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Chapter 14: Beach
After scaring the crap out of Atticus, everyone decided that it was time for some fun and relaxation. So a day at the beach with the ocean and sea air was just what they needed. With sunscreen, towels, beach umbrellas, and a picnic all packed up it was full speed ahead to the beach.
"Just a couple of more laps!" thought Chazz as he swam laps through the ocean's water.
Then just beneath him under the water Chazz saw Jaden swimming just beneath him, motioning him to follow. Chazz then took a final gulp of air before diving under the water's surface and following after Jaden. Cutting through the water with grace, Jaden lead Chazz down to a reef that was hidden by the ocean's depths. Many fish of different colors and sizes could be seen swimming around them, it was like an underwater rainbow.
`Wow, there are so many fish!` signed Chazz as Jaden nodded in agreement.
`I know! Check this out!` replied Jaden, pointing to a purple sea anemone.
Taking a closer look at the the purple sea creature, Chazz could see an adult clown fish along with two baby clown clown fish hiding amongst the sea anemone's stinging tentacles. A smile came onto Chazz's face, but it was quickly wiped away when something gave him a hard knock on the head. Spinning around Chazz found Jaden giggling and a young juvenile dolphin swimming circles around them laughing as well.
`Did this dolphin just-!` retorted Chazz, until he saw Jesse in the distance hitching a ride on the back of another dolphin. "What the hell! Is Jesse riding a dolphin!"
"Oh my god!" thought Jaden, turning to also see Jesse clinging onto a dolphin's dorsal fin. "Is he crazy!"
"Weeeeeeeee!" bubbled Jesse, bubbles escaping from his mouth.
`Let's go up for air, maybe we're hallucinating,` suggested Chazz, sweatdropping as Jaden nodded in agreement.
Swimming up towards the surface as fast as their legs could carry them, Chazz and Jaden soon broke the surface of the water gasping for air.
"Tell me you saw Jesse hitching a ride on the back of a dolphin!" shouted Chazz as Jaden nodded his head vigorously. "Good, then I'm not hallucinating then! But the idiot has to come up sooner or later. I mean did you see all those air bubbles!"
`Yes! I just hope that he doesn't drown!` signed Jaden, looking more frantic by the minute. "Sometimes I think that Jesses has so much fun that he forgets that he needs to breathe!"
Then, as if in response to their thoughts, both Jesse and the dolphin surfaced for air in between them. Chazz and Jaden stared at Jesse and the dolphin bewildered as both Jesse and the dolphin laughed hysterically.
"You two look like you've seen a ghost!" cheered Jesse as the dolphin cackled in agreement. "The prank on Atticus is over you know?"
"We were actually worried that you were gonna run out of air!" snapped Chazz, jabbing a finger at Jesse.
"S-sorry!" apologized Jesse, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
`Just be more careful!` Jaden chastised, splashing Jesse and his aquatic steed.
"Don't yell at meee!" screeched Jesse, ducking in order to avoid the splashing. "Why is everyone my enemy!"
Suddenly, Haou sped by on water skis, splashing the trio with sea water. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that it was not a motorboat that was pulling Haou over the water, but a dolphin, which hanging onto the other end of the rope that Haou was holding.
"Haou...is on..waterskis...being pulled...by a dolphin?" stated Chazz, staring a Jaden's disappearing twin. "This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder."
`At least he's having fun,` sweatdropped Jaden.
"Haou! You shall not out race me and my dolphin companion!" shouted Jesse, pointing in the direction Haou went in. "Go Silverfish!"
"You named it Silverfish?" questioned Chazz, sweatdropping along with Jaden and the dolphin.
"What's wrong with Silverfish!" pouted Jesse as Chazz facepalmed himself. "What!"
`Jesse, a dolphin is not a fish. It's a mammal,` corrected Jaden as Jesse stared at him bewildered. "Please don't tell me that he didn't know that!"
"It's not?" whimpered Jesse, turning in the direction Haou went in. "Then I shall name you Flipper! Go Flipper!"
"Flipper, how original," thought Jaden, sighing in response.
"Forget it, I need food," stated Chazz, swimming toward shore while Jesse sped off on the back of the dolphin. "Come on Jaden."
`Sure, I could use some food,` agreed Jaden, swimming after his lover.
On the shore the pair of lovers could see Jim waving them in for lunch. Zane could be seen hiding under the giant beach umbrella while Alexis laid back on a beach chair, sunbathing.
"Hey guys! It's time for lunch!" called Jim, waving to the swimmers out at sea.
"Okay!" replied Chazz before turning around to face Jaden. "Come on! Race you!"
