A/N: I know it's short! But school has started up again this past tuesday and I already have some homework and stuff to do. I hope you enjoyit and i'll keep trying to update! Thank you!
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CH.4- Beach
Today there are no classes for us. There's no practice for everyone in both houses. We all got the day off.
My friends and I still wanted to hold Ashley to her offer so I got a rose and decided to be nice and go to her house and give it to her along with asking when we will go to the beach. I couldn't stop thinking about her so a rose will symbolize how many days I think about her. I thought of her on Monday, that's one day, so I got her a rose and stopped by.
We talked and planned on quickly that we'd all spend Saturday afternoon and someday evening at the beach. Tobin, Ashlyn and I whipped out the longboards and the surfboards. Personally, I dislike longboards I need like a medium sized skateboard. Basically the size of a board you use to do tricks on, not a cruiser board.
We all had our own cars but we decided to just use two today. Tobin and I strapped the surfboards onto my car while Hope strapped on more surfboards onto her car. In the trunk were all the longboards and my smaller board. We all had our own surfboard and skateboard. It's just what we had to get for living in LA.
Ashley and her friends were meeting us there. They had their own boards, surf and skate. We all dispersed into our set cars. I plugged my iPhone in and put on some music I thought would fit the mood. We bought s'mores stuff, drinks, non-alcoholic, we want to be sober and some stuff to have a bon fire.
"They meeting us there?" Alex asks, changing the song.
"Yes." I say, smacking her hand.
"Ow Spence really?!" She shouts, rubbing her hand.
"Don't touch my music." I warn, keeping my eyes on the road. I was sitting in the front. My body half covered in a wetsuit since it wasn't on completely.
We got to the beach in 30 minutes. It took awhile. When we got there, if took us like another half hour putting on our wetsuits and grabbing everything. We looked our cars and walked down closer to shore.
"Do you guys see her?" I ask, blocking the sun with my hand and looks around.
"There!" Kelley shouts, pointing to Ashley who's waving to us. We start to walk up to her and see her waxing her board. Her friends are also waxing their boards.
"Hey." I greet, kneeling down and side hugging her.
"Hey, um I have some friends you should meet." She smiles, turning to her friends. "Milly Hopkins, Naveah Lopez, Brittany Wahl, Stoya Rodriguez, Anastasia Brown aka Sia, Stasia, Tas, or Ana, Riley Washington, Danielle Williams, Naya Patterson, Crystal Sanchez, Natasha Grunner, Page Sivon, Alex Stone, and Claire Dunn." She lists off, pointing to each girl.
"Nice to meet you all, I'm Spencer Carlin." I wave, shaking hands with everyone. I sit down next to Ashley and toss the surf wax to all my friends. "These are all my friends. Ashley's met Ashlyn Harris, Alexandra Krieger but we call her Ali, Kelley O'hara, Tobin Heath, Abby Wambach, and Alex Morgan." I say, pointing to all of them. "But we have others that we hang out with all the time which is them," I say, pointing to my other friends, "this is Hope solo aka Hopey, Erin McLeod, Heather O'Reilly but we call her HAO, Ella Masar, Carmelina Moscato aka Carm, Megan Rapinoe or Pinoe, and last but not least, Sydney Leroux or Syd." I finish with a smile.
"Nice to meet you." Ashley and her friends say. They all shake hands and we continue to wax our boards.
It took us a few minutes before we finished. When we were done we all ran down to the water and jumped onto our boards and landed on the water. Everyone sort of just separated and mingled with someone new. I stayed farther back to watch everyone socialize. Ashley seemed to notice I wasn't up to pace with them so she paddled back to me.
"Hey stranger, why you all lonesome?" She asks, moving up to sit on her board.
"Just observing you all and the waves." I shrug.
"You ok?" She asks.
"Peachy keen." I smile wide, looking to her.
"You're weird you know that Carlin?" She laughs.
"I'm well aware." I laugh out. "You have a nice laugh." I comment
"Thank you, must be better to hear it without having to be quiet in a corner of the library huh?"
"Not my fault my impeccable good looks and ability to make you laugh just so happened to work in that moment." I wink.
"Shut up and surf." She shakes head before splashing me and paddling away.
