tidal wave

? chapter twenty six ?

"I thought we could take one of the photos we do every summer" Belly smiled holding up one of the frames from the garage.

"Uh yes," Bre smiled. Laurel caught Conrad's eye for a quick second a could read his mind from there.

"Bre did you get your grade back?" Steven asked looking at Conrad.

"Yeah, I got into it. So I'm on my way to being a Doctor" Bre giggled, but then she suddenly realised she'd never asked Conrad about his submission to the course.

"Wait...Conrad, did you ever hear back?" Bre asked whipping her head back to the brunette boy.

"I did, but I'm not gonna make my final tomorrow," He said looking at the floor.

"Sure you will, I am amazing at cramming overnight" Bre smiled holding back the painful thought of the fact he wasn't gonna tell her.

"I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that," Laurel said looking out towards the beach.

"Me and Bre are really good study buddies" Belly said nodding her head.

"How about, we all cheer you on and help you study? We've got what... 14 hours until you need to be at Brown? I believe in us" Bre said looking around at the group.

"Oh don't include me" Laurel said shaking her head.

"Hahah I wasn't...Finn you in?" Bre asked looking at her best friend. She wanted Finn to actually bond with Conrad and not just be the guy who kept them apart.

"I need as much help as I can get," Conrad said to Finn.

"You sure man?" Finn asked scrunching his eyebrows.

"Look between us Bre gets crazy and I'm gonna need the support" Conrad whispered in Finn's ear which made him laugh.

"Okay, I'm in" Finn smirked. That was when they hatched the last plan for the week.

To get Conrad to pass his Finals.

An unofficial plan made by Belly, Jere, Steven and Finn was to get Bre and Conrad back together.

They'd taken their photo for that summer and Laurel hadn't even managed to send it to everyone before Bre had set it as her lock screen on her laptop.

A reminder that they are always there no matter what.

"Belly, I don't know what to do" Bre whispered as the girls had gone out to the store while the boys napped. They were setting up Bre's reward system for Conrad.

"About?" Belly asked, knowing it was about Conrad.

"I still love him, I never stopped. Do I tell him?" Bre asked smiling, Conrad was fast asleep in the room opposite them. He looked peaceful, too peaceful to wake.

"Do what you feel comfortable doing, he's Conrad. He'd do anything for you" Belly whispered.

"I'm gonna wake Con. You can wake Jere" Bre said walking over to Conrad.

She didn't know what to do but she remembered how to wake him up from the numerous times they'd stayed with each other.

Bre knelt next to him and lightly moved his hair out of the way and around his ears. Then kissed his forehead.

"Connie, it's time to get studying" Bre whispered in his ears.

"You know if you wake me up like that every time I need to study maybe I'll become a star student" Conrad said in his raspy sleepy voice.

"Maybe you could look forward to it next year" Bre winked before heading to the Kitchen where Steven and Finn had woken up and were being too loud.

"Hey those aren't for you" Bre snapped, frowning at the boys who were nearly eating Conrad's rewards.

"What's all this?" Conrad asked wiping his eyes.

"When do we get burgers?" Jere said stropping.

"Conrad studies you get a burger" Bre smiled at them.

"So a reward system huh?" Conrad asked smirking at the girl standing in front of him.

"Mhmm" Bre nodded smiling back at him.

"What else do I get?" Conrad asked smirking.

"Just the burgers" Bre smiled. The two of them were just as good at teasing each other as the other one.

"Okay guys let's get this on the way" Bre said passing everyone a topic they had to educate Conrad on.

Everyone was getting involved and helping him. Finn and Conrad had even started getting along.

The burgers didn't take long to go. But Bre had more up her sleeve.

"Okay everyone up. We need to get energised" Bre said pulling everyone up and turning on the speaker and dancing.

That was the moment for Conrad he'd realised this girl would do anything for him. And he'd do anything for her.