Hello!
You might be wondering why I'm updating today instead of Thursday, like I usually do, but there's no special reason apart from the fact that I'm really busy on Thursday and I didn't want to leave you without an update because I'm going to Belgium with my school at the end of the week. I hope that you don't mind. It's a long chapter to make up for it. :)
I went to see Pitch Perfect 2 this week as well and I loved it! I loved the first film so I was glad that the second film was good too, and I thought that Chrissie Fit (who plays CheeChee in Teen BeachMovie) was amazing as well! Plus, the songs were incredible! Overall, I thought that it was a great film. :)
Anyway, now that I've explained everything, let's get on with the chapter!
After dinner, everyone had gathered in the living room to relax before they started their jobs tomorrow and they'd managed to get on to the subject of the surfers' matchmaking process that morning.
"I wonder if Casey and Devon actually arranged to hang out after all of our efforts?" Giggles asked, fiddling with the edge of the blanket that she was sat on with Lela.
"Wait, that's what you were doing?" Lela asked, turning to the blonde surfer girl, her eyes wide with surprise.
"Sort of, we stumbled across the skate park after we ran off and we thought that it'd be kind of cool to learn how to skateboard since we can't surf here," Giggles explained. "But then we found out that two people liked each other and we just had to set them up. They looked really cute together."
"Aww, that's so sweet!" Lela squealed. "What if they're on a date right now? What if they're about to have their first kiss together?" Lela had gotten so excited by the prospect of something even remotely romantic that she had gripped Giggles by the shoulders and was very close to physically shaking her, which sort of scared the blonde surfer girl.
"Lela, isn't that taking things a bit quickly?" Tanner asked from the arm chair behind her.
"What if that is their first kiss ever?" Lela continued, apparently not hearing her boyfriend and getting more delighted by the second.
"Aww," Giggles sighed dreamily. "First kisses are so adorable!"
"Uh, first kisses are not adorable at all," CheeChee called from the other side of the coffee table, where she was sat on the floor next to Struts, who still had her nose buried in a book.
"What do you mean?" Lela asked, a rather shocked look spreading across her face. "First kisses are really romantic!"
"Are you kiddin'? Yours might have not been terrible, Lela, but I'm pretty sure everyone else's were nothin' special," Butchy said, pulling up a chair from the kitchen table to sit on since the others were all taken.
"How would you know?" Lela challenged, crossing her arms and slightly frowning at her brother.
"'Cause it's a fact," Butchy shot back.
"Well let's find out," Lela replied, a bright smile springing onto her face.
"Wait, what are we finding out?" Seacat asked, only catching the end of the conversation since he'd been talking to Mack, Brady and Coral, who were all sat on the sofa with him.
"If everyone's first kisses were romantic or not," Giggles explained.
"Ugh, why?" Coral huffed, not liking the sound of the discussion at all.
"'Cause Lela doesn't believe that first kisses are stupid," Butchy said.
"Well mine wasn't," Lela replied.
"Why? Who was it with?" Giggles asked.
"Henry," Lela answered.
"The Henry that dumped you and then left the beach two days later?" Seacat asked, raising one of his eyebrows at Lela.
"He didn't dump me," Lela protested. "He had to leave so we just ended it, he wouldn't ditch me and leave."
"Yeah…you keep telling yourself that," Lugnut said, sitting backwards on a chair from the kitchen table, like Butchy, with his arms resting on the back of it.
"So your first kiss was with Henry," Giggles said, trying to get back on subject. "What was it like?"
"I wish I didn't have to be back home for half past nine, I could stay out here for hours," Lela sighed.
"Well I don't want to get on the wrong side of your brother," Henry replied, picking up the wicker picnic basket from its place on the sand before they started to make their way down the road. Henry and Lela had been on their second date; their first being a table for two at Big Momma's. This second date had been a complete surprise to Lela, Henry had set up a picnic down on the beach for her and the pair had spent the evening together on the green and blue picnic blanket under the stars. "So we're getting you back ten minutes early," he chuckled, hauling the picnic basket up so that he had a better grip on it before taking Lela's hand with his free one.
"How thoughtful," Lela giggled, blushing in the moonlight upon Henry holding her hand. She'd already had a pretty permanent blush on her cheeks since Henry had draped his leather jacket over her shoulders and now she'd just accepted that her face would probably still be tinged pink by tomorrow morning.
