Chapter 1

"Ahhhh" I said the waves splashing up against my feet and the ocean wind running threw my hair sending it into the air behind me. It was about oh I would say five O'clock in the morning. I was on a white sand beach in Miami. I was simply wearing shorts and a tank top and was standing in my bare feet in the ocean water I had nothing else on besides the shorts and top except for my necklace which hung around my neck on a heavy metal chain with a charm at the end that fell above my chest level with my heart.

I turned and walked along the water to the boardwalk. I walked along the boardwalk looking up at the sky. I sat down at the end of the walk the water about twenty feet below me and watched the fish swim around.

Meanwhile a teenage boy probably in his second year at high school was running along the beach for his morning exercise he had a white sleeveless shirt on and sweatpants. The boy had Brown hair and dark brown eyes. He stopped and sat on the sand to rest and take a drink out of his water bottle. The boy looked out at the boardwalk and saw me sitting there. He was bewildered by the appearance of another person this early in the morning especially one he hasn't seen before. He took in the facts that she had long hair and was around his age but he never remembered seeing her at the school or even around town and this was a first for him seeing someone up as early as he was.

I stood up and stretched getting ready to dive in. the boy sat and watch while I was unknowing of his eyes on me. The boy remembered the warning his parents gave him before when he was little on how to never swim in the waters early in the morning because of the sharks that liked to feed on the dolphins that he enjoyed watching in the mornings.

I finished stretching then jumped high into the air cleanly my hands out in front of me and dove head first into the cold brisk morning ocean waters. I dove down far and swam along the bottom looking at the ocean floor starting to awaken. I smiles as a school of fish swam past me and started to head for the surface. My head broke surface and I floated on my back looking up at the sky and allowing my hair to freely flow around me. The boy watched from a distance.

I felt a small current under the water; it might be natural or just a large fish. Then out of nowhere a dolphin jumped out of the water and landed splashing me. I dove under water and looked around there was a school of dolphins all swimming around me catching there breakfast. A smaller slender dolphin swam up to me. There was a marking on the dolphins nose in the shape of a crescent moon the outside on the mark was shiny silver color while the inside was a darker blue color. I smiled and slowly reached out to touch the dolphin's nose. The dolphin slowly scatted forward and moved its nose under my hand and I rubbed the smooth blubbery skin of the dolphin. The dolphin squealed in pleasure and I smiled.

I've made a new friend. I swam around and grabbed one of the dolphins flippers and it swam swiftly threw the water. It jumped into the air and I wasn't able to hold on. I fell into the water but kept my head over the water and took deep breaths of morning air. The dolphin swan around and came back up to my side I rubbed its nose then positioned myself behind it. I got onto the dolphins back and held onto the dorsal fin. The dolphin dived under water and I took a deep breath. We swam under the water me on the dolphins back and the dolphin squeaking to all its friends.

The dolphin again jumped up high into the air and started to do a flip. I felt the tensing of its muscles and sensed what it was going to do. I placed my hands on its back then pulled my feet onto it then jumped high into the air over it. The dolphin continued its flip and landed with a big splash in the water while I dived cleanly back into the water. I came back up to the surface and took a breath. The dolphin swam underneath me getting its breakfast.

At this time the boy on the beach was in aw with what he was seeing in front of him with his own two eyes. I swam out farther away from the beach not afraid of the water or the shark warning a stranger told me about. I felt another current thinking it was just another dolphin I continued to swim on my back. Then out of nowhere something came up and grabbed my leg and pulled me down under the water. I looked down to see a large sharks mouth wrapped around my leg up to my thigh. I kicked my feet and got out of the sharks grip for a second then swam to the surface.

I swam full out fastback to the shore. The boy looked confused not seeing the first attack but then his eyes grew wide as he saw the large dorsal fin of a shark fallowing me from behind me. The shark caught up and grabbed my same leg and pulled me down again. The boy, without thinking, ran out onto the boardwalk taking off his shirt and throwing it behind him then quickly jumped into the water and swam down after me. I kicked my feet trying to get out of the sharks grip but I could never land a kick on the large beast. From above I saw a boy swim down into the water. I didn't have time to worry about him so I continue my struggle against the shark. The boy reached me and swam down to the shark. At the same time I threw a kick at the sharks nose he threw a punch with his strong muscular fists. The shark let go and swam away slowly into the darkness of the waters.

The boy's arm went around my upperbody and he pulled me up to the surface. He started to swim with me back to the beach when the dolphin with the mark came over and swam beside us.

"Thanks," I said still trying to gather air.

"No problem but lets talk when we get back to the beach," he said his voice husky and rough like his arm around me. We swam back to shore my left leg completely useless in the effort, but the dolphin helped support me from the other side. We made it back to the beach and laid on the sand trying to catch our breaths. I sat up and looked down at my leg.

"How is it?" he asked his eyes closed evidently incredibly tired since he did his workout then this.

"Not bad just a few cuts" I said. That was a total understatement. My leg hade large bite marks down from the thigh they started to bleed but with help from the salt water it started to slowly stop. Nothing that couldn't be handled easily but still a major wound it would take a few weeks to heal completely but thankfully I had the time for that plus I wasn't going to let a scrape tear me away from my new home and all the new places to explore. No indeed.