"You evil human." I say running around in the sand.

"I'm the evil human!" He yells. "I told you not to run away."

"I didn't hear you." I yelled.

"Well why didn't you tell me then."

"Hmm let me see maybe don't splash me with water next time." I say laughing taking away his water gun.

"Come on lets get in the water." He says grabbing my arm.

"Huh I can't...swim." I say.

"You can't?" He asked.

"I've always wanted to but there was never someone to help me learn. I mean we could have got like an instructor but I didn't want to meet someone new and plus Nana is scared of me drowning." I couldn't stop rambling.

He looked at me for a second.

"Alright." He says. "How about we get inside to the point where you can still stand."

I thought about for a second. Well it doesn't sound bad I mean what could go wrong.

He grabbed my hand so that i can get in. The water was already past my breast area. The water didn't get past my boyfriend's chest.

#shortgirlproblems.

"See that isn't so bad." He says.

"For you maybe." I say. "We are even that deep and look the water almost covers my body."

He looks at me.

"I know that is a bummer." He says. "I really enjoy look at your body."

I rolled my eyes.

"Stay here." He says. "I'm going to get a floatie so that you can float."

He gets out of the ocean. I stand there in the ocean. For some reason i felt like slowly I was getting deeper and deeper into the water. I started to panic when the went past my neck. Next thing I know i was trying to get air into my lung. I couldn't swim. I desperately trying to swim up.

How did this even happen. After a while I stopped. I felt someone grab my arm roughly and pull me to the surface.

"Princess What the hell." He says.

I start coughing.

"How the fuck did you start drowning." He says taking me out the water. "No more fucking ocean for you."

"Holy macaroni." I say in shock. "I was about to die."

"Shit if someone happened to it would have been all on me." He says.

"It would." I say agreeing with him.

"I would never forgive myself." He says in shock.

"But I'm fine." I say.

"Lets go and get you dried up." He says.

I nod. I walk up to our room. I take a shower and get dressed in some shorts and lose t-shirt. I grab my grey socks on with my sneakers. I go downstairs and see Ryder in some jeans and a simple black t shirt.

"You already showered?" I asked.

"Yup in the down stairs bathroom." I say.

"Oh okay."

"Let's go get some dinner." He says grabbing the car keys.

"But what about the people?" I ask looking at all my firends still swimming in the ocean.

"Trust me they'll still be swimming when we get back." He sats grabbing my hand and walking me outside to the car.

"Ohh where are we going?" I ask in excitement.

"Coneys." He says. "It's a small restraunt but the food there is delicious."

The restraunt was about ten minutes away. The sun was setting it was so beautiful outside. Kind of chilly but not really. The restraunt was indeed small with a perfect view of the ocean.

We sit down on a small table that had a little candle in the middle.

"This place is so cute." I say.

There was not many people here. Which gave a very intimate vibe.

"Yeah it is." He says.

And young girl that looked to be around my age came to our table.

"Hello my name is Gilly and I will be your waitress today." She says smiling at us. "Here are your menus and sorry what would you two like to drink."

"I'll have a glass of water with a lot of ice." I say to her nicely.

"What would you like." She says to Ryder while posing a little.

"I'll have the raspberry swirl." He says.

"Alright I'll bring you a sister you drinks." She says. Ohh she said that on purpose. We don't even look in anyway alike.

"I'm not is sister." I say.

"You're not?" She says pretending to be shocked.

"She's my girlfriend." He says.

"Oh how cute." She smiles tightly at us. "I'll bring out your drinks."

"We that was awkward." He says.

"Tell me about it but I don't blame her you are very... pretty." I say.

"Pretty?" He says rasing his eyebrow.

I was not going to say hot because that seems to raise his ego to a maximum.

"Yes so deal with it." I say looking a menu. "Oh I want the fired shrimp."

"I guess I'm having what you are having." He says looking over the menu once more.

"Alrighty here are your drinks." Says the waitress. Putting the drinks on the table. "Do you know what you will be ordering?"

"I'll have the fired shrimp." She says.

"So will I." Says Ryder.

"Okay." Says the waitress writing down the order. "I'll have your food with in very shortly." With that she walked away.

