Author's Note: This is probably one of my most favourite chapters. I don't know why. It's just so sweet! Let me know what you think!
As the bus pulled up at the bus stop, only Joey and Serenity got off.
Serenity stared around as the bus drove away. "Where are we, Joey? Where've you taken me today, big brother?" The place looked strange to her, like the middle of nowhere.
Joey looked down to Serenity and beamed. "To the beach! That's what you said you wanted." Joey said, casting his mind back about a week or so before, when the two had been discussing their dreams. He had remembered just this morning that the beach was the place she said she most wanted to go.
Serenity's eyes lit up and she nodded happily. And, holding her brother's hand, she began to walk with him to the big blue and yellow stretch she could see in front of her. "Hey, Joey." Serenity stopped walking for a second and looked at the view.
Joey stopped too and looked at Serenity, worried that there was something wrong. "Yeah?"
"You're the world's best brother!" Serenity smiled and broke into a run, itching to get near that beautiful sea.
Still holding his sister's hand, Joey ran too, and laughed nervously at his sister's words. Does she really think that? Joey's heart was swelling with pride. Maybe...Maybe I'm not such a bad brother, after all...
They ran all the way down to the seashore, right to the edge of the sand, where Serenity stopped and stared out at the true blue sea that went so far it hit the sky. She watched seagulls flying around and squawking to each other. A lone lighthouse was standing in the foreground of this somehow painted picture. "Oh, Joey..." Serenity gasped. "It looks so pretty!"
"And so cold!" Joey shouted from her right-hand side.
Serenity looked towards him and saw him paddling in the tide, which was going in and out, in and out for infinity. She smiled as a small wave headed towards him. He jumped in surprise and tried to get away. Serenity laughed as the wave covered him and soaked him thoroughly.
Joey lay down on the sand, dripping wet, gasping for breath, but still laughing. Serenity walked over and sat down beside him. "I think today's gonna be fun!" Joey grinned, catching his breath back.
Serenity nodded, then gasped and stood up. "Joey! Look at all these lovely sea-shells!"