‘Sorry!I couldn’t resist.Sometimes if you don’t laugh about things you’ll cry.’
‘Yeah.Anyway, thanks.I’ll keep you posted.Where you off to tonight?’
‘Just heading to a bar downtown.’
‘Okay, have fun.’
‘You too!Happy shagging!’ She let out a loud laugh before hanging up.
The thought of actually having sex with Jake caused ripples of desire to shoot through my body.
I’d never been into casual sex before, but maybe this was different.
I was going into this with my eyes wide open.I knew that it wouldn’t last.It was just an experience that I could enjoy.
Something to talk about when I was old and reflecting on my youth.Like Vanessa said, it wasn’t every day I got a chance to sleep with my teenage crush.
Plus, let’s face it, I rarely did anything exciting these days, so maybe Vanessa was right again when she’d said I should grab this opportunity to live my life.
Maybe there didn’t always have to be a permanent goal when dating.
Maybe sometimes just having fun and living in the moment was enough.
And maybe it was time to find out…
30
HALLE
Wow.
As I took in the surroundings, my jaw dropped.
Sammie had organised a movie night on the hotel’s beach and it looked amazing.
The screen that had been set up was huge, but that was only one of several things that caught my eye.Instead of chairs, there was an arrangement of daybeds in a semi-circle, with white opaque privacy curtains, white and gold cushions and blankets.
I also spotted a popcorn machine, a chef flipping burgers on a BBQ and a pop-up beach bar, so if we needed snacks, we didn’t have to head all the way back to the main hotel building.
‘What d’you think?’ Sammie appeared beside me.
‘It looks incredible!Definitely beats the sticky floors and the seats at my local cinema which always have questionable stains.’
‘Gross,’ Sammie said.‘There’s nothing sticky on these beds.They’re thoroughly cleaned after each use because we know sometimes people can get a littlefrisky, hence the curtains.’ She winked.
‘Oh.’ My cheeks heated as naughty thoughts flooded my mind.‘Good to know.’
‘Speaking of getting frisky, how’s things with Jake?You two seemed to be getting onverywell at the pier…’ She grinned.
Did she know that we kissed?I wouldn’t put it past her.Sammie seemed to have a sixth sense for these things.
‘Yeah.He’s… I like him.’
‘Iknewit!’ Sammie squealed.‘Although I’m with the man of my dreams, even I can see that Jake has got a lot going for him, so it’d be hard not to, right?’
‘True.’ I was about to go into the whole thing about him not wanting a relationship, but I was tired of overanalysing it.I was just going to try and go with the flow.
‘Speak of the devil,’ Sammie said.
