A.N./ There was an influx of reviews from people who hadn't reviewed before after I put that at the end of my last chapter! Thank you to everyone. Sorry to HPFreak4life – I didn't mean to make you feel bad, but thanks for reviewing, and reading! Due to that wonderful life of partying and getting drunk I haven't been able to write this chapter for ages! I'm sorry! Here it is! And on with the date …
Chapter 10As they sat in the small café that the site owned, munching their toast and coffee, Sara looked through the booklet they had been given, to choose their events from. She decided it would be best if she chose easier things today, as she still had her broken leg, so abseiling was out of the window. Canoeing sounded like fun, however, as did the rope swings.
As she perused the different activities the site had to offer, Nick watched her, with a dopey grin on his face. She was so beautiful, the way her forehead crinkled slightly as she read, giving her a look of intense concentration, the way she lightly bit her lower lip, as she decided whether she would able to do that activity with a broken leg, the way her eyes seemed to light up with excitement as she saw each different activity …
He just couldn't believe how lucky he was to be on a date with her. She had decided to come on a date with him. He felt it then. That swooping sensation in his stomach, coupled with a huge giddiness that swept through his entire body and made his heart beat twice as fast as it should. He knew immediately what that feeling meant.
He was falling in love with her.
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It was the canoeing, rope swings, raft building and adventure/obstacle course that made it into their schedule. Sara felt she could cope with those with her leg, although she was slightly worried about the obstacle course. Everyone had a go at the obstacle course though, and so she felt that she would cope as best she could. She would beat Nick on the other activities instead!
And so canoeing was where they started.
Having donned wetsuits, they, and 10 others, took to the river, learning the basics, how to turn, how to speed up, how to catch the fastest currents and, most importantly, how to stop. After an hour of training they were ready to race.
As they lined up behind the start line, Sara found herself next to Nick. The dopey grin he was sending her caused her heart to flutter madly in her chest, but she tried to hide her emotions, and instead raised an eyebrow at him.
"Good luck, Nick, you'll need it if you want to finish anywhere near me!"
Nick's smile, if it was possible, got even wider. "Sar, don't worry, when you lose I'll comfort you!"
They both smiled at each other, enjoying their playful boasting, and then both of them turned their attention to their canoe instructor as he prepared to start the race.
"On your marks, get set, GO!" he shouted, and as one they all pushed forwards with their paddles, picking up speed as they reached the fast currents of the river.
Making her way as quickly as she could to the rapids, Sara looked around for Nick. She could see him, about level with her, but definitely further away from the rapids, so he would be slower. She smiled, and quickly pushed herself harder, in order to reach the rapids as soon as possible.
Nick spotted Sara in an ideal position to catch the fastest waters, and realised that unless he quickly caught up, she would win. While he didn't mind that, he couldn't have her knowing that! Plus, he would much rather win, because he had some interesting ideas of how to comfort her if she lost …
Hitting the rapids, Sara let loose a "Yeehaw!" scream, feeling the waters rushing alongside her and underneath her. Giggling to herself as she expertly manoeuvred the canoe around some rocks, she realised how Nick had been rubbing off on her, if she was now letting out Texan-sounding screams of yeehaw! Not that she minded. It was just that spending so much time with him was making her see just how sexy he really was. She had always seen him as attractive, but he had always been her "friend" Nick, not her "boyfriend" Nick, and so she was seeing him in a completely different light. And every time she saw him, she got these urges to …
Seeing the finish line approaching, she pushed those thoughts to the back of her mind, and concentrated on winning the race, which she did, by a considerable margin.
As they all got out of the canoes by the bank, Nick came over to her, looking all hurt that she had won, and all of Sara's pride at winning the race disappeared as her heart melted.
"There there," she said to him with a smile, trying desperately to hide how happy she was that she had won instead of him.
Nick looked down at her with his puppy dog eyes. "Not fair, you winning," he grumbled in a little boy voice, and at this she couldn't help but laugh.
"Yes it was! Still, there are 3 other activities to go, you might have a chance in those…." She told him, stressing the might just a little more than she needed to.
"Hey!" was his indignant reply to her comment, again causing her to laugh, but then she stood on tiptoes and gave him a kiss on the cheek, and took his hand, as they started back across to the canoe-house, to change out of their wetsuits. This seemed to cheer him up immensely, so by the time they got changed and headed over to where the rope swings were, he was his happy cheery boastful self again.
The rope swings consisted of a route to follow through the treetops, looking at all the wildlife to begin with, and then at the end a race, with a course to follow one at a time, with everyone being timed.
While Sara really enjoyed looking at the wildlife for the first half, she had to admit that she spend a considerable amount of it looking at the amazing body in front of her. Nick was the person in front of her, and she could see the muscles in his back ripple as he swung from one rope to the next, and his biceps were huge! And very nicely defined too! She couldn't believe that she had never noticed them before.
Finally reaching solid ground, before they started off on the timed bit of the course, Sara allowed herself to breathe a bit more easily. Without Nick's muscles rippling in front of her doing terrible things to her concentration, like causing her to forget to breathe and other minor details such as that, her heartbeat was also able to return to normal. Well, almost. Just being near Nick caused her heart to speed up now. She wouldn't quite say that she was in love with him yet, but she was definitely attracted to him. And she was getting closer and closer to falling for him.
A.N.2/ Sorry it's so short! My writers block is playing up again! There will either be 2 more chapters or just 1 more, it depends on where this story leads me in the next chapter, which I'm going to start right now... oh, and please reveiw!
