What's hidden within me - Ameera Butt (best ereader for epub txt) 📗

day of your vacation with your friends but instead get ridiculously drunk and end up falling in a swimming pool and spending your evening with a random guy that you didn’t even know.” Faith concludes the story making it sound so short and easy to remember.
“Ah, vacations, Lionel, traffic, Sherry, pool yes they all sounds pretty much right me Faith!” I agree with what she tells me as I reach out for a glass of water and take a quick sip.
“You were really drunk right?” Faith asks knowing the answer already.
“Yes I was.”
“So did you meet Shern again or was that the only time?”
“Faith relax, we still have another two weeks to go though!” I laugh and reply.

We are in this moment here. Don’t know where we’ll be tomorrow. We may or may not meet; we may or may not be there. But we stay in hearts forever.

“Ah, my head!” The bright sun shinned right through the light curtains and shinned over me as I lay on top of a big cosy bed. The light struck right my eyes and I squinted them and turned out knowing how much of a bad headache I had. Morning headaches are the worse things! I’ve always hated them, but then again hasn’t everyone! I forced myself of my bedding landing hard on the floor realising drinking last night wasn’t my best idea! Not knowing anything about last night I crawled towards the bathroom and brought myself up as I started washing my face and brushing my teeth. I could still feel my body be a little wet though as I changed into something more decent a flashback came my mind. It was very odd. I could remember falling into a swimming pool which basically explained me feeling so wet. Randomly random flashes started appearing to my mind. I could remember me talking to an old man. I could remember me drinking heavily. I could remember talking to guy whose name I honestly didn't remember. Forgetting about my yesterday I got fully dressed and went to have breakfast knowing everyone would have already booked a table and attacked the food.

“Morning all” I entered the dinning area where I saw everyone including Lionel. Sitting at the table stuffing their faces with food. I walked around the big table and went and sat in between Lionel and Mass as they all looked at me with a smile on their faces.
“Well good morning Lillian!” Max replied back saying trying to sound a little cheeky.
I grab a plate and started putting a variety of food on my plate not knowing what I would eat first. Usually I wouldn’t eat much however that day I was so hungry, stuffing my mouth with food. I don’t know what this hunger was but it was definitely a lot of it!

“Hey Lilly, I’m sorry about yesterday. Don’t know what happened to me yesterday.” Lionel spoke out sounding very apologetic.
“It’s ok Lio I guess I’m sorry too.” I replied forgiving him.
“Well then what shall we do today?” Kat asked in excitement.
“I have no idea!” I said thinking.
“What about doing something on the beach. Let’s relax for today.” Lionel suggested.
“You’re going to be with us for the two whole weeks?” Mass asked sounding like he wanted to get rid of Lionel.
“Oh no, my friend Logan is coming in three days. I’ll be with him.” Lionel replied.
“Logan, who is that?” I asked sounding interested.
“Logan Akins is my childhood best friend. We’ve been together since the age of five. Since then we go everywhere together. He had some certain things holding him back this time so he will be coming after and I came here before him.” Lionel explained.
“Ah, well I want to meet him!” I ordered as he nodded with an agreement and we all finished eating our breakfast so we could move on to our day.

This is something, something to you. Something from my heart, something that's the truth. I looked at my life a year before and I look at it now. I saw myself bad but now that I have met you I don't feel sad. There was no time taken for us to become good friends. No time taken for us to tell each other our issues. Obviously I was the one to blabber more. There took no time taken for us to realise our stupidity and awesomeness. There was no time taken for us to be how we are now! Grateful isn't the word I look for when I think of our friendship. It’s not that I am not grateful, I'm more grateful than anything but the word itself gives our friendship a low level. Our friendship is so powerful that no word can specifically describe it. Our friendship is so confident that no one can lose it. OUR friendship is so amazing that no one can take it and lastly our friendship is so beautiful that no one can break it. You seem to have this fear of lost but I can assure you, assure you that you will only just gain. Gain love, trust, honesty and a stronger friendship. I could make this description full of big heavy meaning and powerful words but why would I if there are small simple words that are easily understandable and simple to use to describe our simple beautiful friendship.

“So a new person introduced. Faith notes down talking to herself I presume.
“Yes, but there’s more to come.” I say right after and then go back into my past.

We all ran across the sandy beach in that hot sunny day. As the sun shinned on us like a spotlight we laid there for sometime just enjoying the moment. There was this relaxation in that moment. My mind and heart were both very calm. I could hear the nearby seagulls calling out to one another. I could hear the waves clashing against each other. From the distance were couples, friends, and families playing and enjoying life. I could feel a satisfaction in me for no specific reason.