"Well I'd hate to lose you over a rogue picnic dinner," Henry replied, making Lela giggle again. A small pause followed, the couple's footsteps echoing in the empty street. "You look really pretty tonight," Henry piped up, instantly making Lela's blush return. The biker girl was wearing a navy blue dress with tiny white polka dots on it and a white head band with a bow was keeping her raven hair off her face.
"Thanks," Lela said shyly, stepping aside so that Henry could open the knee-high gate that led up to Lela and Butchy's house.
"After you," he said. Now it was his turn to step aside so that Lela could walk up to the door first.
"Thank you for tonight, Henry," Lela said, stopping just in front of the door and holding her hands in front of her.
"No problem, Lela," Henry replied, smiling down at her before gently resting the picnic basket on the ground.
"See you tomorrow then?" Lela asked, sending a hopeful look to the biker boy in front of her.
"Hmm, I don't know," Henry started, Lela's face falling almost instantly. "I'm not sure that I can wait that long," he finished, notably relieved when Lela's face lit up with a smile again. And without any hesitation, he leaned down, wrapped one of his arms around Lela's lower back, the other tilting her head towards his, and he planted a kiss on her red-painted lips. Lela hadn't expected the kiss, nor the embrace, but as soon as her lips touched his, all of her nerves melted away. She could have stayed like that forever, and it sort of pained her when they broke apart. "Goodnight, Lela." And with that, Henry shot Lela a grin, picked up the wicker basket and turned to walk down the path back to the street. Lela was too stunned to speak, but she managed to push open the door without having to turn around and as she stumbled backwards into the house, she erupted into a fit of excitable giggles.
"Aww," Giggles sighed once Lela had stopped talking.
"See, it wasn't stupid," Lela finished, having explained the memory to her friends.
"It seems that we have different ideas of stupid then," Lugnut answered.
Lela decided to ignore Lugnut's comment and turned to Giggles, who seemed to be the only one as excited about this conversation as she was. "What was your first kiss like, Giggles?"
"I know who yours was with," Tanner said from his seat behind the two romantics.
"Oh really?" Giggles asked.
"Yeah, 'cause your first real boyfriend was Reef," Tanner replied. "I remember because when I first arrived at the beach, you two were the 'new big thing' from what I heard."
"Wait, you dated Reef?" Coral asked, slightly surprised and very entertained by this new piece of news she'd received.
"Yeah, for about four months," Giggles replied.
"And he was your first kiss?" Coral asked, getting more and more amused by the second.
"Uh huh," Giggles nodded before launching into the story of her first kiss.
"You might just be the most talented surfer girl I have ever seen," Reef chuckled, walking back up the beach to a group of trees with Giggles at his side.
"Talented? Me?" Giggles asked, suddenly getting very shy around the boy. Normally her and Reef were pretty friendly around each other, they were never nervous because they'd know each other for so long. But he hadn't ever complimented her like this until recently and it still caught Giggles out a little and released hundreds of tiny butterflies in her stomach.
"Of course," Reef answered. "And let's not forget prettiest too." This definitely threw Giggles off, she could feel her cheeks burning with a blush as she leaned her surfboard against a tree, she was too surprised to form words and make them come out of her mouth. Apparently Reef noticed this because the next thing that happened wanted to make Giggles just dissolve into a puddle. Reef wrapped his arms around her from behind and put his mouth beside her ear. Giggles could feel his breath tickling the side of her face. "What's wrong? Why can't a gorgeous girl like you take a compliment?" he whispered, as Giggles let out a slightly embarrassed laugh.
"I'm just not used to it, I guess," Giggles replied, relaxing a little more.
"Well start getting used to it 'cause you deserve all of the flattery you can get," Reef said, stepping around to face her before launching into a string of compliments. "You look really pretty in that bikini, your hair looks great today and you're honestly one of the most genuine girls I've had the pleasure to know."
"Stop it," Giggles laughed, trying to hide the blush on her cheeks.
