Reject No More!
A week had gone by with close and distant relations over, getting to know Jake. There were nice parties and he got lots of presents, such as clothes, money, and even this drum set! Even Talim had come by with her mom so our mother's could finally meet in person and I got to talk to Talim for a while which was great.
I wasn't all that surprised when she told me about her and Legolas's breakup and she too didn't seem so surprised that Darien and me broke-up too. "Maybe things will go back to normal when we go to school," she said.
After that week went by, we stayed at a hotel near the Middle Earth Shopping Mall for a few days. Mom and Jake spent lots of long hours together looking at paint, bedspreads, and posters. To mom's disappointment, he wouldn't settle for light blue or green. He HAD to have red wall and a black bedspread.
I bought Jake some bathing trunks and a few shirts, but he wanted to save some of his clothes money for renting a surf board. Mom had insisted we spent a lot of saved up money for Jake and that's what we did for three days. Then, came the actual vacation.
My dad had decided we would go to the Bay of Belfalas for a week so we could hang on the beach, lean to surf, and to hang in a cute little hotel on the beach.
"You don't need to buy my anything else, Mrs. Goldring," Jake says quietly.
"All right, all right," Mom said. "It's just I haven't cared for a son in so long, I just want to spoil you!"
"Well, we're on our way to Belfalas!! WHOO HOO!!" Edoran says, taking his suitcase to the door. "And my pale self is gonna look the gayest on the whole beach, but you know what? I'm gonna have fun!"
Jake laughs and starts throwing all his crap in suitcases. "This is gonna be the best! I hope I can figure out how to surf."
"Oh, you will..." I say, though I'm not sure HOW he's gonna learn by himself. I know I wont be able to, but I'll try.
"You kids, tell us where you're going before you take off, okay?" Dad says sternly. "I'm not worried about Edoran, but you two youngins, I'm a little concerned about."
I sigh. "Dad, we'll tell you where we are going always and I will have my cell on me."
We drove right by the beach and all of our faces were gaping against the window. We had hardly seen much of a beach, because we lived in the middle of this big continent! We had pools, duh, but the beach was so different.
"Oh, I can't wait to just feel the sand!" I cry.
My dad lets us out right by the hotel, but the three of us just run out on the beach. Edoran just stays behind, feeling the sand, but Jake and I yank up our pants and start prancing around in the water in front of all these people who are in regular bathing suits on, acting if the beach was just a every day thing for them! Well, it probably was.
"Oh, this is so cool!" Jake says. "I've never even been to a beach before!"
Jakes POV
An hour later, the folks had the stuff unpacked and we all got in our bathing suits.
"Edoran! Take that white shirt off...wait a minute!" I paused and looked closer as he got closer. "AH HA HA!! It's not a shirt!! It's a FARMER'S TAN!!"
He nervously looks from side to side, then grabs me and holds his hand over my mouth. I laugh in his hand and then stick my tongue out. "Oh, I know that trick," he says and then takes his hand and smears my own damn spit all over my face.
"EW MAN!" I yell.
"That's what you get for embarrassing me!!" he laughs.
I take my shirt and wipe my face dry. "Okay, I'm going to go rent a surf board! Anyone else want to so I don't feel like an idiot?"
No one answers. "Emma!! Surf with me!"
"You mean, drown with you?" she says. "I'd rather go wade in the water."
"PLEASE!!" I beg, poking her arm and following her towards the water.
"Okay, though everyone on the beach is gonna laugh at us."
"Nah," I say. "Come on."
We run up to the surfboard shack. "Twenty damn dollars to rent a board for one hour? It'll cost forty dollars to practically kill ourselves!"
I bite my lip. Geez, that was more money than I saw in a month back at my old house. "Fuck that. Oh well."
"But this vacation won't last forever and we'll have to go home in a week so mideswell say we tried to surf."
"Or even better," I add. "LEARNED to surf!"
"Two long boards for an hour, please," Emma says and hands the dude forty bucks.
"Come again soon!" he exclaims with a rotten-teeth smile.
Emma tries not to grimace and we get two boards and head in the water. "I feel so cool just carrying a board to the water," I say. Then this gleam of gold-blond shining in the distance catches my eye and I drop the surfboard flat in the sand. "Whoa," I say and stare at the blond haired girl in a red bathing suit, tearing up this wave on her board.
"She's good," Emma says casually.
"Good? She's spectacular! Amazing! And...Really fiiiine."
