Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3503487-20150124225710/@comment-3503487-20150124225916

~ ~ December 2013 ~ ~

The feeling from Erin's kiss lingered on Nate's cheek for days. He was feeling all the better. He had been moping around for a week prior, and it was really stupid. He was Nate Carter, and he was always charming around the ladies. Nobody would have suspected that he of all people would be a virgin. He never was really slapped in the face with this either until the night he met Shelly Elberry and almost hooked up in her car before his brain turned on and became just really conscious of what he was doing. He had given himself this false sense of confidence from all the encounters he had with girls that were, at least in his mind, smooth. But maybe he really didn't want to be that guy who just hooked up with girls. Or maybe he had always had feelings for Erin that stopped him from doing just that. That would certainly explain the elation he couldn't wipe away from his face after the nice things she said to him and she kissed him on the cheek. Maybe Erin liked him back. Girls didn't just kiss anyone on the cheek did they? And the things she said to cheer him up were so sincere. Surely there had to be feelings there. The more Nate thought about getting together with Erin the more excited he felt. But maybe he should wait a little bit. Erin seemed to be very busy between her work for school and fashion. Christmas break would be the perfect time. He had a lot of time to think about how to ask her out perfectly. Perfect.

~ ~ ~ Erin was busy. Between her upcoming exams and her fashion work and keeping up with everything else, she had little time for her friends and family, let alone dealing with Nate and his fiasco. As much as she felt horrible for thinking it, Nate was moping about such trivial things, and she wished she didn't have to go deal with that. Why a grown man would get so beat down by this, she had no idea, but she wanted to make Nate go back to normal as quickly as possible without thinking too much about it. She was glad when Crystal texted her, telling her that Nate was much better. She didn't have time to deal with more. Besides, she was tired of living here in Miduna Beach. She thought about the many events in her life, and she remembered the grief she went through losing her mother and how much it pained her to see her father that way and how difficult it was for her, her dad, and her sister to pick up and come from Barfield to have a new start in Miduna Beach. But Miduna Beach didn't seem to be that new start. Her dad's life was no way to live as he was a busy attorney working all the time to support her and her sister under high stress. She sighed as she tried to block all this out of her mind and focus back in on what she had to do.

Soon, Erin's exams were over and she was finally ready for Christmas break. She joyfully returned home to get ready to meet with Crystal to celebrate the end of their term. As she set her books down, her phone rang, and she glanced at the caller ID, seeing an unknown number from New York before picking up.