I DO NOT OWN LEMONADE MOUTH!

STELLA POV:

"Stella we're heading down to the Pool? Are you going to come with?" I turn to see my Mother in her one piece swim suit.

"Yeah, I'll be ready in a bit." I answer and head towards my suitcase.

This summer the band had decided to spend the break with family. So instead of staying home or packing to move like we usually do, my parents had decided to bring my brothers and I to a resort somewhere in the suburbs.

After putting on my swim suit I walked to the living room of the medium sized room where we were staying.

"Let's go!" my brothers screamed eagerly and ran past me to the front door. I followed with a smile as they led us to the big Pool. It was decorated with big rocks and waterfalls to make you feel as if you were in some paradise rather than at a pool. I took a seat at one of the pool bed things and slipped on my sun glasses. I had spent so much time in doors this past year that I has started to pale. I felt the hot sun beat down on my skin and smiled at the feeling.

"Stella we're going in. are you coming?" I shake my head when my dad asks and sigh as they walk away. Before long the sound of people around me fades into the background and I relax. With my eyes closed I slowly start to doze off…that is until someone blocked the sun rays that were hitting me.

"Um…excuse me?" I say politely as I sit up slightly and take my glasses off.

"Can I help you Miss?" I could tell by the polo shirt that this guy worked here. That and he had called me 'Miss.'

"Yeah could you please move? You're kind of blocking the sun." I say as he places a glass on the table in front of an elderly woman. His back was to me but I could see his blondish hair. By the way his hair was made I knew he wasn't the pretty boy type.

"My apologies. Would you like anything from the Food Stand?" he asks and turns. I feel myself go rigid when I see who it is.

"Ray? Ray Beech?" I ask in disbelief. I see him roll his eyes and sigh.

"Well well well if it isn't the Leader of the Lemon Heads." He says and crosses his arms.

"What are you doing here? Didn't you read the sign at the door? No animals inside the resort." I say and smirk when his face turns a bright red.

"Watch yourself Yamada. I may need a job but I am not afraid to get fired." He says and glares.

"Whatever Pool Boy. Can I get a glass of Iced Tea?" I say and cross my arms.

"Get it yourself Yamada!" he says as his face returns to its usual color.

"Mr. Beech! Is that any way to talk to our residents?" I look up to see a middle aged man in a suit. I'm guessing he's the manager.

"What I meant to say was…how many teaspoons of Sugar ?" Ray says through clenched teeth as the man looks down at him with judgfull eyes.

"I will be sure to tell your uncle about the disrespect that you've shown Mr. Beech." the man says and walks away.

"Two will be fine." I say before slipping my sunglasses on and lying back down.

"I'll bring you your drink right away." He says through a forced smile. I chuckle under my breath and watch him leave, thankful that the lenses are too dark for him to even notice I'm watching him.

"Stella are you even gonna get wet?" I snap out of my trance when I hear my mom sit in the chair next to me.

"Mom you know I can't swim." I grumble and cross my arms with embarrassment. It isn't that I've never tried it's just that I've never learned. My father had tried to teach my numerous times but every time I'd fail and be too scared to even go near the water again.

"Well maybe you can just stay on the shallow end." My mom says and starts to dry herself off.

"I'd like to just stay out here." I say and close my eyes.

"Okay. Would you mind going up to our room and getting some sunscreen?" she asks.

"sure." I mumble and stand up. She hands me the key and I start to walk back towards the pool gates.

Suddenly I feel something slam into my side and next thing I know I'm flying through the air. I feel my back connect with something hard before I start sinking. My arms and legs start flail wildly as I try to keep my head above the water. I can hear screaming but I ignore everything and just focus on moving and trying not to sink.

RAY'S POV:

I let out a sigh as I fill up a plastic cup with Iced Tea and add sugar.

"What going on over there?" I turn when Mike points to the pool.

"Who knows? Let Joey take care of it, he's the lifeguard." I say and leave the stand to head towards Little Miss Rebellion. That's when I see what's going on. A girl, she was in the deepest part of the pool, flailing to stay above the water; she couldn't swim. I look around and groan when I see Joey with his back to all this as he flirts with a few girls. Then I hear the girls' screaming. I recognized it immediately; it was Stella. Acting on impulse I dropped the cup and ran to where she was.

"Where's the life guard?" I heard someone scream. As quickly as I could, I kicked off my shoes and socks before jumping into the water. I have no idea how she got to the middle of the deep end put I had to swim quickly in order to get to her.

"Stella calm down! I've got you!" I have to scream just to get her attention. Her arms hit my chest and she calms down almost immediately after I wraps my arm around her waist and pull her to me. Her legs wrap themselves around my waists tightly as I swim slowly to the edge.

"Stella, you have to let go for a bit." I say through chattering teeth when she doesn't let me pull her off to get her out of the water.

