"Marsha! Get up I've got someone on the phone for you downstairs!" I heard my mom shout, it was early in the morning. In fact, the thing that woke me up was that sentence, and I probably would have rushed downstairs to answer it thinking it would be Billie... if Billie wasn't already laid in my bed next to me.

I'm guessing that my mom shouting through the house had not only just woke me up but Billie too, as when I looked over to him he was rubbing his eyes and sitting up. His red hair a mess. And him shirtless.

We didn't do anything, I still had clothes on, he had joggers on. And I was still pure, I can't say the same for Billie though.

"Who the fuck is on call?" I said, my voice croaky as Billie laughed.

"Marsha hurry!"

"I am!" I shouted back, "Okay Billie. I'm gonna go see who this is, make sure that you lock the door when I leave so my mom doesn't walk in for anything. But when I knock specifically fives times let me in so-" I explained getting out of bed as he cut me off.

"-Chill, I got it. I'm not stupid y'know."

"Sure?" I asked.

"Go answer the phone!"

"Okay, okay." I laughed walking out of my room. I quickly popped my head back in. "Make sure you lock it and only unlock it if I knock five times!" I said, being really cautious about the fact that he stops over so much coming out to my mom. She'd probably think we had done something.

"Can we have a password instead?"

"No Billie we aren't kids I-"

"-The password is now Billies awesome."

I rolled my eyes

I went down the stairs to find my mom looking impatient holding the phone, I went to take it from her as she shoved it into my chest and walked away. I wonder what In the world her problem was this morning.

"Hello?" I said cheerfully down the line.

"Marsha! Finally, it's me Casey!" She said.

"Why do you use the house phone, why not ring me?" I asked sort of annoyed I had to get out of bed and leave Billie.

"I did! Several times you didn't answer!"

"Oh sorry, I left my phone on silent last night."

"Why? You always have your volume up?"

"Yeah for when Billie calls."

"Did something happen!?"

"No no! Casey no!" I said quickly. "He-" I paused and looked around. My mom wasn't in the room. "He stayed the night," I whispered.

"He did!?"

"Yes! But nothing happened and that's not the point! Now, why did you ring me?"

"Okay well. I have a problem and I need a big favour from you."

"Okay go ahead."

"Well, I'm coming down today-"

"-you are!? Great, come see me I-" she cut me off quickly.

"-no I can't! See the thing is I'm coming down to meet Tre because this is the only day I can get the day off and I can afford a coach down. But Tre has band practice today and he mentioned Billies really weird when they miss practice."

"Okay, so where do I come in?" I asked confused.

"Okay, all I'm asking from you is to just- distract him for the day! Please! I'd do the same for you! Just get him to cancel so I can see Tre."

"How am I suppose to do that?"

"Well he's in love with you I'm pretty sure you could get him to do anything, so just get him to skip band practise tonight." She begged. And begged, and finally, I gave in.

"Okay, fine. But you owe me. No matter how big or how-"

"-or how unexpected I know I know." She laughed. She could only finish the sentence on From the number of times I had said to her. "Okay, I've gotta go catch the coach, talk to you later!"

Before I could say anything else, she ended the call. And I shrugged, putting the phone back down and going upstairs.

I looked around for my mom and once I believed the coast was clear I knocked five times.

"Password?" I heard him say.

"Billie, we can't do this let me in!" I whispered through the door to him.

"Say the password."

"Billie!"

"Say iiit!"

"Fine!" I said sighing. "Billies awesome. Now, will you let me in!"

He opened the door, he stood there still without a shirt smirking. "That's what I thought." He smiled. I shoved him and headed back into bed since I was freezing as he joined me.

"You wanna do something today?" I asked him.

"Actually, I've got band practice."

"Aww come on Beej. Can't you just skip it?"

"I can't skip it," he laughed. "It's the band, not school!"

"Come on, we can go to the beach?"

"We went there the other day. I literally asked you out there."

"Yes but! We've never gone in the day?" I smiled awkwardly.

"Marsha I really can't miss-"

"-But you love the beach!"

