lost love by elizabeth fritz (the lemonade war series TXT) 📕

comment to myself. I rushed inside then, still in shock.
“Hey, how was your err, night out?” My mom asked.
“It’s okay; you can call it a date now.” I told her and she looked surprised.
“Aw! Sweetie, you already found The One for you! How sweet!” She looked really excited, because her only daughter has her first boyfriend.
“I don’t know.” I admitted and stomped up the stairs.
I sat on my bed, with my cell phone clutched in my hands, wondering if I should tell Emily or not. I decided I would tell her.
Em, I’m just gonna come right out and say it I text messaged, I agreed to go out with Michael.
Then I hit send. I knew already how her reply would be, and I was right:
YOU DID!?!?! OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! I KNEW HE WAS THE ONE FOR YOU!! AND ITS SOOO GOOD THAT DAN AND HE ARE GREAT FRINEDS SO NOW WE CAN LIKE, GO ON DOUBLE DATES!! OOH THIS IS GONNA BE SO COOL!!!
Now I decided that I wouldn’t go into the detailed parts…:
Em! Calm down. I really don’t know if he’s the one, but I’m still giving him a chance, he really wanted to go out with me…and yeah, I guess we could go on double dates but I don’t know...
I waited a few minutes for her reply; I could tell it was going to be a long one…
Yay!! I’m so happy!!! This is gonna be so cool!! You just see, everything will be the way it should be!! OMG! I still can’t believe that Michael Peters of all people was the one you chose!! I thought you guys were just friends!! But anyway who cares!! But you know, I think that Luke guy shouldn’t be going out with Kelly, no offence but I think he’s more your type… but don’t get me wrong Shann, I’m not complaining! Everybody lives happily ever after now!!!
Yep. And this was my very long and complex reply:
Sure.
Yeah, that’s all, just a simple Sure. And then I was sleepy so I went to sleep, without bothering to check her reply.
I just hoped that all this was just a nightmare. y ?

 I woke up late on Saturday morning, knowing that everything was a nightmare. I was so relieved that I was just dreaming. I picked up my cell and had a message from Emily.
CALL ME LATER! Bye!
Then it all came back to me that it wasn’t a dream after all. I sighed and went to the bathroom. I got all ready, and went downstairs, where my brother was eating his cereal, half sleeping. I rolled my eyes at him and I had some cereal myself.
Later on, I called Emily. She picked up.
“Hello?” she said through the phone.
“Oh hey Em, you wanted me to call?” I asked.
“Shannon! Was I dreaming or are you and Michael going out?!” she wanted to know.
“I thought I was dreaming too, but it’s all real.”
“Oh My God! Okay, let’s, um, meet at the park, in like a half hour?”
“Sounds great.” I said.
“Okay, bye!” she said and hung up.
I was all ready anyway, so I decided to walk outside for a bit.
To my surprise, Luke was doing the same thing. I smiled and waved at him.
“Hey! Shannon!” he said, walking over to me, “what’s up.”
“Oh, nothing, I’m meeting with Emily in a bit, that’s all.” I shrugged.
“Really? Okay.” He said.
“Yeah, what are you doing?” I asked.
“Nothing, just walking around.” He replied. “So, uh, I heard that you’re going out with Michael now…” he said in an expression that I couldn’t get.
“How… did you know?” I asked curiously.
“Oh I looked through the window and saw you guys making out.” He replied.
I blushed bright pink, “we were so not making out!” I snapped.
“Okay, whatever you say…” he shrugged.
“I’m serious, we really weren’t! I just agreed to go out with him last night and he said he was happy, and it was just a simple goodnight kiss, that’s all!” I explained.
“Yeah, I get it, okay.” He said.
I nodded, “Good, um, I better get going now…” I said, although there was some time left.
“What’s the rush?” he wanted to know.
“No rush.” I told.
“Okay, then hang around for a bit.”
“Um, don’t you have any plans with Kelly?” I accidentally asked. I really didn’t mean it in a bad way, but I guess that’s how he took it.
“Well, now that you mention it, I’ll just make some.” He said, not too nicely.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that, I was just asking…” I felt guilty.
“Okay, just forget it, see you around” he said and left.
I hoped he wasn’t mad at me or anything, I really did.
After a while, I began walking towards the park, and met up with Emily.
“Hey Em” I greeted her.
“Hey Shann! So, how do you feel about all of this?” she asked.
“Um, fine I guess.” I replied.
She laughed, “Okay, whatever!”
“So what do you wanna do now?” I asked.
And just then there were a pair of hands over my eyes.
“Guess who!” The disguised voice said.
“Orlando Bloom? Please be Orlando Bloom!” I begged jokingly.
“Close enough” Michael smirked, uncovering my eyes.
“Oh hey Michael” I smiled, and turned to Emily, I guessed that Dan was with him because he was standing with her already.
“Hello Shannon, what a surprise to see you here” he said.
“Yeah, we don’t come here much” I shrugged.