"No," Reef chuckled, taking Giggles' hand and twirling her around. But as Giggles turned back to Reef, she found herself closer than before. Neither one of them knew who made the first move, because before they realised what they were doing they were kissing under the palm trees, totally relaxed in each other's arms. As soon as their lips parted, they just grinned at each other. "Wow, did I mention that you're a great kisser too?" Reef said, letting out a small laugh after he'd spoken as Giggles gave him a playful thump on the arm. Reef ducked out of the way as Giggles went to give him a hug and with a mischievous grin he dashed down the beach, Giggles laughing and running after him. "If you want a hug then you've gotta earn it!" Reef called, jumping over a stray beach ball in his path as Giggles ran along behind him, the pair chuckling away with huge grins on their faces.
"That's so sweet," Lela sighed.
"Wow, I can't wait to get back to the beach, I'm never gonna let Reef hear the end of this," Coral laughed, Seacat joining in with the laughing as well.
"Don't, Reef's actually a really nice guy," Giggles pleaded, giving her friends a disapproving look.
"Relax, Giggles, we're just having a little fun," Seacat chuckled.
"What about you, CheeChee?" Lela continued, turning to her fellow biker girl. "What was your first kiss like?"
"Gross," CheeChee replied bluntly.
"What? Why?" Lela asked, clearly quite shocked.
"'Cause it was super awkward and just…gross," CheeChee said, wincing at the thought of it.
"Who was it with?" Seacat asked, interested in knowing who his girlfriend had been kissing before him.
"Grayson Anderson," CheeChee answered flatly. "At least his name matches his kisses…stupid."
"Why? What happened?" Lela asked.
"If we're gonna be a proper couple you've gotta prove that you love me," Grayson snapped.
"Do not," CheeChee protested, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Do to," Grayson shot back.
"Fine, what do you want me to do?" CheeChee asked, giving in and scowling at the boy.
"Give me a hug," Grayson answered with a smug smile.
"Ew, no! I'm not doing that!" CheeChee squeaked.
"Come on, Chee. Don't be such a dork!" Grayson frowned.
"Hang on a minute," Brady piped up, speaking for the first time in this conversation and stopping CheeChee in the middle of her story.
"What?" CheeChee asked.
"'Come on, Chee. Don't be suck a dork'? Why were you two acting like little kids?" Brady asked, finding the situation rather confusing.
"Well we were nine," CheeChee replied.
"Nine?!" Seacat and Coral squeaked in surprise from beside Brady on the sofa.
"You had your first kiss when you were nine?!" Brady asked, just as shocked as everyone else.
"Yep, at the back of the cafeteria in elementary school," CheeChee answered rather calmly.
"Well I knew you've had a lot of boyfriends but I didn't know you'd started that early," Lugnut mumbled.
"Hey, don't you start!" CheeChee snapped.
"That's why it was awkward and gross," Giggles thought out loud, obviously understanding CheeChee's reasoning now.
"Just get back to the story, I want to see where this leads," Coral said, urging CheeChee to continue.
"I am not a dork!" CheeChee snapped.
"Are too!" Grayson hollered.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Prove it!" Grayson finished. CheeChee sniffed, her eyebrows creased together in frustration. She wasn't going to let Grayson walk all over her, so to prove that she liked him, she launched at him and threw her arms around his neck, wrapping him in a tight embrace.
"There," CheeChee said, letting go and stepping back from Grayson with a smug grin of her own this time. "Proved it!"
"Did not," Grayson grumbled, slightly annoyed that CheeChee had won.
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"I did! You didn't! You didn't hug me back!" CheeChee cried.
"Fine, I'll prove it to you!" Grayson barked. And before CheeChee could say anything, Grayson had shoved his lips on hers. The two nine year olds, hiding behind the stack of lunch trays, had no idea what they were doing and didn't know what to do about it. In the end CheeChee managed to push Grayson off her and the pair shared an equally horrified look. Both very shocked about what had happened. CheeChee decided to make the first move, in the opposite direction, by fleeing the scene and running over to Struts, who was sat at a table with a couple other girls, wiping her mouth the whole way.
"Gross…it was gross," CheeChee said again with a frown as her friends all chuckled away at the story.
"That's hilarious," Coral said.
"It really wasn't," CheeChee sighed.
"What about yours, Struts?" Giggles asked, noticing that the biker girl hadn't put much input into the conversation. It was only at the mention of her name that she looked up from the third book that Mack had given her.