I look around. It was really somewhat empty but cozy around.

"This place is honestly great." I say.

He smiled. "I knew you'll liked it." He Says. "I used to come here with my family."

"You know I know very little about your family." I say sipping some of my drink.

"Well there is not much to know really." He says. "Only that we are a struggling family. My dad invested a lot of money on a restraunt that hasn't even taken off which caused us a lot of trouble."

I knew Ryder wasn't as rich as me and that was okay. I didn't care about it. I loved him for him even though I've never said the world love out loud to him. I don't want to feel like I'm rushing or forcing him. I knew he had a hard life and he was ambitious. He has a good heart.

"Eveything will turn out." I say grabbing his hand in support. "Good things happen to good people."

I got an idea.

"Look my dad could probably loan you the money that you need to help your family business and help it to get a lot of people to come." I say trying to be helpful. "You could pay is back once you dad's business is booming."

Something flashed in his eyes. Then they seemed to turn sad.

He shook his head.

"I'm not doing that." He says.

"Alright I'm not going to press you about it. But if you change your mind the offer will be on the table." I say.

He nods. He looks so guilty. Awe he probably feels bad that I offered him to pay for his family restraunt. The rest of the night was spent on talking about funny family stories.

"Well well." Says Iggy putting her hands on her hips. "Look who decide to show up."

We walk inside the house.

"We were having some dinner." Says Ryder.

"Thanks for the invite." Says Wolf putting an arm around Iggy.

"Anyways we are planning Christmas and New years party." Says Kyle.

"Oh a party." I say in happiness.

"Well we were thinking that the Christmas party should be crazy and wild while the new years it could just be us." Says Iggy.

"I like that idea."

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Christmas Day

The house was packed with people drinking and partying. It really wasn't my sence. I was outside watching the shore waves clash together. It was getting cold now.

"What is my princess doing out here alone." I hear Ryder with a drink in his hand.

I turn and smile at him.

"Sorry it's just I need some fresh air and plus it blocks the music out a little bit." I say.

"For some reason I am not really enjoying the party." He says.

"Oh why is that?" I ask concerned. "Did somebody say something to you."

"I'm just sleepy." He says chuckling. "Relax Cleo."

I sigh. He looks down at me. Everything around us was quiet and intimate.

"You are to good." He whispers almost to himself. "So sweet and innocent...i ask myself what I did to deserve you to come crashing in on my life."

He gives me a slow kiss.

"Lets go to sleep." He says. I yawned I was so sleepy anyways.
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New years day

I look at my outfit. Everybody went out to party for new years instead of hanging out with each other but both Ryder and I were having a date.

I went down stairs only to find a very fancy set table with candles. Ryder was in the kitchen cooking. The food smelled nice.

"Hello." I say smiling.

He turned and grinned.

"Hold up I'm almost done with the food." He says.

I sit down on the table. Their was was wine bottle in the middle of the table.

"Oh it smells so delious." I say.

He comes placing the food down and severing me some wine. He sits down.

"Thank you for complementing my food." He says.

"Your welcome." I say as I start to eat. "So good."

"What do you want to be when you are older?" Asked Ryder.

I never really thought about what I'm going to do once I get older. What will happen to dad's company with me being an older child. How will things go because I sure didn't want to take over.

"I don't know. I am still figuring things out." I say. "Mom and Dad don't rush me to think right away in what to do."

He looked me for a while.

"I'm going try and be successful in my life...you bring me to open my eyes and see what is really important."

I blushed.

"What are you taking about." I say.

"Your amazing but I want to become successful with you in my life so that brings me to this."

He got on his knees and pulled out a small box. My heartbeat went crazy.

"Oh no I don't think I can get engaged-" I started off very nervously.

"Shh let me finish...this is a promise ring." He says. "I have fallen in love with you Cleo more than you could ever imagine."

I wanted to cry. He put the ring on my chubby finger.

"Oh I love it." I say. The ring had a small diamond ring. Plain and smiply yet ment so much. "Thank you...i love you too Ryder."
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Hint: plot twist in the end... make sure to get familiar and read city love the book holds a lot connections that will be very important in the near future.

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