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"An ocean breeze puts a mind at ease."

-Unknown.

"Leave footprints of love and kindness wherever you go."

-Unknown.

"Sky above, sand below, peace within."

-Barrister_Tife.

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It took a second or two for the new information to sink in even though it was right before my eyes. I felt my lips stretch wider into a gaping grin as my eyes stung with tears-- tears of shock, awe, astonishment, stupefaction, surprise and happiness.

Amazement doesn't quite cover it. I felt like Ralph just took my spark of wonder and poured on it kerosine to fuel it to something bigger-- something so enormous that my heart couldn't digest it all at once. The smile he saw, the smile my face portrayed outside couldn't adequately reflect what I felt on the inside; it was like every neurone of my brain was trying to fire in both directions at once. The best kind of paralysis.

The baddest and hottest boy in my school just asked me out, he asked me to be his freaking girlfriend. As incredulous as that felt, it also felt so good to finally have someone who was interested in me-- someone who saw potentials in me and thought I was the best candidate to be his girlfriend. The same bad boy was the one that gave me my first kiss and got me exposed. I don't know what love is but if this isn't what love is all about, then the dictionary should be corrected.

Never in my eighteenth years of existence had I ever felt an attraction towards the opposite gender-- an attraction that felt so surreal that I began to dream of the future. I don't want this to ever end, I don't care if he is a notorious playboy or a cocky bastard-- it takes the heart to decide on a change and a change can suddenly begin it effect in one day. Our feelings felt so extreme, so intense like we were destined to be soulmates. A bad guy can change for his soulmate.

I know my speech is typically governed by the left side of my cerebrum but it felt like an internal attack, only someone from the inside-- someone close to my heart had the sovereign ability to render my cerebrum incapacitated and let my loose mouth move on its own accord. I didn't know when my mouth slipped and I muttered a freaking NO!!

After blurting out 'no' I knew I needed to make some adjustments. I needed to make some amends because a certain Ralph looks like an upcoming tornado that is about to blow up and destroy every goddamn thing on this beach, be it living or nonliving things.

"I can't be your girlfriend because you are not my type." I looked at everywhere but him.

He gave me a questioning look so I knew I needed to continue, "I mean you are a thief so? I can't date you," I said shrugging my shoulders and giving him a tight-lipped smile while I wondered how he was going to digest that.

"I'm sorry, what?" A surprised looking Ralph chuckled and stared at me like I was blabbing nonsense.

"I can't be with you, I'm sorry," I concluded removing my hand from his and walking away.

"Now that is a bloody lie." He screamed at me, kicked a cowrie and began hopping on one leg as he cried in pain.

"We both know we feel so strongly about each other so stop this joke right now!" He stamped his feet, waiting for me to turn my back.

"No!" I shook my head.

"No?" He chuckled again. "But you didn't think negatively when we kissed, you moaned so I know you enjoyed it as much as I did." His voice became lower as his choice of words struck me, bringing forth a rush and vivid flashback to my memory.

"I know, but you are a criminal-- a thief!?" I spat with venom and gave him a poisonous glare still he shuddered.

"But what do you mean by I'm a thief? You are not making any sense" He hollered with frustration evident in his tone.

I turned back to see him looking down casted.

"But on a second thought dude, I will be your girlfriend because you robbed me of my heart unexpectedly," I said my face giving him a full smile while he rushed to me, lifting me in the air and kissing every part of my body like I was his prize possession.

"Don't you ever try such stunt on me ever? I was beginning to wonder what you meant by thief yunno." Ralph scolded me.

"Durh, you don't scare me," I said sticking out my tongue. While we both laughed heartily.

I should have known that was a bad move on my part because he utilised that opportunity by slipping his lips into mine and we kept on kissing for what felt like hours.

"I see you guys are an item now," Brady said as he walked towards us while rolling the huge basketball on his index finger.

"I guess so, now I'm stuck with this egoistic jerk," I said and pulled Ralph's cheeks.

"Well, you have no choice. Do you?" He cocked a brow up.

"You left me no choice bloody criminal." I winked at him.

"Now that is a lie." He pointed an accusing finger at me.

