The
sun was setting while I rode a wave across the horizon that was way
too beautiful to be true. Courtney shrieked and fell into the roaring
waters beneath her.
"And yet another failed attempt by
Courtney Anderson." Gwen muttered paddling her surf board while
holding the camcorder up so it wouldn't get wet, to her helping her
onto it.
"I almost had it that time." She huffed
pounding her fist onto the board. Tipping the board over.
"Courtney!!" Gwen shrieked as they hit the water's
surface.
"Oh no! I'm so sorry Gwen! Dammit now I have to
buy you another
camcorder!" Courtney
moaned shaking the it trying to make it come back to life. I paddled
toward them. Well you might be wondering why were in the water at the
moment so I should introduce myself. I'm Bridgette Akermen, and as
you problem already saw that I'm a surfer. The girl with the
brunette hair yeah that's Courtney she's one of my closest friends
just like Gwen. Gwen thought of the idea first, well actually she
didn't think of it she bet on it.
We
were sipping strawberry smoothies at my mom's beach shack, also known
as Akermen's Smoothies and Surfs. Yeah I know really crapy name, but
hey it enables me to be at the beach as much as I want. By so-called
working.
"Bridgette earth to bridge." Gwen said
snapping in front of my face.
"Oh, oh sorry Gwen what was
that?"
"Uh-huh you owe me 20 bucks" She winked and
laughed, paddling off towards the beach. I don't know what came
over me when I thought that I could teach Courtney how to ride a wave
in less than 2 hours. I failed miserably.
I followed Courtney as
we paddled our boards back to shore.
"Soooo
Bridgette got any attention lately from Geoffy boy?" Courtney
joked, I glared at her and turned my head so she couldn't see me
smile and blush. Geoff was the quarter back for Madison High the
school we attend. You could say it's a private school, but it's
more of a charter. We have a lot of weirdoes and non normal people at
the school, but somehow we manage to stay on top of everything.
"Ugh I don't see how you like
those boys. Their so out of our league." Gwen said toweling her
hair off. "Gotta go get out clothes be right back." She
said turning to leave when she bumped into someone with a canoe,
knocking him over. They were chest to chest staring into each other's
eyes.
"Yearbook front page!!" Someone yelled out
flashing a picture of them. It was Beth. She's an ok person but gets
on out nerves very easily. She blushed jumping up.
"Sorry."
A deep sing song voice sung. It was Trent the Trent. The Trent that
Gwen like crushed on 24 seven. I tried sending her happy vibes and
thoughts.
"Yeah well watch
where you're going next time." She snapped trying to sound
uninterested trying to continue her path to the car. He grabbed her
arm.
"No really I am sorry." He said his stare boring
into her. There was a little red dot on her bathing suit bottoms. I
gasped.
"Heh Gwen time to get back to the car." I said
putting my arm on her shoulders guiding her to the car. Awww that's
so sweet Trent was trying to warn her about it. I wrapped my towel
around her waist and hurried her to the car.
"Thanks
Trent!" I yelled waving back at him to see Courtney running
after us trying to keep up.
"What was that all about?"
She was clearly confused, Courtney whispered in her ear. All the
color drained from her face, well she was already pale but she looked
ghost white now. She looked like she was about to cry, holding back
tears. We hugged her tight and got in the car. She did not speak for
the rest of the ride
home.
I
screamed and turned the corner trying to outrun him. I tripped and
landed on my leg, it felt wet and warm. I was bleeding heavily, and
he was in front of me breathing heavily.
"Please! Please
don't hurt me!" I cried. He just barked a laugh, and took
something out of his pocket it gleamed in the light of the street
light, and he thrust it at me.
I screamed flinging myself up
scaring Mr. Fur making him jump off my bed. It was just a dream
Bridgette just a dream I told myself over and over again. My pillow
was damp with tears soaking it. My mom ran in flickering on the
lights with a baseball bat above her head ready to strike.
"Bee
honey what's wrong?" She said in a tone that was soothing yet
alert. She searched the room, and then sat next to me on my bed
stroking my back.
"Mom...it was a bad dream." I cracked
and flung myself back on my pillow crying my eyes out.