"n-no! You'll l-let me drown!" she says. I can feel her shaking violently with terror. I sigh and slowly move both of our bodies out of the water. When I stand up I can see that everyone had stopped to watch what I had just done.

"Don't worry. I got here. Resume Pool activity." I say loudly before starting to walk towards the infirmary.

"Stella!" I turn to see a woman, a man, and two small boys running over to me and Stella. I'm guessing that they're her family.

Looking down, I noticed that Stella had her face buried in my shoulder with her arms wrapped tightly around my neck and her legs around my waist. I felt relieved that she was okay but a little disgusted that she was so close to me.

"she needs to go to the doctor." I say as he father takes her from me. she doesn't complain as he wraps a towel around her and hugs her protectively.

"Mr. Beech!" I wince at the sound of Mr. Miller's harsh voice.

"Thank you so much." Her mother says before walking away with the rest of her family in tow.

"You're welcome." I mumble and turn to face .

"first you steal a golf kart to go on a joy ride, then you disrespect a guest, and now you throw yourself into a pool and do someone else's job. You should be fired by now in my opinion Mr. Beech. But because your uncle is the owner of this resort…I have no say. I will be sure to pay him a visit and discuss with him your…issues. Now go wash up and head down to the café. Your pool shift ended three minutes ago and you're due to start your job as a waiter in half an hour." He says before walking away. God I hated that guy, he thought that just because Uncle Devon gave him a job he's assistant owner of this place.

Silently I walk to the employee locker room and strip out of my now ruined pool uniform. I hit the showers and use up as much time as I can before walking out and drying off.

"That was a stupid stunt you pulled Beech." I turn to see Mark- another worker here- walking in.

"Yeah, I know that now." I say and start changing into the black pants and button that were the Lovely Lady's Café uniform.

"why'd you di it? If you would've let her be Joey would have been fired." He says.

"yeah and Stella would have died." I snap back.

"Stella? Wait wait wait… you saved that girl because you like her didn't you." He says and chuckles.

"Don't be disgusting. Stella is the signal most annoying, rude, and…most unattractive person I've ever seen." I say and put on my shoes.

"Yeah right. She was hot. With a capital H." he says and chuckles.

"You like her? You can have her. I don't care."

"If you say so. Good luck at the Café." He says as I walk out.

***One Week Later***

STELLA POV:

After the pool incident, I had to stay in bed for a while for some reason. Yesterday was the first day that I was allowed to roam the resort. Today I decided that I was going to the Library. This place was huge. It had multiple restaurants, three pools, a gift shop, an arcade, a library, and a book store!

"Stella, are you sure you don't want to come?" my mother asks again.

"Yeah mom, I'm sure." I say and smile reassuringly.

"Okay, if you say so. We'll be back later." She says and walks away. I hear the front door close and sigh before leaving the room a few minutes after.

RAY POV:

I hated Saturdays! While every other normal teenager spent their Saturdays sleeping in, or hanging out with friends, I had to wake up at Five AM and spend my entire day in this Gift Shop! No one even comes here!

"I'm gonna go on my Lunch Break." I nod when Mark mumbles out the sentence and walks out. I have spent the last eight hours in this tiny shop and was still two hours away from my Lunch Break. I could hear the sound of people outside of those glass doors going to the arcade, restaurants, library, basically anywhere other than here. I sigh and lay my head on the counter top, maybe if I'm lucky I'll be able to catch up on sleep.

"WAKE UP!" I jump when the silence is interrupted by the loud voice that just yelled in my ear.

"I wasn't sleeping Moron!" I scream angrily and look up.

There I see Stella on the floor laughing. Her shoulders shake as her face turns bright red and then purple as she laughs.

"Very funny Yamada." I say and try to ignore the ringing in my right ear.

"That was hilarious! Oh come on Ray you can't say that if it wasn't you I had done it too you'd be laughing too!" she says when she stands up.

"That's not the point. What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?" I snap before turning red. Yeah very busy, standing in an empty room while waiting for a customer.

"yeah this place is just over flowing with invisible people wanting to buy merchandise." She say with a cocky smile.

"They're invisible to losers like you. Only actual talented people like yours truly can see them." I say before cracking a smile.

"That was so funny I forgot to laugh."

"What are you in the Seventh grade? You can come up with a better comeback than that Yamada." I say and chuckle when she punches my shoulder lightly.

"Oh shut up." She say before hoping up onto the counter.

That's when an idea hits me. pay back is sweet!

"Hey hey hey! That's for merchandise on your butt!" I say before wrapping my arms around her waist from behind and yanking her backwards.

"Ray no!" she screams before we're both collapsing into the mountain of stuffed animals behind the counter. I manage to get her under me somehow so that I'm pinning her down when we hit the ground.

"Now I'm gonna have to polish that wood all over again!" I scream with fake anger. I can tell she actually believes me by the way her eyes widen. "You're gonna pay for that Yamada." I say and smirk evilly.

