Chapter 22: TWENTY-ONE

Nerdy Girl Is Not So Nerdy [EDITING]Words: 12668

After laughing for what felt like three hours everyone goes to this little self catering restaurant, everyone is super exhausted and we just need to rest, our energy flew away because of how many times we went onto the same ride, which was the train slide ride where it splashes into the water so coming out we were basically drenched.

When our clothes finally decided to dry, I get up from my chair and take Melanie by the hand, making sure nobody can see us leaving. While they're still eating, I get to have a chance to be with her, alone this time.

"Dylan where are we going? I'm tired I don't want to go on a ride any more besides that, my clothes finally dried up, I don't want to get wet"

"I can't promise that" I smirk. "Oh my god, I didn't mean-"

"I know. Just come" I take her hand in mine once more and lead her to the not so big line to the Ferris Wheel. I heard they can be romantic, but what do I know about romance right? Standing and waiting in line for a few minutes, we stayed silent until it was our turn to go into the cubicle.

We sit opposite each other, not saying a word. Melanie is watching the beautiful view of the city, me on the other hand, I'm watching the view that's in front of me. My eyes are glued to her and she's still staring through the window.

Suddenly I realise that we haven't been talking to each other very much since we got here. Could she be ignoring me? I don't know but there's one way of finding out right?

"Hey you okay?" I ask and she just nods, not even looking at me from the corners of her eyes. Yep she's definitely mad at me for something again. Just when I thought Mondays are not so bad, this happens. I knew I shouldn't trust Mondays, they're like these two faced bitches in college, you hate them all the time when suddenly you start loving them because something nice happens and then they just go back to being basic two faced bitches. Ladies and gentlemen, my definition of Monday.

"You sure? You don't seem like it" I try to get her to talk to me.

"Yeah I'm fine thanks." she coldly says

"You wanna talk about it?" I ask again. "What's there to talk about?"

"Erm, I don't know, you tell me" I stand up, making my way to sit next to her. "DYLAN STOP!" she screams and I frown. "What?"

"Don't do that, please"

"Do what?" I smirk knowing exactly what she's thinking. I lightly bounce on my feet making the cubicle slightly move from side to side, "Dylan don't"

I start jogging on the spot making the cubicle sway even more, "I won't stop if you won't tell me what's going on" She just gives me puppy eyes hoping I'd fall for that. I jump once more making the little cubicle shake, now even I am scared.

"Okay come here" I say giving her a hand to stand up next to me and she shakes her head, "Did I tell you I have a fear of heights?" I chuckle, "No, don't worry am here with you" I say grabbing her hand and making her stand up, as soon as she stands on her feet she throws herself at me, holding me around my waist really tightly as I bring my arms around her shoulders.

Because she's so tiny, we're in the perfect position where my head is rested on top of hers and her head is pressed against my chest. "Is it because I put you on that Noddy ride?" I innocently ask and she gives off a laugh making me smile. She shakes her head into my chest and exhales a deep breath, still holding onto me with her little t-rex hands.

And that's when it clicks in my head, "It's because of Tasha right?" she hesitantly nods her head, "Look, I'm sorry I didn't want her sitting next to me during the ride anyway, I wanted it to be you"

"What? No, I'm talking about the kiss" Alright, makes sense yeah. Shit I totally forgot about that, I really did, I don't have time to think about her when all I'm busy with is thinking about Melanie. "Hey, she kissed me" I put my hands up in surrender. "Yeah well you were the one that was kissing back"

"It didn't mean anything" I say, "Of course it didn't. Dylan the popular guy at our school, the womanizer, why should it mean something to you?"

"I thought you were afraid of heights" I say when she gets a little too confident in fighting. She clutches onto my as soon as she realises she let go of me. "Kiss me" I casually say, "What?"

"Kiss me" I repeat myself, "I can't"

"Okay, then I'll just do it myself" I say and lean down to place my lips over her mouth, tasting the chocolate ice cream on her lips. My hands go down from her neck to her waist, pressing her closer and tighter to myself as her hands tangle in my hair. I bring my own hands into my hair, searching for her hands that are still tangled in my hair. I bring her hands down to my neck and place my own hands on her butt.

"Don't touch my hair" I whisper, "Don't touch my butt" I chuckle into her mouth at her comeback and she smiles in response. She takes my hands away from her butt and places them on her waist once again, I shake my head and smile whilst kissing her softly one last time. This girl can't be real.

"Now this kiss definitely means something to me" I say as we're both catching our breath, our foreheads pressed against each others. "I never knew you were that romantic" she whispers making me scoff, "Neither did I" I say in much more louder voice than hers, she's not used to kissing popular guys so inside she's freaking out like every other girl.

I turn her around, my hands still wrapped around her waist, both of us looking out into the view. "You can see your house from here" I point my finger to the window, placing my head on her shoulder. "I'd need my glasses to actually see that" She scoffs as a grin appears across my face.

"What would you do if the ferris wheel just stopped and we'd be stuck in here like it happens in movies?" I scare her and she immediately turns back around wrapping her arms around my waist again, burying her head into the crook of my neck. "Stop it."

"I'm joking, we're already finished with the ride" I laugh and the door opens right away, we exit the cubicle and another couple goes inside right after us. We make way to the restaurant, a little scared they weren't looking for us.

"Where's Dylan?" Tasha asks with an annoying voice. "Here" I say making her turn around, her expression is priceless when she sees me walking in with Melanie. Jealous bitch. "Right. What about Michael?"