"I'm going to make you fall now." I laugh as I adjust myself to chase her.
After a couple of hours from surfing, the sun was starting to set. We all had a beer in our hands and surrounded the fire that was going. I just finished making Ashley and I some s'mores. I walked over with a blanket in my arms and held my hand out.
"Hey." I smile, keeping my hand out. "Come on."
"Come on what?" She asks.
"Come on and follow me." I laugh out, waiting for her.
"Where?"
"Follow me to the rocks so we can watch the sunset, there is this nice spot at the rocks so we could lean back against them." I say.
"What's the catch?" She asks with a smirk.
"We get to know each other, I try to get your number, we just talk about anything and enjoy the time." I smile wide, not moving my hand.
"Alright, you caught my attention." Ashley says, grabbing my hand.
"You're just using me for my s'mores." I laugh, walking with her down to the shore where the rocks are.
"Most definitely Carlin." She laughs, moving closer to me.
"It's ok, I'd use you for your s'mores cooking skill too if you have any." I nudge her slightly with a laugh.
"You're mean." She says.
"You're adorable to think I'll be super duper nice which don't get me wrong, I totally could be but I'd rather be the real me than a fake version, because that's better isn't it? Am I right?" I ask, laughing when I get smacked on the arm.
"Yes now shut up and let's sit." She shakes her head with that amazing smile on her face. I sit down with my legs straight out as I lean back against some rocks. At first, I thought Ashley was going to sit beside me but she ended up sitting in between my legs and relaxed back into me.
"Here you go." I say, offering her a couple s'mores.
"I haven't had s'mores ever in my life." She admits.
"You're lying." I reply in shock.
"Nope, I just never thought about it."
"Wow, I love to make s'mores. It's one of my guilty pleasures." I say.
"What other guilty pleasures do you have?" She asks, turning her head to me.
"I don't know. I can't really think right now." I chuckle out.
"I don't know what my guilty pleasures are." Ashley responds.
"It happens." I smile, turning my attention back to waves and the sunset. "I love watching the sunset and the sunrise. It's the same thing, different day." I comment with a smile, intertwining my hands with Ashley's as we watch the waves.
"What do you mean?" She asks, turning her head to look at me. I don't look back. I'm too lost in my thoughts and relaxation from the sound of the waves.
"Sunrise signals the start of a new day. Sunset signals the end of that day." I start, "your dreams, your goals, your missions, whatever it is, work, school, it's always the same thing, different day. Same classes, same teachers. Within your dreams, you do what you can to achieve them then repeat the next day." I explain. "No matter what it is, it's the same thing, different day." I finish
"What's your dream?" She asks. This brings me from my thoughts to look at her.
"I want to be an inspiration. I want to be a pro athlete to encourage and inspire little kids or teens even adults to look at me and realize that they can get to somewhere as high as I would be as a pro athlete or higher." I have no control over my expressions as the biggest smile at the thought of my future I would hope happens, shows upon my face. I turn to look at Ashley, "I want to walk down the street on a day like this, beautiful weather, peaceful vibes. I want to mind my own business until someone stops me and says, 'Because of you, I didn't give up.' That's my dream." I smile wider, looking down at Ashley.
"Is that why you seem to push yourself so hard with soccer?" Ash asks.
"Yup, I create my own destiny. I can't get to my dreams if I sit on a couch the entire time and watch tv now can i?" I ask a rhetorical question.
"You are already an inspiration to me Spence." Ashley smiles, putting her hand on my cheek.
"Thank you." My face and body softens into her touch. "What's your dream?" I ask.
"I want to save lives in my own way, whether it's sports or music or writing. I want to write something or record something that a teen or kid or adult can go back and listen to and say, 'Everything really is going to be okay. I really am stronger than I think.'" Ashley explains. "I want people to look up to me. I want to make no mistakes so I can show people that you can control some of your actions, but still life is life and nothing is perfect." Ashley finishes, turning back to the waves.
"I can't promise it Davies." I say, resting my chin on her shoulder, "But it'll happen for you one day, I feel it." I breathe, listening and watching the waves.
"I feel the same thing about you Carlin." Ashley says, intertwining our fingers.
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