Sail Away- Nathan Sykes

Chapter 12: The Parker Photos

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-Monita’s POV-

When I woke I took the wheel from Captain. We were heading around Skopelos and towards the edge of Alonissos Island hoping that after a pause at civilization we would once retreat to a discreet bay. The one on the charted list was Marpoynta Bay. I’d been there once before and it was everything beautiful, of cause though, everything here was beautiful.

It was early, maybe four in the morning and the stars still littered the sky and somehow I couldn’t help but think about what Nathan had said. Then I’ll stand up for you. It made me weak in the knees every time I replayed it in my head. What made me feel even weaker was when I felt his ghost hand against my cheek to push away those faded tears. I don’t think I’d ever felt this way about a guy before, but the weirdest thing was… it wasn’t quite love. I know what love feels like, and this wasn’t quite it. It was a new emotion I felt with Nathan, something that I wanted to trust and delve further into… but at the same time it made me feel confused.

“Mornin’,” someone said and I jumped. Griffin laughed and shook his head before patting my back, “It’s just me,” he said smiling. I smiled back and laughed at myself.

“Well now I know,” I reply.

“What did you take me for Monny? Some serial killer who managed to sneak onto the boat and instead of going for the famous guys downstairs, who’d be easier to beat up, goes for you?”

“It’s plausible,” I say and we both laughed. It ended soon enough though and there was a long silence, for probably the first time since when we first met it was awkward.

“Monita,” he said taking in a deep breath and sat himself down in front of me. I nodded and looked up at him. He paused and looked at my face, the bruises had faded and melted into his rusty tan now and the only thing stopping him from swimming was his broken arm. “You and Nathan…”

“It’s nothing,” I say turning away and cutting him off. He laughed.

“So there is something going on, I thought so,” he said grinning devilishly. I couldn’t help but take a double look at the smugness on his face and felt the blush creep onto my face before I started to laugh.

“Fine!” I say just to end his questioning looks. It was the wrong thing because more appeared within moments.

“So are you dating yet?”

“No,”

“Has he kissed you?”

“No.”

“Have you at least hugged!”

“He did last night when I was crying,” I say looking down and avoiding his eyes quickly. I’d just done the one thing that would make Griffin go mad instantly. When I was upset, he wanted to kill the guy who made me feel that way.

He stood up and made me look at him. “Why were you crying,” he said sternly.

“I was tired and I was being an emotional teenager…” I say looking at the Nat sav.

“I’ve heard that too many times, Monny yo…”

“Griffin I love you right,” I say and turn to face him, placing both my hands on his shoulders and looked him right in those cool light bluey green eyes. Something flickered within them and I continued, “So please trust me when I say that I don’t want to talk about it right now. Maybe later, just… not now, I’m happier so let’s just keep thinking happy.”

He nodded and I hugged him. It didn’t take him any more than a split second to pull me into a bear hug and fling me around while we both laughed. “Thanks Griffin,” I say and push my head into the crock of his neck while my legs wrapped around his waist kept me at his eye level.