"What about my what?" Struts asked, making it obvious that she hadn't been paying attention previously.
"Have you almost finished that book too?" CheeChee squeaked, genuinely surprised at how fast Struts was reading…and the fact that Struts was reading.
"Yeah," Struts replied nonchalantly.
"Struts, what was your first kiss like?" Giggles asked, getting back to her original question.
"Nothin' special," Struts sighed.
"Why? What happened?" Lela asked.
"Lela, you've already heard this story," Struts said with a slight frown.
"Oh yeah," Lela giggled, just remembering the story now. "It was with Alexander."
"Don't remind me," Struts mumbled.
"Alexander was a moron," Rascal huffed.
"Yeah, he broke my sunglasses," Giggles scowled, not having fond memories of the rebellious biker boy.
"I was glad when he left," Struts admitted.
"I think everyone was," Butchy sighed.
"Well are you going to tell us the story, Struts, or not?" Coral asked, slightly adjusting the way that she was sitting to get comfier.
"Alright," Struts replied, laying down her book and propping it open to keep her page.
"So are you goin' out with the others tomorrow?" Alexander asked, leaning against one of the pillars at the entrance to Big Momma's.
"Sure, why wouldn't I?" Struts asked, slightly defensive as she blew a bubble with her gum, only for the biker boy to pop it for her, resulting in a scowl.
"I don't know, maybe you had plans," Alexander suggested.
"What plans?" Struts snapped, getting fed up with the biker boy's presence.
"I don't know, but I do know that I was askin' 'cause I want to see ya tomorrow," Alexander said with a smirk.
"You want to see me tomorrow?" Struts asked, raising an eyebrow at the tall brunette that stood before her.
"Why wouldn't I want to see a hottie like you," Alexander chuckled, the smirk still sticking on his face.
"Shut up, Alex, you know that you'd still go out with the others if I wasn't going," Struts snapped, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms.
"Hey, what makes you say that?" Alexander asked.
"The fact that I know you," Struts muttered, turning to leave. But Alexander had other ideas.
"Why ya leavin' so soon?" Alexander asked, grabbing Struts' arm and pulling her close to him.
"Why'd ya think?" Struts asked, but Alexander didn't answer her question. He just planted a big kiss on Struts' lips. Alexander was clearly more into the kiss than Struts was, and when they finally broke apart, Struts just stared open-mouthed at the boy. She had certainly not been expecting that.
"Catch ya later, sweet cheeks," Alexander smirked, sauntering off with his hands in his pockets. Struts gave a frustrated cry before stomping off in search of her friends. That was not at all what she'd intended to happen.
"Ouch, that's rough," Coral said, genuinely feeling sympathetic for the biker girl.
"Yeah, that sounds awful," Seacat agreed.
"It was, but it's happened now," Struts sighed, picking up her book again and going back to reading.
"Mack?" Lela tried, quickly grabbing her friend's attention.
"Yeah?" Mack replied as Lela gave her a hopeful look.
"Do you want to share how you got your first kiss?" Lela asked, giving Mack a pleading smile until she sighed and gave in.
"It was with a boy called Jack in my first year of high school," Mack explained.
"Jack and Mack?" Lela giggled, making a few of the others laugh.
"Yes, actually," Mack smiled, knowing that the 60s teens were only amusing themselves, they didn't mean any harm.
"Is there a story to go with this kiss then?" Tanner asked, prompting Mack to launch into the tale.
"We've still got ten minutes 'til class starts," Jack started.
"What do you want to do then?" Mack asked, slipping her hand into Jack's as they walked side by side.
"Well it looks like we're taking a walk at the moment," Jack chuckled, taking a turn on the gravel path that led down to the expanse of grass in front of the school.
"What lesson do you have first?" Mack asked, attempting to make conversation since their previous discussion had lulled.
"Advanced physics, what about you?" Jack replied.
"English literature," Mack answered, their conversation yet again coming to an abrupt stop.
"Hey, have you ever been round here?" Jack asked, rounding the side of the school on the gravel path.
"I don't think so," Mack replied.
"It's really cool," Jack said, an excited glint in his eye as he led Mack past a few trees and over to an area with a trellis-style fence on one side and an ivy covered wall on the other. The fence was crawling with dainty white flowers on vines and the trees created a canopy over the secluded spot, occasionally letting tiny patches of early morning sunlight through.
