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Summary: E/O Challenge: prompt "glimmer". Jess teaches Sam to boogie board.

After my friend tried to teach me to boogie board this weekend, I knew I had to write this, because I'm six feet tall and just couldn't seem to get enough of me on the board to make it work. So I had to wonder, how would it turn out for Sam?

Among Things Missed

The water glimmers, impossibly beautiful. Though rocked by waves and stung by salt, Sam can't help but feel a profound happiness.

"Get up further," Jess instructs him patiently, laughing; he tries to, but the boogie board feels about a foot too short. "One's coming… go, kick, kick!"

Sam kicks, holding on, and water swells beneath him. He loses it quickly, but Jess smiles as she swims over.

"You're getting there." She kisses him.

But though he's bobbing lazily in the Pacific with a beautiful girl, Sam can't help but feel like someone else should have taught him this, years ago.