| Chapter 3 I opened the door enough to hear a few words of a conversation. "Hey Mark," a blonde boy was saying to some other guy with headphones on, "Why don't you come with us down to the beach?" he asked pulling the headphones off the other boys ears. "Huh? What did you say?" he asked still looking down at his book. He looked up to face him but caught sight of me first. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Ki who the hell is that?" he screamed. I couldn't help but giggle, he sounded like a little girl. "Girls, you've got some explaining to do." I heard a voice coming from a middle-aged man who has just ran in from the kitchen. " I, um, own this place you see, and I left my keys here, and well�" I rambled on trying to hit the words that would hit a spot of trust in his face, but it was cold. He was about to shove us out the door when the blonde boy told him to calm down. He looked from Esther, to myself, and to Clara then asked, "So is this what you're doing here then?" Clara blushed and replied a shy "yeah". Esther snickered in my ear, Clara was not being her normal loud self. Could it be this blonde boy? "So what are your names then?" asked the "headphone" boy. " Well I'm Esther, this is Clara, and this is my good friend Melia." "Melia." He repeated looking at me in the face with his bright blue eyes. ---------------------------------------- "Why don't y'all come down to the beach." Kian asked. "Sure." Was all Clara could manage to reply. I whispered a few things to Esther mainly about how we HAVE to talk later and how Clara has got it bad for Kian. Esther giggled and Clara looked our way. "What?" she asked. "Nothing it's just� we don't have any swim suits. They're all by the car, which reminds me, where are my keys?" Esther was quick to come up with ways to stray away from questions. I liked that about her, always thinking on her feet. "But, Essie, how are we going to get there? Walk?" I looked at her and signaled the make-them feel-guilty plan so we wouldn't have to walk again. It seemed to work since in a matter of time we were in Mark's car (which he gladly offered for us to use) all piled up, fitting every seat in the small ar, driving down the main road to our car. I could hear Esther bragging about how wonderful her car was and how lucky she was to have it. You see, her parents bought it for her on her sweet sixteenth birthday as a present. I was jealous, I never got a car! Oh well, we were always together so that car was practically mine as well. "It should be right there." Esther stated pointing at a location around the bend. We turned the corner and our jaws dropped. It was gone. The bags, the car, everything. Esther looked faint so we quickly made room for her in the car. She looked as if she was going to fling herself into the middle of the street to get run over, I wouldn't blame her. Her parents are going to kill her when she gets home. "Are you ok?" asked Mark placing a hand on my shoulder. I forgot he was there. "Yeah, I guess." I said trying to convince my self. I forced a smile on my face in effort to try to make him happy. It was dreadfully hard to smile when I felt like this. "Are you sure? You don't look fine to me." He asked again pulling me to look at him straight in the face. I was mesmerized by his eyes and we must have stayed like that for a minute (at least) until I turned away blushing. "Fine." I restated. "Good." he said smiling. I looked in the mirror to see Esther smirking and giving me a "thumbs-up" sign. I giggled to myself after she winked and motioned for me to look outside at Clara and Kian. They were deep in conversation. I turned around to Esther, giggled, and mouthed "She's back!" Chapter 4 "Clara, how do you fit in these suits?" I asked struggling with the lavender two-piece Clara had let me borrow. "I don't know," she giggled, " I just do." she replied turning back to help Esther fasten her red top. "Melia come on. You look fine!" she smiled from under all her dark brown hair. "Thanks Essie, by the way nice suit and great color." I complimented as Esther fixed her hair in the mirror. "Come on beauty queens, we've got some waves to catch." Clara cheered." And guys." Esther whispered in my ear. "Oh yeah!" I giggled ***************** "Well, well, well. Who do we have hear?" asked a tall, blonde guy as we approached the beach with our towels. "Bryan, shut up. Look you've made her blush." Scolded yet another blonde whilst pointing at Esther. "You sure it's me and not you?" he joked, "By the way, I'm Bryan and this is�" "Nicky." Interrupted the other boy, "And you are�" After the typical hellos and name exchanges we all decide to go for a swim. The waves were wild and I laughed because the boys looked so white compared to our tanned skin. "So where are you all from? Your accents aren't from around here." I asked splashing some water in Esther's face. "Hey!" she said and threw some sand in my direction, but I ducked and it hit the boy behind me instead, Nicky. "Hey, what was that for? Oh and we're from Ireland." Sputtered Nicky struggling to get all the sand out of his hair and face. "Cool." Was all Clara could say, again. 'What was with all these one-word answers?' I asked myself. I followed her gaze, which was, of course on Kian. 'Boy, has that girl got some mean kind of crush. I wonder if Kian's noticed?' "So why are you all here then? It seems quite far from Ireland. Which reminds me, what's with all the cars and equipment?" Asked Esther. I'm glad she remembered I almost forgot myself. I felt someone staring at me and turned to my left just in time to see Mark blush and quickly turn in another direction. 'Hmmm,' I thought to myself, 'does this mean he likes me or something? He he. I'll find out sooner or later.' I thought to myself. "Girls I think you better sit down for this one, it may come as a bit of a shock." Said Shane smiling. ********************* Later Clara, Esther, and I were sitting in her house talking. Our friends just broke the news to us that they just so happened to be here for the reason that they were shooting a music group called Westlife, and they were here to film their next video. The song was apparently called "My Private Movie" and they were using my beach house as the location for the filming. We were totally dumbstruck and to think we had just been asked to be extras in the video since Shane's girlfriend, Vikki, was playing the lead as Shane took lead vocals on the song. I smiled to myself, this was going to be some fun. Come to think of it, I had to call some friends in the morning since they needed more extras for various scenes. I knew that wouldn't be a problem, how could anyone in the right mind turn down an offer like that? |