Teach Me How To Kiss {Wattys2014}

Chapter 1 Party Invitation

There was a long hallway that had three bedrooms and a hall bath connected to it. Two of the bedrooms had ensuites, so Lauren and I took those rooms. The inside of the bedrooms were just as nice as the living space, with queen beds and furniture sets to match. But the most amazing feature of the rooms were the sliding patio doors the existed out to the veranda that was out back facing the nearby beach. This place was amazing.

After we settled in and unpacked our things Lauren forced me into one of the bikinis she had brought for me. It was an all white number with beads hanging off the top of the bottoms and on one side of the top piece. I had to admit the bikini was super cute, just not on me. But Lauren insisted that I looked amazing and refused to let me change. But I had demanded I were a light knit cover-up before she dragged me out of the house.

We were now on the beach making our way through the sand in search of a camping spot and I was getting more anxious the further in we went, "Oh look there's a spot right over there Mia come on, I can't wait to start on my tan,” Lauren said while grabbing my hand and dragging me over to the spot she had found.

We spread out our towels and dropped our beach bags in the sand before stretching out to lounge. We had already put sun tan lotion on before we left the villa.

I had left my sheer thin cover up on in hopes of trying to stay a little concealed. But no sooner I started to relax on my towel and let the sun pour its vitamin D into my skin, Lauren turned her head towards me and gave me a frown and said, "Take that off Mia! This is the beach for cryin' out loud!" I shook my head furiously at her, "Lauren come on, I'm fine just like this,” I said almost pleading, but Lauren wasn't hearing none of it.

"Mia Danielle Harper you better take that thing off before I do it for you. And please believe I will do it in the most embarrassing way possible,” she said the last part with a wicked grin on her lips. Knowing my best friend all too well I sat up with an annoyed grunt and started to strip myself of my cover up.

When it was all the way off I looked over at Lauren with a glare "There, you happy now?" I asked her while subtly eyeing my surroundings.

Man, I didn't notice how many people were out here until just now and it seemed there were even more guys. I quickly turned my attention back on Lauren who winked at me and said, "Yes, super. You look great, now relax and enjoy the sun,” she said pushing her sunglasses down and turning her head back to its original position.

Still sitting up on my knees, with my arms wrapped around myself, I just stared down at my crazy best friend. I sometimes wish I had the confidence she had. It just came natural to her. She didn't even need to try. I knew my self consciousness and lack of self esteem played a huge part in why I haven't kiss a guy yet let alone had any type of intimate Contact with the opposite sex and I hated myself for it.

Getting a rare spark of determination I pushed those thoughts away and took a calming breath. I can do this, all I’m doing is laying out in the sun and trying to relax, it's no big deal. So with that in mind I pulled my arms from around my body and laid back down on my beach towel, closed my eyes and let the sounds of the world around calm me.

Listening to the crashing of the waves, the whipping of the warm breeze and the distant sound of beach goers laughing and playing had me relaxed in no time. I started to feel comfortable, and almost forgot that I was on a public beach almost naked.

This wasn't so bad, this was actually...nice. Maybe I could feel comfortable in a bikini. Man I am so proud of myself I was really laying on the be--

My thoughts of triumph were quickly interrupted by a huge ball smacking me right in the head, then bouncing off me and hitting Lauren, who I think had fallen asleep, on the bottom.

Lauren and I both snapped our heads up and looked in the direction the offensive ball came from. Me glaring and Lauren yelling at whom ever it was to watch what they were doing. Lauren's yelling came to a halt when the owners of the evil ball came into view and stopped in front of us.

"Oh. My. God" Lauren and I both whispered simultaneously at the sight that was standing in front of us. Standing right there were two of the most gorgeous guys I had ever seen in all of my nineteen years. The one who went down to grab the ball was a guy with short blonde hair and dark blue eyes. He looked about six feet tall and I could see Lauren was admiring his very defined abs.

The guy who stopped in front of me could have been the most gorgeous out of the two. He had short dark, dirty blonde hair and light blue grey eyes. He looked to be a few more inches taller then his friend and his body was most certainly drool worthy.

The blonde haired guy with the ball stepped forward, "Sorry about that, playin' a game over there," he said nodding his head in the direction they just came from, "I'm Derek and this is my best friend Jacob."

The sexy dirty blonde guy, who's name I knew now as Jacob, stretched out his hand to me as did Derek to Lauren. Taking their hands we greeted them with our names as well.

"Hey, I'm Lauren and this is my bestie Mia,” Lauren said speaking for me, which I was grateful for, "Nice to meet you both,” Jacob said giving a breathtaking smile making me flush. ‘Oh my God!' I silently screamed to myself. I could feel myself getting nervous by the minute. His hand felt so masculine and rough, I almost fainted when I shook it. I needed to get out of hear quick before I made a fool out of myself in front of this amazingly good looking guy.

"You guys gonna to be here for a while or is it just a weekend thing?" Derek asked after we got the introductions out of the way. 

Lauren again spoke for the both of us telling them how we are staying the whole summer in her parents villa. At that both Jacob and Derek smiled, “Well, in that case let us make up for the violent ball incident and invite you beautiful ladies to a little party we're having at our villa tonight. What do ya say? You girls in?” It was Jacob who asked all the while giving me a flirty grin, which in turn was making me want to run away, "That is if you don't already have plans,” Derek said quickly when I didn’t respond right away. 

Lauren gave me a side glance and then shook her head discreetly, probably shouting at me in her head to stop being so scary and answer the guy. But I was tongue tied and the more this sexy man in front of me smiled at me the more self conscious and nervous I became. Just then I noticed that I was still in just my bikini and had been standing in front of this guy the entire time! No wonder he's grinning at me. Oh my God! We need to leave now. There was no way I was going to a party.

I went to finally open my mouth to say no we couldn't go, but Lauren beat me to it.

“No, not at all, we BOTH are definitely FREE." Lauren said putting more emphasis on the words ‘both’ and ‘free'. It was obvious she meant that to have a double meaning and I think the guys caught on to that right away.

"Alright then! Our place is about four villas north beach of here. It should be easy to find, just listen out for the loud music." Derek said then said his goodbyes to me and Lauren after telling us his address.

Jacob said his goodbyes to Lauren then turned back to me, "Maybe you'll save me a dance or two, yeah?" he then gave me another gorgeous smile before turning to jog up to his friends not waiting for my reply.

I think I’m about to have a heart attack. He just literally told me to save him a dance or two. Now I'm freaking out about this party more than before! Ooo, this is all Lauren's fault. I turn to Lauren to yell at her and to ask her what the heck was she thinking, seeing as she promised me before we came that there would be no hanging out with guys, but when I looked at her she was still staring off in the direction the two hot guys went to in a daze.

I nudge her harder than I needed to and got her attention back. I looked at her with a raised eyebrow and my arms crossed under my chest. Lauren just stared at me with mock innocence, "What!? I know what I said the other day, but you got to admit Mia, a party sounds fun,” I just rolled my eyes at her and walked back over to our spot on the beach.

The rest of the day was spent by Lauren picking out our clothes and doing our hair and make up for the party that night. I on the other hand was a nervous reck wondering what this party had in store for me and thinking about my dance I was supposed to have with Jacob. As long as it was strictly one innocent dance, I think I could handle it… or at least I hoped I could.