I laid on the beach and watched the waves roll in, when I was little this was my favorite thing to do. It seemed like I had been laying on the beach for hours, before I decided to leave, I went into a little beach shop near by. “Good afternoon,” the guy at the counter said with a perfect smile. “Can I help you with anything?” I looked up at him, as I kept walking. The guy working was around my age probably 16 or 17. He looked like a guy you would see in a movie or the kinda guy you see with the captain of the cheer leading team, not in working in a little beach store. He had sandy blond hair, with the lightest streaks of brown, and pretty blue eyes. The guy he had been talking to had dark brown hair and brown eyes he too looked also looked like someone on TV, but not any where as cute as the other guy. I couldn't think of anything to say and it didn't help that they weren't being to sly that they were checking me up and down.

“Um... no I'm just looking.” I finally choked out.

“Weren't you at that party yesterday?” The blonde guy at the cash register asked. I was at a party yesterday, but I didn't think it was a party he would be at. It was a party for one of my dads friends, it was a huge party but I think I would have noticed him there. “Masons party?” He said after I didn't answer. That was the party I was at.

“Yeah. Were you there?” That was a dumb question, since he knew I was there he was obviously there. How did he see me if I hadn't seen him? I wonder why I didn't noticed him.

“Yea I was there. Let me know if you need any help.”

I tried not to look there way again but it was hard because every once in a while I could see from the corner of my eye they would look over at me. It made my heart pound hard and made me feel a little self conscious that they were looking at me. I moved over to look at the flip flops when a girl, around my age walked into the store. As she walked in she flipped her wet hair, and took her sunglasses off. She was very pretty, with blond hair and cute designer clothes on. What was it with the people here and looking like movie stars. As she walked closer to the two boys they kind of turned around and pretended like they were in some serious conversation.

“Hey,” She said, not getting the clue that they didn't want to talk to her.

“Are you ready to check out?” The one with blond hair, that was working asked her. Since she just walked in she couldn't possibly be ready to check out.

“No I just came to talk to you.” She said to the guy that worked here, the guy with brown hair rolled his eyes at her

“I'm working.” He said getting irritated with her. The one that had brown hair pretended to be reading a dirt bike magazine, even though I knew he wasn't, I knew he was looking at me.

“Can we hang out later?” She asked him, taking his hand in hers. He didn't answer, so she said. “Please, we haven't hung out in along time it will be fun”

“No.” Was all he said.

“Will you call me tonight then?”

“I don't know Alexa.” He looked down at the counter.

“I'm sorry, okay?” he didn't answer. “Bye Anthony.” She said, and then flipped her hair again as she walked out the door. The blond one, Anthony was it? That was working looked over at me and I quickly looked away, but he saw me looking at him. I could hear them talking about the girl that just came in. They started trying on all different glasses.

“No way.” The blonde one that the girl called Anthony said loudly.

“I'll give you five dollars.” The other one said.

“If I do it you better pay up.” Anthony started walking my way.

“Do these make my head look fat?” He asked me wearing pink sunglasses.

“Only a little” I replied. He was even more cute close up.

“I guess I shouldn’t get them then?” He said.

“No, I think they look good. Does your friend want to know if his glasses make his head look fat too or does he just like staring?” We both looked over at his friend that was staring at us and laughed. His friend was a little taller then him with brown wavy hair that went just past his ears too. He was extremely cute too, he was wearing a white shirt with board shorts.

“He just likes staring. Did you have fun last night?” He said. It took me a minute to realize that he was talking about, the party.

“Yeah, it was alright.” It was actually, kind of boring, there were lots and lots of people, most of which weren't my age.

“Yeah it was kind of boring lots of old people. So how do you know Mason?”

“He's my dad's friend.” My dad and Mason are both journalist so they worked on a story one time and ever since, we've been coming down to LA to visit him or he comes to visit us in Sacramento.

“Same here. So are you here to visit Mason?” He asked.

“Kinda where here on vacation, but I guess were here to see Mason too.”

“Are you having fun so far?”

“Yeah.”

“Sometime while your here you have to go to Fred's ice cream, its down there,” He pointed towards where the door that I came in was. “Its really good.”

“Maybe sometime you can show me it.”

“That would be cool.” He said smiling. “By the way I'm Anthony.”

“Faith.” I said.

“Your not going to buy it?” he asked looking at the necklace I put back.

“No I should probably get going.” I said, looking through the window, it was pouring down rain. I wanted to stay and talk to him, I knew I had to be back at the hotel.

“OK, I'll see you around then?”

“Yeah.” I started walking to the door as he walked to the counter.
By the time I got back to the hotel I was soaking wet, from walking back to the hotel in the rain. It wasn't cold rain so I didn't mind it. When I walked into the hotel room Brody, masons son was sitting on the hotel couch watching a TV. Ever since we were young I thought that Brody was really cute, at one point I even liked him. But he was to much like my brother to be anything more then my best friend.

