Free Thundering Luv by LM Preston

wanted that with Colin.
Megs tossed a broken shell into the sea. “At least one of us is leaving with a boyfriend.” She turned towards Jewel. “Maybe you should ask Colin to be your boyfriend.”
Jewel put her hand to her chest. “Me? Ask a boy? Oh, I don’t know Megs.”
Could she? Should she? Jewel gulped, she was willing to take the risk to keep Colin in her life, especially after she hurt him by turning him down.
“Why not? He really likes you. I’m shocked he hasn’t asked you by now. Most guys usually ask the first day of meeting you. I mean first, Colin’s on your payback list, then you can’t stop thinking about him, and now you and him are together all the time.” She hugged Jewel. “This time, with him, you look so happy.”
“I am. I can’t wait to see him in the morning or to hear his voice at night. Going home is going to suck if we’re not together.” Jewel crossed her arms.
“Well, don’t turn around, but he’s here now,” Megs grinned at her.
Jewel ignored Megs teasing and ran to meet Colin who was jogging towards them. He opened his arms wide and she jumped into them, wrapping her legs around his waist.
Colin kissed her, holding her close to him. “I’ve missed you babe.” His hands sank in her unruly waves.
“Missed you too.” She slid down into the sand and the shells fell out of her pocket.
“What are you girls doing?” Colin helped her pick up some shells. He fingered a few of them before placing them in his palm.
“Collecting shells to make necklaces. It’s supposed to be a souvenir from our trip.” Jewel glanced around and noticed that Megs and Amy had left her to collect more shells further down the beach.
“Let me help. If you give the shells to me, I’ll make you a necklace.” He smiled at her, hugging her again, then kissing her neck.
Jewel giggled. It was always so hard to keep a straight face when he kissed that spot. “Oh, that’ll be great. I’m not that good at making jewelry or anything artsy, but Megs seems to think it’s not that hard.” Jewel handed him the shells she’d collected, which seemed small in his large hands. “I tried to get shells with interesting colors and no cracks.”
“Hmmm, you picked some good ones. We can mix them with some of the rocks.” Colin sat and grasped her hand to pull her on his lap. “But first, I really need to kiss you.”
Jewel’s heart swelled. She tilted her chin up and touched her lips to his.  I’m in love with you. Closing her eyes, she repeated it to herself, trying to work up the courage to tell him.
Colin ended the kiss. “Guess we better get to work, huh?”
“Sure. But Colin…I want to tell you something.” Jewel frowned.
“Don’t tell me you’re angry with me.” Colin used his thumb to smooth out her crinkled eyebrow.
“No. But it’s serious,” she swallowed, “it’s about us.”
“There’s an us?” He smiled, giving her a teasing poke to her stomach, then flattening his palm over her belly-button ring.
“I want there to be,” she whispered. “I think of you all the time. I’m happy with you, more than I’ve been in a long time. I didn’t mean to hurt you when you asked me to be your girlfriend. I wanted to say yes, but,” she shook her head, “all the other boys, they moved too fast. I didn’t want to do that with you. I wanted to be sure, because…because, breaking up with you would hurt me so much.”
“Shhhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “It would hurt me too.”
“That’s why I didn’t say yes to you then. But what I’m trying to say is,” Jewel stuttered, the fear that Colin would reject her like she’d rejected him had her heart racing in her chest, but looking at him and the way he gazed back at her, gave her the courage. “W-Would you like to be my boyfriend?”
Colin blinked several times, his eyes watering a little, then he composed himself. “Are you sure you want to do that? If you want things to stay the way they are, I don’t mind. I’ll take