Chapter 5 – edited by ASHLEY_B3

I was still blushing when we got back to our room that night. Again he kissed me on the cheek and whispered. “We’ll practice our kiss again tomorrow.” He smiled and raised his eyebrows naughtily at me before going to his room. I rolled my eyes at him and he laughed.

“Wow.” Gina chirped excitedly. “I feel like he just used practice as a reason for him to kiss you again.” She laughed when she saw me blushing. ”By the way, tell me how it feels to be kissed by him?”

I shyly told her. “Well surprisingly, it does feel good, but I’ve never kissed anyone before, Gina. I don’t know how I'm supposed to respond.” I could feel my face turning dark red when Gina giggled.

“Well, don’t worry, I’ll teach you. Let me tell you what you should do when he kisses you again. I’m very sure, if you do that, he would never want to stop kissing you.” she laughed, and started explaining to me.

My eyes nearly popped out and my jaw was dropping to the ground when I heard her explanations. I even made a yucky face at her during some parts of her demonstration. Yes, she even demonstrated. How? By kissing my hand of course and let me feel her tongue. What were you guys thinking? She kissed me? Oh no, ewww. She managed to convince me to try it myself and after much practiced she was finally satisfied. We both couldn't wait to see Carl's reaction when he sees my response to his kiss just the way Gina had taught me.

We continued our journey early the next morning so that we could catch the 3:00 o'clock boat. Ben took over driving while Carl sat at the back saying that he couldn’t sleep last night. The girls were teasing him saying maybe he was thinking about kissing me again was why he was unable to sleep. Carl just smirked at them but winked at me.

We arrived at the port just in time for the 3.00 pm boat. The guys got into the boat first to load our bags and then helped us girls getting inside. Carl held my hand, and led me to our seat. Yeah, he sat beside me. Very, very close to me and not only that, he put his arms around my waist. Oh my, I could feel my heart was doing somersaults throughout the ride. I kept reminding myself to calm down and that this is just pretend. Vicky is his dream girl, remember that. You are to help him with his mission to make her jealous, I told myself. He only has eyes for Vicky.

Yes, Vicky aka Victoria is a beautiful girl with long Burgundy hair, with beautiful hazel eyes, a full round face with a petite nose and small ears. She and I had known each other since we were in pre-school. We were good friends and grew up to be tomboys in our primary days. She would called me Kier and while I called her Vic, which were boys names. Our moms would scold us when they heard us called each other those names, but as time went by she had grown into a beautiful girl. Every guy would definitely fall in love with her charming and sweet beautiful voice, and as you know that includes Carl. When we were in high school, she would have her own popular group of friends, while I'd have my own, like Carl, Jack, Ben, and Jason. Her popular group of friends would be Cheerleaders and football players while mine would be other sports other than football players. I don’t know why, but our group would never get along with the football players. Maybe because they always thought that they were high and mighty and every girl in school would swamp around them like crazy, especially the football captain.

Even though Vicky and I have a separate group of friends, we still acknowledged each other and remained good friends. She would still sometimes spend time helping us in my mom’s bookstore. She still treated me the same but I could never get along with her group of friends. They would stare at me and looked at me as if I was a weirdo or something. Sometimes they would purposely make jokes and laugh at me. That’s why whenever she was surrounded by her friends I would stay away from her. Vicky realized that and never forced me to get along with her friends. However, Vicky and I had grown further apart when we both went to a different college. She went to USC while I went to PrincetonUniversity. We would only see each other if she came back home during the break which she seldom did. I would always go back home during the break because I love to help my mom in her bookstore, except for this summer of course.

Carl and Vicky had known each other since high school especially when Carl's family moved into her neighborhood and they became neighbors. Carl was our school's Baseball Captain, which the guys and I were part of the team. He was one of the guys that girls loved to swamp. They would sometimes purposely get close to me so that I would introduce them to him, but he never showed any interest in them, except of course when it came to Vicky. He would look and smile dreamily at her. However, Vicky never seemed to be attracted to any of the guys in high school, including Carl and our school's Football Captain, Marc, both the most good looking guys in our school. I didn't even know if she had a boyfriend now.

We finally reached the island. It was beautiful and Carl’s family’s villa was huge. It had 10 bedrooms, but Gina and I decided to share a room instead of having a room by ourselves, while Mia and Tasha decided to share with their boyfriends. Carl took the master bedroom, which is opposite of ours, while Jack took the room next to ours.

Gina and I were so excited that we decided to change and then went straight to the beach. We didn’t even bother to unpack our things. I was wearing the bikini I bought that day. No, not the red skimpy bikini, it’s too revealing. I felt naked wearing it, so I bought something that was not so revealing and was nice for my body. I put on a thin white shirt on top of it to cover myself for awhile. It just doesn’t feel comfortable letting the guys look at me walking down in a bikini. Not yet, maybe not until I am use to it.

We were both running down the stairs, when suddenly Jack called out our names. “Hey girls, wait up.”

