Aidan Frost's Story

Avery, being the girl she had had stayed up most of the night to read and finish this love story she had gotten from the local library the day before. But, she couldn't put it down, every page she read made her have to keep going. And made her want to know the ending even more than most books. But, as most books end. It had to end on a cliff hanger, making the reader decide what happened to the couple, if they lived "happily ever after" or if they ended up like most couples today. Not being one to believe in fairy tails, she sighed and set the book on top of the large pile of books on her nightstand before sinking deeper in her bed and snuggling up to her blanket. Drifting off to sleep.

She didn't know how much sleep she got until she heard a repeat banging on her door. Before hearing some man shout through the door, "Avery!" Aidan Frost. A boy she had just met a little over three weeks ago and he already pushing to do things against her will. Saying that she had a "pole up her ass" and she should really live a little more. "If you're not awake, dressed, and front and center within the next fifteen minutes, I'm breaking in and pulling you out here as you are. You and I have a date with the beach, so let's go, baby!" She scoffed and turned her back towards the door before closing her eyes once more. "Oh, please. Break in my ass." Was the one thought in her head while hearing the banging stop. "Tick tock, Avery, I know how to lockpick." She heard him tell her through the door. Letting out a groan, she reluctantly got out of her bed and walked towards her door kicking it back. She leaned on the door before speaking to Aidan. "There are hundreds of other girls in this town, in this hotel and yet you choose to annoy and irritate me... Why is that?" She walked away from the door and towards her dresser to pick out an outfit for the day. She grabbed a pair of jean shorts, a white tank top and a vest to wear over the shirt, just to make sure her scars were completely hidden and unable to see. She turned her hazel gaze over to the bathroom, wondering if she has enough time to shower. But the more she thought about it the more she realized she probably be finished showering, having her towel wrapped tightly around her body right when Aidan unlocked the door, carrying her out in nothing but a towel with her hair drenching the floor. Shaking the thought out of her head and slipped her gray sweatpants and black tank top, tossing them in the open dresser drawer.

She slid her clothes on, taking a brief look at the burns an scars running along her back, stomach, and sides that tainted her porcelain skin. She of course, just shook it out of her head as she slipped her top on and turned toward the full length mirror, making sure everything was somewhat decent. She looked a then time; five minutes until Aidan was supposedly going to lockpick her door. Part of her wanted to see if he was serious about what he had said but the other part felt like he was lying in order to see if she would actually hurry up so they could get to the beach, a trip she never even knew she agreed to. She walked towards the restroom, knowing good well she wasn't about to go anywhere without wearing her makeup and she wasn't about to step foot in the water and show to word her scars. She return to Boston before doing something like that. She quickly did her makeup and looked at the time, just in time... But, for some reason she froze where she was standing and got a smirk on her face. Seconds later, she was leaned against her door once more and chuckled. "I have a hard believing that you can break in to this room. If you can lockpick this door, then fine I'll go. I'll go out partying with you tonight. If not, I'm staying right here while you can go mess with some other poor girl." She smirked as she quietly bolted the top with a chuckle. "Oh and since you rushed me. Three minutes. Tick tock, Aidan."

"I see that pole hasn't slid out of your ass yet, I guess you're lucky, Avery. You have managed to gain my undivided attention and that is quite a feat, I'm impressed." Eh, he wasn't the first to say that. And, sure maybe she did have a pole up her ass but, what was she suppose to be? Not everyone could be as out going and "fun" as Aidan and most of the other people on the island around their age. She didn't even answer him because she was so busy getting ready. "Wait? What! But I gave you fifteen minutes." She shrugged and smirked even more, hearing the disbelief in his voice. And she watched the clock on the white wall as the seconds began to begin. One after another. She put her head closer to the door, trying to hear what he was doing. Because to the sound of it, it seems like he had given up and walked away. Which did disappoint her a bit. Whether she would admit it or not, she like spending time with Aidan. He at least was making her summer memorable. She could hear two muffled voices but she couldn't make out everything the two voices were saying. But she did catch a few things; "That's my girlfriend. She is really mad at me...so she locked me out. Can you help me? You'll be saving a relationship since this girl is the love of my life and I really don't want to lose her just because I can't open a door." She scoffed before having her mouth drop to the floor."Oh, that little cheater." She said in her head before hearing Aidan spew out even more lies. "There is no way in Hell, he's doing this." She said to herself.

