Emma was sitting on her surf board in the bright blue ocean, daydreaming about her one and only ever crush, Ty.
"Hey, Emma!" someone called from the beach. She looked up and saw Johnny paddling out to join her.
"What's up, Johnny?" she asked and paddled closer to him. He shrugged, "Nothing much," Emma guessed.
"Yep. Hey I was wondering do you…?"
Another voice that boomed out from the loudspeaker cut him off. "All junior staff members: Come to the front desk immediately."
They both sighed and paddled back to shore. They toweled dry and pulled some clothes on. Emma ran ahead of Johnny and dropped her board off at the staff house. Then she ran to the front desk where Reef, Fin, Broseph, Lo, Johnny, and the other staff members were already standing.
Mr. Bummer started talking, "Now, as some of you know Mr. and Mrs. Ridgemount…"
"Mommy and Daddy!" shrieked Lo.
He gave her a stern look and began talking again, "they will be here tomorrow. We need to make the resort look better than we did for Mr. Stephens. So get to it, now!"
Everyone scrambled off in opposite directions. Emma ran off toward the restaurant. She turned a corner and slammed right into someone.
"Oh, I'm sorry!" she apologized, and tried to stand up.
"No, I'm sorry." Said the person that she ran into.
She looked up into a pair of light brown eyes. She froze as she recognized them. They were the eyes she'd been dreaming about for the past week and a half. She gasped.
"Are you OK?" he asked.
Emma nodded, too nervous to speak.
Ty sighed. "Good. So, Emma, right?" She nodded again and he continued, "Do- do you want to come to a party on the beach tonight? I'm inviting Lo and Broseph and all your friends, too. What d'you say?"
Emma held up one finger and managed to whisper "I'll be back in one second," she ran back around the corner and into the bathroom. She ran into a stall, locked it, and screamed. She was so happy!
She opened the door and walked back out to where Ty was still standing. "I think I can make it to the party," she whispered shyly.
"Kay, see you there," he smiled at her and walked out the front doors.
Emma sighed and fell back against the wall.
"Emma!" Mr. Bummer yelled, "Get to work!"
She pushed off the wall and ran to the restaurant where Lo was scrubbing tables until they shined. Kelly told her right away to start setting the tables after Lo finished them. So there started the very long and very boring day.
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"Uggh!" Fin groaned and dropped down onto the couch. "I'm not sure if I'm going to that party. Rosie and I ran up and down the floors and my feet are killing me." She kicked of her shoes and started rubbing her feet.
"You feel horrible?!" asked Lo, "I just spent all day scrubbing every table in the restaurant! It ruined my manicure! Hopefully Daddy'll know how hard I worked and let me finally go back to the Penthouse!"
Reef snorted. "Yeah right,"
She glared at him. "We better get going if we're going to make it to Ty's party on time. Are you coming, Fin?"
"I guess so. It'll be no fun here without any of you guys here," The girls ran to their room and got into their swimsuits while the guys changed into their trunks.
Five minutes later they were all running down to the beach. The sun was setting and Ty and some of his other friends had already started a huge bonfire. The light of the flames was shining through the trees. They all stepped onto the beach and Emma ran into the water and jumped on her board.
Reef and Broseph were already farther out then her and riding an awesome wave. A splash behind her alerted her that someone was behind her. She turned around.
"Hi," she managed to say. It was Ty.
"Hey," He said. After a few more moments of awkward silence Ty said "So… are you having fun?"
Emma giggled. "I kinda just got here, I haven't had much time to do anything," she bit her lip. She'd actually talked to Ty!
"Do you wanna surf now? Sorry I interrupted you, Emma," When Ty said her name her stomach flipped.
"Do you wanna surf with me?" she asked him. He smiled and started paddling out. Emma followed.
Meanwhile, on the shore, Lo was watching her older brother paddling out into the water with Emma. She was smiling to herself. They were so cute together.
Emma caught up to Ty and they sat on their boards facing each other.
"You're a lot different than I thought you were, Emma," Ty commented as he looked in her eyes.
"Is that a good thing or…"
"It's awesome," He smiled at her.
"Ty, Emma! C'mon!" someone yelled from the beach. A wave was coming up behind them and they rode it back to shore.
When they stepped into the firelight, everyone was eating all kinds of junk food. Ty glanced at Emma, and she blushed.
"Are you really hungry?" he asked her.
"No, not really,"
"Do you wanna go back out to surf a little?"
"Sure, why not,"
They paddled back out and faced the remaining sliver of the sun. Finally, it disappeared over the horizon. Emma sighed. She would miss watching the sun set over the ocean when summer break was over. Maybe she could convince her parents to move closer to the beach; hopefully this one.
The sky was becoming darker and darker and the full moon was rising.
"Why don't we go back to shore, now?" Ty asked as the water practically turned black.
Emma thought of why that was a good idea then squeaked out an "OK,"
The sand was glowing by the light of the full moon when they stepped onto it. "It's so beautiful!" exclaimed as they looked back out at the moon over the ocean.
"Yeah, it is," murmured Ty.
Everyone was sitting around the fire talking except for them, Emma noticed. She was alone with Ty.
She looked away from the fire and noticed Ty was staring at her. She suddenly became very self-conscious and wrapped her arms around her exposed stomach. She heard a small chuckle escape Ty's lips.
"Emma, do you trust me?" Ty abruptly asked.
"Yes,"
He grinned and whispered, "Follow me," He turned and sped off toward the trees. He reached the shadows and stopped to wait for Emma. When she caught up to him he started to walk again, slower this time.
"Where are we going?" she asked. It was so dark under the trees that she could barely see where they were walking.
Ty's voice came from a few feet ahead, "I wanna show you something."
Emma smiled and followed his voice. Something bumped against her foot and she tripped. "Ouch!" she fell hard onto the ground.
Ty turned around and helped her up, "Are you OK?" he asked concernedly.
"Yeah," she answered. Actually she felt terrible but he was touching her!
"Good," he sighed in relief and removed his hand from her arm.
"Well, Ty, I can't see very well. Can you help me?"
"Sure," He wrapped his arm around her waist. She almost passed out.
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