The Game of Love

Chapter Three

The Beach

"You wanna drive?" Zoey asked Logan as they headed down to the bike rack where Zoey's Jet-x was parked.

"Sure, that'd be awesome!" Logan exclaimed. Zoey gave him an odd look and he quickly rephrased his words. "I mean, cool." He looked over to see her roll her eyes and throw him the keys. He grabbed them and they hopped on and headed off.

Meanwhile, everybody had reached the beach and were unloading their stuff. As Chase grabbed his towel and headed onto the sand, he thought over some things…

Everybody had been giving him odd looks while they were in the dorm playing Halo. It was almost like they were planning something. And before they left, Logan asked Zoey to stay behind for a minute. Man he thought. If he gets to her first, I'll never be able to tell her. He looked around. There weren't a lot of people there, but still, it was a small amount.

As Logan and Zoey arrived, they saw that everybody was in the sand building castles. They hopped off with all of their stuff and headed down to join them.

"Hey Zoey!" Nicole squealed. She ran over to Zoey. Zoey could immediately tell that Nick was here by the way she was vibrating in front of her.

"Nick is here!" Nicole said excitedly which proved Zoey's prediction to be accurate. Nick came up to her and kissed her on the cheek. "Hey Nicole," he said smoothly. She blushed a deep crimson.

As they moved onto the beach, they decided on a sand castle competition. Everybody set to work with the partners Michael chose. Zoey and Chase, Logan and Dana, and Nicole and Nick, along with Michael, of course.

While working, Chase and Zoey talked.

"So," he began. "How was class today?" He was acting extremely nervous, and Zoey guessed it to be shyness. It was pretty obvious, anyways.

"Chase, we didn't have class today. It's Saturday." She looked at him with her eyebrows raised.

"Oh, uh, ye, yeah," he stammered out. Zoey looked away so he could regain his breath control. Jeez, he's got it bad she thought.

"Chase?" Zoey asked, and Chase looked up at her. She smiled at him. "Let's go for a walk." He nervously got up, and they headed off down to a quieter end of the beach. Logan looked up just in time to see them leave. He smiled to himself and went back to working. At least my portion of the job is done he thought while working on the left tower.