Okay, I posted this story once before, and then deleted it for reasons that do not currently need to be known. Since those reasons no longer matter, I decided to re-post it. For those of you who haven't already read it, enjoy! (:

Chapter One

Lilly's POV

"So, do you want to go to the beach or not?" Miley asked me impatiently. "Look, I need to call Oliver and ask him too, so can you hurry up and answer?"

I put he phone down on the table in the living room, and walked toward where my mom was sitting reading her book "Pride and Prejudice". "Mom, I know that I am supposed to be grounded until tomorrow, but can I please go to the beach with Miley?" I begged my mom, hoping that she would say yes even though I am still grounded.

I was about to start crying when I heard my mom say "Well, you have been acting pretty mature lately, so yes, I will let you go to the beach with Miley."

I stood there, amazed that my mom actually said yes.

I walked back over to where I had put the phone down, and picked it up.

"Yeah, Miley. I can go. I will be there in 15 minutes," I said to my best friend. "I think my mom might have gone insane, because she is letting me go even though I am still grounded."

"Okay, well I gotta go so I can call Oliver and ask him if he wants to go," she told me, and hung up the phone without giving me a chance to say bye to her.

I ran upstairs to my bedroom, and started digging through my drawers. I have about 20 different bathing suits, and I had to find the hottest one because I knew the guy I have been crushing on will be at the beach.

After a couple minutes of searching, I found a blue bikini with gold lining and the word "Roxy" on it. This one would be perfect, especially because his favorite color is blue.

I threw off my clothes, and quickly slipped into my new bathing suit that I had gotten only a week ago. I put on my flip-flops, and got my beach bag from my closet. I went through it to make sure it had my sunblock, towel, and sunglasses in it, and it did.

I put some shorts on over my bathing suit, and jogged out the door. The beach was only two blocks away, so I didn't mind using my bikini top as a shirt.

When I reached the beach about two minutes later, I found Oliver and Miley already waiting at Rico's. Jackson was handing them each a glass of strawberry lemonade when I walked up behind them.

"Lilly, you want one too?" Jackson asked me, looking at the glass of strawberry lemonade that he had just handed to Oliver.

"No thanks. I don't have any money to pay for it with," I replied with a small smile. "But thanks for asking."

"It's on the house," he said, and handed me a glass full to the rim, even though I had said no.

"Thanks, Jackson, but I was hoping to catch a few waves before they start to die down," I said, and slid the drink across the counter toward him.

I started to walk away to the storage closet that I kept my surfboard in, and Oliver followed me. "I want to catch a wave or two also," he told me, as he caught up to me.

We pulled out our surfboards from the little closet that we kept them, and walked in the direction of the ocean.

We got onto our boards and the waves started getting harder. It was great how the waves started getting hard as soon as we touched the water. It was one of those coincidences that you just gotta love.

We got so far from the shore that Miley and Jackson looked like little ants. As tiny as Miley looked, I could still see her with her arms crossed and a mad look on her face. Jackson must have said something that got on her nerves.

I was too busy looking back at Miley and Jackson to notice a huge wave coming straight toward me and Oliver. The moment I looked ahead of me, a big splash of water was in my face, and knocked me and Oliver both off of our boards.

This kind of thing has happened to me all the time, but usually the waves were not nearly this big. But it was fun. Really fun.

I was so busy thinking about the size of the wave, I didn't realize when the wave was throwing me through the air in the direction of Oliver.

I felt my body hit something that definitely was not water, but it did hurt a lot to hit. It hurt both of us.

I found myself laying on top of Oliver, floating to the shore. "Ow," we said at the same time.

I moved away from Oliver, and started swimming toward the shore that was only about 20 yards away.

Oliver followed me, but after just a few seconds, he was already far ahead of me.

I tried swim faster to catch up with him, but I felt my arms and legs weakening. That wave must have

tired me out a lot. I found myself swimming slower and slower by the second.

I was about 10 yards away when I came to a complete stop. I tried to move forward, but I felt my body getting lighter and lighter, and everything around me getting darker and darker.

Oliver's POV

I was sitting at the edge of the shore waiting for Lilly to finally catch up with me, but she had stopped moving. I looked back at Miley to see if she had noticed, and it didn't look like she did. She was busy yelling at Jackson for some reason or another. When I looked back at the water to see what was going on with Lilly, I couldn't see her. I blinked my eyes shut and opened them again, but still, I saw nothing except a few seagulls.

I looked throughout the water, but she was nowhere. I knew what was happening.

I jumped into the water and swam as fast as I possibly could to the general area that I saw Lilly last.

After just a few seconds of swimming my butt off, I found exactly where she went down. I looked down in the water, and barely saw her, going farther and farther down into the ocean.

I dived down as fast as my body would let me, and was hoping to be able to get Lilly without running out of breath and passing out myself.

I swam deeper and deeper into the ocean with all the strength I had left. I was a bit relieved to notice that I was swimming a lot faster than her body was falling.

I could tell my breath was running out. I went even faster. I was almost to where Lilly was, and I could feel myself getting even weaker every time I tried to go faster.

Lilly was only inches away from me, so I reached out to grab her arm, and found that she was quite unconscious.

I pulled her body over my shoulder and held onto her with one hand, and swam quickly with my other. I knew that I probably would not make above water, because my air was just about gone, but I went faster anyway.

The shore was only feet away, so I swam quicker and quicker, because I needed the air more than anything. I only had a yard or so left to go, so I tried to swim faster, but my body was feeling lighter, and I had no breath left.

I knew that I shouldn't even try to do this because I most likely will not be able to, but I did it anyway. I used my very last bit of energy to try to swim just the tiny distance to the surface, and I thought for sure that I would pass out and never see life again, but I tried harder.

I thought about why I was about to die, and thought that it was not fair. People should not die when trying to save their friend's life, especially when their friend is going to die anyway. I realized that this just wasn't my time or Lilly's to die.

I was inches away from the surface, and I charged toward it so I could finally just breath, and I made it.

I began breathing heavily as I very slowly swam toward the shore where I could see a large group of people staring at me. At first, I did not know why, but then I figured out that people might have been concerned that I was underwater do long. They might have also been concerned about Lilly. The point is that we are not underwater now.

I could see someone in the distance holding a large pile of towels, and a few people were swimming toward us, probably to make sure that we actually get back to shore alright.

The one thing that I noticed that shocked me was Miley. She was standing at the front of the crowd of people, and seemed to be crying. I saw someone, I can't tell who though, comforting her, and saying something to her.

I felt something that could very well be vomit sliding through my throat to come out of my mouth. To my surprise, it was not vomit, it was just a lot of water. I began coughing really, really hard. I could feel Lilly's body sliding out of my arms, but I couldn't stop it. I had to let go of her, or else we would both die.

Right when I was about to get hold of her again, I saw someone else grab onto her body. He must have been one of the people that had been swimming toward us. I felt someone else grab my arm and start to swim to the shore.

I tried to see who it was, but my vision was starting to get blurry. I started looking around, and noticed that everything was starting to look darker than it had five minutes ago when I had just gotten to the shore after surfing.

I started hearing many worried and sad voices getting louder and louder. I must have gotten to the shore.

I tried to open my eyes farther so I could see the people around me better, but my eyelids were too heavy.

My eyes closed, and all I could see was black.

Author's Note!

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