A Bad Boy Stole My Bra by Lauren Price

Author:Lauren Price [Price, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Published: 2018-07-11T18:30:00+00:00

“Riley, we’re going back into the water,” Chase and Joe announce, clutching their surfboards. I sit up a little bit, squinting at them through the harsh light. They’ve literally spent most of the day in the water, their skin is sun-baked and they’re going back in? Idiots. I nod in acknowledgement of their plan and continue to apply sun cream to my pale limbs. Dylan is lying on the towel next to me, and Alec has disappeared to the shop for some drinks. Throughout the course of the day, I’ve found myself gaining a bit of confidence around the boys, in exactly the way that Violet said I would.

We’re friends. Pretty good ones at that – although my insecurities are screaming at me that something must be dodgy about this. It’s so strange that I’m friends with some of the most popular boys in school. It’s strange that I’m hanging out with this many people again.

My thoughts are interrupted when Alec arrives back, plonking himself down at the end of my beach towel. I didn’t even see him coming.

“I got you a Pepsi,” Alec declares, thrusting the bottle into my lap.

“Thanks,” I mumble gratefully, holding the cold bottle against my heated skin. I spot something in my peripheral vision. “What’s that?” Alec is holding a small brown paper bag, angling himself to shield it from me, which naturally makes me curious. He pushes his hand out of view.

“It’s nothing. Hey, will you do my sun cream for me?”

My eyes narrow at his blatant change of topic but nevertheless I grab the bottle. “Okay, turn round and I’ll do your back.”

“Don’t act like you aren’t desperate to,” Alec teases, spinning on the towel and flicking sand up my legs. “This is your dream come true.”

I pour the sun cream into my palm and smack it lightly on his back, before rubbing it in with circular movements. Once I’ve covered the lower half of his back without any discouragement from Alec, I’m hit with a stroke of genius. I rub the rest of the sun cream into his upper back, and then use a single finger to scrape the word ‘smile’ out of the sun cream. Alec is being quiet, staring pensively out at the sea.

“You look grumpy,” I say. “So I wrote ‘smile’ on your back. Be happy, Wilde.”

Alec turns to look at me, running a hand through his hair. “You’re one of a kind, you know that?”

I fight to restrain my blush and fail. Luckily, this is the moment that Dylan decides to sit up, with a strange expression on his face.

“Riley,” he says, “do you want to come down to the water with me? I need to speak to you.”

I nod enthusiastically at the chance to escape from my awkwardness with Alec, and together Dylan and I stand up and head towards the chilly waves at the bottom of the beach. The wind is getting increasingly bitter as the afternoon draws to a close, and I know we must be leaving soon.

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