Emma looks at me and rolls her eyes. "She looks about your age. Maybe she'll TEACH you!"
"Teach me? I'd be too embarrassed for her to teach me...matter o' fact, I think I'd be too embarrassed for her to see me wipeout. I wonder...can I get my money back...?" I grab the board out of the sand and head back to the Surfboard shack.
"I don't think so!" Emma says and grabs my arm, yanking me towards the water.
"Just look at how she surfs, Emma. Look at the way her hair seems to glow, even when it's half wet!"
Emma rolls her eyes. "I'd rather not. There is not a lesbian cell in my body."
"I didn't mean it like that," I say. "Oh, but I'd like to meet her!"
Legolas POV
I called Emma and it rang for a while. "...Hello, this is the Goldring residence. We are unable to get your call because we are in Belfalas for a week or so! If you want to call my celphone press one and if you want Emma's celphone press two."
"She's in Belfalas?" I say to myself. I press two and her cell just rings and rings. "Hey, this is Emthiel. Sorry, I'm not answering. Here comes the beep. You know what to do." BEEP!
"Emma, this is Legolas...uh, I just really felt like talking to you. I don't really know what to say...I miss being able to talk to you like we used to. I miss how things were when we were together. Call me, okay? Bye."
I hang up and wonder if I just did something really stupid. What if she had no feelings for me anymore? I don't think I could take rejection from her. I remembered all the dances and parties, and just all the things we'd done with each other.
Emma's POV
Jake and me had tried for a half an hour and we had managed to tumble off, slide off the front, and get swallowed by waves.
"This just isn't working!" I say. "We're so embarrassing. And that girl is getting all of our waves."
"She can't help it if she's just amazing!" Jake says.
"She can stop showing off and try helping us!" I snap.
Just then as if she had heard me, she swims up. She looks at Jake and he just stares at her, his mouth dropping open a little.
"Hey, want any help?"
"Uhhh...that's okay, I'm getting it," Jake says.
She smiles. "You don't have to be so independent! If you wanna learn, you gotta be taught."
"Yea, I DO need help. I'm an embarrassment to the Elvin nature by now."
She smiles and Jake looks as if he's just melting. "Don't worry. Everyone is like that when they start out," she says. She takes one of his feet and slides him down the board so his feet hang off of it. "Okay, when a wave comes, I'll tell you to paddle and I'll push the board a bit. When you're going, get up on your knees, and then your feet! Got it?"
"Yea," he says.
"Hey, am I at the right position?" I ask her.
She looks over at me as if she'd never even noticed I was there! "Um, yea, you got it okay," she says, then turns her attention back to Jake. "Okay, here comes one. Paddle!"
He starts paddling and I paddle too, but that girl pushes him and he takes off, while I just move about two feet.
"Get up! Get up!" she yells. Jake jumps up on his knees and starts surfing! While I just lay on my board where I started.
"Yay! You did it!" she screams.
I paddle back to shore and head back to the surfboard shack. "JAKE! I'm going to put my board back and pay for you to have an extra hour. Have fun!"
"Thank you, Emma!" he yells. "You're the best." After returning my surfboard and paying some more money, I got to my towel. I look at my phone. "One knew message. I wonder who that's from?"
Jake's POV
"Thank you so much!" I say to the girl. "I thought I'd never ride a wave!"
"But it wasn't so hard, was it?" she says with a gorgeous, perfect smile. "I'm Iliana Jamones. You are?"
"Jake Ben...Goldring."
"What?" she asks.
"Uh, I mean Jake Goldring. I was recently adopted, so I almost said my previous last name."
"Oh cool," she says. "Um, was that girl over there your girlfriend?"
"Emma?! No, she's three years older than me! She saved me from when all these kids jumped me and then her family adopted me. My other family was pretty bad."
"Aw, I'm sorry," she says.
I shrug. "Everything is okay now and I'm finally happy where I am. So...do you live here?"
"Yes, I was even born here!"
"That's cool," I say.
"Iliana! It's time to head on home!" someone shouts from the beach.
"Eek, I gotta go. It was nice meeting you, Jake! Hope to see you on the beach tomorrow...will you be here?"
"Yes, I will!" I say.
I spend the next hour surfing, though half the time I fall, but still, it's progress. Plus this beautiful girl, Iliana, was paying attention to me! Me, the total reject, that everyone at school had made fun of! The sad, lonely fucker had a hot girl acting interested. Whoa!
Then the thought entered my head: I wasn't going to be able to stay here forever! How long would I have to spend with Iliana?
