Tiffany's POV:

On the way I was just bobbing my head to the upbeat music that Kyle was playing through the speakers. It was some sort of house music mixed with new electro music, which was pretty good considering I hate music with no words, but his house and new electro music was a mix up of all different songs that came out this year with words, which I was very thankful for. 

If a song I knew came on, I quietly sang with the song. 

Me and Kyle barely spoke throughout the ride but I didn't mind, the music was my distraction. In just under two hours we arrived at the beach. I slept a portion of the ride but I don't think that bothered Kyle that much. 

When I get out of the car, I stretch my back, tilting my head back, connecting my hands together behind my back and stretch. 

I look over to Kyle and see that he's now moved to the boot of the car, getting some stuff out.

"Here, let me help." I say walking over to him and grabbing one of the bags out of the back.

"You don't have to Tiff." He tells me, shaking his head..

"So what? I'm still helping." I give him a toothy grin, grabbing another bag and putting the straps on my shoulder, then proceed to grab a few towels.

"That's too much, here pass me something." He says putting his hand out but I refuse to give him any of the things in my hand.

"Hey Tee!!" I hear Skylar calling from somewhere behind me. I turn and give her a wave.

"Hey Sky!!"I say in the same cheery tone. 

"Ready to try to get out tan on?" She asks me and I shrug.

"I wasn't really planning on getting a tan, but I guess so." 

My skins too pale, so when I did attempt to get a tan one summer I ended up looking like a fried lobster. I burned instead of getting my tan, along with getting a few sun spots. Avery on the other hand, got a beautiful dark tan. Sucks to be me.

"Let's leave the boys to get the rest of the stuff while we go find a spot on the beach." She says and I nod agreeing with her. "See you guys soon!" She chirps and we are on our way down to the beach.

When we finally find a nice spot close but not to close to the water, we put our towels down, sitting on them and then put the rest of the bags beside them. I put on the hat I found back at the house and put sun screen on.

"Oh, no no. Tee, we need to use tanning oil, not sunscreen." Skylar explains and I shake my head.

"I prefer sunscreen over oil. I don't really want a tan since I really don't need anymore sun spots or burnt skin, since my skin won't tan." I say. I really want to be cautious, I really don't need anymore spots from the sun. I have enough on my arms and legs and I really hate them, especially the ones on my arms.

"It's alright Tee. But if you want any oil, just tell me. Okay?" She says and I nod with a smile. As she lathers oil onto her skin she says, "So Kyle told you about what happened to our parents." 

"Yeah, I hope it's alright that he did." I say quietly.

She waves it off with a small sad smile. "It's okay. It's best he talks about it to someone anyways. He hasn't really spoken to anyone about it, apart from me and Tyler but that was a very long time ago. When we stayed with our uncle and aunt, it was different, but when Tyler turned eighteen he moved back into the house, I moved soon after and Kyle wanted to move back with us, so he did." She tells me and I nod. "But anyways. I really need to get my regrowths done." She tells me changing the topic, staring at her hair. 

Up close I can really see the familiar features of their mother on her face. Maybe that's why she dyed her hair, because she looked like her mother. But I'm not going to pry.

"Ohh and I need to go get a mani and a pedi. Want to come with me Tee, like we can go tomorrow or something."

Before I can answer the guys call us, soon coming over here with the rest of the bags. Kyle places his towel next to mine, Callum lays his next to Skylar's and Tyler lays his beside Callum.

"I thought we weren't going to find you." Tyler sighs, plopping down on his towel.

The beach was pretty full, so that's understandable. 

"Yeah, well we did want a good spot." Skylar says laying back on her towel, putting on her sunglasses and a floppy hat like mine, resting her hands behind her head. "This one is the furthest away from little kids." 

"It's a good spot." Kyle nods. 

Cal nods in agreement then he looks over to me. "When are you going to take that dress off?" He asks me and I raise a brow.

"It's a jumpsuit." Kyle says, then mumbles. "Idiot." 

I look at Kyle in amusement. Then I start laughing.

"Why? Curious to see what I look like underneath?" I say with a smirk. 

Cal looks to Sky and then to me and shrugs. 

"I don't mind if you're offering." 

I roll my eyes. He was flirting with me, or so I thought. Skylar looks over to me, then looks up and quickly sits up on her arms. 

"Two hot guys eleven o'clock." She whispers to me and I look up to see there was in fact two hot guys. 