“Why are you here?” I asked him. He just looked at me.

“Why are you here?” He asked back.

“No need to be rude I was just wondering why you are in my hotel room.”

“My dad wanted to see your dad.”

“So then where are they?” I asked him.

“They went to get pizza.”

After I got changed I went back into the hotel living room and sat on the couch next to Brody.

“So do you know Anthony?” I asked him. “He was at the party last night.”

“Of course I do me and Anthony are like this.” He twisted his fingers together. “Why is someone crushin on Anthony?”

“No I was just wondering.”

“I could set your two up if you want.” He offered. I thought about it but it would be kinda dumb since we live so far away from each other.

For the next few days spent I most my time at the beach, either by myself or with Brody. I was staying at Brodys house since our dads were going fishing for a few days.

Brody and I were used to staying by our self's since my mom is a flight attendant she is gone a lot and my dad is a well known journalist they both travel a lot. And Brody's dad is also a journalist and his mom died when he was little. Me and my dad come to LA a lot, since my dad has a lot of friends here from when he lived here. We used to stay here all summer in a grand parents house, until they moved a way, now we just stay here part of the summer, winter and spring break.

I usually just take one of my friends with me, but this time Kayla, my best friend, who I normally take got grounded a few days before we left, so that didn't leave any time for me to invite some one else, so this time I was going to have to make friends or be with Brody the whole time.

“Whats for breakfast?” I asked Brody. I noticed he was already dressed. When one of us made a meal we made the other some too, so I guess he hadn't eaten yet “Where are you going?”

“I'm going surfing. What to come?” He knew I didn't surf. He tried to teach me when I we were younger, but gave up on me after an hour.

I went back to bed after Brody left. When I woke up it was almost eleven, I got up and got ready.

I decided that I would go to the mall the big one that's a half an hour a way, but Brody took the car. I didn't wanna take another car and I didn't know where they kept the keys any way. I didn't know where Brody was going surfing, but I guess it was far enough that he needed the car.

Finally Brody got home, he had another guy with him. They were talking about surfing and they were still wet.

“Hey,” I said turning off the TV.“Brody, I'm going to the mall” I turned around and it was the guy Anthony from the store, I could tell he knew who I was.

“Okay.” Brody told me going into the kitchen. Anthony stayed where he was.

“Aren't you the girl from the party?” He asked like he did in the store the other day. Of course he didn't remember my name.

“Aren't you the guy from the store?” I asked. “And believe it or not I have a name.”

“Sorry, I mean aren't you Faith ” So he did know my name. I ignored him and walked into the kitchen, he followed me.

“Do you want to come?” I asked Brody. He looked at Anthony.

“No, were going to be here.”

“Your loss.” I said. I went to the counter next to where Anthony was standing to grab my purse.

Brody threw Anthony a soda. It went souring threw the air and hit the floor with a loud thunk, when Anthony didn't catch it. He turned his head away from me as he heard it hit the floor.

“I think you were suppose to catch that.” I said to Anthony as I walked over the big puddle of soda and out the kitchen. “So you don't need the car at all tonight, cause I won't be back for a while?”

“No I don't need it and I have other cars any way. You know you could have just taken one of them?” Brody said looking at the food.

“Your taking the car?” Anthony asked me, before I could answer Brody.

“Yeah.” I said and walked to the door. After I was down the stairs the door opened. When I looked up it was Anthony walking towards me.

“What you already get sick of Brody?” I asked as he reached me.

“No I left my phone in the car.” I could see his phone in his front pocket.

“So you have two phones?” I asked him. He looked at me, my heart jumped. “Your phones in your pocket.” I explained. He smiled at me showing his perfect teeth and taking my breath a way.

“Well I just, I didn't know if you knew where the car was.” I had been here my whole life plus it was parked in the drive way so of course I knew where the car was.. But I didn't say that since I wanted to walk with him and I think he wanted to walk with me, or he wanted something since he was making up these excuses to come.

“So Brody is you cousin?” He asked.
“No”

“Boyfriend?” He asked me.

“No, he's just a friend.”

“Just a friend?” he questioned further

“Yes just a friend.”

“How long are you here for?”

“Just another week.”

“Where are you from?”

“Sacramento. How about you, do you live here?” I thought he did because he worked in the store, but I wasn't sure.

“No, I live in Tahoe.”

“So your on vacation?” I remembered he asked me the same thing when we were in the store.

“No, my dad lives here so I visit him when I'm out of school.”

“That's cool. Were you and Brody surfing?”

“Yeah,”

“So what are you guys going to do the rest of the day?” I asked him.

“I don't know, just hang out here.”

“So I'll see you around.” I said. He opened the car door for me. I smiled at him and he smiled back. I wished I wasn't going to the mall so I could stay here with him and Brody. But I couldn't, I didn't need to get close to anyone.