STRICK GUIDLINES
"Come on, Anya. It is the last day of vacation. We need to spend it out surfing."
Just like any other summer day, Anya's friend Britney asks to go surfing. Anya keeps refusing. It isn't because she is busy, it's because him. Lukas. Anya has known Lukas since first grade. Every day they went to Sunday School. They even live next-door. Anya craves for one minute to speak with him, but she is always interrupted by Caren. Caren is Lukas's girlfriend since the sixth grade. Caren is like all the Cliché girls who have daddy spend their money on them. Anya always craved that lifestyle.
When Anya was only five, her mom and dad left her. All they left her with was a snickers bar and a blanket. Every now and then Anya wants to see them, but she has been so busy handling her job at the bar. Her adoptive mom owns the local bar. She gets paid decently, but not even close to pay a fourth of her semester at Florida University. Anya saves all the money for her college fund, but never seems to find another way of work. She has tried everything from babaysitting, which never works out because she cannot handle little kids, working at a grocery store, but she doesn't have the patience to bag nor price items, and finally she tried working at hollister. They immediately checked yes but haven't called her in to work just yet. Anya doesn't complain , she gets tips from all the old and kinky men that have the slobbered beards and hair knotted in thin strips. Fun stuff to be working there.
Anya focuses back to the phone caller on the other line.
She sighs largely and mumbles, "Okay…Meet me in five, behind my house. Tell your friends to keep the smokes off my lawn too." Anya hated giving in but she loves Britney too much to say no. Hopefully this time will be different.
Anya stepped off her bed and soothed her silky hair. She smiles in remembrance of the first day she meet Lukas. He touched her hair from the back and said there was a bug. She knew that inside her heart he was staring at her hair and craving for one more touch. Well, at least she hoped
She stepped into her red bathing suit slipping on a few bracelets and a hair tie through her blonde hair. Anya stumbles down the staircase to her fridge and grabs a water bottle and heads outside to the shack. She steps onto the hot sand and feels her feet being devoured and burned by the beaches sand. She runs as fast as she can to keep her feet off the sand. She slips and lands on her back. Her eyes fade black and she is limp.
After a few minutes, Anya gets her eyesight back. She stares deeply into green eyes. They look like forests. She gets lost in this person's eyes. She sees trees and snakes and birds within. She is woken with a smack in the face. Britney stands in front of her. Her face looks relived as she states, "Oh man, Anya. I thought you were dying. Lukas over here..." Anya breaks her gaze and sees Lukas. His green forests full of concern, "he was about to give you the kiss of life." Someone approached them in the beach sand. Caren.
"But he would NEVER do something stupid like that. He has something better." Caren implies the fact she hates Anya. It has been obvious ever since we live next door and she's majorly jealous. But come on…me? Anya thought.
Caren gives Lukas a hand while he hovers up to the sand. He looks at Anya and floats back to Caren's gaze. She is standing with her surfboard close by her stomach gripping as if it was the last day her and her board had together. Anya glared at Caren as she reached out for Lukas' hand. He broke her embrace. "Why wouldn't I save her?" he asks sharply. Caren laughs like what Lukas said was a joke. She realizes he isn't laughing along. "I'll give you time to think about what you just said. Call me later." Caren hisses walking away with her surfboard. She trips over a rock and Anya laughs quietly. This is only the beginning she thought.
HOW IT STARTS
Now that Caren was gone, Lukas kept a wide grin attached to his face and lifted his board close to his tone body. His board was lime green and had black patterns along the edges. Anya stared aimlessly at him and smoothed her hair. Anya shakes her head and stands up. "Thanks." She speaks loudly. She doesn't know who she's saying it to but she hopes someone will respond.
PAUSE.
PAUSE.
Lukas looks over to her and smiles. "No problem." He draws silently from his lips. Britney looks over at her and winks and starts to run off into the water. There are two seedo parked in the beaches water. Anya slowly makes her way over to the seedos and look questionably at Britney. Then Lukas.
