Happy New Beach Time Part 2
"So is this all you need help with? I'm gonna go one and join Nathan to see if he needs anything." Aelita placed the last of the plastic sealed vegetables on the small table.
"No I'm good, shout when he's caught something." Kila said looking through a thick cook book for recipes.
Aelita left her and went to the sandy water's edge. She let the first wave of water wash over her and she jumped at the chilly touch. Stepping back, she went back to the truck bed and took off her mini skirt and let her feet warm up in the sun baked sand.
"There that should be enough." Aelita said to herself and went back to the water.
She tried it again and this time the water was warmer but slowly gaining it's icy feel. So she shuffled her feet to where Nathan was, wading up to his stomach. Aelita pondered on how he could bear the cold but as she reached knee deep water. The cold went away and the water got nice with a few pieces of Sargasso seaweed scraping against her legs.
The pink haired girl reached the fisherman and a hand around his hip.
"How goes the fish mister world's best bassman?" she laughed, the waves came at them mildly.
"Oh not much, I keep loosing them though. I think it's either pin perch or a smart whiting." He told her just as his pole jerked several times.
"Oh looks like you got one!" she watched him pull back at each jerk.
Then all of the sudden, the reel wizzed out line. Nathan grabbed holed of the pole as whatever was on the other end began pulling him out little by little.
"Crap! I got something big help me pull this sucker in!" he shouted out in excitement.
She pulled her sun hat down and held him by the waist as both started to back into the shallows. But the sand wasn't helping either, every movement the ground ate away at their feet. However, it did offer some anchorage to keep the two from going out with the catch.
"Call Kila!" Nathan said struggling with the fish, the line is nearing the end even with the drag line on.
"Kila! KILA!" Aelita yelled as she gained more ground.
"Man it's a good thing I bought the heavy duty pole before this!" Nathan joked.
Their friend on the beach heard them and threw down what she was doing. Running off the beach and taking through the water, Kila finally reached them and helped bring them to the knee deep water.
"Wow what the heck did you use Nathan, a slab of steak?" Kila told them as they let go.
The line finally stopped but the hard part was hauling the thing in, they were going to be there quite awhile.
The Pier
Terra, Yumi, and Guerrmo made it to the pier entrance up the long concrete ramp. Unfortunately they were not wearing any sandals or footwear so the concrete burned them on the way. They entered and looked around the food court and shopping center.
"So where do I change?" Yumi didn't see any changing stands from her view.
"….oh there it is." Terra jumped up and down like a giddy kid, "They're hidden by the umbrellas."
"Okay thanks, wait for me." Yumi smiled to them as she left to get into her swim suit.
The inside of the pier building wasn't half bad, though one could smell the strong aroma of bait. The food court was small but good enough to serve hamburgers to chilly dogs. The shopping center stood nothing more then just a few clothing hangers, like those in a mall, with a variety of beach accessories. A couple of wall stands held fishing gear and hooks while the other had family beach gear. Packaged inflatable beach balls, buckets and pales, plastic shovels, sun block, sunglasses, and sandals hung there.
As Guerrmo and Terra began enjoying the large fish tank with common inshore fish swimming around, Yumi came out holding her old cloths in hand. She and that outfit matched each other perfectly, walking to her friends Yumi got a few wolf whistles. Making her blush several shades of pink to red.
"Ummm….can we leave now?" she stuttered with embarrassment.
Guerrmo chuckled a little as they walked out, staying behind the girls so no smart guy would try something funny.
"You look rather stunning Yumi, should be proud that your attracting the eyes of other guys." Terra attempted to soften her friend up.
"I know, but I already have someone in my life." Yumi signed happily.
"Oww!" Terra yelped when her feet felt the burn of the sun heated rock.
"Hey why don't you guys let me carry you, after all you did say I was mister man of the world." Guerrmo suggested looking suave.
"What do you say Yumi?" the blonde girl asked Yumi, "He can carry a lot of things at once."
"Sure I guess it's okay." She responded and they boarded the Guerrmo Express.
He knelt down and they sat on his arms he held up like he was lifting bars.
"Wow, he is strong!" Yumi told them surprised.
"Well I'm in football so we do exercise a lot." Guerrmo said as they went down the hot path big enough for two truck to go on side by side.
"Hey aren't your feet burning as well." Yumi realized he was bare foot.
"Na, he's good right honey?" Terra stroked his spiky black hair.
