The Resort – Short Story

I am at a resort, with my friends and I see her. She is sitting down at a swinging bench, I walk over to her and introduce myself.

“Hello there.”

She looks up at me.

“Hi?” She says.

“May I sit down?” I ask.

“Sure” She answers, and I sit down next to her .

“Lovely night huh?” I say.

She doesn’t respond but just looks at me and then her mother comes over.

“I’m heading back to the hotel room would you like to come with me? Or would you like to stay here with your friend?” She asks.

“I would like to stay mum” She says.

Her mum nods as she leaves, and we just sit there awkwardly for a while before she speaks.

“Now what is your name? Mine’s Belle.”

“Well, hello there, Belle, my name is Ethan” I answer.

She brushes her hair back and smiles. She has the most wonderful smile. I reach my hand over to hers, she pulls away and she looks around then back at me and stares at me like no one has ever looked at me before. She starts speaking again.

“Would you like to go someplace more private?” She asks.

“Sure, why not” I reply.

“Come with me” She whispers.

I follow her, and she takes me to this place behind these two trees and a gigantic hedge that looked as tall as a mini skyscraper and she brings me to this little tent looking thing and we sit down at the edge of this mini cliff. We watch as cars go by and look up at the sky to see the stars shining bright. She moves closer to me and leans her head on my shoulder. I put my head next to hers and we start holding hands and then I kiss her forehead. She removes herself from my shoulder and leans in and kisses me on the cheek, I grab her hand, we just sit there looking up at the stars.

She looks at her watch and notices that we’ve been here for a couple hours then she releases herself from me and stands up.

“Ok, lets head back now it’s getting a bit late” she explains.

“Ok” I said as I got up and we head back to the hotel, hand in hand.

We make it back to the resort and go to a little café there and we start talking.

“So, what would you like to do now?” I ask.

“I don’t know” she answers.

“Would you like to go for a swim, or would you like to call it a night?” I ask.

“Yeah that sounds great, the swim I mean” she answers.

“Great guess I’ll meet you down here in ten to fifteen minutes” I say happily.

“Ok let’s go then” she says into my ear and kisses me on the cheek, we start to walk back with each other.

We get to her room.

“See you soon” she whispers happily into my ear and kisses my cheek. She closes the door and I leave for my room.

I was waiting at the little café in my swimmers then I saw her walking up to me with her one-piece bathing suit which had little and big stripes on them with animals in the middle of all the stripes that interconnected with each other.

“Are you ready?” I say, she nods, she walks in front of me and puts her hand out and I grab it and we both head to the pool.

We get to the pool and we put our towels down on two chairs and we jump in. The water is nice and refreshing and we spend what feels like hours in the pool. After that we just sit on the edge of the pool with our arms on the edge, treading water. We see her mother coming from around the corner looking for Belle. Belle looks back and she sees her mother and she nods to me and I go under the water. I go down and swim across and I make it to the other side. I just stay there waiting, over hearing their conversation. She gets out of the pool and heads back with her mother, she turns back to me, blows me a kiss, I catch it and I blow a kiss back. I get out and wave good bye to her and she giggles and I head to the chairs and pick up my towel and head the other way back to my room.

The next morning, I hear a knock on the slider doors, I get up, slide the curtains open and realize it is Belle. I open the door and she gives me a big hug and gives me a kiss on the cheek.

“So, what would you like to do today?” She asks lovingly

“I don’t know? what would you like to do?” I answer back rubbing my eyes

“Why don’t we start with breakfast, then we can decide what to do” She suggests I nod then grab some clothes and I get dressed and we head out towards the café.

We are sitting at the café waiting for our order to come.

“Well I was thinking we could go to the arcade room that is here,then we could go for a swim in the afternoon how does that sound?” I ask

“Yeah, sounds great” She says as she smiles, I smile back, our food comes as she finishes her sentence.