A Watery Grave
After a few hours had passed, Tori slowly stood up from the ditch and made her way back to her blue van. The teen got in the driver's seat and heard what sounded like talking in her glove compartment. She opened it up and the voices got louder. Tori let out a sigh when she noticed it was her morpher and heard Cam and the rest of the team trying to contact her. The blonde shook her head, wanting to be alone for the rest of the day. She put her morpher on the seat beside her and started up the van, blaring the radio to not hear their voices trying to find her.
--I miss you
Miss you so bad
I don't forget you
Oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly
The day you slipped away
Was the day I found
It won't be the same—
Tears formed in the corner of Tori's eyes as she listened to the song the short distance to her house. The teen left her van running and grabbed her morpher before jumping out of the van and ran into the house. She went straight to her room and listened to the boys over her morpher before she opened her dresser and dropped it in there. Tori then ran back out to the van to be alone with her thoughts. The blonde didn't want to be found and wasn't going to let her morpher give her away.
The radio was still playing the same sad song as the blonde pulled out of her driveway and headed to the beach. She wanted to have a distraction and surfing was her best bet to try and forget everything.
--Now you're gone
Now you're gone
There you go
There you go
Somewhere I can't bring you back
Now you're gone
Now you're gone
There you go
There you go
Somewhere you're not coming back--
The song came to a close with Tori pulling into the beach parking lot. Tears were flowing freely from her face as she stopped her van and looked at all the happy people mingling on the beach. She scanned the beach for anyone she knew and sighed when she saw Blake and Hunter running around the beach, trying to find her. The teen quickly backed out of the parking lot and headed towards another beach that the boys didn't know she went to. It was a ten minute drive to the beach, but Tori didn't mind as it gave her time to think about everything that has happened recently. The blonde was lost in thought about her parents that she almost over shot the parking lot of the less crowded beach. The teen looked around and saw no one that she knew. It was something that Tori was thankful for because she didn't want to be found.
Tori turned the van off and got out and moved to the back where she pulled out her surfboard. The teen then pulled off her t-shirt to reveal her bikini top. She already had her board shorts on and slowly made her way to the water. As soon as her feet touched the water, the blonde stopped and simply took in the beauty of the ocean. She scanned the waves that were crashing in and a ghost of a smile flitted across her face before it disappeared again as she became focused.
Tori wadded into the deeper water before laying on her board and paddling out to the waves. She noticed that a lot of the surfers already out in the water didn't go out to the bigger waves. She paddled out father then them and out past where she's ever ventured out alone before. The blonde needed release and knew that the ocean would be able to help her achieve it.
The teen found a good wave coming in and turned to point her board towards shore. She then waited and felt her board catch the wave. She stood up and let her body take over, letting her mind wander elsewhere. Tori remembered when her parents bought her first board for her and lessons to learn how to surf faster. She had been 8 at the time and ecstatic about them finally letting her surf after she watched all the surfers at the beach whenever they went down to swim.
Tori came back to the present and rode the wave dangerously, going under the swell of the wave before moving her board back out and into the sun. She felt the wave die and crouched down on her board and lay herself back on it. The teen turned herself around and paddled back out to the far distance where she began and waited for the perfect wave to come again.
The blonde was lost in thought again when she felt a wave grab hold of her board. She wasn't ready for it, but decided to give it her best shot. Tori stood up wobbly on her board and fought to get control over the wave. A small smile came to her lips when she felt the challenge of the wave. It was larger than the last one and she loved how exhilarating it felt. Everything left her mind completely except to ride the wave out as long as she could.
Just as Tori thought she had control, she suddenly felt her board wobble beneath her and she lost her balance. The blonde plunged headfirst into the large wave and was twisted around in the water and became disorientated. The teen struggled to find where up was and swam hard to breach the surface. The teen was dragged under by the undercurrent from the wave and her hand instinctively reached to where her morpher was. She panicked when she didn't find it and struggled to remain above the water. When another wave came crashing down on her, her board connected with the back of her head, sending her frail body back under water. Tori tried to get a breath of air and opened her mouth only to have it filled with water. Black spots came to her vision as her head throbbed as she bobbed to the surface again. This time she got a mouthful of air before water entered her mouth once more from a third wave as it crashed down on her. Tori closed her eyes and stopped fighting the water as her vision faded away. Everything succumbed to darkness as she was being thrashed around by the waves.
A/N: I'm actually really surprised at how fast I wrote this chapter. I hope you all like it and it keeps the story moving along. Please leave me a review, no matter how short, to tell me how I did and I will try to have the next chapter up by the weekend.