`You're on!` signed Jaden, speeding ahead of Chazz. `Ukes get a head start!`
"Hey that's cheating!" laughed Chazz, trying to catch up to Jaden. "You little minx!"
"Well you two looked liked you were having fun," pointed out Jim as Jaden and Chazz hauled themselves up onto the sandy shore.
"Yeah, so what's for lunch?" asked Chazz, staring up at Jim.
"Seafood sandwiches," answered Jim as Jaden got up off the sand.
`Sounds good!` signed Jaden until he noticed that someone was missing. `Where's Syrus?`
"Little guy's over there," said Jim, pointing to Syrus who down the shoreline, collecting shells.
"Almost forgot Syrus couldn't swim," remembered Chazz, walking over the picnic basket under the umbrella. "Finally! Sustenance!"
Jaden also came over to get food from the basket and began munching on his sandwich under the umbrella with Chazz. Syrus soon came over and joined in on the beach picnic after showing off his seashell collection. Later, Jesse and Haou came back to shore for lunch as well.
"Man I'm hungry!" cheered Jesse, searching through the basket. "What's in these sandwiches anyway."
"It's a seafood sandwich, take a wild guess," mumbled Haou taking a large bite out of his sandwich.
"Sea...food?" stuttered Jesse, staring darkly at his sandwich.
"Jess, you all right?" asked Syrus, worried about the expression on Jesse's face. "This doesn't look good."
"I CAN'T EAT FLIPPER'S FRIENDS!" screeched Jesse, chucking the sandwich towards the ocean.
"Jesse!" yelled Jim, even more shocked by Jesse's actions when Haou and Jesse's dolphin friends ate said sandwich. "You can't feed the animals!"
"Too late Jim," smirked Haou until Shirly the crocodile stole his sandwich right out of his hands. "Hey! Gimme that back you croc!"
So while everyone watched Jim reprimand Jesse for feeding the dolphins, nobody noticed Haou shoving his arm down Shirly's throat thinking it was a brilliant way to get his sandwich back. Then Atticus, who was surfing, rode his surfboard back to shore in time to see Haou shove his arm down Shirly's gullet.
"Haou! What are you doing!" screeched Atticus until he noticed that no one was paying attention to what Haou was doing. "Is anyone else seeing this!"
"Seeing what?" asked Alexis, taking of her sunglasses just in time to see Haou's crazy antics. "Hey look everyone! Haou's doing a magic trick!"
"Magic trick?" questioned Zane, looking up from his book to see what Haou was doing next to him. "Haou are you trying to lose an arm!"
"I don't care! I want my sandwich back!" snarled Haou, turning his attention back to Shirly. "Now give it back sandwich thief!"
"Graaa!" wailed Shirly, trying to pull away from Haou.
"Shut up! I don't care how it comes back, I want my lunch back!" snapped Haou, still trying to reach down Shirly's throat for his sandwich. "Just give it back!"
"You mean you don't care if she even regurgitates it just to give it back?" said Atticus, turning blue at the thought of seeing Shirly regurgitate something. "That's just disgusting!"
"Regurgitate?" wondered Haou, taking a minute to figure out what Atticus was talking about. "Now what does that word mean again?"
"HAOU! GET YOUR ARM OUT OF SHIRLY'S MOUTH!" everyone screamed, causing Haou to glare at them.
"But I still haven't figured out what regurgitate means!" retorted Haou, glaring back at his group of friends. "Geeze these people!"
"It's the same thing as throwing up!" pointed out Jim, stomping over to Haou. "Are you going to take you arm out of Shirly's mouth now?"
"Throwing up? Oh god!" screeched Haou, yanking his arm out of the crocodile's mouth. "Keep the sandwich! I don't want it anymore!"
"Why am I not surprised. I not in the mood for eating, anyone interested in playing volleyball instead?" asked Zane, pulling out a volleyball from his beach bag.
"Yeah, sounds good. I'll help you set up the net," said Chazz, pulling a volleyball net out of the beach bag as well. "The subject of regurgitation isn't exactly the best for a during meal conversation."
`I wanna be on Chazz's team!` cheered Jaden, hopping over to help Chazz and Zane.
"I wanna be on Chazz and Jaden's team then!" shouted Syrus, waving his arms as he ran over to Chazz and Jaden.
"Whatever you want midget," replied Chazz, pushing one of the net's poles into the sand. "Someone take care of the other pole."
Silently, Zane was all ready setting up the other pole, parallel to Chazz's. Soon the net was pulled onto the poles and the court was ready for the volleyball game. The members of Chazz's team was Jaden, Syrus, and Haou. On Zane's team there was Atticus, Jim, and Jesse. Since Alexis was left over, she decided to act as referee for the game. Chazz's team was the first to serve with Haou acting as server.