"What is a lie?" I glared at him.

"You are addicted to my bad boy charms and you can't live without me." He smirked and pulled an invisible beard.

"Now that is a lie!" I pulled his ears. "You were the one that was acting almost dead if I didn't accept your proposal." I tugged his ear harder.

"Ow!!" He squealed. "Why are you lying?"

"Are you calling me a liar?" I raised my voice at him.

"Alright love birds, we get your points." Lia interrupted with a roll of her eyes.

"She just called me a Liar!" Ralph reported me to her.

"He also called me a liar!" I hollered at Lia.

"It's fine bunch of bloody liars!" Lia gave an ear-splitting scream and made us snap out of the moment.

"Awn! My poor baby finally has a boyfriend." Jess danced happily twirling in the sand.

"Just stop it!" Mike and Eric cautioned in unison.

"You look like a fish that leapt out of the water and is struggling to breathe, eew!" Eric waved her off.

"That is so mean!" Jess threw a fistful of sand his way.

"Oh, you didn't think you were scarring us for life when you gave us horrible dance moves." Mike hissed.

"I knew you would portray your stupidity." Jess snapped her fingers at Mike and before we knew it, the trio began arguing and chasing themselves.

"I'm glad you guys are together now, at least someone will begin to change his playboy character and become more responsible. congrats guys," Zion said while walking towards us.

"Say that once again and you would be sorry." Ralph threatened playfully.

"So, who is in for a game? basketball to be precise," Brady asked raising the ball in his hand high enough for everyone to see.

I jumped up and grabbed the ball from him before running towards the court allocated for Basketball on the beach.

The others followed behind coping my stance as they ran after me to the court.

While I bounced the ball around, Eric played music with a Bluetooth speaker. 'Body' by Megan Thee Stallion began playing. Ralph jumped so high and hijacked the ball from me while we ran around to collect the ball.

As for Jess, I really don't understand if she was running around to chase the ball or running around to dry her painted nails because she kept stretching her fingers like she wanted to fly.

Ian snatched the ball from Ralph, bounced it a few times and ducked from an incoming Zion, before throwing the ball my way and I started bouncing and running towards the net.

With Brady so close by, I threw the ball to the nearest person, Eric and he passed it to Mike who was closer to the net, Ralph was about collecting the ball from Mike, when Jess jumped in, grabbing the ball.

You needed to see her jump in guys, I feel like she should participate in NBA or Olympics, she was that good!!

She tried bouncing it around but failed woefully, as the opponent party were about to use her weakness against her, she threw the ball to me which I perfectly tucked into the net but not before dodging the ball from a fierce-looking Marcus heading my way.

Shouts from my team erupted, as we screamed in victory and hugged each other.

Jess excused herself to go grab a Pepsi to drink from the picnic basket and chat with an isolated Amelia.

They soon lay on the beach beds to get some nice tan from the scorching sun and massaged their body with sunblock.

We continued to play our ball for another 40minutes and my team won, with the score ranging '5-3.'

Other people from the beach also stopped by insisting they wanted to play with us, and before we knew it, it became really crowdy, rowdy and fun.

Later on, Ralph and I excused ourselves as we decided to go horse riding and watch the beautiful sunset.

I hopped onto a big brown beautiful horse with cute long brown mane and hair, the horse owner said her name was Crystal.

We hopped onto crystal with Ralph sitting behind me as the cool wind rushed by blowing my hair to my face which I tried to tuck behind my ears severally.

"You know," Ralph warm breath on my skin brought my attention to him.

"The beauty and rare organic form of nature allures me; the beautiful sunset, the rich blue colour of the ocean, the crispiness of the beach sand, the coolness of the fresh breeze, your own beauty, just wants me to do this again and again."

"Awn!" I cooed and snuggled closer to him. "I want to this again with you alone and no one else to interrupt the moment-- our moment."

He squinted his eyes, inhaled my scent and kissed my back. "Today's event will remain etched and evergreen in my memory, Baby doll."

"Just the fact that my relationship status changed today has already been etched in my memory." I chuckled slowly and linked my hands with his as the horse galloped away.