“Let’s make a sandcastle!” Kat demanded whilst getting up in such excitement.
“Yes, let’s do it!” Max jumped up right after her.
“Oh Katherine, you are a pain sometimes.” I spoke out lazily. We all got up and grabbed onto either a bucket or a small plastic shovel and started building. Seemed pretty childish but I must admit it was funny and amusing. After making an amazing first sandcastle it was becoming really easy and boring so we had to make it more interesting.
“How about two teams and sand castle competition?” I suggested knowing I would win.
“Fine” Lionel agreed to the suggestion.
“Me, Max and Lionel on one team again you and Mass.” Kat ordered the team and we set of making out sandcastles. I rushed to gather sand in my bucket whilst Mass stood there knowing I have control of everything whilst Kat and Max on the other side argued on who does what and Lionel building something for their team ignoring the argument. I laughed knowing I will be done before them as I was indeed an expert on these kind of things. I knew that and even Mass knew that very clearly.
“Done” I yelled out in such happiness as Mass came forward for a hug of victory.
“Well, so are we I guess.” Lionel said right after looking so disappointed. As I took a quick look at what he had created laughter exploded out of the others and me as I continued to laugh the most in all of us he looked at me in such embarrassment and started laughing at what he had made himself. It was really a half-broken square shaped sand stuck gathered together with random stones stuck within it.
“Well this is interesting! You should build us a beautiful house just like that so we all can live in it!” I spoke out sarcastically.
“Oh really Lilly?”
“Yes Lionel, indeed!” I managed to take out of me still laughing about it as he approaches up and come after chasing me. I push Mass out of the way and start to run directing to my right side. Leaving everyone else behind I ran Lionel chasing behind me.

We ran ahead for several minutes going further away from Kat, Max and Mass. Slowly Lionel and me were running out of breathe since we had been running for some time non stop! I hadn’t run this much in such a long time. It was tiring but it felt good for sure. He finally caught up to me and grabbed me from the arm as we both tripped over me falling on top of him. We lay there on the sandy cool beach as the sun started going and the moon started to appear. We lay there catching back our breath and still laughing so much. I eventually rolled off him to side and then was lying next to him.

“Lionel” I took out of me.
“Yes Lilly?” He asked.
“I'm glad I met you. Even though it was really random I’m glad we met. I thought wrong of you.”
“I'm glad we met too Lilly.”
“Lio” I called out.
“Yes Lillian?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Well I hope you’re only apologising for the drawing you did on my face during the journey!” I looked at his and gave a big smile as a little giggle came out of me.
“Ah, you realise. Well yes I'm sorry about that.”
“Don't worry about it. It only took me about four hours to get rid of it!” He replied sounding half-sarcastic. I continued smiling.
“You’ll stay in touch when we get back right?”
“Of course, I think we will be great friends from now onwards.”

I looked into his eyes and saw some sort of truth in his words. Maybe we weren't so much of strangers now. Maybe it was a new level of friendship. I was glad I had apologised to Lionel. The apology wasn't actually for what I did on the plane. It was specifically for how I had acted with him the day before. How I thought he was rude and annoying. Maybe I judged him too quickly. He was without a doubt an amazing guy. I was proud to know it now.

I closed my eyes for a second now lying beneath the half-bright half-dark sky. Evening was now appearing and the sea had become calmer than before. The atmosphere seemed more relaxed and I finally found some sort of peace. Peace until a loud horrific sound came from nearby as I broke out of my moment and sat up straight, Lionel getting up with me.

“What on earth was that?” I asked Lionel in horror.
“I have no idea lets go and see” Lionel suggested. We walked across the beachside onto the entrance of the hotel we were staying at. Ahead I saw a white with a highlight of yellow and blue surround the outline of a car. A car was crashed against the side of the hotels big bins. I stood there being puzzled thinking how can such a small thing make so much noise and ruin that peaceful moment I was having. Smoke started appearing out of the front bonnet of the car as it was all crashed and broken apart. It looked like the car had crashed into a big solid brick wall instead of big plastic bins full of dirt. It was all just very confusing. Whilst I stood there trying to figure out what exactly happened Lionel standing beside me was smiling so happily. It gave the impression that he knew what had happened. It seemed like he had figured it all out.

“Ah” Lionel whispered out to himself still having