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Chapter 4: Wild waves.
Reggie walked onto the beach and saw Twister sitting by the ocean. He had his feet in the ocean whenever the tide came in. She walked up to Twister and hugged him from behind. "Hey there."
Twister looked up at her as she sat next to him. He put his hand softly on her cheek and kissed her. "You look nice today Rocket-Girl."
Reggie smiled. "I look like I normally do, Twist."
"That's what makes you look so beautiful."
"You're so sweet."
"You want to swim? I'm guessing that you're wearing your swimsuit under your clothes."
"Yeah, totally." She pulled off her top and cargo pants, so that she was just wearing her green swimsuit top and board shorts. "Let's go." She ran straight into the cold water and yelled to Twister, "C'mon!"
Twister pulled off his own shirt and ran after her. He tackled Reggie and they were submerged.
Sam and Heather were walking hand and hand up and down the boardwalk.
"How'd you get here? Kansas is really far away from California," Sam said.
"I took a Greyhound to New Mexico and then I hitch-hiked from there," she replied.
"You hitch-hiked? Heather, that's really dangerous. What would've happened if you met a guy who kidnapped you? You could've gotten hurt."
"I was willing to take that risk in order to get here, I wanted to see you Sam. I needed to see you."
"Does anyone in Kansas know where you are? Your brother, your mom, that friend of yours, um, Stephanie, I think her name was."
"No one knows."
"Do you think that anyone will try to contact you?"
"Not likely…"
They sat down on a bench together. "It's so sad…" Sam said. "I'm sorry, Heather." He hugged her.
She squeaked in pain and Sam let go. "Sorry," she said. "I just hurt."
"No, don't be sorry, I don't want you to hurt."
Heather broke into tears and hugged Sam. He put his arms around her softly. She looked up at him and he kissed her.
Reggie and Twister flopped onto the sandy shore of Rocket Beach. Twister began rolling around, becoming covered in sand.
"Twist! You're so weird!"
"Okay you're going to get it!" Twister hugged Reggie and got her covered with sand.
"Not nice!"
"C'mon, let's go into the hangout." He got up and pulled Reggie up. They went into the hangout and dropped down onto the couch.
"I got an idea!" Reggie said. She got up and grabbed a pen and a Polaroid camera from a table. "Let's get a few pictures, and it's Polaroid so we can get the picture right away." She sat down on the couch next to Twister and held the camera out so that they were both in the frame. She snapped a picture and the camera spit out the photo. On the back she wrote, "Twister's 16th birthday."
"Take a picture of this." He leaned in and kissed her.
Reggie snapped the picture and the camera spit out another photo. She wrote the same thing on the back of this photo.
Twister pulled a gold necklace with a heart shaped pendant. "Hey, Reg, I, um, I bought this a while ago. I was going to give it to you when I asked you out, but that's pretty much a done deal. So here, turn around."
Reggie turned around and Twister put the necklace around her neck. "There," he said after he shut the clasp.
She turned around to look at Twist and smiled at him. "It's your birthday, and I'm getting a present."
"I have everything I need, I have you."
"You're really sappy, you know that?"
"You're ruining the moment."
Reggie smiled.
"I'm going to take a picture of you," Twister told her. He picked up the camera and took a picture of Reggie.
They took about a dozen different pictures. There were pictures of Twister by himself and Reggie by herself or there were pictures of them together and that one single picture of them kissing.
"We should get back to the party," Twister suggested.
"Yeah, let me just hide the pictures." Reggie shoved the pictures under the couch cushion and they went back to the shack.
"What happened to you guys?" Otto asked when they returned.
Twister and Reggie looked at themselves. They were still in their swimsuits and were covered in sand.
"Oh," Reggie said, trying to think of what to say. I can't tell him that we were wrestling in the sand… "Oops, we left our clothes in the hangout. And we got into a sand fight after we swam, Twist won."
"Yes!" Twister cheered.
"Well, we all know that he will never beat me, so it's nice that he can win sometimes."
"You know Otto, after all these years, you still haven't changed," Reggie replied.
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