"Woah," Mack breathed. "This is amazing, how long have you known that this was here?"
"Since the start of the year, I went exploring with Brandonone free period," Jack explained, mentioning his best friend.
"It's great," Mack said, marvelling at her surroundings.
"You look really pretty in that lighting, Mack," Jack piped up, making Mack turn around to face him. "Seriously though, you look gorgeous." Mack let out a small smile as Jack spoke, she could tell how nervous he'd been to say that and she found it really cute. So before she had time to think about it too much and back down, she stepped over to Jack, leaned in and planted a kiss on his lips. Thankfully, he kissed back. And the only thing that broke them apart was the bell, signalling that their make-out session had to come to an end. "See you after English literature then," Jack said, a little flustered but with a huge grin on his face.
"Ok," Mack smiled, suddenly shy again before adjusting her school bag on her shoulder and walking off the class, happier than she ever thought that she'd be before an English literature lesson.
"That's so sweet!" Lela sighed.
"Yeah, too bad Jack's an idiot now," Brady chuckled as Mack snuggled up to him.
"I don't mind, I found something better," she smiled.
"So that's all the girls' stories, how about the boys?" Lela challenged.
"So I guess that I'm no longer a girl now," Coral whispered to Seacat, making him splutter into laughter.
"I think you've missed someone, Lela," Tanner said as Lela's head turned towards the two laughing surfers next to Mack and Brady.
"Oh, Coral! I'm sorry! Who was you first kiss?" Lela cried, actually upset that she'd forgotten someone, but she didn't feel as bad when Coral just grinned at her.
"It was me," Seacat and Butchy said at the same time, shooting a look at each other straight after they'd spoken.
"What?" Giggles asked as Coral snorted on the sofa, prompting her to set off laughing with a few of the others.
"How does that work?" Lela asked, turning to Coral for an answer.
"If you let every guy you kiss think that their first kiss with you was your first kiss, they feel ten times better about themselves and you get a better kiss," Coral explained with a satisfied smile.
"You are ridiculous," Tanner sighed, letting out a small laugh at his sister's tricks. "You say you're useless at being romantic but you're one of the biggest flirts ever."
"What?! Coral can flirt?!" Giggles squeaked, both excited and surprised. Apparently she was learning a lot about one of her best friends this evening.
"Very well, actually," Tanner replied, making a face at Coral, to which she returned the favour.
"It's a gift," Coral chuckled.
"So, hang on, which one was your first kiss? Seacat or Butchy?" Brady asked, turning to Coral but ending up getting an answer from Rascal.
"Seacat, Coral kissed Seacat before she kissed Butchy," Rascal explained.
"What? You kissed Coral?" CheeChee squeaked, whipping around to face Seacat with wide eyes. "I thought that you were joking!"
"Yeah, twice," Seacat and Coral said in unison, starting to laugh a little at the biker girl's face.
"Twice?" Butchy and CheeChee exclaimed, making Coral and Seacat move slightly further apart than they had been before and look like deer caught in headlights.
"So Seacat was your first kiss?" Lela asked Coral, trying to confirm it.
"No," Coral replied simply.
"Wait, what?" Seacat asked, sending Coral a confused look.
"Oh my god, this is getting us nowhere," Rascal sighed.
"Who was it then?" Lela asked.
"It was with a guy called Link during a game of spin the bottle," Coral said nonchalantly.
"Link? What kind of a name is that?" Struts sniffed, half-listening to the stories as she read her book
"Oh come on, spin the bottles kisses don't count," Butchy sighed.
"Since when did you get so interested in kisses?" Coral retorted.
"Since they involved you, actually," Butchy shot back.
"Oh wow," Coral said sarcastically.
"You're just hiding something, you don't want to tell us," Rascal said to Coral, who surprisingly didn't protest.
"Wait a second, I think you've told me the story before," Giggles piped up, shooting a look at Coral, who's face paled when Giggles said that.
"You know how Coral got her first proper kiss?" Lela asked, getting excited again.
"Giggles," Coral warned.
"Tell us!" Lela squealed.
"Giggles, don't!" Coral pleaded.
"I'd like to hear it," Tanner said, smirking at Coral, who frowned back.
"Well it was with a boy called Tom," Giggles started.
