Only one person would call me cafe tease, and that person is cheese puff.

I pulled his hands off of my face, turned to face him and shouted "CHEESE PUFF" whilst lunging at him with my arms open wide, ready for a hug. Like I mentioned before, I'm a hugger when I drink.

His face was the definition of shock, as I'm sure he wasn't expecting me to be nice to him let alone lunge at him with open arms. He caught me just in time, otherwise my face would meet the concrete and that wouldn't be great.

"So I see you're sticking with cheese puff then" he muttered into my shoulder as I was hugging him.

"How could I not with the cheesy pick-up lines you came up with" I mean they were cheesy, he can't deny that.

We pull away from the hug and fall into a silence. We keep looking at each other, giving each other smiles and occasionally taking sips from out red cups. I was expecting it to be awkward between us, I mean we don't exactly know each other. I've seen him freak out on campus and he saw me being... well me.

I really should stop drinking. I'm never this nice to people, especially people I don't know.

Tonight I came to this party and I was nice literally to every person that talked to me. Almost as if  this wasn't a place I wanted to leave, to escape, to leave behind me.

Before I know what's happening, I'm being pulled up from the lounger I was sitting on, and away from the crowd of people who were in the back garden. I noticed a hand was holding mine, leading me further into the garden of the house, where lights hardly reached the area.

My eyes trailed up from the hand that was holding mine, onto the forearm, followed the trail until my eyes landed on the back of the person's head. The hair consisted of brown, tight curls. They were such little ringlets, absolutely adorable.

"Are you leading me here to kill me?" I asked, chuckling but actually seriously asking him at the same time. "Should I start screaming yet?"

"You know you get funnier every time I see you" he continued to lead me away from the crowd and I realised that there is no fence at the end of the garden, but a massive open space leading straight to the beach.

How did I not know that there was a beach nearby?

I stopped in my tracks and observed the sand and crashing waves in front of me. There was some light coming from the houses nearby, and there was a fire nearby with a group of people surrounding it.

My first instinct was to take off my shoes and to feel the sand between my toes. It felt absolutely amazing. This was my first time being on the beach, and the only sand I've seen before was the one on the playground as a kid. It's nothing compared to this.

"You okay?" he must've noticed I haven't moved for the past few minutes; I just stood there like a complete lunatic.

"Yeah I'm fine, it's just... this is the first time I'm seeing the beach and the sea" I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit that, I mean what 20 year old hasn't seen a beach before?

"No way! Well I'm glad to be here with you for this momentous occasion m'lady" he took a hold of my hand and gave it a light kiss while bowing to me in a gentlemanly manner.

"Alright Casanova, give it a rest" I took my hand from his hold and walked past him towards the sea.

The sea was calm tonight, the waves were small but still visible. They crashed lightly on the shore, making a beautiful soothing sound by her bare feet.

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He watched her walking slowly towards the shore of the beach, digging her bare feet into the sand with every step as if to cherish the feeling of sand between her toes. She stopped just before the sea water could reach her feet.

After a few moments, she took a step forward and allowed the water to cover her bare feet.  All of a sudden she screamed, jumped up and down and started to kick the water.

After some confusion, he realised that she was screaming with joy.

She was happy.

This girl was so different. She was fascinating to him, she was an undiscovered treasure which he wanted to keep digging for. No matter how long it took or what the price was.

But he couldn't help but think that the girl was not herself. She was not who she portrayed to be.  She was not 100% happy with herself or her life.

And as he watched her giggle and kick the water like a child, he vowed to discover her fully and to be what she needed him to be.

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To say I had a slight hangover the next morning would be an understatement. When I woke up, my head was pounding and my stomach felt so queasy, all I could do was turn onto the other side on my bed and close my eyes, in hope that the pain will go away soon.

Of course, that did not happen.

I only had 5 minutes of peace before Dylan barged into my room, without knocking might I add, and flopped onto my bed beside me.

"Party last night was fucking awesome!" his booming voice echoed within my room and worsened my headache. I squinted my eyes shut and started to rub my temples to ease the pain.

How much did I drink last night?

I wasn't exactly a lightweight, but the drinks I was making for myself weren't exactly light ones either.

"What happened to you after I saw you at the pool? One minute you were there and the next you were gone. I couldn't see you anywhere" he asked, turning to look at me and waiting for my answer.

I wasn't sure what to tell him to be honest. I'm not exactly an open person; I don't tell people everything about my life, I don't open up and I don't expect people to open up to me. I wanted my time with Casanova to be mine, no one else's.

"I found the beach behind the house and chilled there for a bit" I only partly lied, so I guess I'm not the worst person in the world.

Dylan seemed to accept my answer and didn't question me about my whereabouts further. Instead, he started talking about everything that happened and anything I might've missed during my time at the beach.

And while he was talking animatedly, making sure not to miss anything, the only place I could look was the attic.

The only thing I could think about was the heroin I had stashed in there.

The only thing I wanted to do, was escape.

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