"What about me?" Michael steps in from behind her with Eve. I knew they had a thing for each other. God, I sound like mom now. "Okay, everyone's here, we can go now" Johnny says and leaves money on the table.

On our way to exit the theme park, we come across a water fountain. Out of nowhere we hear screaming, "Michael I'm going to kill you!" we look around to see Eve standing in the fountain, dripping in water. Michael is a legend, I look Melanie and I evilly smirk at her, "Don't even think about it." she threatens me.

I laugh and start chasing Melanie around the fountain, trying to catch her, after three full rounds of chasing her in circles around the water fountain, I finally grab her by her waist and she laughs, "No. No. Please. NOOOO" she screams until she hits the water. I smile and wait for her to pick herself up, but instead she swims her way over to me.

"Kiss me" she quotes me and puts her hands around my neck, looking into my eyes. I lean in closer and she starts backing away bit by bit until she pulls me in with her. We both emerge from the water, gasping for air. This isn't one of the baby fountains that you just soak your feet in, this is actually like a small garden pool.

I swim my way over to her and put my hands on her hips slightly shifting her closer to me, she then escapes my grip when she splashes water at me. Okay if she wants to play, she can lose. She starts swimming away from me, pushing past everyone in the fountain, the only one who isn't in the fountain is Tasha.

I come up with a new tactic to catch her. I swim in the opposite direction of the circle so then I'd catch Melanie from the front and not from the back. I hide behind Alex's back and peek out from time to time, seeing Melanie searching for me, wondering where I am. When she comes closer, I jump out from behind Alex's back, scaring her to death as she almost jumps out of the water.

Catching her right into my arms, I bring her body closer to mine, wrapping my arms around her waist tighter this time, so there's no escape. My tactic worked. She turns around facing me, seeing me evilly smile, "No. Please. Dylan!" She laughs and tries to push me away with her hands that are on my bare chest. Yeah, I took my shirt off.

I start laughing at her failure and bring her to a tight hug, "Now you're going to have kiss me" I state leaning my head closer to hers as she back her head away, "No." she laughs again, "Seriously, after everything you've put me through?" I sarcastically say

"Yep." she just says still chuckling, okay then I guess I'm just going to force her to kiss me. I grab her by her wrists, pinning them behind her back and pressing her body against my. She tucks her lips inside, not allowing me to kiss her, but as soon as am close enough to her face she smiles and I lick my bottom lip before biting it.

She closes the gap between us, taking me by surprise especially because of the amount of people that are around us. I didn't know she was so comfortable with kissing me in public, I guess I can't underestimate her, or maybe she's dying inside. I for sure am.

She puts her hands behind my neck, lightly stroking down my hair, "You can touch my hair you know" I say and my hands find a way from Melanie's waist to her ass, but before I can reach it she stops me, "Yeah, you still can't touch my butt" we both laugh and pull away.

From the corner of my eye I see Tasha looking down at us, with so much jealousy in her eyes, giving us death glares as if she wanted to kill us both. Calm the fuck down bitch. Putting my thoughts and Tasha aside, I hug Melanie from behind again, lifting her up from the water this time and she screams since she didn't expect me to do it. I won't let Tasha or anyone else ruin this day for me.

"Guys, I hate to break it to you but it's already three, Miss Williams is going to kill us" as soon as Alex finishes his sentence we all instantly get out of the fountain, rushing our way out of the theme park. When we got outside the gates I realised that we're missing someone. Michael. I'm gonna kill that guy.

I turn around to walk back in and have a look for him, when I see him making out with Eve. Michael you legend. "Michael! Tongues!" I shout at him making her pull away from him because of embarrassment, they both look at me and see me miming french kissing, I start to laugh when I see her cheeks turn a bright red and him rolling his eyes.

Coming closer to me, I proudly grin and pull him in a side hug while walking, my arm still around his shoulder, "You just had to do it, didn't you" he says and I laugh again, "You're a legend Mike" I pat his back and we all start running to the museum, it's not like we're early.

Once we get to the museum, Miss Williams is already waiting for us with her arms folded in the front. oh shit we're in trouble, again. "Where have you been?" she questions. Johnny steps forwards and he's definitely going to say something stupid like he always does, "Um where were you? We were waiting just outside the entrance."

I face palm myself, not making it discrete at all. "I told you we're meeting back here at three pm straight".

"Well we didn't know that" Another face palm, this time a mental one, I don't need more people seeing me face palm. He's gonna get us into trouble, which isn't anything new. "Maybe next time you should listen more carefully, Mr. Lance and why are you all wet?"

"Oh we were all so hot, that we decided to cool down a bit...water bottles" I say stepping forward. "Ah I see, Miss Wheeler?"

"I wasn't warm." Is all she says, she's still mad at me, I know Tasha way too much not to know that. "My office the two of you" she points at me and Johnny. Great.

"Miss Williams they're telling the truth" Melanie speaks up and everyone looks back at her, none of us would ever expect her to stand up for us. "Okay great, my office... all of you" We all groan and I look back to see Melanie mouth "Sorry"

"Ahem. Ahem" Miss Williams then coughs and looks at me in a way that I can't read. I then look at everyone else and all the girls are looking me up and down, biting their lips, that's when I realise I'm still shirtless, "Oh" I half whisper and start putting on the wet t shirt that was behind my neck as we all get on the school bus to take us back to school.

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