"Yes but I love the band and-"

"-you love me, right? And the beach? So me plus beach means like, y'know.... come on!"

"Marsha," he said, in a serious tone. I don't think I was actually going to be able to do this. "The bands becoming really serious now. We're getting signed up and we might be going somewhere. I've got to keep on top of this. This is the only good thing going for me right now."

"you'll get to see me in a bikini?"

"Fuck, deal."

I smiled proudly. And hugged him as I felt him put his arm around me tightly. "I knew you would give in." I smiled.

"Only for you."

"And....?"

"You and your body," he smiled innocently "ManI've been dying to see it!" I slapped him playfully laughing, but blushing too that he had thought about that. Which gave me wild butterflies.

~

We got into the car, I had my bikini on under my shorts and top. It was surprisingly really sunny today.

We had towels and all that shit in our bags in the back seats.

"What did you say to the boys?" I asked him looking over at him.

"I told them I was ill... but surprisingly Tre told me he was feeling ill too but he didn't wanna let us down. And Mike just said that was fine."

That was Tres excuse? The same as Billies. God, you can tell they are best friends. And uncreative to say they're both in a band.

"Ah, that's cool." I shrugged as he started the car. I got a text when I felt my phone vibrate in my lap. I looked down to see the lock screen of my phone. Which was a picture of Billie and I had taken last night. It was just him leaning his head on mine and grinning and me laughing. But I thought it was cute.

Casey: Thanks Marsha. You're amazing I love you!

I smiled.

Me: you owe me big time Casey nova.

Casey: I thought we were done with that nickname.

Me: Nope, never.

Casey: I will just start calling you Marshmellow again?

Me: okay okay, sorry.

"Who you texting?" Billie smiled attempting to look over at my phone.

"Billie focus on the road!"

"I can multitask y'know."

"Yeah right."

"Watch," he smirked taking his hand closest to me of the steering wheel and placing it on my thigh. I felt myself heat up. "See?"

"Yeah alright, move your hand."

"If I stop being cocky and asking who you're texting can I keep it there?" He smiled quickly taking his eyes off the road and looking at me.

"Yes if you keep your eyes on the road!"

"Woah, chill babe it's a red light."

"Don't push it."

He smiled and quickly looked back in front of him to the road still smiling to himself. His hand still obviously there.

Once we got to the beach we took the bags out the back seat and headed down to a free space of sand. There was surprisingly a lot of people around here than I would have thought since it would only be me and Billie when it was around night. But then again who does just come to a beach at night?

We laid down the towels and Billie took off his jeans and shirt, obviously having his swimming trunks underneath. He then looked over at me after finally kicking off his jeans. "Well?" He smiled.

I rolled my eyes and sighed. I couldn't really get out of it could I? I took off my top and then took my shorts off to reveal the back bikini I had put on just before leaving Billies house in his bathroom and getting into his car.

"Wow." He muttered to himself. I looked up at him to see him looking me up and down. Slowly.

"Stop staring you creep!" I blushed shoving him. He smiled boyishly and shoved me back.

After a while of shoving each other like children, we sat down on the towels.

"Hey, I'm glad I missed band practice for this." He said, "well, I mean this!" He said motioning with his two hands my body.

"Will you stop!" I smiled. I mean- I guess I didn't exactly want him to stop but it's one of those things girls do I guess.

"Okay, okay sorry," he said putting up his two hands in surrender. "So when are we going in the sea?" He smiled.

"Later."

"Okay, sorry mom."

"Please do not ever call me 'mom' after gawking at my body ever again." I laughed. I watched him as he realised and his green eyes widened and he cringed to himself.

"Oh my god, you're right." He said looking away. I couldn't help but giggle. Like a basic teenage girl giggle. I never giggled until I met Billie and believe it or not the only time I would do it was ironically on the phone to Casey. It was just sort of our thing to make fun of girls giggling, with the both of us not having boyfriends at the time and not being completely mushy wrecks over dudes in bands.

"I hope Tres okay," Billie said looking over at me. Seeming serious. I began to sort of feel guilty.