We both looked up and saw him and Carl grinning at us and they were already in their shorts. “We're going to join you.” continued Jack smiling.

“Yeah.” injected Carl, looking at me. “Kierra, you are not suppose to go anywhere without me by your side.”

“Why?” I asked.

“What are we suppose to be for the whole summer?” he asked me back, putting his hand on his hip, looking at me like I was dumb.

“Oh.” I just realized and bit my bottom lip.

He grinned widely at me. “Come on baby, let’s go and enjoy ourselves.” he said, taking my hand and leading me towards the beach.

My, did he just call me baby? I just shook my head and followed him. It’s all pretending, I kept telling myself.

Gina and Jack were already enjoying themselves on the beach, while I was still too shy to take off the shirt and reveal what I was wearing underneath in front of Carl.

“You're not going to wear that when we’re swimming, right?” teased Carl, laughing at me. He knew I was feeling uncomfortable and he was enjoying it.

“Maybe.” I smirked at him.

“Come on Kierra,” he laughed. “You should not feel uncomfortable when you're around me. Remember, we're supposed to be lovers and enjoying ourselves just like Gina and Jack over there. Maybe you want me to help you?” he teased, trying to unbutton my shirt.

I pushed his hand away. “No thank you, I can do it myself.” I glared. “Can you please turn around?” I instructed him to look the other way.

He laughed. “Kierra, I’m not going to turn around. Let me help you, ok? It’s what lovers normally do to each other, unbutton their shirts and undress each other.” he said, trying to unbutton my shirt again.

I slapped his hand away and quickly put my hand up covering myself. I glared at him. “Take your hands off of me, or I’ll going to smack you.” I said, showing him my fist ready to punch him.

Putting his hand up surrendering, he laughed. “Ok, ok. Cool down, Kierra. You're not going to hit your boyfriend, are you?”

“If he doesn’t behave himself, I might do just that.” I warned him, still clutching my fist.

“Ok, I’m sorry, I’ll behave.,” he said, still laughing, while I kept glaring at him. “Ok, I’ll turn around.” he chuckled and turned his face away.

I nervously unbuttoned my shirt, when suddenly Carl wrapped his hands around my waist and put his face inches from me.

“Vicky is coming our way.” he whispered. “Quick, we need to kiss now.” he lowered his head and touched his lips to mine.

I quickly kissed him and remembered what Gina had taught me. I bit his bottom lip and once I felt his mouth open I put in my tongue into it. I heard him moan and it was making me feel thrilled. Suddenly, I felt his tongue doing the same thing and God it felt so wonderful that I moaned. Luckily there was a tree behind me, so I leaned against it. I could feel Carl’s hand moving up and down my body. My hands were grabbing his hair, wanting to feel more of him. I heard a loud cough behind us and we both quickly pulled apart. I was out of breath and I could feel I was blushing.

It was Vicky who was coughing behind us and she laughed when she saw that both of us were out of breath and blushing away.

“Hey, you two get a room.” she teased.

Carl wrapped his right hand around my waist and held me closer to him. “Hey, Vicky.” he acknowledged her.

“Hey, Vic.” I acknowledged her, still blushing.

“Oh my God, Kier.” she screamed. “You look.... My God…. You look stunning.” she pulled me into a hug.

“Thanks Vic.” I smiled and pulled away. ”You look as beautiful as always.” I praised her.

“Oh, yeah?” she smiled. “But I think you look amazing. Your mom must be very happy seeing you like this.”

“She hasn’t seen me yet.” I chuckled.

“Oh my, I think your mom is going to cry when she sees you.” she laughed and I laughed with her.

“Yeah, I thought so too,”

“Wow, look at what love has done to you.” she said, nodding her head towards Carl and I.

I looked at Carl, he smiled, pulled me towards him, and kissed my temple. “Yeah, my love has changed her.” he said proudly, smiling at Vicky. I smirked at him, shaking my head. Both of them laughed at me.

“Hey, I’ve heard that you came here with your friends?” Vicky asked Carl, who still had his arm wrapped around my waist.

“Yeah, there’s Jack and Gina over there.” replied Carl, nodding to Gina and Jack, who were still swimming and didn't realize we were talking to Vicky. “Ben and Jason are also here with their girlfriends.” explained Carl.

“Wow, that’s great.” smiled Vicky. “Well I’m having a party tonight at my Villa. Please come and bring along your friends. Just dress casually.” She continued. “Some of our old friends will also be there and I can’t wait for them to meet you again Kier. They are going to be very surprised. I can’t wait to look at their faces.” she hugged me. “Promise you’ll be there?”

“We promise.” both Carl and I nodded.

“Good, I'll see you all at 8.00 pm tonight.” she kissed both Carl and I and waved goodbye.

I looked at her walking away. Vicky was always a charming and beautiful girl. She was supposed to be jealous seeing me with Carl right? So why did she look happy instead? Has our mission failed? I looked at Carl, who was still looking at Vicky with a smile on his face.

He then turned to look at me and smiled naughtily. “Where did you learn to kiss like that?” he asked.