Chapter 2
Once they got home Ariel said good-bye to Sam and went back upstairs to her room to finish unpacking her stuff. While looking though some boxes she came across a small box and in the box was her chain necklace with her promise ring that Bradin gave her when they were 8 years old. Flashback: "Now close your eyes Ariel I got a surprise for you" 8 year old Bradin said to her. "Ok", Ariel said while closing her eyes. Bradin got down on one knee pulled out a ring he took from his mother's room and said, "Open your eyes now." When Ariel open her eyes Bradin looked up at her and asked, "Ariel Johnson will you take this promise ring and merry me when we are much older?" A smile came across her face and said in a very excited voice "Yes!" End of Flashback While putting on the necklace she saw that it was 5:45 so Ariel ran downstairs yelling at her mom that she will be back later on tonight got on her bike and headed towards Jay's house. After about 20 minutes she finally made it. Parking her bike in the drive-way Ariel made her way to the front door and rang the door-bell. After the second ring Jay came to the door. "Hello Jay!" Ariel told him. "Oh hey Ariel! Come on in" Jay told her. When she stepped in the front hall she saw someone on the couch, a medium height blond hair boy. That boy looked really familiar. Getting closer her mouth dropped about ten feet to the ground she finally figured out who that boy was, it was Bradin. "Oh my gosh, Bradin!" Ariel exclaimed. At first he looked confused, but then after a couple of seconds his eyes brightened "Ariel?" he asked at last. Running towards him she said, "Yes! Oh my gosh Bradin I've missed you so much!" giving him a great big hug. "I can not believe this is real. I mean what are you doing here in California and in my house?" Bradin asked. I just moved here to California. Sam took me into town to see about getting me a surfboard because he wanted to give me surfing lessons. When we were at Jay's store Sam got a call from his girlfriend so he had to go back to West Virginia and straighten things out. So he couldn't give me the lessons and Jay told me to come over here to talk to him about surfing lessons. What are you doing here in California?" Ariel said all in one breath. "Oh well my parents died in an accident last year so my Aunt Ava took us in her house here in California" Bradin told Ariel. "Oh my gosh Bradin I'm so sorry!" Ariel said. "Hold on time out, how do you two know each other?" Jay asked. "Well Ariel and I were best friends back in Kansas when we were little. Then she moved to Virginia when we were 10 years old" Bradin explained to Jay. "Oh ok, well I'm very happy for the both of you. Now Ariel to get back at the reason you came here in the first place. When would you like to start the surfing lessons?" Jay asked her. "Um Jay I was just wondering why don't I teach Ariel to surf? I mean don't you have a lot of lesson ahead of you?" Bradin asked Jay. "Sure mate go right on ahead. Your right I do have a lot of lessons to last me for a month" Jay said to Bradin. "Yes! This is going to be so much fun!" Ariel said excitedly. A couple minutes later they heard the back door open and saw five people coming though the door. "Aunt Ava let me help you with those bags" Bradin offered. "Sure, thanks Bradin. Oh I didn't know you were having a friend over. Who is this?" Aunt Ava asked. "Oh hi my name is Ariel Johnson Bradin and I were old friends in Kansas, then I moved to Virginia, and I just moved here to California, but I didn't know Bradin lived here till about 10 minutes. You see my brother and I went to Jay's Surf Shop and Jay asked me to come over to schedule surfing lessons. So that is when I saw Bradin" Ariel said all at once. "Oh well its nice to meet you Ariel. Will you like to stay for dinner?" Aunt Ava asked. "Sure I'd love to" Ariel said brightly. "Alright Ariel I would like you to meet my Aunt Ava's two other roommates Susannah and Johnny and this is my sister Nikki and my brother Derek" Bradin explained to Ariel. "It's nice to meet you all" Ariel told them all. "If you and my brother were best friends how come I can not remember you" Nikki asked. "Well I believe you were only about 5 years old when I moved away" Ariel told her. After about 20 minutes dinner was ready and everyone sat down at the table to eat.