Both guys are pretty tall... and shirtless, they were only wearing shorts. One of the guys had dirty blonde tousled hair, while his friend had short light brown tousled hair. Both guys have a sexy set of abs.

Well what the hell. I stand up and slowly taking off the jumpsuit. One of the guys look over to me, his eyes soon moving to Skylar. I take the jumpsuit off completely and sit back down, placing the jumpsuit beside me. The guy and his friend is openly staring at both me and Skylar. 

"Hey hot stuff!" Skylar says with a small flirtatious smirk, "Wanna go get some drinks?" The blonde guy she was talking to turns to her and then his friend, pointing to himself, as if saying me. "Yes you. Let's go." She hops up and gives me a satisfied grin.

"Only if your friend joins us with my mate." He says pointing his thumb back at his friend. 

Skylar smiles and nods. 

"Of course. Let's go Tee." She says, giving me a wink. 

I get onto my feet and only pause when I feel a tug on my hand. I look down to see Kyle giving both guys a wary look. 

"What?" I say quietly. He looks up at me and shakes his head. 

"Don't worry about it. Go." His clipped tone, telling me he's not happy about something. Making me wonder if he's jealous. 

I roll my eyes and walk with Skylar to the two guys. 

"Hey, what's your names?" The blonde guy asks. 

"Well I'm Sky and this is Tiffany." Skylar says for the both of us.

"Hey." I say shyly. 

The two guys give both me and Sky a small smile. 

"And your names?" Sky asks them. 

"Justin." The blonde guy points to himself and then points to his friend, "And this is Marco." 

"Alright, names are covered let's go get some drinks." Marco says, giving me a small smile.

"Hold up! I'm coming." Kyle says, standing beside me and Skylar. Skylar looks more than annoyed, but she doesn't drop the smile.

The guys look at each other but don't realise what's happening. "Okay, well I'm Kyle." 

Why is he coming with us? Jeez. 

"Okay now we can go." Justin says and then we all head in the direction of the small cafe near the beach. 

The whole time me and Sky have been sitting down and talking to the guys, some stuff we had in common, and the guys seem to be getting along well. But by the look on Skylar's face, it seemed like she was getting annoyed, and I seem to know why. Skylar wanted Justin... alone. 

Marco seemed to be looking my way a lot and I noticed that Kyle moved his chair close to mine. I don't think he realised that I noticed but soon enough I decided to let Sky be happy and to leave her alone with this Justin guy.

"Hey Kyle, maybe we should head back to the guys. You know, we did leave them on their own." 

Kyle instantly smiled at that. "Sure, that's a good idea. It was nice meeting you boys, but we shall be heading off now." 

"It was nice meeting you too. Maybe we can meet up gain or something." 

"Yeah, maybe." Was his reply before we left. 

I saw that we were heading in a different direction to the beach, until I realised that we weren't going back to the beach at all.

"Kyle, where are we going? The beach is that way!" I tell him and he turns and sends me a small smile.

"I want to show you something first." He tells me, grabbing my wrist lightly, tugging on it and then continues walking towards the car park.  We continue walking past the car park and to the deserted trees behind it, soon letting go of my wrist.

"Hey, you're not going to kill me right? Cause you know I will come back to haunt you." I joke, he just rolls his eyes.

"Ha, you're funny. But I'm pretty sure that if anything like that were to happen you'd kill me first since you have an advantage." He tells me with a playful grin. 

We walk through the trees, I had to hold branches so I don't walk into them. But it was weird, it was like a fun adventure. 

"We're nearly there Tiff." 

"I'm not complaining." I tell him and continue walking. 

Soon enough we ended up in a beautiful area full of green plants. 

"Okay, take the jumpsuit off." He tells me and I raise a brow. "Just do it."

"Uhuh, as if I'm going to take it off." I tell him, just as I'm about to continue listing the reasons why I shouldn't, he takes his shirt off. His sexy abs now on show, making me shut my mouth instantly. I don't know why he has this effect on me. "Why?" I just ask instead.

"Tiff, do you trust me?" 

"I don't know, do I?" I say sarcastically and take my jumpsuit off, Kyle looks up and down my body, making me feel insecure. "What?" I ask almost embarrassed.

"Nothing Tiff." He pauses before saying, "On three. One... two... three." 

He takes my hand and jumps. I remove my hand last minute and look down a dark hole that I just realised was there in horror. I hear a splash and then the sounds of my surroundings.

