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. :)

After a long ride and after things cooled off between you and Grant you are finally in Alexa's house.

"Ah finally!" She exclaims as you all enter the place. "Well, guys, you know, my house is your house, blah, blah. And you can give Grant a little tour." Alexa smiles to you.

You roll your eyes. "Yeah, I can, but it's your place..."

Travis and Erin look strangely at you two and Grant looks a bit uneasy. Since that moment of you two together in that little beach things got a bit awkward between you and Grant. You two avoided talked to each other or even look at each other. You know the reason why but you don't want to even think about that.

Alexa shrugs. "Whatever. Well, since there are three bedrooms beside the master one, this time I'm taking the master's, a.k.a my parents' bedroom, so you can all have bedrooms for yourselves. Erin and Travis you take the guest bedroom, Grant you'll take my brother's and you, my dear, will have mine. All happy?"

They all nod and Travis is the one showing Grant around while you girls go upstairs to what is going to be your room.

"Ok, seriously, what was that downstairs?" Erin asks confused. "Why didn't you want to show Grant around?" She and Alexa stare at you too waiting for your answer.

"I don't know. Why would I?"

"Why wouldn't you? You seemed to get along just fine..." Erin says.

Alexa keeps staring at you. "My words exactly. You two just seemed like best friends and then suddenly... Something happenned when you two went down to that little beach?"

"No, nothing. Look, I've just met him today, we are not best friends. I'm trying to be nice, of course, but I can't just pretend we are best friends."

"Well, it looked to me that Grant was getting into you, if you know what I mean..." Erin giggles.

"I know, right! Glad to know I'm not the only one! Give me five!" Alexa and Erin share a high five happily.

You throw yourself in the bed. "Oh come on! Stop it, ok?"

"I think that you and Grant were getting along so well that at some point you got scared... Am I right?" Alexa says.

"Scared about what?" You say almost desperately.

"Ok, come on, honestly, it's just us here, isn't he just gorgeous?" Alexa giggles.

Erin laughs. "I'm not gonna deny, he is, and he's super nice too. I've known him for over a year now, since he started on Glee with Travis, and letme say it, he's the cutest, sweetest, funniest, nicest boy around. I love Travis and Grant is not my type but I reckon he is a catch."

You shake your head in a disapproving way. "Seriously? Are you two seriously trying to hook me up with him? Can't I just be friends with him?"

"Oh oh oh, nobody said anything about hooking up... Your words, not ours." Erin smiles in a teasing way.

"Yeah, and if you just want to be friends with him you'd have showed him around. Friends do that." Alexa backs Erin again.

You sigh deeply. "Please, can you two please stop with that? I promise I'll be friendly to Grant but stop saying those things..."

"Ok... If you say so... But you still haven't answered... Is he or is he not gorgeous?"

You smirk. "Of course he is. I'm not blind, ok?"

"Hahaha! I knew it!"

You wanted to tell your friends about your crush on Grant, how your strange behavior was caused by that, how you were really liking him more than a crush now and how Grant's flirting with you, whether it was intentional or not, did scare you, but you were afraid that they'd just start teasing you again so you stay quiet.

Meanwhile downstairs, Travis is showing Grant around.

"Wow, these views..." Grant comments while they are in the living room.

"And there we have an indoor pool with panoramic views and heated water, so this is great in the winter too."

"Amazing. So this is Alexa's family house, uh? They live here?"

"No, their parents live in San Francisco as well as her brother. This is like their weekend house."

"Right. Weekend." Grant chuckles.

"So... Tell me... Enjoying the trip so far?" Travis says with a mischievous smile, obviously referring to you.

Grant doesn't really understand the innuendo. "Yeah, absolutely. Much better than staying in LA with nothing to do. Thanks for inviting me, man."

"No problem... And the girls are cool, right? Bit crazy..." He giggles.

Grant nods and simply says. "Yeah, they are nice."

"Just nice?"

Grant chuckles. "What do you mean, bro?"

"Well, you seemed you getting along just fine with one of them... At least for the first part of the trip..."

"Oh, knock it off. You know that's the way I am. Teasing people around most of the time. She's nice and all but I guess I went a little too far with the teasing and I upset her... That why we didn't speak much during this last part of the trip... She didn't even want to show me around the house just five minutes ago... Guess I'll apologize."

"What? Really? She's usually the one teasing everybody... What did you say to her?"

"I don't even know. We took some pictures in that beach, then she warned me about the ocean, that it would be dangerous to enter and she didn't want to get inside to rescue me, I said I didn't mind her rescuing me and then she called me a teaser and things cooled off. I thought I had upset her... I was just joking and she seemed to be taking the teasing well before that moment... I don't know." Grant shrugs confused.

"Oh shit."

"What?"

"I think I know why she was upset in that specific moment."

"Why?"

"Several years ago, when she was eleven she lost a younger sister who was seven, I think, at the time. They were at a beach with their parents, the sea was rough. A stronger wave caught and dragged her little sister into the ocean and then she got in to try save her but she couldn't and almost drowned herself. It was really lucky that at least one of them was saved. I guess she still blames herself for not being able to rescue her sister and for being the one that survived."

Grant has his eyes opened wide. "Oh fuck. That's some heavy shit. I had no idea... I don't know how she didn't slap me in the face. I would have deserved it."

"Oh come on, don't blame yourself, you couldn't have guessed it."

"But still... Very unfortunate comment from myself... I'll apologize to her."

"I don't know if it is such a good idea to bring the subject up... She obviously knows you didn't do it on purpose as you didn't know about the accident."

"Still... I think I should apologize but I don't want to upset her even more by mentioning it..."

"Give her some time. Maybe she'll tell you about that herself, I don't know... Or maybe she won't... But if you speak to her about it, just be careful with what you say and how you say it."

"Sure. I will. Don't worry."