"Ya I'm….hey look over there." The boy jerked his head to the left side of the walkway.
They looked still moving and saw their friends struggling with Nathan, seemed like his pole was ready to snap in half. As the three reached the sandy ground again, Guerrmo let the girls down and they proceeded to their friends. Kicking up sand as they ran.
"Hey dude need help with that!" Nathan heard his best friend call out.
"Ya give me a hand." Both boys took hold of the pole and struggled with the heavy catch finally coming in from tiring out.
"You think this is a tarpon?"
"No, maybe a shark!"
Thirty minutes later, they finally got the monster on shore, it was a shark indeed. A sand shark, that both of them hauled onto the beach as it thrashed around.
"Are you sure it's safe to do that!" Aelita shouted to them from the truck with the other girls, that shark was too big for them to get close to.
The boys brought it a few yards away from the shore edge and flipped the sand shark on it's back, holding up one hand to their face or keeping their eyes shut closed from the sand kicked around by the murky brown tail. It suddenly fell silent, Nathan came back with his friend and quickly helped him degut the shark and kill it. A small crowd grew around the scene, both of the boys began to cut it up into large steaks with large knifes. Aelita looked away and went inside the truck before the process began, she was squeamish after all.
The fishing authorities came by to investigate the assembly.
"Woohhooo boys, you caught yourself a whopper of a shark!" the first official told them.
"You both have the silence right?" the second on said gingerly.
"Thanks sir." Guerrmo responded to the first official.
"Ya we do, let me go get it." Nathan put his knife on the table and went to the truck, opening the truck he found Aelita there keeping her stomach from rebelling.
"Hey…wooow you okay?" he asked her worried with his hands covered in a mix of sand, salt, and shark guts.
"Ya I just…need to stay in here for a little bit…I…" she stopped upon seeing his arms and covered her mouth opening her door.
Aelita emptied the contents of her stomach and held back a few strands of her pink hair. The boy went and washed his hands with the water container and went back with clean hands. He helped the girl recover and sit upright.
"You should of told me you were squeamish, I would of washed my hands on the spot?" he laughed slightly.
"I didn't know, sorry about that though." She apologized and used a Kleenex tissue to clean her mouth.
"No worries, are you going to be okay?"
"Yes, I only need a couple of minutes."
"Cool, well let me get back here…a minute." Nathan pushed the back seat forward and pulled out his and Guerrmo's wallets and left.
"Hey back so soon, well your friend here found an old expensive ring an old lady has been looking for inside this sharks stomach. Oh your licenses yes, lets see here." The second official looked at their papers.
"Dang dude, well I bet with a nice cleaning that lady will have her old ring back as good as new." Guerrmo smiled at the ring as he handed it to the first official.
All was clear, the ring was taken by the officials as they left, and they finished with the nice sized shark before Aelita came back out, still woozy.
"Are you okay Aelita?" Yumi asked as soon as she saw the nauseated expression on her sisters face.
"Yes I'm fine, I felt quezzy a moment ago but I'm fine." As soon as Aelita said that, Yumi felt troubled.
"She never told us that shark blood would make her vomit." Nathan sighed.
Yumi washed over with relief finding the cause of what looked like morning sickness. But it was just a case of mild squeamish reactions in a person who didn't like blood.
All that was left of the shark was it's head and they boys put it in an extra bucket for a trophy. Kila looked like she died and went to heaven, with all the steaks at her disposal and with all the ingredience she brought with them. Her goal would be more then met, so she zipped back to her seat and searched with anxious eyes for a dish made of shark.
"Well I'm wasted, hey man could you take my place in the fishing department while I rest?" Nathan asked taking a soda from the ice chest, brimming with baggie cased shark meat.
"Hell ya, I don't want you having all the fun!" the buff boy walked to the poles and bait bucket.
"You should rest for a moment." Terra advised Nathan taking a seat on the truck bed.
He fell onto the beach towel and seemed to look like he drifted into sleep. Aelita and Yumi decided to go sit in the shallows to entertain themselves and catch up on what has happened since three years ago. They walked away laughing as they talked of something in particular. Terra got out the boom box she packed and turned it to the weather station for the beach report, the trucks latin music continued on. Kila and Nathan brought up a conversation on seasonings for the shark steaks which would ease its wild flavor.
In just two hours the gang has already done a lot, what's next?