It was a warm, sunny
afternoon and I was sitting in my garden with my
best friend,
. We had nothing to do, and our summer holidays were
nearly over.
"Why don't we go swimming?" I suggested. I loved swimming, but was aware of how
much
hated it.
"Mmmmm... no, I can't be bothered to go to
today."
said. We sat in silence for a few more minutes.
"How about we go into
?" I asked.
"No,
, let's just stay here for a while." Was the reply. I thought for
a bit, I wasn't happy with
's laziness. I HAD to get her out, and I
really fancied cooling off in the pool. Also there happened to be a totally
gorgeous life guard at
and I always flirted with him each time I
went, which was probably why
didn't like going!
"You know, I heard that
was going to
today." I mentioned
after we had been laying on my grass for what seemed like forever.
"WHAT?!"
sat up, and looked at me as if to say 'carry on..'
"Well I heard him talking the other day to
and they were planning on
going swimming today."
"Well let's go then." and with that
stood up and began grabbing my arm
to get me up. I smiled as I got to my feet, happy of
's foolish
personality.
*****************
We got to the pool to see that infact
wasn't there.
wasn't
happy but we stayed anyway. It wasn't long before I spotted the fit life guard.
must have seen me looking at him because at that moment she pretended
to be in trouble in the water. 'She always was too loud' I thought as I swam
away from her and to the life guard to tell him she was OK and just fooling
around. At that moment she began shouting
"
!
!"
"What?!" I shouted. She then swam away, to the opposite side of the pool.
'strange' I thought. I was about to follow her off before I heard a cute Irish
voice behind me: "So that's your name then."
"Huh?" I spun round in the water to see the life guard looking down on me.
"
. I'm
." He said as he helped me out the pool.
"Oh, hi" I replied
"Erm.. do you wanna grab a bite to eat?" He asked. I was hardly going to turn
him down and when I gave him the affirmitive we went to the poolside bar. Hardly
romantic, but still I was weak in the knees.
"So who's your friend?"
asked. I glanced over at
, she had met
some of our friends from school and gave me a wave before running to the slides.
I was glad she stayed away, now I got time with
.
We talked for ages about everything, how he was in a band named Westside but it
had yet to get big, how he was only in
for the summer, and this
was his summer job. etc. etc.
*****************
The rest of the summer holidays I spent with
and it was fantastic. We
went around like boyfriend and girlfriend, yet all I wanted was to kiss him, but
I was too shy to be so forward, if only I was more like
! Then
came, and
's visit drew to a close. I was at the park with
him, on his last evening. He was holding me so close, I never wanted it to end.
But, at last, it was time for me to leave.
walked me home as usual, but as
we turned into my road he stopped me. I looked at him, about to ask him what was
wrong, but he put his finger to my lips.
"
, this is really hard for me to say, I don't want this moment to end."
His eyes began to fill with tears. "I've never felt this way about anyone
before, and the thought of me going back to Ireland and you staying here is
heartbreaking. What if we never see each other again?"
"Don't say that. We will meet again. You know where I live and I've got your
address." I said, and I put my hand to his cheek.
"
, you don't understand. I think... I think I'm in love with you."
said and he gave me a hug, which lasted for ages. When we broke it was
ovbious what was going to happen. I knew it and so did
. We leant our
heads forward and began to kiss. This was perfect, so natural and right. When
the kiss ended, and I was back in my bed at home, dreaming about what had just
happened my phone beeped to signal a text. I picked it up and saw that it was
from
. It said:
had a gr8 nite.thinkin of u always.look under ur bed.
love
xxx
I looked under my bed,
and I had been in my room
earlier. I found a CD. It said on the cover: WESTLIFE: WORLD OF OUR OWN.
had written somthing inside it.
, I was lying when I sed I was in an
unsucsessful band named Westside. I'm in Westlife, I just didn't want you to
take me any differently if you knew I was in Westlife. Listen to song number 6.
This is the song that I wanna dedicate to you. I love you. Love
xxx
I put the CD in the player, my hand still shaking. The song started and all the
words seemed to fit. 'I wanna grow old with you, I wanna die lying in your arms,
I wanna grow old with you, I wanna be looking in your eyes....'
A tear ran down my cheek, I was in love with
not
Westlife, yet still they both make my heart skip a beat when they look at me,
still I can't help wanting to kiss them, still I wish I could just see them,
even for a second. Now I know who he is, will I ever get to see him again?
Probably not, and as I thought this I looked into the Westlife case. There I
noticed a silver ring. I studied it closely and saw that engraved in it was
I love you, love
. I put it on and immediately felt closer to
then I ever had before.