"Come on Caleb!" I yell grabbing my surfboard from the roof of the jeep.

"I'm coming!" He laughs. "Give me a break! It's like seven thirty!"

"But the waves are amazing! Come on!" I say.

"Okay, okay," He says grabbing his board from the roof. "Let's go."

I grin and we race down the wood pathway to the beach. I push a stray strand of hair out of my face as we get to the water.

"Ugh the water feels so good!" I laugh as I splash into the warm, Hawaiian water.

"I know let's go!" He yells and we both push off onto our boards and start paddling out.

"You're gonna get stuck in the wipeout zone at the rate you're going!" I yell to my brother over my shoulder. "You gotta get over the break Caleb!"

"I know, I know!" He laughs. "I'm coming Tris!"

Finally we get over the break and I sit on my board. After a minute Caleb says, "Okay I'm taking this one!"

He starts paddling as the wave comes up behind him. He catches it but falls as soon as he gets to a standing position.

I burst out laughing as his head pops up beside his board. He climbs on and paddles back over to me.

"Please!" He says. "I'd like to see you catch one."

"I will," I say. "As soon as a decent wave comes."

"Nope!" He laughs. "You're catching that one." He points to a wave building up on the horizon.

I grin. "Okay."

I start paddling out and I hear him yell, "I was kidding! You'll wipe out for sure!"

I laugh. "No I won't!"

As I get closer and closer to the wave I can feel my grin getting bigger. I take a deep breath and duck-dive under the wave, turning under water and coming up in the wave.

I start paddling and then stand, turning so I'm riding down the wave.

"I told you I could do it!" I yell curving off the top of the wave. As it dies out I dive over the back and into the water, my board flipping above me.

I resurface and start to paddle over to Caleb.

"I can't believe you caught it!" He laughs giving me a high five.

"You underestimate me," I say.

"Obviously!"

Four's PoV

Zeke pulls up to the parking lot and we all climb out of his pickup. We had to squish four people in the back and three in the front but it turned out okay.

I go around back of the truck and open it, pulling and handing out surfboards.

"Marlene," I hand her hers. "Shauna," Hand her hers. "Uriah, Will, Christina, Zeke." Then I pull mine out and we start walking down to the beach.

When we get there I see that it's pretty empty except for two people, a girl and a guy. You can tell they've been surfing since they were little. I watch as the girl catches a wave that's at least double her height.

"Wow," Christina says. "Check out how good she is!"

"And the waves!" Marlene exclaims. "Let's go!"

We all paddle out to just over the break.

I watch as Uriah catches a wave. Then Christina. Then Will and Shauna and Zeke.

"C'mon Four!" Zeke yells. "You gotta catch at least one!"

"Okay, okay," I say and start paddling to catch a fair sized one. Maybe like six or seven feet.

I get up but just ride it along, not doing any tricks. As I'm paddling back to the group I hear a laugh and see the girl and the guy both paddling for the same wave. The guy yells something and the girl just laughs and reaches over with one hand and flips his board.

The guy surfaces and swims over to her and says something. She nods and I watch as he catches a wave in while she catches and rides a perfect barrel.

"See you looking at the blondy," Zeke says as I finally reach them,

"What?"

"Yeah you were watching her the entire time you were paddling over here."

I just laugh. "Okay Zeke. Whatever you believe."

"No Zeke. He wasn't checking her out," Christina says swimming over. "He likes Nita."

I groan. "I do not!"

"Then go talk to that girl!"

"No! And anyway, did you not see her with that guy? Probably her boyfriend?"

"He's not going to go over there Zeke," Marlene says. "But that's okay. I have an idea." She turns to where the girl is sitting on her board and yells, "Hey!"

The girl looks over at us and frowns.

Shauna, apparently getting what she's doing yells, "Would you mind coming over here?"

The girl takes a glance at the wood path that goes through the woods on the other side of the beach where the guy just dissapeared and starts paddling over.

"What's up?" She asks coming to a stop beside Uriah.

"Well you look like you're from around here," Uriah starts and she nods.

"And we were wondering if you knew any good places to eat?" Marlene continues.

"To eat?" The girl asks and Christina nods. "Well I actually work at this awesome restaurant bar place. It's great. It's on seventh avenue called The Pit."

"The Pit?" Cristina asks.

"Yeah. Weird name, I know. It's run by some creepy guy who's all dark and gross," She says. "But he's not usually there and the food's great."

Zeke nods. "Thanks."

"No problem." She

starts to paddle away when Christina smiles evilly at me and says, "Hey, why don't you join us? You know unless you have to get back to your boyfriend."

She laughs. "Sure, I'll join you. And he's my brother."

Zeke smiles slyly at me and says, "Well I'm Zeke and this is Marlene, Shauna, Christina, Will, Uriah and Four." He points to each of us in turn.

"Cool. I'm Tris," The girl, Tris says smiling. She didn't ask me about my name. That's a first and I think I like it.

"I'm gonna catch that wave!" Christina yells pointing to a ten foot wave.

"Good luck with that," Uriah laughs as she swims off.

She manages to catch it but can't get up fast enough and falls off.

As she swims back to us Will says, "Hey Tris, you seem like a good surfer." Tris shrugs. "Well I dare you to catch that wave." He points to a wave forming on the horizon. It's going to be huge. At least thirteen feet.

"Will that's ridiculous," I say. "Tris you don't have to do that."

She just grins. "It's cool. I like a challenge," And she takes off toward the wave.