"They were supposed to be for me and Caren, but now that she left, do one of you want to go?" Lukas questions sweetly. Anya looks at Britney and widens her eyes. 'What do I do' Anya mouths. Britney scrunches her eyebrows and looks at Lukas, "I am afraid to flip on those things. But uh…Anya would love to go."
Lukas looks up hopefully into Anya's eyes. She just stares, star struck. "Yeah, I used to go all the time." Anya lied. He looked at her cautiously. "Cool, but I thought you would ride with me if that's cool with you."
Anya flushes over this moment and tries to say yes but all that comes out is' yogh', so instead she nods her head and smiles. Lukas smiles and walks over to his seedo and grabs a life vest. One for him and one for Anya. The life vests were bright yellow; Anya groaned softly to herself. She was already a freak, why have a life vest to only make matters worse? Lukas noticed her frowning. "Look, I didn't exactly choose the outfits for this. If it makes you feel better, Caren looks like a lemon when she wears them." He chuckles along with Britney. Anya waves her hand in the air, "How is this supposed to make me feel better. Just because I am not the biggest FAN of your girlfriend doesn't mean you should talk." Anya squeaked. Her petite voice could only go so loud before cracking repetitively.
Anya liked to stick up for people. She believed that karma would all pay off in the long run. But that day was far away. Almost too far for Anya. Anya lifted off the life vest and placed it back on the seedo and stated walking back to her shack.
"Wait!" Someone called behind her. Britney.
"Look," Anya hissed. "I don't want to be there when a piano falls on my head, either he stops talking and goes for a ride or I leave."
Anya's face was stiff but serious. She wasn't in the mood to fight so she just walked over to Lukas and got her life vest again. She squeezed it around her small body and huffed. "Shit." She mumbled under her breath.
Lukas walked over and secures the life vest in place and looked at Anya. He slowly curled his lips and turns to the seedo. He lifts one leg over and sits down. He looks back to make sure Anya is still there. She is, sadly. She slowly approaches the seedo and sits in place as the thing swings from side to side. Anya grips Lukas' body in fear. "Ow." He groans. Anya looks up at him. She rubbed where she scratched him. "I...I am so sorry." She stumbled over her words. She let go of him as he made noises of pain. "I'll leave if you want me to." Anya said. Lukas' eyes were closed but here shook his head no. He turned his head toward her and said, "don't leave. Stay." She obeyed as he took off into the wavy waters. She held onto the back of his life vest. She didn't want to hurt him again. What a fool she was.
They flew over waves making them bounce up and down. Every wave seem to get bigger. Anya wants to grip tighter but she is afraid that she may hurt Lukas. She screams when she sees a big wave come she know it is going to hit them. She is going to be thrown off if she doesn't hold tight enough. Lukas looks back at her and grabs her hands and pulls them around his waist. She doesn't expect this to happen so she lets go. Right as the wave comes, Anya tries to reach back for support but falls. Anya hits her head on her way down. Lukas stops the seedo and screams. Anya feels her body falling, her lungs closing and her eyes hurting. She is sinking deep into the oceans tried screaming for help, but only bubbles escaped the area of the water. Anya's body was limp and she could not move at all. She saw fishes and coral reefs. Right at this minute she wish she had fins or gils so she could breath. She opens her mouth and chocked on the water. Hey eyes closed quickly as she sank further down.
Lukas jumped off his seedo into the water after Anya. He opened his eyes to the salf water and struggled to see. He opened his arms wide in search for any body texture. He felt something on his hand so he grabbed it not expecting it to be Anya but it was. He pulled her to the surface ans fast as her could and swam her ashore. His legs ached with pain while he carried her. Her face was so pale it reminded him of a pearl.
When he got to the backyard of her house he found Britney. "Call 911!" He said frantically. Britney looked at Anya and reached out for her pink envy.
