Beautiful sunny Florida is a place where the rich and famous tend to go to relax from their fabulous lives. But it's also a wonderful place to live, if you love to surf. Alfred F. Jones was a nineteen year old boy who loved to surf just as much as he loved to learn about space.
His father was an astronaut, so whenever he was home he told Alfred many stories and taught him many things about space. Alfred wanted to be an astronaut as well for years, but when he realized that what he loved doing resided at the ocean, he forewent that dream.
But it wasn't like Alfred lost complete interest in space, he still loved to learn about the planets and the stars and other things like that, but he just loved surfing more, and many other sport related things. He loved to surf, skateboard, bike, skate, and others of that sort.
He loved doing those other sports when the waves didn't look big enough to bring out some cool tricks, so he would go on his board and go to the skate park to meet up with some of his friends who basically did the same things as him, and he would spend the whole day with them. Alfred had many friends, or so he would like to think.
His mother had died when he was younger, and later on his father decided to marry again to a woman from Canada who also had a son. His name was Mathew Williams. What was funny was how much the two looked alike even though they weren't related in the least. Even though these two looked very similar they were basically complete opposites. Mathew was fairly pale because of where he lived before moving to Florida, he had long blonde hair and also had a random one that wanted to go against the grain.
Mathew had violet eyes, and he was incredibly quiet; the opposite of Alfred, and also for some reason liked to carry a little stuffed polar bear whenever he got nervous. But Alfred found out something that he really liked about his step brother: He loved to surf too. Mathew never really got to surf very much, being born in Canada the most he did was snow board. But whenever he got the chance he took it as best he could, so when he heard that they were moving near the beach in Florida, he was ecstatic.
The reason Mathew and his mother left Canada in the first place was because she owned a very ritzy and up-scale hotel near the beach in Florida where famous people tended to like to stay, and she wanted to be close to the hotel so she bought a fairly nice home. Not too close to the beach, but close enough to her hotel.
And how she met Alfred's father? Well, at one point when his Father had business to talk about with his bosses, they went to her hotel and that's where they met. After some time they started to date, and then later decided to get married.
Now about Alfred, mainly his appearance and why he became the most popular guy at his school.
Alfred was the son of a famous astronaut, he looked like a supermodel with the perfectly tanned skin, a million dollar smile, and golden wheat hair with one that (kind of like Mathew) for some reason decided to go against gravity, but that only added to the rest of him. And to top it all off he had eyes that were as blue as the sky. And when someone has a father who is as rich as anyone could wish to be, your going to try and stay on their good side.
Except for one person.
This boy didn't like Alfred, he wouldn't exactly say he hated him. Actually the only reason he didn't like Alfred was because he had a bit of a crush on him...okay well maybe a little more than a crush, and that is what hated about Alfred the most.
The person was a very cranky British boy named Arthur Kirkland.
Arthur was not a buff, tanned kiss skin, beautiful million dollar featured kind of guy. He was very pale, skinny, hair a very light blonde and had a spiky look to it, and something that many people liked to make fun of, his eyebrows. His eyebrows were huge and he knew it, he just hated it when people brought them up. Although, his eyes were as green as a pure valley, kind of like a beautiful emerald.
Now Arthur, also living close to the beach, was more brains though than he was brawns. His father was a scientist on the general studies of chemicals and his mother worked in the field of oceanology, which is why they stayed close to the ocean.
Now Arthur may, to most people, not have been the most handsome person around, and because of that, he was basically the school's punching bag. Also what made him the main target at school is that he was gay and everyone knew it. Arthur got picked on by everyone, but he never said anything about it. In fact, Arthur never really spoke at all. He was always silent and the only time he actually did speak was when the teacher's asked him to answer a question, that's how they found out that he was British.
But other than that, he never spoke. He was a very mysterious person and never bothered with trying to befriend anyone at the school. How they found out he was gay, was that one day they found him with his boyfriend at the time, and after that, rumors about it were all over the school. After that Arthur and his boyfriend broke up. Why? No one knew, but that didn't matter because he was still gay and everyone knew it now.
Although Arthur always made it very clear, even without too many words, how much he didn't like Alfred. Alfred had no clue that Arthur actually had pretty big crush on him, as he was always too busy with his "friends" to find that out, and plus Arthur would never say it out loud, ever.
Arthur never looked like the kind of guy to enjoy any kind of sport, he always had his nose in a book of some sort, which made him the honor student he was. The only class he never did well in was P.E., and that was to be expected of the guy. For some reason every time he had that class, he was sitting on the bleachers. No one knew why but he was. The coach never said anything to him and neither did anyone else.
Yes, they were curious but they never bothered to ask the coach because he always looked disinterested, and of course they never asked Arthur because they didn't care enough to do so.