Looking in the peep hole, she saw a woman in a maid's uniform about to open the door for a smiling Aidan Frost. She backed away from the door as it unlocked and had a raised eyebrow on her face as she crossed her arms around her chest as the door opened and Aidan casually walked into the room right over to her, wrapping his arm around her. She was caught by surprise at how tightly he was holding her and even more so when the clever little bastard kissed her cheek. Avery could feel her cheeks turn a rosy color of red as she looked at the woman in front of both Avery and Aidan. "Again, I say, thank you for reuniting me with my beloved. Thank the nice housekeeper, babe." At first, the girl was at a lost of words but quickly gave in deciding to play along. She laid her head on his shoulder before looking at Jack. "Yes, thank you very much. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have him to fill my life with... surprises." She said as she looked up at the still smirking Aidan with a stare that was obviously saying she was annoyed. "Don't we look cute together." She scoffed and shook her head towards him. "You really don't have to answer if you don't want to." She told Jacqueline as the older woman smiling and shook her head."No, it's not a problem. You two are a beautiful couple, I wish you both the best." The woman turned her back to the 'couple', closing the hotel door behind her.

Avery slid out from Aidan's arm, which had tightened even more around her shoulders once asking Jack if the two of them were a cute couple. She huffed before storming to her closet, grabbing her bag, headphones, phone, and of course another book she got from the library yesterday. "That was not okay, Aidan. You didn't just cheat, but you lied saying we were together. And for what? So, you can drag to do another thing I don't want to do?" She said as she put the strap of her bag around her body. She walked to the door and sighed. She turned to look back at Aidan and sighed. "Are we going to the beach or not?"

She rolled her eyes as Aidan began speaking, "Oh, come on. If it weren't for me you'd be sitting around this hotel room, missing out on the awesome waves, the sunshine, and the hot guys...or girls--I don't know what you're into." She scoffed and mumbled under her breath. "Oh please."

"If you're going to keep bitching at me then you'll only be encouraging me to force you into having more fun, so suck it up, babe." It wasn't worth the oxygen arguing with him about this, especially in the morning when she was at her crankiest. And it never helped that he had pounded on her door to wake her up instead of just calling her or saying her name through the door like a normal person... Then again Aidan wasn't what she called normal. A normal person wouldn't even do all of this crap to get a random stranger, that he just met not even a month ago, to "slide the pole out of her ass". She looked at him in annoyance as he wrapped his arm around her waist, leading both of them out of her hotel room. But not before grabbing the book in her hands while she was looking the opposite way. She watched with her mouth open as her book landed on her queen size bed with a thud. And right when she was about to say something to him, she was lifted up and put over her left shoulder. "Now, Avery," She felt him pat her backside before speaking to him as she looked down the long hallway. "Yes, Aidan?" She said in sarcasm before he began to speak again. "You should know better than to think I'd let you read while we're out together. Haven't three weeks of utter annoyance taught you anything?"

"I don't know, maybe your stupidity is rubbing off on me." She shrugged as the pair entered the elevator that was empty. Thank God, she did not feel like having Aidan "explain" just why a girl was over his shoulder. She was waiting for him to say something to her while they were in the elevator but all he did was listen to the calming elevator music and patting her butt to the beat. "Do you mind? You already have me over your shoulder, don't push it." The elevator made a high pitch "ding" sound before the doors opened to the lobby only to have the pair getting some quite bizarre looks. Not that she could blame them all for being curious. As they walked packed the front desk and the maid that had let Aidan into her room, she gave her a fake smile before releasing a sharp sigh as soon as they were out in the sun and outside of the beach. "Great, we're outside. Now can you put me down? People keep staring.

