A few days had gone by since I last saw Enea, the last time being the night of the kiss. During that time Kai and I had been shuffled off to grandmas whilst the electricity was off at our house. Dad had accidently cut the power whilst trying to install a tanning bed in the garage. "It's meant to be our own personal reiki therapy area." Mom said when Kai and I protested the decision to renovate yet another room in the house.

"What about my surfboards, where am I supposed to store them?" Said Kai, his main concern. I on the other hand worried about more important things like erm....the freaking car. Keeping a tanning bed in the garage was neither safe or legal, I thought, not really sure about the latter.

Nevertheless, days at grandma were slow and since Kai seemed to want to keep to himself and his portable video games, I was left alone to catch up on some reading.

Grandma had been so sweet. She always brought Kai and I a hot cup of cocoa just before bed, saying it would contribute to sweet dreams and an even sweeter life. She would give each of us a pinch in the cheek whilst saying this. I loved it, however this time around Kai had shown signs of having grown out of his love for hot cocoa and grandma's soft pinches.

"If you want me to wet the bed..." He had hissed, when grandma asked why Kai had refused her special hot cocoa. He had kept to himself for the majority of our stay, a pubescent thing I suppose. God knows I had it, still have, mom would protest.

"Ellie, you're back!" Sara had greeted me with open arms once I returned home from grandmas. Between pier four and five is where her mother had her beach café, thier speciallty being exoctic smoothie drinks. Although the power was back at the house, mom suggested we keep out while her and dad put new tiles in the bathroom upstairs.

"How was your stay at grandmas?"

"I liked it." I said, throwing a sour glance towards Kai. He rolled his eyes and then snatched a menu from one of the tables.

"What's up with him?" Sara grinned.

"I dunno?" I shrugged. "The waves were pretty flat today and so he didn't catch any this morning."

"I told you if you just let me surf by the cliffs..." Kai budged in.

"There is no way."

"The cliffs?" Sara frowned.

"It's where the big boys surf." I winked. "Too bad I don't see any big boys around here." I said ever so loud with the purpose of embarrassing Kai.

"Sara!" A voice called.

"Yes mom?"

A plump woman emerged towards the counter with a tray of empty glasses. "What have I told you about chatting to your friends during work hours? These drinks aren't going to make themselves."

"Yes mom."

"Sorry Mrs Cardoso."

"No worries honey. Are your parents still working on that house?"

"Yes."

Sara's mother gave away a light chuckle, "Well tell them I said good luck." she said, and continued towards the kitchen.

"Ignore her." Said Sara. I had come to realize that Gwenedline's parents weren't the only ones who had begun talking about our family's issues with the house. The issue being that it was never finished. Every summer our parents would redo something, a room. Tools would lay around the house for days, gathering dust. Kai once shot himself with a nail gun and was in need of several stitches in his right hand. After bragging about it once he got back to school, a teacher had called my parents and asked them if there were many safety hazards lying around the house. They had laughed it off at dinner but somewhere deep down I knew that they had to admit the absurdity about our living situation.

It wasn't that my parents were procrastinators, no. However the work on the house never finished and neither Kai nor I understood the reason why.

Sara let me keep her company in the kitchen whilst she made smoothies. In between running the blender we talked, mostly about the kiss I shared with Enea.

"So did he kiss you, kiss you, or was it more of a natural reaction to kiss you back?"

"Erm...a bit of both." I said, tossing a frozen strawberry into my mouth. "He was hesitant at first, but then he kind of kept up with me. If you know what I mean. Either way it was a thousand times better than with Augusto Fernadez."

I had explained to Sara my reason for bailing on her the night at the party, about how I was upset with my first experience of penetration.

"I'm not sure what you mean. Perhaps you could show me?"

"Show you?" I frowned.

"Yes, show me." Sara smiled deviously, also handing me a giant grapefruit.

"On this?" I pointed to the fruit.

"Go on." She nods.

For the fun of it I began stroking its sides, pretending to remove Enea's imaginary curls. "Then I leaned in like this." I said and gently placed my lips upon the smooth surface of the grapefruit.

"What, no tongue?" Said Sara, turning off the blender that had been running. She poured the batch into two cups.

"Right! I gasped. "Then I went something like this..." Tossing my hair to the side, I vigorously started making out with the grapefruit, really putting one on it. Sara's laughter echoed somewhere behind my closed eyes, that is, until Kai walked in and her laughter seized.

"Weird." He said, stumbling upon the bizarre scene.

"What's up little bro?" I smiled, putting down the chapstick smeared fruit. Both Sara and I struggled to contain our laughter.

"I know what I want now," He sighed.

"Pardon?"

"From the menu." He said, pointing to the flier. "A papaya shake."

Sara nods. "One papaya shake coming up. let me just get these two orders out" She grabbed the two newly blended drinks, Kai held the door for her. Once they shut he turned to me with his brows shaped into a relentless frown.

"What?" I questioned as I jumped off the counter, leaving behind my temporary lover that was the grapefruit.

"What were you doing?" He said, almost with exhaustion. I had come to realize that this newfound mood of his had more than often been directed at me and only me.

"What?" I shrugged. His eyes traveled towards the grape that lay on the steel counter.

"Oh that. I was pretending to kiss a boy, but you wouldn't know anything about that...or would you?" I teased. It didn't work, Kai still seemed to be in a bit of a mood.

"What's up with you lately?" I snapped.

"Me?" He said, eyes widening in surprise.

"Yes you. You've been acting weird ever since we left grandmas."

"It's your fault? "He muttered.

"Pardon?" Just then an exhilarated Sara entered the kitchen. "Guess what?" She said, her smile containing more than what was being said.

"What?" I said, hands to my hips. My talk with Kai had wiped away any previous joy I had found making out with the citrus.