"Awww
honey was it about him again?" She asked. That made me cry even
harder she was thinking that I was having those horrible dreams again
about my day that I had horribly when I was little. Maybe they were
coming back. No they couldn't the man was too short to be my
father. He died in a car accident; we were all driving home from the
surf competition. He had won first place in it and we were going out
to celebrate, when a car ran a red light and smashed into the
driver's side we were both on.
He
later died in the hospital that night next to me. I had minor
injuries but his skull and arm was crushed by the pressure. I was in
the bed next to him, with my mom balling her eyes out. That was him.
The guy that killed my father in the accident he was the guy in my
dreams. The murderer. It was a Hit and Run. When he hit us he
struggled out of the car and ran off leaving us to die.
I wanted
him to parish and be tortured in front of me at his will. I loathed
his sole more than anyone in the world that hurt my life as much as
him. Yeah I can hold grudges for like 5 minutes at least. But him I
will never get over him.
"Honey?"
My mom asked again I almost forgot she was there. I sat back up
again. I shook my head violently. Mr. Fur rubbed against my leg and
purred trying to comfort me. I smiled a teary smile and pulled him
into a hug. My mom smiled and got up to exchange my pillow for a dry
one and turned out the
lights.
Beep
Beep Beep my alarm went off right in my ear. I groaned and sat up
jumping out of bed getting on my meditational mat. Mr. Fur
interrupted me by mewing and pawing at the door. I sighed time to
face the first day back to school. It still felt like summer. The
air was crisp and cool, and the water in my pool was still
refreshing. I pulled on brand new organic school clothes, and skipped
down stairs to the kitchen.
My mom was sipping coffee reading the
newspaper at the table. There was 3 blueberry pancakes in the middle
of the table, just like there were 3 seats. We both never got over
losing my dad. We never touched his chair and left it the way it was,
kind of like a remembrance shrine. I took my seat and grabbed a
pancake.
"I see that you're up, Good morning." She
said through the paper.
"Good morning mom." I said
politely sipping some orange juice from my glass. She put down the
paper and grabbed a pancake munching it down furiously.
"Is
something wrong?" I asked
"Just late for work." She
said getting up kissing my forehead grabbing her purse and ran out
the door. I stared at the last pancake. I pushed the plate over to
his side and left it there to be dealt
with.
Gwen
wasn't at school today. I tried texting her over and over in class
but she never responded to them.
"?"
asked standing next to me taping her foot. I sank back into my desk
and sighed handing over my cell. I had never been good at that kind
of stuff being sneaky and all.
"Now may I ask you again what
is the square root of 12?"
"Uhm 287?"
"No."
"144."
"Thank-you
blah blah math blah blah blah masturbating blah blah cupcakes blah
blah needles." I tried tuning her out. A note landed on my desk,
I looked around but no one looked interested and was either texting
or drawing hearts with their names and their crushes in it. I opened
it....
Bored eh? She's such a drag. What's up?
I responded
Yes she really is nothing really I think Gwen really needs cheering up wana go see her afterschool or do you want to sneak out of class?
I folded the note back and set it on my desk. Courtney continued to scribble words into her notebook trying to keep pace with the teacher not excelling. If Courtney didn't write it then who did? I looked back down at my desk to see the note was gone. I looked around. Courtney was to my right, some weirdo named Harold to my left, behind me was Leshawna a friend of ours but wasn't her handwriting it was a lot more classic and neater. But in front of me was Geoff. I gulped the note was on my desk again.
What's wrong with Gwen? :) We should sneak out of class we could go to the surf shack?
My eyes widened
Geoff! My m- we can't go there anyway I was just kidding about ditching class. Hah ha-ha joke you know? /:3
I folded it and threw it on his desk casually.
He slowly unwrapped it and shrugged he pretended to scratch his back
and put a thumbs up.
" may I go to the nurse I don't
feel well." I asked trying to get her attention.
"Yes
you may I hope you feel better enough to actually answer a
question right." She remarked I frowned as she scolded at me
Courtney ran behind me as we got out of class.
"Close one
right?" She said panting we walked to my Hybrid when someone
stopped us in our tracks.
"I thought we would never have
gotten out of there." Geoff sighed laughing.
