The next morning, I was surprised to see that I woke up before everyone else. I went into the snack bar and made everyone pancakes, waffles, sausage, eggs (scrambled and sunny side up), my dad's homemade cheesy hash browns, and poured everyone orange juice. I set out napkins, forks, knives, plates, and powdered sugar and syrup for their waffles and pancakes.
"What's that delicious smell?" Vanellope asked in a groggy morning voice. "Breakfast." I answered.
Vanellope awakened more than she was before, and ran to the table.
"Waffles or pancakes?" I asked her. "Waffles!" she was definitely hungry. I could've sworn I saw her drooling a little. I put two waffles on her plate along with some sausage, and the hash browns.
"Scrambled or sunny side up?" I asked. "Scrambled." She decided.
I put the scrambled eggs on her plate and she dove right into her meal.
Soon, the other girls woke up. "What's all this?" Merida asked me.
"Let me ask you this first. What's that on your head?" I teased.
Merida looked up to see a rat's nest of hair on her head.
"It's not my fault! I didn't brush it yet!" she was still a bit cranky.
"Just sit down." I ordered. I put all the food they wanted on their plate, and they all ate up.
I was finally able to sit down and eat myself. "We better hurry. I thought we could all go to the beach today as a group." I told them.
They looked at each other and nodded quickly. "I'll call the guys real quick." I turned and got out my phone.
I dialed Ash's cell phone number and the phone rang. "Hello?" I heard Kenai's voice on the line.
"Kenai, where's Ash?" I asked him a little irritated.
"He's still sleeping." He answered.
"Oh. Could you do me a favor and put the phone next to his ear?" I asked him a little mischievously.
"Sure." Kenai took Ash's phone and put it next to his ear like I told him.
"Wake up!" I screamed as loud as I could into the phone.
I heard a loud thud in the phone. I knew he was up.
"What?" Ash was still tired, but he was awake.
"I was thinking we could all go to the beach today." I suggested.
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea. Guys, do you want to go to the beach with the girls?" Ash asked the other guys.
I heard all of the guys agree.
"What time?" he asked me.
"I was thinking around noon." I said.
"Sounds good. We'll all meet there. See ya." He hung up.
"We're going to the beach!" I exclaimed. The girls jumped up and down squealing.
When it finally reached noon, we finally got our bathing suits on. Actually, we all wore bikinis. Mine was this nice tie-dye one. There was sea green, blue, and purple tie-dye colors. In the middle, it was put together by a giant plastic ring. It tied in the back and tied around my neck. The bottom practically had the same design.
I must say though, the other girls had some nice bikinis as well.
We all left as soon as we could. I brought some sun block, sunglasses, and my camera.
When we got there, the guys had already set up their umbrellas and stuff.
"Hey guys." I waved to them as we walked over to them.
"Haley!" Koda bounded into my arms.
"Hey Koda." I gave him a small noogie which messed up the fur on his head a little.
I set the little cub on the ground. "Me and Kenai were going to build sand castles. You wanna help?" the cubs eyes were so adorable, I couldn't say no, "Sure."
The little cub beamed with happiness.
The little cub pushed me over to a spot in the sand.
I snapped my fingers and a couple of buckets and shovels appeared in the sand.
"Do you want to make the boring kind of castles that's just sand in a bucket flipped over, or do you want to make the good kind of castle?" I asked him.
"The good castle is a definite yes!" he burst out with a smile.
"C'mon, Kenai! We're making the good kind of sand castle!" Koda was getting impatient as Kenai walked on the hot sand towards our spot.
"Be patient Koda, everyone knows the elderly is always slow." I teased.
"Very funny." Kenai knew I was joking. "I'm watching out for crabs, last time I was here they gave me a huge cut on my paw."
"Stay there. I've got this." Kenai stayed put like I told him.
"C'mon guys. Leave us be. We want some time to ourselves." I clapped my hands getting trying to get the attention of some crabs lying underneath the sand.
The crabs I was calling out to came crawling out of the sand and muttered to themselves as they all hopped into the ocean water.
"Thank you." Kenai was grateful for what I had done for him. "No problem." We sat down next Koda who was already working on the castle.
"How are you doing so far buddy?" Kenai asked his younger brother.
"This castle is kind of hard." Koda responded. I could tell he was a little annoyed.
"Here, let me help you." I offered. I took the pail and brought over mounds of sand. I rushed to the ocean water and wet down the sand to make it moldable.
I started to build the castle. "Now that the sand is moldable, you can now form it into whatever you want." I said.
I built part of the castle for him, and I let him build the rest. When he finished I looked at the castle. For a cub, it was pretty good.
