Opening Life

Chapter 4

Waking up to the smell of pancakes, and the sizzling of bacon on the stove. I slowly open my eyes observing the white painted ceiling and contemplated over if I should get up or not. My stomach won the battle. I quickly got up and straighted up my bed a little. Ashley was still sleeping with her covers over her head. I walked to the door walking out. Jeffery and Don were already eatting their pancakes.

"Oh, your up! Would you like some pancakes?" Bevery asked me.

"Yes, Please" I replied. Beverly set a plate with some bacon and some pancakes on the table for me.

"Is Ashley up yet?" she asked.

"Um...no." I replied.

"Could you wake her for me?"

I headed back into the room, where Ashley was now almost falling off the bed. She had one arm over the side of the bed. I just walked over and whispered really loudly "Ashley, wake up!" she just groaned. I decided to start poking her. "Ahhh!!! Attack of the orange orangatangs from Germany!" she screamed out right before she slid right off the bed. I started chuckling.

"OWWW!!" she cried out rubbing her head "Spencer, what was that for."

"I didn't make you fall off the bed and orange orangatangs from Germany?"

"What?" she asked.

"Nevermind, your mom told me to wake you up."

"Oh, breakfast time, yippee!" she said while merrily skipping out the door.

I followed her out, sitting at the spot where Beverly had set my breakfast. I started popping a peice of bacon in my mouth while watching Ashley gobble down a whole pancake in 3 bites. We finished the rest of our breakfast and headed back into the room to change. "Todays Tuesday don't you have school?" I asked.

"Nah, its Spring break." she replied while pulling out a small green t-shirt that had the words Blink 182 across the front.

"Oh, thats weird, ours was last week."

"What, lucky you get to have last week and this week off!" she replied "You want to go to the mall right?"

"I don't know, it doen't really matter."

"Cause I really want to take you to this really cool beach around here, so bring a bathing suit, that is if you want?"

I just stared at her and smiled. We got dressed and headed out the door. "Mom, we're going to the beach!" Ashley yelled out.

"Ok, becareful" Beverly replied back.

She grabbed the keys off the counter and lead me out the door to a red Toyota Camery. We got in heading out of the driveway. I watched as we passed the house on the street. After I'd say 15 mins we were driving along the beach. Ashley drove through some small streets and parked in the drive way of this rather large house.

"Where are we?" I asked while obseving my suroundings.

"This is my friends beach house, she and her parents don't stay here much and they have a private beach." I stepped out of the car. Ashley took the stuff out of the trunk and we headed torward the shore of the beach.

The beach was nice, really nice. Quiet, peaceful, and clean. Ashley laid down the blankets on the soft sand and took off her shirt showing her lime green bikini. I removed my shirt I was wearing a bikini with a sunset on it. She finished taking her pants off and grabbed a bottle of sunscreen squirting a blob on her hand. I turned around to put my shirt in my bag.

"Spencer?" She said. I quickly turned around.

She smired a bunch of sunscreen on my nose. "I think you have something on your nose!"

"Oh no you didn't!" Ashley took off running, with me right behind her. When I caught her I pushed her causing both of us to fall in to the shallow water. We were both laughing like crazy. We went back to where we laid down the blackets to dry off. I picked up the bottle of sunscreen and started putting some on. I just couldn't resist but to just smear some right on Ashley.

"Hey!"

"Thank was from earlier." She got up and started tickling me, I started squirming like crazy. She started tickling me harder. Oh shoot she found out my weakness! I'm like the most ticklest person ever. "Stop! Stop!"

"Say your sorry!"

"I...m ..Sorry!" I got out. I opened my eyes, taking in some deap breaths. Thats when my eyes met with hers. There was just this really awkward moment between us. I quickly looked away.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" she said nervously while getting off of me.

The rest of the time at the beach was kinda quiet.