"He's probably fine."

"Yeah but he never gets ill."

Shit. Why am I feeling guilty? It was Tre who lied... Billie lied too.

"He's probably worried about you right now too, I mean you did tell him you were ill."

"But I'm not. I'm completely fine and Tres probably at home actually ill, I mean Tre- oh my god Tre!" He shouted near the end getting distracted. I looked over at him and looked at the direction his green eyes were staring at and quickly did I spotted Tre.

He was over on some towels a bit away from us flirting with Casey. Who was in a bikini.

Shit shit shit shit shit shit.

"Hey what the fuck, he told me he was ill," Billie said getting up.

Fuck fuck fuck.

"Remember Billie you told him you were ill too, so we should probably just pretend like we never saw him!" I said quickly getting up too and stepping in front of him, just desperate for him not to go confront Tre.

"He said he would have asked for band practice off anyway- so he was gonna blow off the band either way," Billie said stepping aside and walking around me.

"Billie I-"

"-Tre!" Billie shouted.

Fuck.

Do something!

"Tre!"

Do something!

"Dude! Tre!"

Do something!!!

I quickly jumped on billies back, causing him to stumble back a bit. "Come on let's go in the water!"

"Marsha what are you doing? I gotta talk to Tre."

Well, there's no stopping him. But I had had enough of the sand on my feet so I think I'll stay on his back for a while. Billie marched over to Tre shouting his name with me clutched on to his back, with my head in between the crook of his neck and his shoulder hiding my face. And cringing. I felt Billie stop moving as I looked up to see Tre and Casey.

"Shit," I whispered.

"Tre? What are you doing here?" Billie Asked, we all watched Tre look around nervously. Billie waiting for an answer and me and Casey just looking at him hoping he wouldn't say something dumb.

"Erm- hey would you look at that, I feel better!" He nervously smiled. Casey placed her head in the palms of her hands.

"Tre you said you were-"

Tre cut him off. "-hold on a minute Billie I thought you were ill!" He said in an attempt to turn it around on to Billie.

"You told me you were!"

"Marsha I thought you said you sorted it!" Casey said. I was sort of angry at her for saying it in front of Billie and not waiting to pull me aside and ask.

"I did! But I didn't know you guys would be here!" I defended.

"Well, you never told me you'd be here!"

"Wait you knew about this?" Billie asked confused. As he dropped me off of his back and looked over at me. I smiled nervously, probably more nervous then Tre was right now.

"Erm- a- I'm just as shocked as you are- Tre what are you doing here!" I said acting dumb. But Billie was obviously not as stupid as he came across.

"Marsha, what's going on?"

I sighed. And looked over at Casey. It was her fault Billie knew I knew so I guess I didn't care really dropping her in it. "Fine, Casey rang me up to distract you for the day so she could hog Tre!" I shouted pointing over at her.

She gasped and put her hand on her chest acting surprised. "Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Uhuh!"

"Will you both stop!" Billie shouted over the two of us bickering. "So let me just get my story straight here. You rang up Marsha and asked her to distract me?" He said looking over at Casey and then looked at me. "And you did it, and you-" He said turning to Tre. "-You was cool with this?"

"Dude what do you mean? You ditched off the band too to see your chick!" Tre protested.

"I- she used her body to bride me!" He said as if he was telling on me.

I gasped acting like I didn't know what he was on about. "Did not!"

"So did!"

"No!"

"Yeah!"

"No!"

"Yeah!"

"Both of you!" Casey shouted over now me and Billie bickering. "Okay, so we all did a bit of lying to get here. But everyone got what they wanted right? I got to spend the day with Tre, Tre got to see me, Billie got to... see Marsha in a swimsuit and...." she paused looking over at me.

"And I got in trouble." I pouted.

"I can give you a little something later?" Billie winked and I elbowed him.

"No,"

"Hey! You lied to me it should be me declining the sex from you!"

"You would never decline sex from me and you know it!"

"I know!"

"Anyway!" Casey shouted again. "So we all lied, but we all got to be at the beach? Together, so why don't we just. Forget this happened. And carry on with our day?" She suggested smiling, hoping for mostly Billie to nod and agree.

