A few weeks had passed with Kay working in the beach shop with Bradin and Jay. Things seemed to be getting better for everyone. Kay had kept seeing Tanner, ignoring the mindless pressuring of Jay to stop. He seemed to have given up on persuading her, claiming she can make her own mistakes. Things were better between the two but whenever Jay or Kay brought up the subject of Tanner, their conversation stopped.

It was a normal day in the shop, people coming in and out renting and purchasing surfboards with some acessories in there too. Both Bradin and Kay were working, while Jay took his break. Kay sat restlessly behind the counter, doodling on a notepad as Bradin went and tidied up the boards. She quickly pulled her hair out from it's messy bun and let it rest at her shoulders. Tomorrow was her 16th birthday, and things were great. Well, most things were great, but not all of them. Ever since Bradin had kissed her out of nowhere like that, they seemed to have stopped talking. They made the usual conversation at work and at dinner, but the casual conversations they used to have had washed away at sea.

She glanced at her watch, her shift was over in half an hour. She sighed and watched as some of the surfers strolled in and out of the shop. Suddenly she saw a framilar face.

"Hey Tanner," she smiled as he walked up to the counter. He flashed her a smile back and leaned in to give him a kiss. She returned the favour but pulled away quickly.

"Hey.." he replied, still smiling.

"Not to be harsh, but you better go, Jay will be back from his break soon and.." she kinda trailed off, recieving some glares from Bradin.

"Nothing is stopping me from shopping here, unless he wants less business," he said in a calm way, walking away from the counter and off to look at the surfboards. Kay smiled a small smile. She watched as he waltzed around the room, looking at various surfboards and making sure he got in Bradin's way. Kay let out a little laugh when Bradin made his way to the counter, thinking Tanner's antics weren't very funny.

"Jay is going to be mad when he sees him here," he stated, fiddling with the cash register.

"Well, wouldn't that mean it would be my problem? Or Jay's even? No need for your opinion, thanks though," she said stiffly, giving him a look.

"Fine then, you problem just walked in," he responed, taking a seat and waiting for the action between the Robertson siblings. As Jay realized his sister meeting eyes with her boyfriend, he let out an angry sigh.

"Kay, what is he doing here? It's bad enough you are going out with him but you had to invite him here, just while I was on break, and-"

"Jay, if you must know, I didn't invite Tanner here, he's a customer himself, deal with it," she said, with a take-that look on her face.

"Then you wouldn't mind if I went over there and talked to him?" Jay replied, in an angry tone.

"Do go ahead," she said, not showing a flinch of emotion. She did not want Jay to talk to him, or Tanner to talk to Jay. She let out a breath, hopefully this would go by easily.

"Can I help you?" Jay started with as he calmly approached Tanner, who had heard the conversation that had taken place on the other side of the shop.

"No, I'm just looking," Tanner stated slyly, making his way around Jay.

"You almost done looking? We have a shop to run, no soliciting..." he stated smoothly.

"I don't mean to be soliciting," he said, mocking him, "I thought you would want a paying customer?"

"I do, not people who just look around the store all day, doing nothing," Jay said, through his teeth.

"Whoa there, got it, I'll just be going then," he stated, adding in a mix of sarcasam to Jay.

"Ya, go and don't come back," he snapped as Tanner made his way out of the store, with a last wave to Kay.

"Jay, what was that?" Kay asked, "You do realize you aren't supposed to send away paying customers,"

"Knock it off Kay, paying customers don't just walk around doing nothing,"

"Or you just don't like him at all and won't give him a chance," she muttered under her breath.

"What was that?" Jay jerked his head around.

"Believe me, it was nothing," she replied cooly, hoping off the stool and checking her watch, "And I am officially off of my shift, thank god, I've had enough of this shop" And she raced from the store.

Soon enough she had caughten up with Tanner who was on his way down the boardwalk.

"Hey," he said, giving her a smile.

"Tanner, I am so sorry for Jay, there's something changed about him, I haven't figured it out yet," she said, returning his smile. In turn, he placed his arm protectivly over her shoulder.

"Don't worry, it's okay, I can just ignore him," he breathed in and then out,"Special plans for you birthday tomorrow you know,"

"I already told you not to do anything," she laughed as they walked along.

"Don't worry, it will be good," he smirked, giving her a kiss.

She smiled, "Whatever you say..."


"Tanner, please, come on, stop" she pleaded but he didn't stop.

"No, don't worry, it will be fine," he went on, doing what he was doing. She felt wrong, violated. She wanted him to stop. This was not how she wanted to remember her 16th birthday. She wanted someone to come along and here something from his apartment. She insisted on not going there after dinner but he was good at persuading. It was all going well until now.

"Please, stop" she tried to push him away but that didn't do anything. She finally got a hold of the side of the couch and she pushed as hard as she could up and away from him. She ran from her apartment, leaving her torn sweater behind.

(there we go, that's all i can do right now, sorry for the lack of longness, i wanted to get this up. in case you cant figure it out tanner is erm, harassing her, i was sick of nice tanner, he can die. lol, little note to miss delight, just wait til next chapter... something happens... ;) R&R i live off of them! thanks for reading )