The next day, after Aundrea had settled into her dorm, the group decided to head to the beach for a much needed break from their studies.
"I just think that's it's so cool to have the academy so close to the beach!" exclaimed Aundrea as the group headed to the beach. "Ooh, one night we should sleep on the beach, under the stars. That would be romantic." She sent a quick smirk to Chase. Aundrea knew everything about the whole Chase/Zoey situation and promised Chase that she would try to help. After all, what were best friends for?
"Hey, Drea, you know how to surf?" Logan asked. "I could teach you a thing or two, after all, I've had private lessons with some of the best surfers out there." It was obvious that Logan was trying to impress Aundrea. Since she arrived at PCA, the two had constantly flirted back and forth, with which Chase didn't completely agree with.
Aundrea turned a slight shade of pink. "Um, that's nice of you to ask, but I'm perfectly fine right here watching you guys."
Chase laughed. "Come on Drea, no reason to hide it from them. The reason Drea doesn't want to learn how to surf is 'cause she doesn't even know how to swim."
Aundrea punched Chase in his arm. "Snooks," she hissed, turning slightly redder.
Logan put his arm around Aundrea. "No need to feel embarrassed. If you want, I could teach you how to swim instead."
"No it's okay, I'm prefer having both of my feet on land," Aundrea said. She took her towel out of her beach bag and spread it out onto the warm sand as Zoey, Quinn, Nicole, and Lola did too. Logan shrugged as the three boys took their surfboards and headed out to the water.
About an hour later, the girls had moved on from chatting to just basking in the sun. Aundrea had even managed to doze off, as did Nicole, while Zoey and Lola listened to music on their MP3 players and Quinn was reading some weird science magazine.
The guys, tired from surfing, headed back towards the girls. They noticed that Aundrea and Nicole had fallen asleep, and an idea popped into their heads. Logan and Chase lifted Aundrea into the air and carried her towards the ocean as Michael did the same to Nicole.
"Chase! Logan! Put me down right now!" Aundrea screamed, trying to get out of the guys' grasps. Nicole was screaming bloody murder for Michael to put her down too.
"Okay," Chase and Logan said, as the guys dropped the two girls unceremoniously into the ocean.
"Oh, you too are gonna get it!" exclaimed Aundrea. "Come on Nicole." The two girls chased the guys around, stopping every once in a while to grab a handful of sand and trying to throw it at them. Nicole eventually gave up and plopped back down onto her towel while Aundrea finally caught up with Chase and jumped onto his back, causing the both of them to fall over, laughing.
"They look cute together," observed Lola. Zoey looked a bit uncomfortable at this comment. "Oh, sorry Zo."
"What for?" Zoey asked.
"Well, I always thought that…" she trailed off.
"Me and Chase?" Zoey asked. "No, we're just friends."
"If you say so Zo, if you say so," Nicole said.
Later that night, Logan couldn't fall asleep. He didn't know why, but he had the urge to go out to the beach. He grabbed a pillow and his blanket and headed out.
Aundrea sat up in bed; cold beads of sweat layered her face. 'Just a dream,' she thought to her self. She got up and splashed cold water onto her face. She decided to head down to the beach. The sound of the waves always seemed to calm her after nightmares. She considered getting Chase up to go with her, but decided not to bother him so late at night. She rolled up her fleece blanket, pulled on a zip-up hoodie, and headed out barefoot.
"Aundrea?" Logan said, puzzled.
"Logan?"
"What are you up to this late at night?" Logan asked.
"I could ask you the same thing," replied Aundrea.
Logan shrugged. "Couldn't sleep. Headed to the beach."
"What a small world. I'm headed there too."
The two headed down to the beach side by side in silence. Aundrea only wore gray sweat pants with a black tank under her zip up hoodie. Though very casual, Logan thought she looked just as beautiful.
Hold up, beautiful? What happened to 'hot' or 'sexy'? Logan thought. He shook the thoughts out of his head. He only knew this girl for what, two days now?
They reached the beach and Aundrea sat down on the blanket she had unfurled. She patted beside her, signaling for Logan to join her.
"Don't worry, I don't bite," she said, a smile on her face.
"I wouldn't mind," he replied.
Aundrea shivered, for it was a chilly night. Logan instinctively put his arm around her as she leaned into his body.
They stayed like this for a while. Logan looked at Aundrea and noticed that she had fallen asleep. He slowly laid her down onto the blanket, as to not disturb her. He then joined her. He was surprised when she cuddled up to him, still asleep. He smiled and slowly drifted off to sleep.