"What are you talking about?" she screams back. Then I let go of her wrists and move so that my fingers start to tickle to her stomach and sides.

"Say Uncle Yamada!" I say and laugh when she starts squirming and laughing.

"Stop! Stop it!" she screams between laughs.

"Say Uncle!" I say as my fingers keep moving.

"Ray!"

"Say it Stella!"

"Un- uncle!" she gasps out. I chuckles and move my fingers away so that my hands land on either side of her head.

"Good. I win." I say and watch as she gasps for air.

"Cheater!" she says and smiles up at me.

"I didn't say I played fair."

"I should have known from the start."

"Yes, yes you should have."

"Whatever, can I get up now?" she says and gently places her hands on my chest before pushing me. I roll off of her and stand up.

"What are you doing here anyway?" I ask and help her up.

"I came to look around." She says and hops on the counter. I let her be this time and take a seat on my stool.

"You came to look around or did you come to look at me?" I ask and wriggle my eye brows at her. She rolls her eyes and hops off of the counter to land on the other side.

"In your dreams Beech."

"Whatever you say."

"You are such a dork you know that?" she laughs softly and heads towards the back of the store.

"I'm not a dork!" I say and watch as she looks around.

"Yes you are. Do you have book marks?" she looks up from the post cards with a smile; a real smile.

"Right here." I say and pull out a box filled with laminated strips of paper.

"thanks." She mumbles and looks through them. "I thought you worked as a Pool Boy." She says and takes a few out.

"I switch to where I'm needed. I never stay at one place for too long." I explain.

"Thanks Ray…for what you did at the Pool." She mumbles and looks up through her eyelashes.

"No big deal." I answer and take the few that she had placed on the counter to ring them up.

"Yes it is. You saved me from drowning."

"Really Stella, it's no big deal. Let it go, please."

"Did you just please?" she asks and raises one of her eyebrows.

"I can be nice if I wanted to Yamada." I say and smirk before pacing her bookmarks into a paper bag.

"That's hard to believe. I've had the privilege to deal with your for a little over eight months and not once, before have you been kind." She says and hands me some money.

"Well maybe I can show you how nice I can be over Dinner?" I say and smirk when her eyes widen.

"Excuse me?" she says and crosses her arms.

"You heard me."

"Yeah I heard you loud and clear but do you actually think that I'll say yes to that?"

"It's an open invite."

"That's not an invite at all."

"Alright then how would you like me to ask Stella?"

"Politely."

"I don't do the whole noble knight stuff Stella."

"And I don't do the whole princess in distress thing." She says and takes the bag from me.

"Fine…Would you Stella like to come with me to Dinner at The Lovely Lady's Cafe tonight?" I smiled slightly at the look of utter surprise on her face.

"I didn't actually think you were serious about this." She mumbles.

"Yes or no Stella?" I ask and hand her her change.

"This isn't a joke? You aren't going to stand me up or something?" she asks.

"This isn't a joke Stella. If you want you can come pick me up so that you know I won't stand you up."

"Okay. Pick you up at Seven." She says with a smile and starts walking out.

"Wait!" I say and frown. She turns and smiles slightly at me.

"What?"

"So that's a yes right?"

"That's a yes Ray."

"How are you gonna pick me up if you don't know where I live?" I ask and raise an eyebrow. I see her cheeks turn a bright red before she walks back to the counter.

"Where am I picking you up?"

"Here." I say and scribble my Address on her receipt quickly.

"Thanks." She mumbles before walking out. I watch her through the glass windows as she walks away. What can I say? I like the whole 'Rebellion' attitude she has. And the fact that she has a cute smile helps too.

STELLA POV:

I could feel my cheeks were on fire! I was supposed to hate him right? But I couldn't, not anymore at least. This wasn't the jerk that I went to school with or the guy that I couldn't stand. This was a different Ray, the one that's fun to be around, and can make me laugh, and makes me blush violently. Why hadn't I ever noticed the way his hair is darker on the back of his head than it is on the front? Or the way his blue eyes twinkle when she's holding back a laugh, or the way the right side of his mouth twitches right before he chuckles?

URG! Snap out of it Stella! This is Ray Beech we're talking about! He spread a rumor that you had a two-some with Charlie and Wen! He made you trip and fall right into the bucket of mop water a few feet away from him; he wants to ruin Lemonade Mouth's fame! He's rude and obnoxious, and mean! Why are you drooling all over him? You are supposed to hate him! This is all a big prank to get you to fall for him or something. Well I'll show him. I'll make him wish that he never messed with me. Ray Beech, get ready for what's coming your way.

Okay, so I've wanted to start this story for a while now but I've never had the nerve to do it. I really need some help. This chapter didn't really come out the way I planned it. Frankly I think it could be better. I know there are a lot of grammar mistakes and I apologize for that! I need a Beta so if anyone is interested, please say so! Do you think I should keep going or just stop? Was it good, bad awesome, or horrible? Please review! : )