Chapter 6

Bradin didn't know what to do. Again he was all alone out walking on the beach. He really just

wanted to go and talk to Callie but knew that that was out of the question. And what would he

say to her? 'You can't date Lucas' when in reality she can date whoever she wants. He broke up

with her and he had a thing with Erika. He still couldn't help feeling betrayed by Lucas. Lucas was his friend and now hes dating Callie. Staring out at the water Bradin was lost at sea, not knowing where to go or what to do from here. He has lost everything that ever meant anything to him. The only thing that hes got left is surfing, but even that was at a lose now without Jay and Erika in his life. It was getting dark and he knew that he needed to go back to the beach house before anyone started to worry about him. Bradin turned around and started to walk back with his head hanging low looking at the sand beneath him. Just as he looked up he say a gorgeous dark hair girl right in front of him.

He was shocked. He couldn't take another step.

"Erika" he whispered to himself. He literatly couldn't breathe at just the sight of her.

She hadn't seen him yet. She was picking her stuff up from what looked like a long day out on the water surfing. He wanted to walk towards her but he just didn't move. He knew that if he approched her that she would just walk away and she would tell him to leave her alone. So he didn't move, he just stood there.

She grabbed all her stuff and stuffed it in her duffle bag, throwing it over her shoulder and then grabbing her board. She started to walk back to her car when she felt someone staring at her.

She looked over her shoulder and there he was. Bradin. Oh Crap she thought. I can't avoid him

forever. She rolled her eyes and let out a sigh before heading towards him.

Bradin started to sweat. He was nervous. As was she.

"H-H-Hey" he finally got out

"Look Bradin whatever happend between us it was a mistake, Okay? I care about you a lot but as friends. I don't know why I ended up kissing you and thinking that there was something there. I was just caught up in the moment and missing Jay"

"JAY?" Bradin screeched.

"Yea, Jay. I still love him Bradin I always have, I know that and you know that" she yelled right back.

"Do you honestly think that Jay is going to get back together with you?"

"I am not asking to get back together with him, just for him to forgive me. I know that he won't ever love me the way that he did, but I can't live knowing that he hates me for what we did. As long as I can remember I have always loved him and just cause we kissed a couple of times doesn't mean that I forgot about him or that I wanted to be with you" she finally was honest with him.

"I see. Thanks for the talk Erika, I think that I am going to go home now"

She could see the hurt in his eyes. He had beautiful eyes, even she would admit that. She didn't want to hurt him but he was so stubborn and so confidenent that the only way that she could get through to him was to hurt him.

"Bradin, Stop" She ran in front of him and put her hand on his chest.

He looked her and not saying anything, waiting for her to continue.

" I do care about you, a lot. And yes I am attracted to you, a lot. You have this power over me

that I can't say no to. I don't know why or what it is. But at the end of the day my heart still

belongs to Jay, and thats not fair to you or me if we kept pretending it wasn't there. I don't have

any regrets with you, your a great person and your very special to me but it can't go any further.
Don't you see how many people we have hurt? People that we love and that love us back. And yeah for true love it wouldn't matter, but thats not what it is" She finally caught her breathe.

"Maybe not for you" he shot right back to her

"No Bradin its not for either of us. You don't love me. Your just attracted to me and have been since the first day that you saw me. You started to like me because you liked the way I looked.

You fell for Callie because of the person that she is, and that is what true love is"

"Erika don't try to tell me who I love and don't love. You haven't got a clue. I am going home its pointless to talk to you about this. Goodnight"

She didn't know what to say. She was the one that was suppose to walk away from him not the other way around. She definatly wasn't going to chase after him. She decided to just pick up her things and leave.

Bradin approched the house to Jay sitting out on the porch doing his usual and drinking a beer. Bradin looked him but didn't say a word and didn't stop. Just as he reached the door, Jay spoke.

"How was your little talk with Erika?"

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