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"Rosie, it's time to wake up." This was the first thing the small red head heard as she was waking up with the sun shining into her small room. "C'mon Nani, you've been asleep for hours! That's what you get for going moonlight surfing last night. Her father said to his still sleeping daughter, who refused to wake up. But, of course she had to give in to her father, Mano's request. "I'm awake, dad." Her head still buried in her pillow. Her father was right, she should have went surfing last night but it was almost a full moon and she had to practice for tonight's surf off between the natives and the tourists or "pests" as most natives called them. She looked up at her father who was leaning on her door frame with a colorful red and yellow shirt with tropical flowers all over it. Seeing that he was an owner of a surf shop, most didn't judge him for it.

Besides, he was one of the most well known people on the island along with his two children so most people didn't care what they did. She waved at her dad with a smirk. "Bye dad. Have a good day at work." Mano rolled his eyes before closing the door behind him. She fell back into her bed, hoping to get a few more hours of sleep. That was until her black Pug, Kiko ran into her from under her bed, barking his little head off. Rose groaned and sat up on her twin size bed letting her eye adjust to the sunlight in her small room. "What do you want, Kiko?" She asked him before seeing a note on his blue and white collar. As she read the small note she couldn't help but roll her eyes, her father of course telling her to get up. Great, now she was going to have to help at the festival that the natives were having to celebrate the full moon tonight. Not that she didn't like helping them but now the tourist get to come. Which is something she is not okay with.

She just exhaled and threw the yellow sticky note in her blue plastic trash can. After a second her dog ran outside into his dog house. Leaving Rosie alone yet again. "Alright then, be that way." She got up from her twin size bed and walked to her sliding closet picking out a simple outfit and her two piece since all she was going to do was lay on the beach and obviously surf. It was in her blood to surf and take pictures, sue her. She grabbed her purse which held her light blue iPhone, her matching headphones, and her baby, longboard before grabbing her surfboard and running out of her door, seeing her dog start walking the other way. He had a collar and mainly everyone knew it was her dog, so she didn't think much of it. As she skated down the street she heard her phone vibrate with a text message. She stopped her board and looked at her message from her friend, Laylani. She sent her a quick text before heading to where Laylani probably was:You can help me set up for the festival tonight or you can come to the beach with me and a friend.

She sent another text to her new friend, Jackson. Sure he was a tourist but he was her in guy form. What wasn't to like? She sent him a text before slipping her phone into her messenger bag. Hey Jackson, wanna head to the beach with me and a friend?

She skated to the peir and saw Laylani. She picked up her board and walked over to her with her black sunglasses on. "Hey Lay. Which one sounds more fun to you? Helping people or hanging out with me and a cute guy? She said in sarcasm with a smirk on her face.

As Aidan continued to walk with Avery on his shoulder, the girl just had a very annoyed look on her face as people kept looking at the pair. Probably wondering why a boy had a girl over his shoulder in the first place. "Let 'em stare," She hit his back as hard as she could as he poked her in the stomach with his shoulder. The look of annoyance still on her face. "I think we're giving their mundane lives a little spark." She said nothing except shaking her head and rolling her baby blue eyes. After a moment, Aidan laid her on her feet lightly when she gave him a sarcastic smile. "Thank you for the ride, Aidan." She told him as he slung his arm over her shoulder like he did in the hotel room. She fixed her hair by putting a chuck of it behind her ear and looking as the beach began getting closer and closer. And as it did, Aidan began humming some random song that Avery couldn't put her finger on. And then his game of twenty questions began to start. "Don't you ever get a certain song stuck in your head, but you can't--for the life of you--figure out the words? God, the sky here is always so blue. Does it ever rain? I don't think it does. Do the people here even know what rain is? I doubt it," She looked at him with a raised eyebrow as he began speaking faster.

