We'll make it through it all~part two

Chapter One:1

It was a normal summer day, the sun beating down on everyone, tanning them. Kids in sprinklers and pools, the sky cloudless. Adults of every age were working in their yards.2

Malorie rolled over in bed later that morning. It had been five hours since her run that morning, when she had seen her dad leave. She couldn’t help but notice the look in his eyes as he pulled away from the spot they were talking at. Something sad, almost depressing, but yet still full of life. The way he always seemed to be. That’s where she had gotten it. In many ways she was a lot like her dad. The love of English class, English literature, reading, falling in to the world’s where nothing mattered, except for the words on the page. They also liked music, music of all kinds, the early morning hours and the feeling of the wind on your face and in your hair. He used to run with her, but now it seemed work always got in the way. She was fine with it, not at first, but now she was. It became her time to think, and as she laid in bed that morning, listening to the noises outside, she thought about the most incredible looking guy she saw that morning moving in to the house down the street. She had a boyfriend, a football player who was absolutely gorgeous, but she couldn’t stop the thoughts of the boy from that morning. He was very tall, she remembered, broad shoulders, an incredible smile. As she ran by he had a huge smile on his face, dimples showing completely, that’s how she knew. She shook her head, cursing herself for thinking that way.3

“You have a boyfriend, stop it!” she said to herself as she rolled out of bed. She went to the bathroom to take a long, hot shower.4

Jake, too, was thinking of her. She was beautiful. Never in his life had he ever seen anyone like her. Morgan was pretty, but he was trying to forget her. He pushed his thoughts of Morgan away and concentrated on his room, and this new girl he wanted oh so badly, but couldn’t understand why. He slowly unpacked things. His walls would have to be painted of course. He couldn’t stand the plain white they were. He needed color, Lots of it. His stars would have to be glued to the ceiling. His photographs he had taken of various things, his mother absolutely loved them, would have to be hung up on the walls. Along with his shelves for his trophy’s from numerous sports, pictures of him and his family together, and a big group shot of all his friends at there going away party from Colorado. His dresser and bed had been put where they were supposed to be. So he opened drawers, putting clothes away, pulling out blankets and pillows for his bed. His thoughts drifted back to her. He wondered what her name was, what she did in her spare time. Did she write, read, dance or take pictures? What sports did she play? She obviously is on the cross-country team, since he saw her running this morning. Maybe she did it for fun. He didn’t know, but he was determined to find out. She was a mystery to him, but that’s the way he liked girls. To be mysterious, outgoing, laid back, and of course beautiful in every way. She seemed that way, the outgoing, laid back part. He already knew she was beautiful. But would she be the kind of girl that chased boys or let them chase her? That was the mysterious part that he liked. 5

He wanted to talk to her, be with her and he would try, but for now he had things to do, and he knew she would have to wait.6

At the cross country meet that day Malorie took second for girls.  She ran hard and she knew she had.  Her mother and her boyfriend, Eric, met her outside the locker room.  Eric threw his arms around her, giving her a big kiss.7

“Sweetie you did so great!”8

“Thanks Eric!” she said kissing him back.  She has been with Eric for almost seven months now.  They were both in love with each other, but he would be going to college next summer.  And she knew with the distance that they wouldn’t last, but he thought they would, so she kept it to herself.  Her mom dropped Eric off at football practice and drove her and Malorie home.9

“So honey, how about you and I go out for dinner tonight!”   Her mom was always so cheery and she hated it.10

“Yeah sure…okay.”  Her thoughts were elsewhere and she didn’t really feel like spending quality time with her mom because she knew the “sex” talk would come up as it always did.  She went upstairs into the shower.  Once dressed, she had decided to go for a walk to clear her head.  She stepped outside, the sun was bright, sky cloudless, it was beautiful day and she loved it.11

She turned the corner and that’s when she saw him.  The same light brown hair, same slim body with muscle everywhere, shirtless and perfectly tanned.12

Jake, too, saw her. She was just as beautiful as she had been that morning.  Tanned body, shorts and a tank top that showed cleavage, and the same beautiful smile he remembered from earlier that morning. He also had a smile on his face.13

For a while they both just stared at each other.  With smiles on their faces and at that instant they both had fallen for each other.14