A week had gone by with close and distant relations over, getting to know Jake. There were nice parties and he got lots of presents, such as clothes, money, and even this drum set! Even Talim had come by with her mom so our mother's could finally meet in person and I got to talk to Talim for a while which was great.
I wasn't all that surprised when she told me about her and Legolas's breakup and she too didn't seem so surprised that Darien and me broke-up too. "Maybe things will go back to normal when we go to school," she said.
After that week went by, we stayed at a hotel near the Middle Earth Shopping Mall for a few days. Mom and Jake spent lots of long hours together looking at paint, bedspreads, and posters. To mom's disappointment, he wouldn't settle for light blue or green. He HAD to have red wall and a black bedspread.
I bought Jake some bathing trunks and a few shirts, but he wanted to save some of his clothes money for renting a surf board. Mom had insisted we spent a lot of saved up money for Jake and that's what we did for three days. Then, came the actual vacation.
My dad had decided we would go to the Bay of Belfalas for a week so we could hang on the beach, lean to surf, and to hang in a cute little hotel on the beach.
"You don't need to buy my anything else, Mrs. Goldring," Jake says quietly.
"All right, all right," Mom said. "It's just I haven't cared for a son in so long, I just want to spoil you!"
"Well, we're on our way to Belfalas!! WHOO HOO!!" Edoran says, taking his suitcase to the door. "And my pale self is gonna look the gayest on the whole beach, but you know what? I'm gonna have fun!"
Jake laughs and starts throwing all his crap in suitcases. "This is gonna be the best! I hope I can figure out how to surf."
"Oh, you will..." I say, though I'm not sure HOW he's gonna learn by himself. I know I wont be able to, but I'll try.
"You kids, tell us where you're going before you take off, okay?" Dad says sternly. "I'm not worried about Edoran, but you two youngins, I'm a little concerned about."
I sigh. "Dad, we'll tell you where we are going always and I will have my cell on me."
We drove right by the beach and all of our faces were gaping against the window. We had hardly seen much of a beach, because we lived in the middle of this big continent! We had pools, duh, but the beach was so different.
"Oh, I can't wait to just feel the sand!" I cry.
My dad lets us out right by the hotel, but the three of us just run out on the beach. Edoran just stays behind, feeling the sand, but Jake and I yank up our pants and start prancing around in the water in front of all these people who are in regular bathing suits on, acting if the beach was just a every day thing for them! Well, it probably was.
"Oh, this is so cool!" Jake says. "I've never even been to a beach before!"
Jakes POV
An hour later, the folks had the stuff unpacked and we all got in our bathing suits.
"Edoran! Take that white shirt off...wait a minute!" I paused and looked closer as he got closer. "AH HA HA!! It's not a shirt!! It's a FARMER'S TAN!!"
He nervously looks from side to side, then grabs me and holds his hand over my mouth. I laugh in his hand and then stick my tongue out. "Oh, I know that trick," he says and then takes his hand and smears my own damn spit all over my face.
"EW MAN!" I yell.
"That's what you get for embarrassing me!!" he laughs.
I take my shirt and wipe my face dry. "Okay, I'm going to go rent a surf board! Anyone else want to so I don't feel like an idiot?"
No one answers. "Emma!! Surf with me!"
"You mean, drown with you?" she says. "I'd rather go wade in the water."
"PLEASE!!" I beg, poking her arm and following her towards the water.
"Okay, though everyone on the beach is gonna laugh at us."
"Nah," I say. "Come on."
We run up to the surfboard shack. "Twenty damn dollars to rent a board for one hour? It'll cost forty dollars to practically kill ourselves!"
I bite my lip. Geez, that was more money than I saw in a month back at my old house. "Fuck that. Oh well."
"But this vacation won't last forever and we'll have to go home in a week so mideswell say we tried to surf."
"Or even better," I add. "LEARNED to surf!"
"Two long boards for an hour, please," Emma says and hands the dude forty bucks.
"Come again soon!" he exclaims with a rotten-teeth smile.
Emma tries not to grimace and we get two boards and head in the water. "I feel so cool just carrying a board to the water," I say. Then this gleam of gold-blond shining in the distance catches my eye and I drop the surfboard flat in the sand. "Whoa," I say and stare at the blond haired girl in a red bathing suit, tearing up this wave on her board.
"She's good," Emma says casually.
"Good? She's spectacular! Amazing! And...Really fiiiine."
Emma looks at me and rolls her eyes. "She looks about your age. Maybe she'll TEACH you!"