“Oh, but we do” He said, glancing at Dan.
“Cool.” I said.
“Why don’t we all do something?” Dan insisted.
“Good idea!” Emily said nodding.
“Yeah” Michael agreed.
I smiled and nodded, “But what can we do?”
“Hmm, that’s a hard question” Dan said.
“Let’s just… walk around at the beach?” Emily suggested.
“Okay” I said, and everyone else agreed. We started walking towards the beach. Dan was holding Emily’s hand, and Michael was holding my waist. This time I felt more confident and relaxed. We all had nothing to talk about on the way there.
“So, uh, you guys go to the park every weekend?” I asked the boys.
“Not just the weekends…” Michael said grinning.
“When ever we have time to, we always go there” Dan finished off.
“Since we were like, 14, we used to go there to check out the lady’s” Michael said, still grinning. From the corner of my eye I could see Dan was blushing lightly.
“You didn’t have to add that detail,” Dan said when nobody else said anything.
“Yeah, Michael, it’s not like we wanted to know that!” I teased.
“Oh, but I thought you might, because you know, you’re my girlfriend now, and they like to know these things…” He said.
I smiled, “Well, I suppose, but I’m okay with it.” I admitted, and he smiled. Then for the second time he leaned his face down to kiss me. And this time I reached up the rest of the way and kissed him back, the way I’m supposed to. I could tell that Dan and Emily were trying not to notice us.
His arm was still wrapped around me when we pulled apart. I put my own arm on his back. None of us said anything until we got to the beach.
“Oh look we’re here!” I said looking at the blue sea.
“Yeah let’s go!” Emily said, walking faster. We all tried to keep up with her.
It was so peaceful, walking on the beach. And nobody even said much, so I guess they all agreed. Then we decided to take a few steps in the water. I just didn’t realise that I was taking a few steps closer to… Death…
“Hey lets go into the water, good thing we’re wearing shorts!” Emily said to me.
“Yeah okay!” I said and followed her in.
It feels good, water splashing just below your knees.
I turned around for a second, to see what the guys were doing. They were just standing on the sand, talking. The next minute I was blacked out.
So a big wave knocked me down, and then took me back into the ocean, with my head under water. And the next I knew when I woke up, that someone was giving me the kiss of life. I mean, what are the chances that you wake up and there is someone with their mouth in yours? Not so many…
Anyway, it actually felt good, way better than anything I had ever felt. Then the mouth pulled away from mine, and helped me up. I would have been so freaked out if some girl was doing it to me, but I could tell it was a guy, because he lifted me off the ground.
“Oh thank God she’s awake!” I heard Emily say.
Then Michael gave me a bear hug. “Are you Okay?” He said in a sorry voice.
“I’m… fine” I said and it was true.
“Thank God!” he muttered, and let go of me.
And then I turned around, to see the man who saved my life. To my greatest surprise it was Luke.
He looked very serious, and he was wearing a lifeguard suit. “What are you doing here?” I croaked.
“Oh, I have a part time job as the lifeguard here,” he said, “and I saved your life.”
I could have burst out crying, but I didn’t. “I don’t know how to thank you enough!” I said very thankfully.
He smiled, “Don’t mention it.” He said and walked away.
“Let’s get you home” Emily suggested.
“Home sounds great” I said.
And we all walked back to the park, where Michael had brought his car (Thankfully not his bike) and he drove us all to my place.
“Why don’t you all come in for a while?” I asked.
“Okay” Emily said and the other two nodded.
I led them all inside and told them that I would be right back as I needed to change.
I went upstairs, and took a quick, hot shower and pulled on some clothes, made myself presentable and walked down the stairs.
Dan and Michael were talking to Justin, while Emily sat aside, and listened. I sat down beside her, she smiled.
“Tea? Coffee? Anything else?” I offered.
“I’m fine.” Michael said.
“We’re good” Dan said and Emily nodded.
“Okay, so what are we talking about?”
“Basketball” Dan answered, simply.
“Yeah, and Swimming!” Justin said.
“Whatever…” I muttered, and then Michael stood up and sat next to me, while Justin and Dan kept going on and on about how many laps they can swim in five minutes, or how far they can shoot a basket from.
“I’ll be right back.” Emily said, heading towards the bathroom.
“Hey,” Michael said in a soft voice, “I’m sorry about earlier…”
“It’s okay, I shouldn’t have gone in anyway, there was such a strong wind.” I said.
“I mean, I could have saved you myself, but that dude wouldn’t let me.” He said.
I couldn’t help smiling, “That’s okay Michael.”
“Thanks Shann,” he said and kissed my cheek.
“No problem” I said. There was nothing much to talk about. “You were right,” I said.
He smiled, “I am always, but about what this time?” he wanted to know.
“Well, you don’t make such a bad boyfriend at all” I admitted.
His face brightened, and I knew he was about to kiss me right then, but obviously he remembered that there were people here and at my house, so… yeah.