*Jessa's POV*
When I was a little kid I always thought it would be so much fun to love in California. There's nothing better than living on the beach.
If only I knew what it was really like. Living on the beach isn't as much fun as some might think.
I'm here to tell you that everything that everyone loves about them isn't true.
When I found out we would be living on the beach I was excited. I wanted to live there my whole life.
When we got to California everything changed.
The beach that we love on is nothing like everyone describes.
The beach is dirty, our neighbors are super loud, and there is nothing to do here.
Most people always say that there are carnivals on beaches. With fun rides and every kind of junk food you could imagine.
The beaches always look so clean.
It's something I always wanted but instead here I am. Wishing I had that.
Our house is perfect. It's everything I always wanted, but the beach we live on, not so much.
Our house is like a mansion. It has 8 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Each bedroom has it's own bathroom and a huge walk in closet. It's the kind of house everyone wants.
I had decided to try to have fun so I went down to the beach.
I spent the day down there and found out it wasn't as bad as it seemed.
While I was laying on the beach tanning I met a cute boy.
He had blonde hair, was really tall, and was super hot! His name was Ross.
After we met we spent the whole day together. We agreed that the beach wasn't everything we dreamed of when we came here.
I learned a lot about him. He has three brothers and one sister, as well as a best friend. He said they moved here from Colorado about two years ago.
He never told anyone but it was extremely hard for him to leave everything behind. He didn't want to leave his family, or friends, or everything he knew.
Riker was the one who wanted to move out here, not him. He had a hard time adjusting to his new life at first.
We had a lot in common, and I think he will be the one that will help me get adjusted to living here.
When I left all my friends promised nothing would change. We would Skype every night and text all day. Everything changed. They haven't Skyped me once and when I text them I am ignored.
I have no one anymore. No one cares about me and for once in my life I feel truly alone.
That is until I met Ross. Something about him made me feel like everything would be okay.
After that day we spent every day for a week down on the beach. We both found out that it wasn't that bad when you were with someone else.
The beach, instead of being gross and boring, because beautiful and fun. Ross and I made the beach 'our place'.
Soon we were going into the water and it was just as fun as being on the sand. In the water we would play games like Marco Polo or even just tag.
It seemed funny how I thought the beach was stupid before I met Ross, but after I met him it became the place I was at every day.
Some days we would just lay on the sand and enjoy each other's company, other days we would act like little kids and just have fun. We would build sand castles, and then ruin them. Other days we would chase each other around, screaming and laughing the whole time.
We eventually decided to clean up our area of the beach, and we spent a whole day doing that. After we got that done we were proud of ourselves. We celebrated getting it cleaned by having a fire.
It was just Ross and I, but it was fun. We learned eventually during that week that our family didn't really care about us because they never asked where we were going. One night we stayed out on the beach all night and they didn't care.
That night... It was fun. It was the last night before school, the last night that we could truly have fun. We stayed up all night just being kids.
We just wanted one night where we didn't have to worry about everything, and we got that. We started out the night by building sandcastles. That was something that we did every day now. Only this time we didn't ruin them. We wanted them to stay on the beach as long as they could.
After that we went swimming. It was fun. Even though it was just me and Ross, we found our own ways to have fun.
After that we just sat on the sand thinking about how much everything would change when we went to school.
Before we went into our houses to get ready for school Ross pulled me over to a tree and start writing something on it.
It said:
Ross & Jessa
Best Friends
Always & Forever
Okay so it's probably short, I think? I can't see how many words it is, but I hope you guys like it anyways. I was writing this chapter and came up with that ending... It was perfect for this story :)
Anyway please tell me what you think :)