"Teach me? I'd be too embarrassed for her to teach me...matter o' fact, I think I'd be too embarrassed for her to see me wipeout. I wonder...can I get my money back...?" I grab the board out of the sand and head back to the Surfboard shack.
"I don't think so!" Emma says and grabs my arm, yanking me towards the water.
"Just look at how she surfs, Emma. Look at the way her hair seems to glow, even when it's half wet!"
Emma rolls her eyes. "I'd rather not. There is not a lesbian cell in my body."
"I didn't mean it like that," I say. "Oh, but I'd like to meet her!"
Legolas POV
I called Emma and it rang for a while. "...Hello, this is the Goldring residence. We are unable to get your call because we are in Belfalas for a week or so! If you want to call my celphone press one and if you want Emma's celphone press two."
"She's in Belfalas?" I say to myself. I press two and her cell just rings and rings. "Hey, this is Emthiel. Sorry, I'm not answering. Here comes the beep. You know what to do." BEEP!
"Emma, this is Legolas...uh, I just really felt like talking to you. I don't really know what to say...I miss being able to talk to you like we used to. I miss how things were when we were together. Call me, okay? Bye."
I hang up and wonder if I just did something really stupid. What if she had no feelings for me anymore? I don't think I could take rejection from her. I remembered all the dances and parties, and just all the things we'd done with each other.
Emma's POV
Jake and me had tried for a half an hour and we had managed to tumble off, slide off the front, and get swallowed by waves.
"This just isn't working!" I say. "We're so embarrassing. And that girl is getting all of our waves."
"She can't help it if she's just amazing!" Jake says.
"She can stop showing off and try helping us!" I snap.
Just then as if she had heard me, she swims up. She looks at Jake and he just stares at her, his mouth dropping open a little.
"Hey, want any help?"
"Uhhh...that's okay, I'm getting it," Jake says.
She smiles. "You don't have to be so independent! If you wanna learn, you gotta be taught."
"Yea, I DO need help. I'm an embarrassment to the Elvin nature by now."
She smiles and Jake looks as if he's just melting. "Don't worry. Everyone is like that when they start out," she says. She takes one of his feet and slides him down the board so his feet hang off of it. "Okay, when a wave comes, I'll tell you to paddle and I'll push the board a bit. When you're going, get up on your knees, and then your feet! Got it?"
"Yea," he says.
"Hey, am I at the right position?" I ask her.
She looks over at me as if she'd never even noticed I was there! "Um, yea, you got it okay," she says, then turns her attention back to Jake. "Okay, here comes one. Paddle!"
He starts paddling and I paddle too, but that girl pushes him and he takes off, while I just move about two feet.
"Get up! Get up!" she yells. Jake jumps up on his knees and starts surfing! While I just lay on my board where I started.
"Yay! You did it!" she screams.
I paddle back to shore and head back to the surfboard shack. "JAKE! I'm going to put my board back and pay for you to have an extra hour. Have fun!"
"Thank you, Emma!" he yells. "You're the best." After returning my surfboard and paying some more money, I got to my towel. I look at my phone. "One knew message. I wonder who that's from?"
Jake's POV
"Thank you so much!" I say to the girl. "I thought I'd never ride a wave!"
"But it wasn't so hard, was it?" she says with a gorgeous, perfect smile. "I'm Iliana Jamones. You are?"
"Jake Ben...Goldring."
"What?" she asks.
"Uh, I mean Jake Goldring. I was recently adopted, so I almost said my previous last name."
"Oh cool," she says. "Um, was that girl over there your girlfriend?"
"Emma?! No, she's three years older than me! She saved me from when all these kids jumped me and then her family adopted me. My other family was pretty bad."
"Aw, I'm sorry," she says.
I shrug. "Everything is okay now and I'm finally happy where I am. So...do you live here?"
"Yes, I was even born here!"
"That's cool," I say.
"Iliana! It's time to head on home!" someone shouts from the beach.
"Eek, I gotta go. It was nice meeting you, Jake! Hope to see you on the beach tomorrow...will you be here?"
"Yes, I will!" I say.
I spend the next hour surfing, though half the time I fall, but still, it's progress. Plus this beautiful girl, Iliana, was paying attention to me! Me, the total reject, that everyone at school had made fun of! The sad, lonely fucker had a hot girl acting interested. Whoa!
Then the thought entered my head: I wasn't going to be able to stay here forever! How long would I have to spend with Iliana?