"It looks great, Koda!" I complimented.
"You did most of the work. You're awesome!" wrapped his small paws around my waist and gave me an adorable bear hug. I didn't do anything except for put my arms around him and hug him back.
He took his paws away from me my waist and went back into the sand. Kenai and I talked a little, "I've never seen Koda so affectionate towards anyone other than Nita and I." Kenai was a little surprised at Koda's behavior.
"I'm a little surprised myself. I never thought my favorite Disney characters would like me so much." I quickly put my hands over my mouth. How could I say that in front of Kenai? I blushed.
"We're your favorite?" Kenai wanted an answer. "Yeah, ever since the first time I saw Brother Bear, I've been in love with the movie ever since." My face was red with embarrassment.
"You don't have to be ashamed about it. I'm honored to be liked by you. I know tons of kids liked the movie, but you're special." Kenai smiled at me.
"You'll probably think this is weird, but when I was little, I used to create my own little adventures with you guys. We were one big happy family. In my little fantasy, I grew up in your village. We were best friends when you were a human. My fantasy self was devastated you had left. One day, I'm turned into a bear myself and end up running into you and Koda. We travel to the mountains so I can be turned back into a human, but I change my mind and end up staying as a bear with you guys. Unfortunately, my fantasies ended when I was about 13 because everyone thought it was weird for a girl of that age to still be interested in the movie. At heart, I still had a love for it, but I never let anyone know that." I turned away.
"Everyone has dreams and their own fantasies. You shouldn't just throw them away because people think of it differently." He assured me.
Before I could say anything else, Koda took the pail and dumped sand on my head.
Kenai and Koda just fell over laughing. I lifted an eyebrow, "You want war? Well it's on!"
With a move of my hand, a gust of wind covered the both of them in a sand mountain.
"How do you like be now?" I teased.
Koda jumped out of the mountain and tackled me to the ground. We chased each other for a long time. Kenai even joined in the fun. I tackled Kenai to the ground a couple of times and we laughed each time I did so.
"I haven't had this much fun in years." A laughed as I tried catching my breath.
"Well that what me and my brother do. We help people learn how to have fun again. Haven't you seen our sequel?" Kenai asked.
"Well I've only seen it about a million times!" I smiled.
I looked at my wrist. My watch said 4:30 P.M.
"I'm going to go for a swim. We have to be at our initiation in an hour and a half." I told them.
"Ok, me and Koda will be up here playing around. We might join you in a bit." Kenai ran off chasing his little brother.
I walked up to the shore and dove into the water. Ralph was in the water, too.
"Hey Ralph, what are you up to?" I asked him.
"Nothing. I'm just swimming around." He replied.
"Mind if I join you?" I asked politely.
"Why not?" Ralph smiled.
We swam around and just talked.
Ralph and I bonded, our friendship grew a lot.
"Wow, Haley, you're so cool. I never thought a girl could be so cool." Ralph looked at me with disbelief.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I folded my arms and looked at him.
He was nervous and then got a mischievous look on his face, "Well, a girl could never be better than a guy." He challenged.
"Oh really? How about a race then? First one to the shore wins! Ready, set, go!" we swam fast.
As I swam, my foot got caught on something and pulled me under. I was able to go up for one last breath. I was lucky enough to let out a yelp.
Ralph turned back to see me trying to get to the surface.
My foot was caught on seaweed. The seaweed was attached to a rock and the rock slid off of an underwater cliff. It pulled me under.
Ralph dove in after me. As I was dragged under, we finally hit a bottom. I was running out of air and my vision started blurring up as I was about to pass out.
Ralph was lucky enough to reach the bottom in time. He ripped the seaweed from my foot and was able to reach the surface. He carried me all the way to the shore.
Ash turned to see me in Ralph's arms. "Haley!" he ran over, as well as the others.
As Ralph brought my ashore, I coughed up buckets of water.
I stuck my tongue out, "Blech! That sea water does not taste good." Koda jumped into my arms, "Haley, you're alive!"
"Of course I'm alive. Why wouldn't I be?" I asked. "You almost drowned." Ralph spoke up.
I looked at him, "We were racing and you got caught on seaweed. It pulled you down really deep." Ralph looked away.
I got up and walked to him and smiled, "That doesn't matter now does it? I am alive and breathing, aren't I?"
He looked back smiling, "Yeah, it is the only important thing."
I suddenly remembered something. I looked at my watch. It was 5:30 P.M.!
"Guys, we've got to go!" I snapped my fingers and all of us were in our formal attire. We packed all of our stuff in the cars and left for the initiation.