"Oh my gosh! You do remember!" Coral moaned in defeat and buried her head in the pillow on her lap. "I hate you for this, Giggles," she mumbled into the cushion.
"Tom? Are you serious? You kissed Tom? When did this happen?" Tanner cried, practically jumping out of his chair.
"You know him?" Lela asked.
"We were like best friends growing up," Tanner explained, a huge smile across his face.
"Kill me now," Coral mumbled, wanting the ground to swallow her up.
"Can I continue?" Giggles asked, making everyone but Coral nod their heads.
"Have you enjoyed your birthday then?" Coral asked, strolling through the park beside the boy she was talking to.
"Yeah, it was great, thanks for the gift," Tom replied, sweeping a stray strand of his blonde hair into its previously floppy, quaffed position.
"You're welcome," Coral smiled shyly.
"But the best gift I could have asked for was you being here with me," Tom said, looking across at the golden haired girl with a small smile on his face.
"Oh, Tom, you're wonderful," Coral grinned, throwing her arms around his neck and giving him a big hug.
"I can't be that wonderful," Tom said, breaking out of the hug as a sheepish smile crept onto his face.
"Why not? You waited by my locker all free period so that you could give me the book that I left behind in Social Studies," Coral said.
"I even asked Leona for your locker combination so that I could get your Drama folder out for you as well," Tom chuckled, recalling what he'd done earlier that day.
"See, you are wonderful!" Coral grinned.
"Can we do this again tomorrow?" Tom asked, starting to walk across the grass again. The pair were making their way over to the big oak tree at the centre of the park, it was strung up with softly glowing fairy lights and it had logs, that acted as benches, running around the perimeter.
"Tom, you don't know if you're going to have a party to sneak away from tomorrow night," Coral teased.
"I could come out by mistake, I could tell my parents that I've got a study group," Tom said hopefully.
"You? A study group?" Coral chuckled.
"It's not that ridiculous is it?" Tom asked, raising an eyebrow as Coral continued to chuckle.
"And what if I turn up and you don't?" Coral asked.
"Well then I'd worry about you," Tom replied.
"Worry about me? Why?" Coral asked, slightly creasing her eyebrows together as the pair perched on one of the logs.
"How old are you, Coral?" Tom asked, changing the subject slightly and sending Coral a cocky smile.
"Sixteen," Coral answered, making Tom let out a small chuckle. "What's wrong with that? Just because your birthday was today doesn't make you any better than me you know," she continued, her eyebrows slightly creased together again, this time in confusion and annoyance. But all of her worries melted away when Tom began to sing.
Tom: "You wait, little girl, on an empty stage for fate to turn the light on"
The fairy lights around the tree grew a little brighter upon Tom singing his line, making Coral's eyes light up.
Tom: "Your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on"
Coral: "To write on"
Coral leaned against Tom, her face melting into a smile, but it didn't last for long. Tom jumped to his feet and propped Coral upright again on the log bench, causing the girl to give a small squeak of surprise.
Tom: You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful, baby, you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and roués and cads will offer you food and wine"
Tom pretended to offer Coral a tray of drinks, but swept the imaginary alcohol away just as she stood up.
Tom: "Totally unprepared are you, to face a world of men"
Tom placed his hands on Coral's shoulders as he sang, looking into her eyes. As he moved on to the next line he tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear, making her blush slightly.
Tom: "Timid and shy and scared are you, of things beyond your kin"
Tom whirled around to face the other way, starting to lazily march away from the tree as he sang the next line, making Coral hurry after him.
Tom: "You need someone older and wiser, telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen, I'll take care of you"
Tom turned back to face Coral, holding out a hand to her, which she gladly took. He twirled her around before she said, "You only just turned seventeen today." Coral let go of Tom's hand and took a step back a slight frown on her face. "It doesn't change anything."
"Oh come on, Coral," Tom chuckled, holding out his hand again. But Coral didn't take it this time, she just gave it a firm shake and spun on her heels, now taking her turn to march away. "Wait, where are you going?" Tom asked frantically, making Coral's lips curl into a smug smile. She grabbed Tom's hand and he gratefully twirled her around once more. As Coral spun around, Tom let go of her hand so that when she returned to his side he grabbed her waist. It was a complete accident but it caused the pair to blush profoundly. Tom removed his hands and stepped off a bit, turning his back for a second in embarrassment, but Coral's lips curled into a mischievous grin and she tapped him on the shoulder. She was going to flirt her butt off.