"Ummm..." Before she could think of what to say about the two competely different topics, he began speaking again. "I'm craving nachos? Are you craving nachos? We should totally stop to get nachos, Avy! Oh! And milkshakes! We should get nachos and milkshakes. God, that sounds so good, right about now." She looked back him with a genuine smile on her face. After a moment, his rambling started becoming... cute to her. She didn't talk a lot and when Aidan did she thought it was adorable. Not that she would ever tell him that. When she felt the sand under her sneakers, she turned to see the busy beach filled of both natives and tourist either surfing, sunbathing, or just hanging out with friends. "So, I've always wondered why they don't just call a Twinkie a cream puff, I mean, it's puffy and filled with cream. It fits, right? Or maybe it called a Twinkie because..." Avery rolled her eyes again with a chuckle before he looked towards the beach as well. "Oh, we're here!" She nodded slowly and nudged him softly. "You talk a lot... You know that?" By the look of it, Aidan wasn't even paying attention to her or what she was saying. Once Aidan looked back at her, she looked at him and shrugged her shoulders. "What?"

"Great conversation, Avy, really, but I just realized something." She tilted her head slightly to the right in fake curiosity. "Have you ever heard of a bikini? Hear me out. It's the summer. Show some skin, kick back, and party. Don't get me wrong, I'm digging the whole 'I'm a vacationing nun' look, but I can tell that underneath all of those rags, there is a body of a porn star, just waiting be displayed." She breathed in deeply as he spoke and tried not to show her discomfort. Just the mention of showing her body made her nervous only because, what was she suppose to say? "You know what? We're not going onto that beach until we fix you up, Avy. You and I are going bikini shopping and making you presentable. My treat." She shook her head before protesting. "No, that's fine. Trust me, I do not do swimsuits. And you know what? You're not Mr. Fashionable yourself, Mr. I'm the reason why we can't have nice things." She said, in a defensive tone as she read his shirt. "And come to think of it, I haven't seen you shirtless once since we met. What's your excuse? You gonna tell me you don't have a nice body?" She said look at his chest before looking back up in his hazel eyes with her arms across her chest. "I'll wear a bikini only if you take off your shirt right now and leave off for the rest of the day."

As Aidan looked at her, she did that exact same thing. She wasn't about to let this man give her all the criticism and in his words "have to make her presentable" without him doing something as well. That wasn't about to happen. Not with her. And, sure maybe Avery was a nice girl but she was observant as well. She could tell when something didn't make sense and Aidan, being as confident as he seemed and not taking his shirt off every five minutes didn't add up to her. Most attractive boys loved to show off their muscles but for some reason Aidan wasn't one of them.

As he squared his jaw, she tilted her head to the side with a cocked eyebrow showing that she wasn't about to back down to him. "One more condition," She smirked before seeing the smile creep across his tan face. "Since I'm paying, I get to pick the bikini and I want you to model it for me." She could feel her smirk fall off her face. She was about to say something before he pulled her into the surfing store.

"Welcome to Surf's Up! How may I help you today?" The store employee asked the pair. As Aidan spoke to her, Avery just looked at the swimsuits just cursing in her head. "This is not going to end well." She sighed before looking at Aidan as he continued to speak to the short native girl. "I'm trying to make her sexy because I'm a good person and whatnot. I want you to take her to the dressing rooms and make sure she stays in there while I gather some choices. We have a deal and I want her to stick to it. Do we have an understanding?" She scoffed, not saying a word as the other girl hesitated... That was until Aidan handed her a ten and she was more than willing to hold Avery against her will.

She felt Aidan's hand push her lightly towards the store employee as he winked towards her. "I'll see you on the other side, babe." She gave him a smirk before walking towards the dressing room with her arms across her chest. "Here you are, I'll be back to check on you shortly." The employee, who's name tag said Alex smiled toward Avery before walking away to go and help another girl in the dressing room next to her. Avery rolled her eyes before locking the door to the dressing room and groaning. "This is a nightmare." She told herself with another groan before looking up at the painting on the ceiling. "Oh, maybe if I pay I won't have to do anything. Because there is no way in Hell I'm modeling anything for him." She told herself before checking her bag for her wallet. Then of course she had to remember, how was she going to pay for anything? The only money she had was from her old orphanage who gave it to her once they kicked her out on her 18th birthday. And she wasn't about to spend any of it on a swimsuit she had no intention on ever wearing.

