A/N Again the disclaimer. I do not know personally anyone mentioned. This is purely a fiction exercise. Also because English is not my native language you may have to excuse some mistakes I may write. That being said I hope you enjoy it. :)

You are already over half your trip when you decide to make another stop.

As soon as you get out of the car Alexa pulls you aside and asks with a cheeky smile, "Am I wrong or for over the last hour and a half you and Grant have been discreetly but effectively flirting with each other?"

You blush immediately. "What? You're crazy."

"The seats, the chocolates, the smiles, laughing at each other's jokes, watching each other's photos on the phones, even playing that stupid game... Don't get me wrong, I think it's adorable."

"I thought we were supposed to make him feel welcome. Weren't you the one saying I was being rude?"

"Right, and I guess you have fixed that." Alexa giggles. "I don't blame you, he's the cutest."

"Seriously, you're crazy."

"Am I?" She looks behind you and you turn around only to see Grant coming your way.

"Hey, do you wanna go down there?" Grant asks looking directly at you.

You raise your eyebrows. "Down there?"

"Yeah, there's this little beach and some tiny stairs to get there. I thought we could go there and take some pics."

Alexa chuckles quietly and walks away giving some excuse that she's not wearing the proper shoes for that and you are left alone with Grant.

"Sure, I guess..." You say with a shy smile. What are you supposed to do? He's inviting you, you do want to go down there whether it's with him or alone so you take the opportunity.

"Great." He grins happily and then shouts to the others. "Hey, we're going down there. You sure none of you wanna come?"

Erin, Travis and Alexa all shake their heads and you shout to them. "Chickens! Afraid of falling down?"

Alexa blows you a kiss as a reply and you all laugh.

"Never mind, it's their loss." Grant says to you with a wink.

"Yeah, I suppose so."

You and Grant start going down the stairs over a rocky cliff. Sure, it's a bit dangerous but you have walked those stairs before and you start to get some advance over Grant.

"Hey, wait for me, this is not a competition!" He says teasing you.

You stop for a moment waiting for him to approach you. Once he does he's almost panting. "Oh you do exercise indeed." He comments smiling.

You fake a smug expression. "You doubted me?"

"No, never." He chuckles.

"Well, to be honest I've been here several times before, so I guess that's my advantage."

"Really? Ok, so you should be the leader but... in case anything goes wrong, a slip or something, I'd rather we stayed close."

You blush a bit. 'So sweet...' You suppress a sigh and you manage to reply as a joke, "That doesn't show much faith in our skills..."

He chuckles. "Right. Just keeping it safe."

"Right, safe." You blush again and you start going down the stairs again, this time slower.

Grant walks right behind you, as the stairs are too narrow to allow you two to walk side by side.

"Are you keeping up?" You ask in a teasing way.

"Right behind you." He giggles.

"You know the way back up is gonna be tougher than getting down, right?"

"I know, guess we must rest a bit once we get there..."

"Rest? If we stay here too long they'll just leave without us." You laugh loudly.

"They wouldn't and if they did... Well, we'd be fine." He says somewhat mysteriously.

"Would we?" You say amused. "Getting hungry, cold and god knows what else...?" You laugh loudly.

"Ok, now I'm gonna refrain from answering that..."

"Why?" You say as you finally hit the sand and your turn around to look at him.

"Never mind..." He says even more mysteriously. "Ok, shall we take pictures? This is gorgeous." He takes his phone out of his pocket and without any notice he takes a picture of you. "Looking good."

"What?!" You exclaim. "You haven't taken a picture of me, have you?"

"I have, and now you'll take a picture of me." He grins as he hands you his phone. "And then as there's no one else here with us we're gonna take those awkward selfies of us both."

"Really?" You roll your eyes, grabbing his phone. "I thought we're supposed to take pictures of the surroundings and views..." You feel tempted to just delete the photo he's taken of you but you don't. If he wants to have your picture on his phone you're not the one stopping him.

"And we will, but I also wanna a picture with the people I'm with. People are the most important."

"Yeah, they are..." You say in a low voice as you prepare to take a shot of him. "Ok, done. You look amazing." You say in a playful tone. The will of teasing him is getting stronger than your shyness or uneasiness around him.

"Let me see." He smiles.

You hand him the phone and he nods. "Great. Now let's take one of us. Get here." He quickly wraps an arm around your shoulders and pulls you closer to him. "Ready?" You have no time to answer or even breathe before he points the phone at you both and takes the picture. "Oh, you look scared." He comments amused looking at the just taken shot. "Let's take another one, shall we?" He grins at you.

You blush slightly. "Oh, I always look awkward in photographs."

"Oh, bullshit. You looked just great in those we took earlier. Besides you're beautiful, you're never gonna look 'awkward'. Come on." He pouts in a pleading way, like calling you beautiful wasn't a big deal. You're sure you are blushing even more.

"Ok, let's do it." You shrug with a coy smile.

You take a couple more self-shots and Grant approves them. "Great. Now let's explore this beach."

You chuckle, relieved that he finally takes his arm off you. "There's really not much to explore, you know? It's this small." You say matter-a-factually.

"That's why it's cute. Here between these cliffs..." Grant starts to walk towards the ocean.

You follow him there. "You're not thinking of getting inside, are you?" You giggle.

Grant laughs. "No, but now that you mentioned it..."

"Haha! Crazy. That's suicide with those waves and rocks underneath. Clearly you don't know this place." You laugh.

"But clearly you do, so..." He winks at you.

You shake your head. "Oh no, no way. I'm not going in there. Neither are you. Seriously, it's suicide."

Grant laughs. "Just kidding. I believe you."

"Good. I don't want to have to go inside just to rescue you." You say this seriously but Grant thinks you're teasing him.

"Rescue me? Really? Guess I wouldn't mind..." He smiles like he's flirting with you.

You roll your eyes. "You're such a teaser." You were supposed to think this to yourself but you instead you find yourself saying it out loud.

Grant seems surprised with your words. "Am I?"

You blushed heavily. "Well, yeah, a bit."

"Sorry." He seems a bit embarrassed.

"Oh you don't have to be sorry. Come on, we need to get going..."

"Let me just take some photos..."

"Ok." You sit down on the last step of the stairs while Grant takes a few more shots. You look at him with a dreamy expression. Sure, you had a crush on him and you had some idea of what he would be like but now that you were actually getting to know him your crush was starting to be something else.

When he's finished with the photos you two start to climb all the way back. In silence. You don't know what to say and Grant apparently doesn't as well. When you finish the climb he simply asks if you're ok, referring to the physical effort. You nod and ask him the same. He nods too and you two walk back to the car to join the others.

This time you offer yourself to continue the driving and Alexa seats next to you on the front. Travis, Erin and Grant take the backseat and for the rest of the trip you never talk directly to Grant or him to you, it's just random group conversations.

It's already getting dark when you reach your destination, Alexa's house.