We pull up outside a large building which has no signs to give away where we are. "You coming?" Cole asks, raising his eyebrows at me.

"Tsk tsk, patience Coley Woley," I repeat his words from earlier back to him. After rolling his eyes in response, he opens the side door for me.

"What's wrong with you acting like a gentleman?" I tease.

"I opened a car door, don't get too excited. And please princess, you're wounding me, are the constant insults necessary?" He grins and I shrug,

"Well someone needs to shrink your ego and who better than me?" I purposely nudge him with my shoulder as we walk towards the building.

"Touche."

We head inside and the air is chilly. Once Cole opens the second door I see a huge indoor ice skating rink. "No way! I've always wanted to go ice skating but I've never gotten round to it!"

He turns to me and gives me another smile. Now my smile's back and so are the butterflies. Again.

This feeling is becoming too regular and I know that me hanging out with Cole pretty often has landed me on dangerous grounds.

I feel myself walking further and further in but I can't stop myself, even though I know the ground I stand on could disappear instantly.

Where there's nothing to pull me back to safe land, where I'll have no other option but to fall—hoping someone catches me, he, catches me, before I hit the bottom.

I'm involuntarily snapped out of my thoughts when the guy behind the counter speaks.

"Shoe size?" I didn't even realise we were queuing and Cole speaks up first.

"6 and 10." I look at him stunned, how the hell did he know my shoe size?

"How'd you know that?"

He smirks and my confused expression, "I told you, princess, I have my sources." I just leave it at that and once we have our skates we head to the ice.

As soon as my skates touch the ice I grab the sidebar as a precaution. "I, er, should probably warn you, I might not be too good," I say warily.

I try dragging myself along without letting go and I start to hear laughing. I turn, holding the bar tighter, and Cole's just about standing himself. Not because he's bad at it but because he's laughing so much.

"Hey! I've never done this before, cut me some slack." He manages to compose himself but he's still smiling widely.

"Come here." He holds out his hand and I let go of the bar, slowly making my way over. I try and grab his hand but when I lean over I slip, falling onto the ice.

Cole's laughing more than before and now I'm laughing. "I-I c-can't that was p-priceless." I begin to get goosebumps and I don't think it's because of the ice...

"Stop... Please don't laugh," I laugh again myself, contradicting what I just said. "This is hard." I try to stand up but my foot slips and I land back on the ice.

At this point, I can only hear Cole's laugh, nothing else. He's laughing so much that he also falls over. We continue to just sit there, laughing, and he looks straight at me.

"You are terrible at skating."

I cross my arms trying to be serious but I can't stop smiling, "I haven't had time to improve, I've been on the floor the whole time."

Cole manages to stop laughing and stands up. "Okay get up, I'm going to teach you." I nod and he puts both his hands out for me to hold onto. I take them and he pulls me up but my feet slip, causing me to move too forward so we clash heads.

"Ow." I rub my head and he chuckles.

"After this, remind me to never take you on the ice again." I nod and smile sheepishly.

"I think that's a good idea."

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After a few hours of skating, we leave and safe to say I've had so much fun. I haven't smiled this much in a long time, today has managed to be great. I may wake up with a lot of bruises but it'll be worth it.

"That was so much fun, thank you." I only just notice we're holding hands but I don't bother to let go.

"At the end, you were finally getting the hang of it. But, I've never seen someone fall over so many times." He grins and I laugh.

Cole drives us to where I left my car. "Thank you again, today was amazing." He smiles, leaning a little closer. He moves a loose strand of hair behind my ear just like the other day but he doesn't stop there, he edges closer and so do I.

His lips are not even an inch away, a move away from my lips being on his. But I move my head down even though I would have loved to kiss him there and then.

I don't know why I didn't, I think I'm just scared that I'll be the girl he was kissing just this morning.

"I can't, Cole..." I sigh, frustrated with myself. "Goodnight."

I get out the car and as I walk towards mine, Cole says one last thing, "Goodnight, Princess." I give him a slightly awkward wave as he drives off and I get into my car.

Once I get home Josh rushes down the stairs not looking too happy. Great. "Where the hell have you been? I've called you loads and Mia and I didn't see you after school finished. I have to lie to my parents so they didn't worry about you."

How about 'Hey Andie, where have you been? I've been so worried.

He points to his phone, wow what a great way to end a good day.

I look at my phone and see all my notifications.

Mee: Hey, where did you go? x

Josh: 13 missed calls

Josh: Answer your phone. I'm worried.

Mee: Josh texted me and said he still doesn't know where you are, call me.

Mee: 4 missed calls

Jeez, it's not even like it's extremely late. The only reason Josh is making a big fuss, making Mia worried, is because he probably knows I was with Cole.

"Okay, I'm sorry I didn't call or text any of you back but you need to chill. You're just pissed that I was out with Cole." He grunts as I walk past him, heading to the kitchen.

"Hey Andie, how was your day?" Mark asks, sat at the table while Nadia serves dinner.

"I'm good thanks, I'm tired so I think I'm just going to head up."

"Are you sure you don't want anything to eat?" Nadia asks and I nod.

"I'm okay thanks, I'm not very hungry. Night guys, love you both." They say the same back and when I leave I see Josh still stood by the stairs, sulking. He may be seventeen but he can act like a toddler at times.

"Just because Cole and I are trying to not argue every time we see each other doesn't mean I hate the guy any less. He's a guy who doesn't do relationships, he wants flings, Andie, you, deserve better.I'm just trying to protect you from getting hurt." His voice gets softer by the end.

"I'm not going to be a booty call, Josh, I'm just hanging out with him. You're being a hypocrite, I've heard a lot of things about you messing with girls before Mia." I really how harsh I sounded and speak softer.

"Look, I get you're trying to protect me but I can look after myself. I enjoy hanging out with him and I'm finally starting to feel like I deserve to be happy after everything. You're being selfish, this isn't about you Josh."

I don't give him a chance to argue back and walk off. Once I get to my room I slam the door and rest my head on it. My brain processes everything that's just happened; from nearly kissing Cole to arguing with Josh.

Oh my god.

I nearly kissed Cole.

Even though I hate to say it, I think Josh is partly right... If I didn't see Cole with that girl this morning I probably would've ignored what he was saying.

What if Cole is just messing with me?

But he was so sweet today.

I'm so confused I don't even know where my mind is at the moment. The only thing I do know is that I can't kiss him or even come close to kissing him again.

I get changed and even though I hate to say it, I can't seem to stop thinking about Cole and how much I wish I could just speak to my mum about it. She would tell me what to do and give me the right advice but I guess it's time to start figuring things like this out on my own.

I realise I haven't let Mia know that I'm home and that there's no need to worry so I do that and also decide to text Jess. It's been forever since we last talked and I only had two proper friends back in my old town, Jess being one of them.

Me: Hey! It's been so long since we last talked :( Maybe you could come down at some point? I miss you x

I throw my phone onto my bed while I tie my hair and it goes off. I pick it up, thinking it's Jess but's it not.

Cole: Goodnight Princess x

I smile and can't help blushing. I didn't react like this when he told me earlier. A notification from Jess finally comes through as well:

Jess: Sounds good! I miss you too x

I head to bed but Cole is still occupying my mind and even though things ended awkwardly earlier, I can't wait to see him again tomorrow.

Maybe me trying to stay off dangerous land isn't an option...

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