"It's nice to meet you. I'm Sadie, " Sadie. The name fit her perfectly. Her voice was captivating, and he wasn’t aware as his grin widened. As she spoke he was aware of Zacky swimming over, and snatching the football out of his hands. Hoping that he'd swim away he was a little annoyed when Zacky decided to stick around and listen to the conversation. The salty air that smelled of tides and sand was beginning to grate on his senses, but he’d stand in that damned ocean all he had to in order to talk to her. Brian could see the gears turning in her head, thinking of what to say next; and he tried to tell himself that it wasn’t totally adorable the way she said things happen. About to answer him, his green-eyed guitarist cut in rather smoothly with ”We’re having a bonfire later. You should come. Beer, fire, and ocean. What could go wrong?”
Glancing over at his short friend Brian wasn’t sure whether to thank him, or smack him. As much as he liked to claim he didn’t have a way with the ladies; there was something about him that chicks found endearing or someshit. Biting back a rattling sigh Brian turned back to Sadie with a friendly nod. ”That’s one thing to do. Uh, probably won’t be too many people. There’ll be music… And beer.” Matthew tacked on, leaving out the part where Jimmy would probably get shitfaced and make an ass out himself, while Johnny cozied up to whomever he pleased. That was just their personalities, and Brian never took it to heart- but it still wasn’t really a selling point. ”You can bring whoever you want to. Your friends or boyfriend. I mean I just assume you came here with someo-” Hearing Zacky scoff behind him the guitarist added in his voice that wrapped around your ears like dark velvet ”Pretty much feel free to bring whoever.”
As waves lapped against his midriff, Brian suppressed a shiver, the feeling of salt chafing against him beginning to annoy him. ”I’m actually heading out to grab some food. If you want, you and your friends could hang out for a bit with the guys til i get back.” Damn his brain. It couldn’t seem to form the words to actually sound like a functioning adult male who had toured countries and cities and had no shortage of lovers. But they had been dull. Listless. And it had been awhile since a woman actually made him nervous. Even from a simple brush of hands when he’d gotten the football back, it was as if he could feel her energy surging about her. But unfortunately for Brian he felt like an out of depth, awkward, bumbling man child. He didn’t even have to look at Zacky to know that he was smirking, the smug little shit. He also didn’t have to look down at his friend to know that Brian would probably never live down this horridly awkward encounter.
Truthfully he wouldn’t really be shocked if she didn’t want to go. But there was that damned flicker of hope burning hot in his stomach that she would say yes. That maybe he could get to know Sadie, and that maybe he wasn’t making a complete ass out of himself. Nervously rubbing a large calloused hand against his face Brian fought back the urge to just snatch the invitation back from the air and stuff back into his lungs. ”The worse she can do is say no. Just be a man and accept it and move on.” He mentally scolded himself, the cries of gulls still hovering over everyone’s head. Around him Brian could hear lover’s squeals and laughs; the squalls of children fighting and mother’s gossiping. Even as he felt frozen in his sea of bumbling awkwardness; life moved forward. Overhead the dazzling Aegean skies were beginning to darken, and a million shades of purples, oranges, pinks, and yellows were streaking clouds. It was breathtaking and quite possibly his favorite part about Huntington beach.
Hannah felt a blush creep up onto her cheeks when he called her good looking. "I'm here because my friends decided that i was being to anti-social and studying too much." She said, laughing softly. "So they dragged me here for the weekend." She said, smiling up at him. "Though now that i'm making an ass out of myself in front of you i think maybe staying home is best for me." She said, smiling. Why could she not quit smiling. Sure she was a happy person, but this guy was going to think she was a freak. She bit her bottom lip lightly, then looked over as she seen Sadie talking to some guy in the ocean. She looked back at Matt, "So do you live around here?" She asked him. She wanted to keep talking to him, but things just weren't coming to mind. If this kept up she was going to be asking him what his favorite cheese was.
She was relived when her friends came in with the guys, taking about how they were going to party with them. She looked at Matt, "Guess we get to spend some more time together." She said, smiling as she ran her fingers through her hair. She looked over as her friend Madison mentioned going to go get changed and come back. Madison was already scoping out Zacky and Jimmy. She had been the whore of the group, but Hannah loved her just the same. Hannah looked at Matt, "I will see you in a bit." She said, giving him a small wave. She went to Sadie and walked with her, "So who's the guy you were talking to?" She asked her, smiling. Sadie had been her best friend for awhile now. She smiled as she listened to her friend talk about Brian.
A half an hour later
Hannah walked down to the beach, seeing the fire that the guys had. She smiled as her friends approached them. Hannah looked at Matt, "Hey." She said. He was so cute and she hoped he would grow to like her. Hannah looked over as Zacky handed her a drink, "Thanks." She said. She wasn't one to drink much so she knew she couldn't drink too much or she would be really drunk.
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