn't sleep. These voices just keep yelling and yelling in his ears. At about 2:30 he couldn't stand staring at the walls anymore. He walked his bedroom door, being quiet not to wake Derek. He walked through the house, out to the porch and down the steps to the beach. He sat down on the beach. Just as he did he saw a person walking along the water's edge. He recognized the body instantaneously.
"Emily?" He called. She apparently was spacing out, either that or blatantly ignoring her, he wasn't quite sure which. He walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. She jumped a good two feel.
"Oh Bradin, it's only you" she sighed. "What are you doing up so late? Or so early I should say" they laughed
"I couldn't sleep, what about you?"
"Same. I was thinking about today, about surfing, about the circuit and seeing Matt again, about waking up next to Lucas, about kissing you. My brain's working at about 6 million miles an hour. Perhaps it was fate for us to meet at 2:30 in the morning." She rolled her eyes.
"Yea, maybe. I think we should talk about what happened"
"I have no idea what you're talking about" she said innocently. After a moment she laughed. "You're right though we do need to talk about it. Sorry I ran off, my friend saw us and I was afraid she'd tell Lucas" Not a bad lie, totally believable, nice she thought. She could tell he bought it.
"That's what I wanted to talk about. You're dating Lucas and he's my best friend. I don't think it would be a good idea to tell him." Bradin knew this would eventually come back to haunt him, but he knew that this was the best for all of them; "after all, it didn't mean anything, right?"
"Right" she replied. She looked out toward the ocean. He did the same.
"I should probably get going" she said after minutes of silence. She turned to walk away, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Yea, but I won't guarantee I'll answer it" he responded
"Have you ever been in love?"
"I don't know, I think I was once, but the person turned out to be someone I couldn't love. She was crazy. But yea, I think I did love her at some point"
"Do you still see her?" Emily asked, though she knew he was talking about Sarah
"No, she's gone. I think I was part of the reason she left, now God knows where she is."
"Do you think if you ever saw her again, and she wasn't so crazy, you could love her again?"
"Maybe, it depends. I have Callie now, and I really care about her. If seeing this person would ruin my chances with Callie, then probably not, but if Callie and I weren't together and she turned into the girl I loved, then yea, I guess. But I don't think she'll ever come back, and even if she did, I doubt she could change, that's just who she was."
"Interesting, I learn something new about you everyday Bradin." She said as she turned to walk away
"Hey wait" Emily turned around "What about you?"
"Yeah, I've been in love. Actually I am in love right now and I think it took kissing you to really realize it. I love Lucas, how weird is that?" she laughed as she turned and walked away.
Yea, weird. How can you love someone and kiss another person he thought Maybe Sarah wasn't as crazy as I thought, Emily's definitely got her beat, she's nuts. Maybe that's why I like her so much. He turned and walked back up to his room. Now to add to the voices in his head, Sarah's laugh echoed in his brain and her smile flashed in front of her eyes. Then the memories came back, running on the beach, stealing a Jet-Ski, sleeping with her in Spanish Cove, then tricking her into thinking he would go to Mexico with her, when actually he just wanted to send her to a crazy place. It hurt him to think about how much she had gone through and how most of it was his fault. I haven't though about her in such a long time. How does she do that? Make me totally vulnerable? I don't like that about her, maybe she and Lucas deserve each othe;, he's another crazy psychologist. Bradin closed his eyes and all the memories of him and Sarah came rushing back, just before he fell asleep he saw Callie's face and heard her laugh. That's when he knew he was in love too.
A/N- Yeah,i know i'm now making Emily out to be a bad person, but i just wanted to bring in new people to add new drama. I might consider re-writing this chapter, depending on whether people like it or not. Please tell me what you think!
Steph
