Paula was standing over her daughter’s body effectively blocking the sun; Spencer opened her eyes and looked up as she felt the absence of warmth on her skin. “Spencer, honey, your father and I are going to go get some ice cream and go for a walk, do you want to come?”

Spencer just stared at her mother giving her the “does it look like I want to go for a walk” look.

“Well then… we will just see you later.”

Spencer looked around to see that Glen had gone to sit with the girl he had met and Ashley was still positioned on her towel a metre away from her.

Spencer moved into a sitting position looking out at the surfers when her Ipod died, she figured she had two options, she could put the Ipod away and probably have to make awkward conversation with Ashley or she could pretend it didn’t die and just leave them in. She opted for the latter.

Ten minutes later Ashley spoke up; “aren’t you sick of pretending to listen to music? Do you not like me that much?”

“What? How did you..What sorry I can’t hear you.” Spencer faked not being able to hear Ashley properly as she pulled the headphones out of her ears.

“I know you can hear me, you haven’t been listening to music for the past ten minutes.”

“How do you know I wasn’t?”

“Well the whole day when you have been listening to your Ipod you’ve been humming softly and smiling slightly, you haven’t for the past ten minutes… and also your headphones aren’t plugged in.” Ashley replied smirking

She’s been watching me? OMG and she must think I’m the world’s biggest freak not to mention an idiot

“Look I won’t talk to you and you can stop pretending to listen to music.” Ashley said turning around and lying back down.

20 minutes later glen came over unaware of the tense atmosphere and began to boast about the chick he had just asked out on a date. Both were irritated by the boy and were slightly disappointed that their time alone had been cut short even though it had been uncomfortable.

“Seriously Spence touch this one and ill be super pissed off ok!” Glen was saying half joking half being serious to Spencer

“Gosh Glen don’t get your knickers in a twist! She’s not my type anyway.”