"Or better yet who, guess who?"

"Who?"

"Enea, that's who."

"Where, out there?"

"Mhm." She nods. "Him and his friends just ordered a huge batch of papaya shake."

I felt my heart racing. I hadn't seen or talked to Enea since the night of the kiss. What if he regretted it? What if he thinks I'm a creep now that I've peaked on him naked and later forced a kiss on him? Perhaps he has told all of his friends and they've spent hours laughing at me.

"What should I do?" I said nervously, clearly in distress.

"I know!" Sara jolted. "Help me carry out their orders."

"What?" Sweat had begun dampening my forehead.

"To their tables, help me deliver their papaya shakes." Sara nods assuringly. "We'll pour you one as well Kai." I had forgotten about Kai and his prescance in the kitchen. If I had only looked his way I would have noticed the sheer look of envy on his face. Perhaps then I could have foreseen some of the following events.

Sara had the blender on full spin, the customers probably thought that we ran a butcher in there.

"I really can't do this!" I shouted over the ear shattering noise. "What if he doesn't want to see me considering he hasn't called or texted since that night.

"Don't be silly." Said Sara, handing me an apron like the one she was wearing. This way it looked like I worked at the café.

Kai watched on as the blender ran on full spin, Sara had let him rev the engine whenever chunks would slow up the blending.

"Just hand him his papaya shake, say " would you like something else?", if not, turn around and start swinging your hips on your way back to the kitchen."

"Sara!" I gasped. "What's there to gain?"

"Well... certainly his attention. Maybe then he'd care enough to text you back?

"Right." I nod, perhaps she was right.

"Alright, you ready?"

"No."

"Well it's now or never."

Sara went to prepare the tray of glasses. My job was to pour the shakes.

"Kai shut it down!" I shouted over the noise. The engine was running hot by now.

"What was that Ellie? I can't hear you." He said gesturing with a hand to his ear.

"I said shut it..."

The engine made one last shredding noise before Kai lost control and the blending batch erupted like a volcano.

"Whatta....Kai!!!!" I was drenched from top to bottom.

The kitchen looked like a crime scene from the movie ghostbusters. There was slime dripping down from where it had shot up towards the ceiling, even the walls were covered in colorful goo.

"Kai, what did you do?"

Kai shook his head in denial, he had little chunks of papaya shake stuck in his hair. "I...I...Nothing" He was panting like a dog. Taking cautious steps back whilst I was stepping forwards. "This is your fault you told me to stop too late."

"My fault?" I chuckled sarcastically. "I am going to kill you."

Kai's arms shot up in defense, covering his face. "I'll tell mom."

"Sure, but by then it will be too late."

"Ellie don't!" Sara emerges from her temporary hiding place behind the fridge. She had managed to take cover before the disaster and hadn't been stained one bit.

"Why not?"

"It was an accident."

"Exactly, yes!" Kai nods agreeingly. "An accident."

"No it wasn't. "I turned to him with a look of sheer despise. Just admit it, you've been after me for weeks, but I can't figure it out why."

"Ellie stop, please."

I had backed Kai into a corner, his puppy dog eyes and trembling body did nothing to settle my anger.

"You're crazy. I'll tell mom. Stay back... or I'll tell mom."

Just then the kitchen door flung open and Kai was saved by Sara's mom stumbling into her devoured kitchen. "What in the world?" Her eyes traveled to the sealing.

Kai managed to slip past her and out of the kitchen.

"Get back here!" I shouted as I ran after him, forgetful that my clothes were drenched in papaya shake.

"Ellie?"

Amongst the dussins of eyes I had on me when stumbling out into the cafe, I found Enea's immediately. He stood up whilst his friends remained seated, wondering if he had mistaken the sight of Kai flashing past his eyes on his way out of the cafe.

"I'll go get him." Said Sara as she came up behind me. Kai couldn't have gotten further than the pier four and five.

"What are you...?" Enea's eyebrows furrowed as he looked me up and down. Behind him his friends were smothering their laughter, all of them except for Enzo who didn't bother hiding his smirk.

"Oh my god, Ellie!" Gwendeline gasped, a hand to her mouth. She and Raul Ferenadez had just walked in.

I wanted to bury my face in the sand. Sara's mother escorted me back to the kitchen.

"Let's hose you off in the back. Okay hun."

"Okay." My voice was small, on the verge of tears.

I couldn't remove my clothes since I had to hose off outside. I'd have to walk home in wet clothes.

I watched the remaining papaya shake wash off me and onto the gutter. Oh how I would kill Kai in his sleep. I'd smother him with a pillow. What could I possibly have done to deserve this?

"Ellie?"

The water hose tightened in my grip as Enea emerged from around the corner. He was careful not to step in the papaya infested water when he approached me.

"E...Enea." I stuttured. He wore a concerned look on his face, but there were still traces of a shy smile.

"I heard Kai got you real good." He said, revealing more of that shy smile.

"Have you seen him?" I asked.

"Yeah, Sara told her mom that she was taking him home."

Hopefully they'd call mom and dad, have them wait for him at the door. Surely they'd be as mad as me.

"You okay?" Enea shifts his stands to get a better look at me as I stand with a bowed head.

"I need dry clothes." I said, raising my chin. Come to think of it, this would have never happened if Enea had bothered to text me back after that night, after our kiss. Had he regretted it that badly, to have called to tell me that he wanted nothing to do with me?

He nods his head. "Yeah, I got you. Let's get you some dry clothes." His arm reaches out to turn off the hose. I am surprised to find him rail me in, eventually resting his arm across my shoulder. "I'm sure I've got something you can wear."

"In your car?" I frowned. We were headed towards the parking lot.

"No, back at the shop." He said.