In between brothers(Macarena Woodman) I kept thinking all night what would I say to my mom and what could I say to change her mind. She had no idea how much I needed this trip, and I knew that if I went, I could fix things between Michael and me, and I could get a chance to be with Nathan.

So the next morning, I woke up, and went to her room wearing my apple’s pyjama and cuddled next to my mom as she woke up.

- ‘I’m not changing my mind about this, Haley. You are not going to Monica’s house with the boys! You are too young to be going alone to a house full of boys’ she announced.
- ‘But mom, you know aunt Monica! She is your best friend, and I will totally want you to come but you have work to do. And you know that Michael and Luke are like brothers to me.’
- ‘Well yeah but…’
- ‘No buts! Let me go please, I will have such a good time and I will clear my head off about all these problems going on at home!’
- ‘What problems Haley?’
- ‘Mom… are you kidding me? You and dad fight all day, I mean, I love you guys, but I want to relax a little for a while, you know’.
- ‘Let me talk to Mon, but if I end letting you go Haley, you have to promise me you will behave.’

Here’s the thing, Monica Fletcher, is my mom’s best friend since high school and every summer we plan a trip together, both of our families, and go to the most fashionable and luxurious beaches in the world. Mon has two sons; Luke, the oldest, whom is extremely hot, and Michael, the younger one who is also pretty damn fine. This year, as my family wasn’t going because my mother was busy with work, Luke decided to invite Nathan, who coincidentally was my crush since I was 14 years old.

My mom finally agreed. This year we were going to Treasure Island Beach in Orange County. We were leaving next week and I was really nervous because things between Michael and me were kind of awkward lately, ever since the kiss last summer, we didn’t talk and avoided each other. On the other hand, I had been getting along with Luke, which was weird because I had hated him since I was little. I mean, he was hot and all but he could be really stubborn sometimes. Anyway, he had been cool lately and we hung out more for the past few months, every once in a while we went to play bowling or to eat an ice cream and we would laugh our hearts out.

I woke up the day we were leaving because of a car’s horn; I looked down from my window and saw Luke with a white Hurley’s T-shirt staring at me.

- ‘C’mon Haley, get in the car, we have to pick up Nathan and Michael on the way. My mom is already waiting for us in California.’
- ‘Okay, okay, give me a minute, you could have at least called… I’m not ready!’ I screamed. But I think he didn’t hear, as he didn’t respond.

I stumbled to his car and put my backpack in the trunk. Then I hurried to the passenger’s seat and he sat beside me. I was sweating and he couldn’t stop laughing.

- ‘So... How are you going to deal having to see Mike’s face every day for a week and a half after last summer?’ Luke joked.
- ‘I hate you. I don’t know, I mean, it's weird to see him but I think I’ll get used to it. Besides, I miss him, he used to be my best friend,’ and I meant it, Luke and I used to do everything together, and now there was too much tension between us.
- ‘Well, if it's any consolation, he used to like you, I bet he still does.’ He blurted and I could see from his face that he didn’t mean the last part.

We didn’t speak for another hour, we stopped to get some drinks and then we had to pick up Nathan and Michael who were waiting for us in the Fletcher’s Mansion (or at least that was what I called it).

I was picking up my favourite soda, when Luke grabbed me and pulled me closer to him. I stopped him.
- ‘ What the heck are you doing?’ I raised my voice.
- ‘Shh, I need you to do me a favour, see that jackass over there?’ He glanced to a guy that was entering the store who was actually pretty cute and then pulled me closer. ‘He’s always pissing me off about how I never take anything seriously and I may have accidentally told him that I have a girlfriend.’
- ‘You want me to play fake girlfriend for you?’ I inquired about to laugh harder than I was already laughing.
- ‘Please?’
- ‘Okay, I’ll do it.’

He hugged me and waved at the cute guy who was then coming closer towards us. They started talking about football and other boy’s stuff, which I didn’t actually care about, but all I could think of is that we were holding hands and that, at that moment, it didn’t seem fake at all.

Luke ended up buying all of my favourite sodas as a thank you gift and I was pretty glad. I didn’t realize until that point that I had such a good time with him, always.

Back in the car, we were driving over to pick up Nathan and Michael and randomly, we were still holding hands without noticing it. Luke was telling me the first trips we made, the ones I was too young to remember, when I would always go to Mon’s bed to sleep with my plush cat, and I was touched, I kept smiling until I saw our hands clutched together and pulled away mine. He then smiled and pulled the car over as we had finally arrived to their house.

As soon as I saw Nathan I couldn’t breathe, he was so cute, his green eyes were so huge that I could melt in them and his smile was just too perfect that could leave me blind. I felt myself start drooling and I looked away.

We arrived to California 4 hours later, and arrived to the place we were staying in 1 hour after.

Mon greeted me with a hug and then showed me my room. It was awesome, it had the only TV of the house and it had a huge bed. It also had a mini freezer where I put all the sodas I had bought. The boys wouldn’t stop complaining about how I got the best room and Mon couldn’t stop laughing, and basically told them to screw themselves. I actually loved her.

The first days were relaxing, there was nothing to do and I spent all my mornings with Luke, before he went to surf with Nathan and Michael. Nathan was being randomly affectionate with me lately, he hugged me out of nowhere and smiled and winked at me. I had to stop myself from drooling every single time. And Michael and I started talking again, we finally spoke about the kiss and got to the conclusion that it was too weird and that it will never happen between us again.

I got sick on the fifth day; I couldn’t stop vomiting and had high fevers. It was 6:00 am, I was on my bed, my skin looked almost green as if my tan had faded off and my face was burning, when suddenly someone knocked my door.

- ‘Hey how are you feeling?’ Luke asked
- ‘Not better, I feel like shit’
- ‘I got you cold watermelon, it's delicious, and I brought some scary movies as you like them.’

We stayed all day together, playing cards, eating watermelon and watching ‘Silent Hill’ and ‘The shining’. And all of a sudden, I noticed myself falling in love with him, I felt my heart starting to beat faster and laughing a little more about his jokes. And when Nate and Mike came to look for him to go surf, he said he was sick and that he was staying home.
It was already midnight when we were finishing watching ‘The Amityville horror’ where Ryan Reynolds had gone insane and was about to kill her whole family when Luke stopped the movie.

- ‘I have to tell you something’ He paused ‘I’ve been feeling kind of odd lately’
- ‘What?’ Odd? Wtf?
- ‘Yeah, I mean… around you. Ever since the trip started and we held hands’ He paused again, this time for a while. ‘Man this is hard, I think I like you Haley, I mean, really like you and I know it will be weird since you used to like Nathan and you made out with my brother but I don’t know, I think we should give it a try.’
- ‘I think I really like you too dumbass.’

He pulled me closer to him and leaned over to give me a kiss, we started making out, our mouths joined and our bodies were pressed together. We started kissing deeply when I heard footsteps coming towards my room and I fled the scene quickly.

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