"All of these feels foreign and overwhelming to me too. Thanks for accepting my proposal." He furrowed his brows in concentration as he stared at my exposed back skin, toyed with some strand of my hair, and his fingers trailed my shoulder blades while my heart hammered continuously.

"I enjoyed every bit of today, I can't believe we are dating now. This seems so incredulous," I said facing back and smiling at him.

"You scared the shit out of me when you declined my proposal, you even went ahead to accuse me by calling me a thief." He kissed my ear and playfully bit a part while I laughed.

"I felt like you were in a trance, talking nonsense and to think you can give a whole king bad boy Ralph such a scare? you did well," Ralph said patting my head and ruffling my hair in the process.

As if the horse could feel the happy energy and vibe, it began to run faster and the breeze continued to blow faster.

"And to think the bad boy got a Sissy's heart, didn't know the Almighty Ralph could get scared. Tell me, what else are you scared of?"

"Keep quiet, I'm only scared of you leaving me." He toyed with the length of my hair.

I gave a sigh of disapproval, "Rats? cockroaches? flies? birds?" I teased watching his exterior confidence crumble as he flared up to defend himself.

"Hell no! What the heck are you talking about? I hardly get scared of anything, but you gave me quite a scare to last a lifetime," he said rubbing the back of his head awkwardly and pouting which I found extremely cute.

"Hardly? Meaning you still get scared." I insisted, watching invisible smoke come out of his head as he groaned in annoyance while I chuckled.

"No I don't!?" he fumed.

"Yes, you do!" I insisted, pissing him off.

"No, I don't!" He said defensively his voice slightly raised.

"You proved it hours ago, so yes you do."

"Argh!! You know what?" He gave a defeated sigh.

"What?"

"I give up, you win!" he said throwing his hands in the air like a kid who was caught taking a cookie from the jar and making this funny face while I laughed my ass out. And soon he began laughing as well.

His laughter was like ripples in a still pond, after a stone had been thrown in. It radiated outwardly through the horse ride-- through my body. The more I chuckled, the ripples of our laughter became great waves of hilarity.

"I always win. And even your allegedly highly self isn't exempted.

I'm a born winner," I said, sticking my tongue and cheering at my victory.

"Whatever!" he rolled his eyes as he alighted from the horse and tried to lift me down.

I waved him off and told him I could jump myself.

By the time we sat on the beach sand, with my head resting on his shoulder, the sun had perfectly settled, giving an orange glow.

"You are beautiful." I heard Ralph say into my ears.

My lips curved into a smaller smile and I stared at him and replied, "have you seen yourself in the mirror? You are gorgeous."

His brown eyes tormented my memory with their piercing gaze. They were like two rare gems, each time more beautiful with every glance.

His deep musical voice echoed as he snickered from my praise.

"I don't deserve you." He caressed my skin delicately.

I sat up straight and stared at him, "what do you mean?"

"You are just too good for me." His gaze dropped.

"Ralph?" I called but he avoided my gaze.

"Look at me." I raised his chin so he could stare into my eyes.

"Everyone deserves a second chance-- a second chance to right their wrongs and you are not exempted." I nuzzled closer to kiss his cheek before settling into my former position while he traced my skin softly, back and forth.

And his touch? They were like soothing notes, making me feel like a ballerina in every dance. His touch awakened goosebumps in my skin.

"Hey, love birds?" Lia called as he walked towards us with Ian closely beside her and the guys behind her.

"Time to go," Jess wiggled her brow at me.

As fun as the day had been, we still needed to go home because it was getting pretty dark.

Jess, Amelia and I changed to our previous wear as we hurried towards the boys.

Jess insisted we took another round of pictures to post on our social media platforms.

After lots of whining and shrugging, we complied and took the one picture she promised that later multiplied to thousands of copies.

It was fun although, with Ralph holding me possessively and proudly showing me off to anyone who cared to know that we are an item now.

Well, I couldn't have asked for a better boyfriend, someone who is proud of me and willing to show me to the world.

Now a certain Nate is going to burn when she hears we are a couple or when she sees our pictures on the internet.