Hurry up and save me.
With his long hair in his eyes, the boy maneuvered his way in the air, cerulean skies surrounding him like a moist blanket. Matching sky eyes set with determination, a sexy grin tugged at his mouth, a shout of victory and freedom escaping his lips. The small ponytail whipped behind him and his gold earring chimed a melody in the swirling air.
He turned the solar surfer's power off, tucking the sail into its compartment, and let gravity do the rest as he fell to the Earth. Eyes closed and falling farther into the grips of gravity, he felt himself float as the wind rushed past him upwards. Body moving with grace, he performed a number of tricks in the air for an audience of one. Opening his lidded eyes slowly, he stared at the sky rushing from his grasp. A booted foot pressed on the back button, igniting a spark and causing an explosion, propelling him from the earth he was about to crash into. Skimming the dirt, his blood was replaced with coursing hot red wires as adrenaline oozed out of every pore.
His coat flared behind him like a cape, making noises like a whip. He lowered his body closer to the board, knees bending and arms outstretched and holding on to the rail of the rising golden sail with the scales of orange glinting off the remaining sunlight. It radiated from the sun's captured energy, speed increasing and coat flapping wildly. And while he was having the time of his life, riding that solar surfer like a 21st century skateboard, he was being watched by a secret admirer: his best friend.
Oh, how Ariel loved him. How she yearned to be in his embrace, ear to his scarred chest listening to the music his beating heart and lungs created. To have his strong protective arms hold her in the night under rumpled sheets. To kiss his sleeping form awake. To trace every scar and memorize him in whole; just so if she ever lost him, he's never leave her memory bank. And oh, how she wanted their lips to share a passionate kiss filled with love, want, need. To run her fingers through his tousled hair and gaze into those eyes forever.
But fingers only now grasped the side of her own solar surfer, trailing behind her boy. That's what he was, whether he knew it or not: hers. But she was invisible to the seventeen year old, well, at least in that way. And as she held on to her solar surfer with the pulsating wings spreading gold throughout the sail as if to say, "Hey, let's get ripping some air!" she tried not to stare and call out to him and proclaim her love.
He turned around suddenly, not giving her time to hide, and smiled softly at her. Her heart skipping a beat, she gave him a small wave. He yelled, masculine voice booming, "Come on, Ariel! You're being slower than Morph!" and gave her a mock pathetic look as the pink floating blob chugged past her. Her foot hitting the back button as well, the surfer exploded with speed, catapulting her forward. Jim, seeing this, sped up as well. She was running towards her love as he ran away… bloody perfect.
Sliding up to him, she smiled deviously as she stuck out her tongue and yelled, "Loser!" and laughed as she went up ahead. Coming into a pasture filled with old, abandoned buildings, she dodged and barely skimmed them, the bottom of the board hitting a few and causing sparks to fly as it scraped the metal. "Show off!" he exclaimed, laughing. She laughed too, feeling alive. Being with Jim did that to her. To anyone…
So, stuck in her Jim-engrossed wonderland, she barely had time to react when a giant fan suddenly appeared before her. Retracting the sail into the board, she pressed her body into it, engine suddenly sputtering and sparks flying and bouncing off of the metal of the structure. She hit the back button once, twice, three times to no avail as she tried to revive the dying engine. Through to the other side, she continued stomping until she could no longer hear the engine revving. It gave up with a heaving sigh of smoke, and the board started falling lifeless. She tried to get the sail out of its compartment, but the hatch was stuck and it was useless.
She didn't remember crashing. She just closed her eyes, let her hair whip around her and braced for impact. And she remembered Jim's voice........... "Ariel!!!"
And that was it.