We all looked at Billie hesitantly waiting for his answer.

"Fine,"

I let out a breath, not that I had even realised I had been keeping one in but I let the one I had been out in relief.

"Shit- wait!" I said looking over at Billie. "What about mike!?"

"Shit!" He said back.

"Mike!" Tre screamed.

"We can't leave Mike out! Someone ring Mike!" I shouted, looking over at Tre. "Ring him!"

"Okay okay!" He said rummaging through his pockets for his phone, he then pulled it out and I'm guessing called Mike.

"Long story Mikey, Billie and I lied to get out of band practise and now we've bumped into each other at the beach. So.... you coming up?"

Then there was talking on the phone. Tre talked some more before ending the call and letting us know that Mike was indeed coming.

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"Billie you're getting it in my eyes!" I squealed shielding my face from Billie splashing water at me. It was Me, Beej, Tre, Casey and mike all in the sea together having some sort of water fight. Mike showed up in his red swimming trunks as we all explained the story and apologised to him since he was the only truthful one. And I even said to make up for him I would buy him ice cream from the ice cream truck out of the twenty quid I earned from Tre when we betted on his relationship. Which I did.

"Oh don't be a wuss it's only water!" Tre laughed.

"Hey, Don't call my girlfriend a wuss," Billie laughed as he headed over to Tre, dunking his head under the water. When Tre's head came back up they all looked at me and Billie shocked. For a large moment, I was confused.

"What?" We both asked, as confused as each other.

"Girlfriend?" Mike asked.

"Girlfriend?" Tre repeated wiggling his eyebrows.

"Girlfriend!" Casey squealed.

Then I had remembered we hadn't actually told them. I guess I just assumed they would know and I guess Billie did too.

"So you did ask her out like you planned!" Mike smiled pointing over at Billie.

"You planned it?" I smiled looking over at a rather embarrassed Billie as he rubbed the back of his neck looking at the sea, not in the way he did the night he asked me to be his. He looked at it that night in beauty and admiring it, right now he looked at it to avoid everyone's gaze.

"Yeah." He muttered.

"You guys are together!? Finally!" Casey screamed running over and hugging me like she was congratulating me on getting a boyfriend. Which I guess she sort of kind of was in a way.

"I mean y'know, she couldn't say no I'm irresistible," Billie said proudly replacing his embarrassment with confidence.

"Oh shut up," I said splashing him, everyone began to splash each other again.

Billie ran to grab me as I felt him pick me up by the Waist and sling me over his shoulder.

"Billie put me down!"

"Why?"

"Come on!" I screamed playfully punching at his back.

"Hmmm, I don't know."

"Please!" I begged.

"Okay okay, I'll level with ya, I'll put you down if I can get a kiss afterwards."

"Absolutely not!"

"Why!"

"I'm not levelling with you to put me down!"

"Fine, it was a good deal y'know. We both would have got what we wanted." He said as I felt his shoulders shrug underneath me.

To say Billie didn't look very strong, and he was built like every other normal guy and he wasn't exactly tall either made me think he was quite weak. But he was holding me for a surprisingly long time before I gave in.

"Fine fine!"

"What was that?" He said I could hear the smirk on in his voice.

"I'll kiss you if you put me down."

"Sounds good." He said cheerfully as he placed me back into the water in front of him grinning. "Now how's about that kiss princess?"

I sighed and connected my lips against his. Forgetting that we weren't alone. He placed his hands on my hips as he deepened the kiss.

"Wow, guys save that for later!" Tre shouted, causing him to pull away. We both looked over at tre.

"Sorry sorry."

He kissed me on my cheek, as I felt his breath on my neck when he kept his head there, close to my ear. "We can always finish that off later if you're interested?" He whispered. I felt myself shiver, like that night when I thought he would kiss me, but he just got close to my ear and whispered as he had now. Only now we did kiss and still would have. If it wasn't for Tre and his loud mouth.

I nodded slowly swallowing. "S-sure."

"Awesome."