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"Darling do you even have to ask?" Rose smirked before shrugging. It was an obvious choice but she knew that later in the day her dad would guilt her into helping, saying that he has no one to help him. Even though the whole town and even a few tourist were helping him set up. Before Rose could add anything or say anything about Laylani's impression before she asked about the cute guy Rose had brought up. "Now about this cute boy..? Speaking of cute how's Kai?" She rolled her eyes with a small smirk on her babydoll face. Her and Kai were close and he was like another brother to her but of course the cousins had their rivalries every once and a while.

Not like Rose's rivalry with her other cousin, Hiwalani. Who didn't even know about the 'rivalry' But, it was there along with the bitterness the red head held for her spoiled and rather popular cousin. "He's fine. Probably with his favorite cousin right now." She said with sarcasm in her voice. "Ok seriously what's up?" Rose shrugged before exhaling deeply. "Nothing, I've been hanging out with this guy named Jackson. Teaching a mainlander how to surf like a native. Other then that? The usual, avoiding any contact with most of my family as possible." It was true, most of the island were probably made up of Kealoha relatives if not half. And they always were close but this might be Rose's last summer on the island before leaving for the states and she didn't need anyone finding out because when one person knew a secret, everyone knew a secret and would try and talk her out of it. "And if you want I will gladly help you set up for the festival." Roselani smiled before thanking God in her head. She wouldn't be setting up alone.

"Oh thank God, I won't be alone." As the pair walked on the beach and Laylani revealed her swimsuit, Rose just smirked at her friend. Still as confident as ever. Which was something that Lani loved about her friend. Not long after their walk on the beach, Rose heard a voice "Well, Teach, I hadn't expected a party this early." She chuckled before looking up at Jackson.

"Hey, Jackson. And, it's not a party. It's more like an excuse so I don't have to help people this early." She raised an eyebrow towards him as he slouched and sent a lazy smile towards the small native. "So, you going to introduce me to your friend here, or do I have to do it myself?" Rose nudged the man before looking towards her friend. "Jackson, this is my friend Laylani. Lani, this is my new friend, Jackson." She told the two before looking towards the water, seeing two people in the water and looking back towards the two tourist that didn't piss her off.

As time went on and the annoyance and irritation in the small Bostonian's body. She just put her legs up to her chest as she laid her head down on her knees. "This is big mistake. God, I'm such an idiot." She said to herself as she looked at the time on her Nokia phone. Before tossing it back in her bag, wishing that Aidan didn't toss her book back into her room when they were leaving the hotel room. At least she would have had something to calm her nerves. But, of course not. Life never liked cutting her a break. It was only when she heard her most hated nickname, that she exhaled and let herself relax a bit.

"Oh, Avy! I come bearing gifts!" She opened the door the door, seeing the pile of swimsuits and the smile on his face as her outstretched his arms, giving her the bikinis. "I'll let you pick out of these, but I want to see each of them on you because my decision matters most." She swallowed the lump in her throat as she grabbed the pile of clothes and closed the door, locking it as well. As she laid them out, matching the top to the bottom, she rolled her eyes before speaking through the door. "Did you leave anything to the imagination when you picked these out? Shit." She scoffed before slipping off her jeans and noticing the scars on her thighs before slipping off her vest and shirt to reveal the mess of scars and burns given to her over the years. There were a few she had given herself but, most were from years ago from the abusive families that just saw her as a way to make money before abandoning her to the agency once again. And having that done to you since you were a couple months old wasn't fun.

Looking at the floral prints and girly prints, she shook her head. "And I don't know if you've noticed but I'm not exactly a girly girl like these swimsuits." She told him as she kicked off her Converses, moving them out of the way. She didn't even look in the mirror as she began putting on the white swimsuit and tying the lace. Before facing towards the mirror, just looking at all of the markings that covered her stomach and back. Avery shook her head before unlocking the door and popping her head out towards Aidan. "I'm not 'modeling' a swimsuit for you in front of all these people, Aidan. If you want to nitpick on me then you can come in here, if not then I'm not getting any of them because I refuse to come out." She said as she looked around seeing the dressing rooms getting even more crowded with people. Most, probably being natives and natives already judged them enough, she didn't need to give them another reason.