Coral: "I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naïve
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe"
Coral stood there singing and delicately batting her eyelashes at Tom, making the boy hang on to every word that she said…or sang in this case.
Coral: "I am sixteen going on seventeen, innocent as a rose"
Coral twirled across to one of the log benches and sat on the edge of one, the layers of the skirt of her pale pink dress billowing out around her.
Coral: "Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those?"
Coral held up her hands with each mention of a new person before swiftly standing up again.
Coral: "Totally unprepared am I, to face a world of men"
Coral nodded a few times as she sang before strolling over to Tom, sending him flirty looks.
Coral: "Timid and shy and scared am I, of things beyond my kin"
Coral lowered her gaze, occasionally sending innocent looks up at Tom. Then she sidled up to him and leaned against his shoulder before walking two of her fingers up his arm, sending Tom into a flustered blush. She spun around him and jumped on top of one of the log benches, looking down on him.
Coral: "I need someone older and wiser, telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen, I'll depend on you"
Coral leaned forward slightly, keeping her balance by holding onto Tom with one hand, while flirtatiously running a hand through the boy's hair. She leaned forwards so far that she ended up losing her footing, but Tom easily caught her. He lifted her back onto the log bench and took one of her hands as the pair smiled at each other. They both started to step in time to the music, doing odd little hops and skips here and there as they moved from bench to bench in the loop around the big oak tree. As they kept going, their steps turned into a run, with Coral leaping across the gaps between the benches and Tom running along beside her, still holding onto her hand. In the end Coral jumped off one of the benches and scurried into place in front of Tom, they positioned themselves correctly before starting to dance around the tree. At first their movements were detached, trying to fit with the music, but eventually they relaxed into it and they were sweeping across the grass. But as the music picked up again they were trotting in between the benches, jumping and hopping about in each others arms with huge smiles on their faces and laughter echoing from their spot. Tom picked Coral up and spun her around, the music climaxing further, before placing her back on the ground and grabbing both of her hands. The pair leant back and ran around in a circle, letting go of one of their hands and spinning even faster. But the music suddenly stopped, leaving the couple stood only centimetres apart, both heavily breathing and slightly surprised at what they'd just done. They tried to walk away but found themselves just stepping into each other's path. This happened twice more before Coral decided to just turn around and walk the other way, but Tom grabbed her hand and brought her back around to face him, his hand slowly moving from hers to her back and before he could think any differently, he swooped down and kissed her. It took them a while to break apart, but when they did, huge shocked yet excited smiles spread across their previously connected lips. They just stared at each other for a few moments before dashing in the opposite direction, running off to tell their friends what had taken place.
"Oh my goodness gracious, that was adorable!" Lela squealed, making Coral moan into the pillow again.
"Kimberley Samantha Barretts, you little flirt," Tanner chuckled, using Coral's full name to annoy her further.
"Shut up, Tanner, you're not helping," Coral complained, talking to the cushion rather than her brother though.
"Wow, I bet you're glad that everyone knows about that, huh?" Brady teased, earning a whack on the arm from the surfer girl.
"I don't even want to live anymore," Coral croaked into the pillow.
"Aw, come on, Coral, it wasn't even that bad," Giggles said, but Coral just mumbled something inaudible into the cushion again. Seacat ruffled her hair but she still didn't move.
"Well now that all the girls have told their stories, I think it's time for the boys to have their turn," Lela said, sending a hopeful grin to all of the boys.
"Not tonight, you all have a big day tomorrow," Mack said.
"Tomorrow night then?" Giggles suggested.
"Yeah, you're not getting out of it," CheeChee smirked, glancing at each of the boys in turn.
"Fine, tomorrow it's our turn," Seacat sighed.
"Alright, goodnight!" Lela chirped, jumping up from her space on the carpet, triggering everyone else to follow suit and go to bed.
I hope you enjoyed it! It was a little bit longer than my usual chapters but I didn't want to break any of it up so I just decided to leave it.
The song that I used in the chapter is called Sixteen Going On Seventeen and it's from The Sound Of Music.
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