"Here it comes," said Haou, doing an underhand serve. "Go get it!"
"I've got it!" exclaimed Jesse and Atticus as they both dove for the ball only to bonk heads. "ITAI!"
"There goes the ball," pointed out Zane, watching the ball fall to the ground. "Looks like we lost the game before it even started."
"Here you go! It's your serve again!" shouted Jim, rolling the ball under the net to Chazz's team.
"Looks like it's one point for Chazz's team, zero for Zane's!" announced Alexis, waving to the two teams.
Haou nodded his head as he served again, but this time Zane managed to push the ball over the net. But Jaden then leapt up in order to spike the ball back over and Chazz who was so busy watching Jaden's lightly tanned body that he didn't notice that Jim spiked the ball back over to his team. So he got hit in the head by the oncoming volleyball. Syrus let out a screech of terror as Chazz fell onto the ground along with the volleyball.
"Oh my god! Chazz are you all right!" screamed Alexis, running over to the fallen teen. "Hell! What am I supposed to do! I'm only a referee!"
"Calm down! Screaming isn't going to help any!" reprimanded Atticus, kneeling down by Chazz. "Hey Chazz can you hear me!"
"Mommy...is that...you?" mumbled Chazz, still unconscious to the world around him.
"Quick Jaden! Mouth to mouth resuscitation!" shouted Jesse, causing Jaden to blush furiously.
"We won't have any of that!" retorted Jim, smacking Jesse over the head. "Actually, I'm just not ready to see Jaden and Chazz kiss yet!"
"Someone better do something soon," stated Zane, staring blankly at Chazz who was still mumbling nonsense in his unconscious state.
"Zane's right! I don't wanna be arrested for murder!" screamed Syrus, his body quaking with fear. "I'm too young for jail! I'll never survive in the big house!"
"He's still alive you know," mumbled Haou, coming over with a bucket of sea water.
`What're you gonna do with that?` asked Jaden, eying the bucket suspiciously. "I got a bad feeling about this..."
"This," replied Haou, dumping the water onto Chazz. "Oye, you awake now?"
"Cough! Cough! What are you trying to do! Kill me!" demanded Chazz, leaping up to cough up the water that went into his mouth.
"That was my next idea," smirked Haou, causing Chazz to sweatdrop. "I was joking you know."
"Actually I wouldn't put anything past you," blurted Jesse, picking up the volleyball.
"Why I outta!" roared Haou, leaping towards Jesse. "Hold still so I can strangle you!"
"Never!" wailed Jesse, running away with the volleyball.
Everyone could only stare as Haou chased Jesse down the beach, who conveniently took their only volleyball with him. The game was then canceled since they no longer had a ball to play with. So after putting away the volleyball equipment, everyone went to explore the beach in separate groups. Chazz and Jaden went and walked the beach on their own until the sun began to set and they were forced to go back to their meeting place in order to go home.
"Today was fun huh?" asked Chazz until he noticed that Jaden was no longer following. "Hey what's up?"
But instead of using sign language, Jaden began to try and talk despite having no voice. Chazz had to take a minute to read Jaden's lips in order to figure out what his brunette was trying to say, but once he figured it out he began laughing hysterically.
"Jaden, are you trying to say that you love me?" inquired Chazz, finally calming down from his laughing fit. "That's sweet of you despite having not voice."
Jaden's face then turned a fiery red color with embarrassment in response to realizing what he had just done. He then quickly tried to start using sign language, but Chazz grabbed a hold of his hands in order to stop him.
"Look Jaden, it doesn't matter whether you try to say it or sign it to me, I'll still love you back either way," explained Chazz, clasping Jaden's hands in his. "And there's one thing that I realized from being with you and it's that you don't need a voice to show someone that you love them."
Smiling with all the joy in the world, Jaden threw himself into Chazz's arms for a loving embrace. After holding Jaden in his arms for awhile, Chazz pulled away and began leaning in to kiss Jaden while the brunette boy squeezed his eyes shut, waiting to feel soft lips against his. But the romantic moment when a volleyball hit Chazz on the side of the head. Jaden let a quiet squeak of surprise while Chazz quickly sat up to see who attacked him only to see a heavily panting Haou and a panicking Jesse standing a couple of feet away. Once on his feet, Chazz began chasing down the duo, with Jaden running behind him, until they ran into the rest of the group. They all then packed up their stuff and began heading home, leaving behind the beach and the setting sun behind them.
So there you go! A new chapter! I'll see if I can update some of my other stories later now.
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