Chapter 8 the beach

It was summer vacation and Shaoran invited Sakura to go with him to the beach. She gladly complied. They took the light rail and then walked and shortly afterwards, they were at the beach.

"I'm so glad!" cheered Sakura and took her sandals off and started walking towards the water line but started jumping towards it.

"Hot! Hot!" she said and sighed with relief when she reached the water. Shaoran soon joined her.

"Sensitive to heat are we?"

Sakura huffed and gave her boyfriend a little shove.

"Easy for you to say. You're used to warm weather."

"Yeah I guess you're right. Hey, look over there!" he suddenly jolted and she looked sideways.

"Hoe?"

Before she could respond, Shaoran splashed water at her face soaking her wet. She seemed a little shocked at first, but then she joined the game.

"Trying to make a fast one on me, are you? Well two can play at this game…," she said and started chasing him and Shaoran swam for his life knowing he was in it for it now. The two teenagers spent the next half hour chasing and splashing at each other, each getting a headful worth of seawater. A while later Shaoran offered to get them some popsicles. Sakura had a lemon-flavored one and he had a chocolate one. They sat on their towels on the beach as they sipped their icy delight. It was then that Shaoran noticed how beautiful she looked in her swimsuit. His face heated up as he stared at her. Then she noticed.

"Hoe?" she looked at him and noticed he was staring at her with a vacant expression on his face.

"Shaoran Kun?" she said and waved her hand in front of his eyes.

"Yoo hoo? Shaoran Kun?" she asked as his face formed a goofy grin.

"Come on, Shaoran, snap out of it!" she said and shook him a little it.

"Huh?" he asked and subconsciously dropped a piece of the popsicle on her leg.

"Oh, sorry." He said and brushed it off, causing her to blush.

"Err… sure whatever…" she said in embarrassment. Then he blushed too. Feeling the moment was inevitable, they leaned in for a quick kiss to get the awkwardness over with. After a quick smooch, they parted and smiled at each other's eyes. Sakura broke off a piece of her popsicle and gave it to Shaoran.

"Say 'ah'" she said and he opened his mouth and dropped the yellow piece of ice in his mouth and he swallowed then smiled.

"Tastes good. Tastes like lemon."

"That's the idea."

"I should eat that flavor more often."

"Maybe you should." Said Sakura. It was then that she noticed how handsome he looked. His muscles were pretty well developed and he's getting a nice tan from the sun. She caught herself staring at him for a while then she thought of the word tan again. Tan…

"Oh no!" she said.

"What? What's wrong?"

"We forgot to put on sunblock." she said.

"I got some right here." he said and gave her the bottle and she smeared it over her body. When she had to smear it on her back, she blushed hard. She turned to him.

"Hey Shaoran, you think you could put sun scream on my back for me?"

Shaoran blushed. The idea of touching her back sent chills down his spine. Nevertheless, he took the sunblock, and spread an even thin layer on her back and then did the same for himself until he had to ask her to return the favor. Sakura was equally embarrassed but did it anyway.

Afterward, they laid in the sun while holding hands with one hand and reading a book with another. Before long, the sun began to set and the young couple headed home. When Sakura got there she collapsed on the couch and was breathing heavy breathes.

"Sakura what's wrong?"

"I'm so hot…," she said.

"Maybe you have heatstroke. I'll turn on the AC." He said and turned the air conditioner on and got her a glass of water. After a while, she began to feel better.

"Thanks Shaoran." She said

"You're welcome." he replied and sat down next to her. As if on que, Sakura's head titled to the side, and rested on his shoulder and fell straight to sleep. Shaoran smiled and took a nearby blanket and wrapped it around them both as he too went to sleep…

To be continued…

Well there it is. Sorry about the long hiatus. Anyway, I hope you guys liked it.

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