"Kyle? Kyle?" I call out. What the hell? "Kyle! Gosh, answer me already!" I say leaning over the edge. 

Bad mistake on my behalf, I'm soon falling in, hearing a splash, then feeling something holding me down, water, and then look around my underwater surroundings, then swim to the top taking a deep breath. I then look behind me when I hear laughter. I send a glare in his direction. He is soo mean. 

"You're such an asshole!" I say, splashing water at him. He just laughs at me.

I take that time to ignore him and look at my surroundings, it was beautiful. The sun was shining in here making the water look crystal clear blue. It was sort of like a cave, but you could swim out of here to a pile of rocks that lead back up a hill to the place we were before, you could also see the beach in the far distance. But it makes me wonder why from above here it looks like a dark hole.

"So, what is this place?" I ask swimming around. 

"My secret. That I now share with you." He tells me and I smile. "But I found it when I was a kid- around ten, I wondered off from my family when we came here to go to the beach, had a fight with my siblings and ended up in here. Never told anyone about it, until now." He says quietly but his voice seemed to echo just the slightest, "You can't tell anyone about it though." He says swimming over to me, I kick my legs to keep myself above water. "Promise? It will be our secret?" He says, moving closer to me, now inches away from me.

"Promise." I gulp, "Our secret." I could feel my heart speeding up.

"Good." He says tapping a finger on my nose. I swat it away, making him chuckle. "Now, would you like to learn some more stuff about the water element."

I instantly smile. "Yes! Of course, teach me." I say excitedly. 

"Shh. Don't want anyone to hear us." He jokes with a wink.

I just splash him with water.

"You need to focus on the spot you want it to happen to, then it's up to you to figure out how to do the rest." Kyle says from behind me.

"Okay." I say quietly and then concentrate. 

Soon enough the water does as I want it to, and make a wave, bigger than us, hit us. We were still in the cave like place, which was kinda small for a wave. Kyle wraps his arm around me tightly and I can hear him laughing behind me. When the water calms down  a few minutes later, he turns me around and kisses me. 

He. Kisses. Me. 

When he realises I'm not returning the kiss he pulls back and looks at me, soon enough he releases me and turns around. All I can hear him mumbling is curses under his breath.

"Kyle." I ask warily, "Why did you kiss me?" I ask quieter this time. He turns around and starts fidgeting with his fingers. "Honestly."

"We-"

"I don't want some shit excuse, okay. Kyle if you like me, just fucking tell me! Because I'm not going to wait any longer." I say frustrated. I soon realise what I just said and bite my lip, dropping my head and avoiding eye contact with his, all while feeling my cheeks heating up.

Did I just tell Kyle indirectly that I like him? Maybe I did. 

I can feel Kyle's gaze on me, he swims forward towards me. He raises his hand caressing my cheek, then gently tilting my head up so I'm looking at him, smoothing his thumb over my cheek. I still avoid eye contact.

"Tiff, look at me." He says quietly. "Tiffany. Look at me." He says more sterner when I don't do as he says. Using my full name means he's serious. I do as he says and look at him. He smiles, then leans down and pecks my lips. "Do you like me?" He asks. 

"I- do you like me?" I ask instead.

"I like you Tiff. I really do." He starts to lean forward.

My eyes flutter close but then something triggers in my head making me swim backwards putting space between us. 

"Kyle, you're not playing me, are you?"

"No why wou-"

"I'm being serious. After what happened the last time you kissed me, then you played me. This isn't a game to me." I tell him. 

He swims towards me, slipping his arms around my waist. "I promise you, I'm not playing you. I won't hurt you again, not like I did last time." 

So he knew, he knew he hurt me. 

"How do I know if I can trust you?" I question him and he smiles briefly.

"I trust you. I trust you with my safe place, don't I?" He places his lips over mine and then rests his head in the crook of my neck. "I can trust you with a lot of things." He whispers, softly kissing the side of my neck. 

I smile when he does, it just makes me feel all giddy inside confirming what I had thought for the last few days, I like Kyle. I actually like Kyle. 

"Well, I like you too Kyle." I whisper in his ear. 

That's when he really kisses me on the lips. And this time I don't hold back, I kiss him too.

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A/N:

I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. 

I don't know if you noticed but I have entered this story into the Wattys, now I don't know if it's good enough, but we'll just have to wait and see. <3