[[Here's BPOV, I know it may not make sense, but just let me know, Edward's side or Bella's?]]

FLASHBACK

Yes! Yes! Yes! I could barely contain my excitement as we packed up the car for the beach. Phil had to go to Finland or something to work on the business, or whatever. The important thing was, today we are going outside. Raven may not be speaking, but I can tell she's excited. We haven't been able to leave the house in so long, painfully long.

After we packed up the rent-a-car, mom started driving to Clearwater beach. In the car, Raven opted to sit in the back, so I got to sit up front and watch the scenery. Mom and I were wearing our sunglasses, practically bouncing in excitement.

As the car made it's way to Clearwater beach, the surroundings we passed, may not have been much, but it was enough to take my breath away after so many years inside. Florida couldn't compare to Washington, no way, but I'm not in Washingtom to admire, I'm stuck in the state that should just give up and sink already. Not that I hold anything in particular against this disastrous state, more like the memories I have here.

On the highway, I rolled down my window, mom followed suit. The wind was indescribable, enveloping me in its earthly beauty. I shut my eyes to enjoy the wind, when a song came on that caught my attention. Playing for a few seconds, the chorus came on and I amped up the music volume to sing along.

"LIFE IS A HIGHWAY! I WANNA RIDE IT ALL NIGHT LONG!" Mom was singing along with me as the song went on, and I scream-shouted out the window. Turning around to check on Raven, I could see her mouthing the chorus before she could stop herself, thus supplying me to sport a very smug grin. She wants to sing. If only…

The parking lot seemed awfully packed, so getting a spot proved to take a few extra minutes. So many different cars, so many various colors, making my head spin, as the salty sea breeze was detected by my senses, which were working in overdrive to memorize everything about this day. We each grabbed our things, I helped mom carry the picnic basic, as we tried to find a spot. Luckily, most of the people seemed to be tanning, so the spots with umbrellas were easier to choose from.

It's astounding we got to take this day and use it here, but there's no way we could survive laying out in the sun, we'd burn to a crisp in an instant. Being locked in a house for so long, tends to make your skin sensitive, even if we were able to do this every weekend, we'd still more likely burn than tan.

We set everything up a few spots isolated from the public, but still close enough to the bathrooms. The first thing we did besides setting everything up, we all but soaked ourselves in sun block. Mom took it upon herself to get to food out of the basket, so she'd be busy for a while, so I people-watched those in the ocean. Mostly everyone was more to the right, than in front of us, splashing and swimming. The murmur or conversations coming from all was oddly soothing, as I wrapped my arms around myself. If I tried really hard and focused on one voice, I could tell the conversation, between food, drinks, social gossip, and the cries of joy from the children. There were a select few random stragglers swimming close to be in front of us, but they seemed to keep to themselves. Following my over all gaze, I kept looking to the left, expecting to see no one, but there was a couple. They were swimming and splashing each other, laughing with bliss.

The man and the woman both seemed in their twenties. The man had blondish hair, appearing at only about an inch long, and had muscles to boot. He seemed pretty tall; I bet he could give Emmet a run for his money. No one can beat my Emmet though. The woman had sun-baked caramel hair, long to the small of her back. She had an amazing tan, so even and no apparent tan-lines. I would kill to look like her… I could tell they were both wearing rings, from the tiny glare that would be sent against my eyes as they moved. Newly weds.

Before they could catch my blatant staring at them, I turned to Raven who was taking in the beach surroundings and people as well. "Hey Raven," she looked at me, "Race ya to the water!" I threw my sunglasses down as I took off to the ocean water, Raven following closely behind. We both ran into the water, feet sinking in the mushy sand, forming a mold to any pressure that pressed on it. The salty water came at us in waves, attempting to push intruders out of it. Nearing around knee deep, Raven wrapped her arm around my waist and picked me up, swinging me around above the water. Even though I'm five foot six and a half and she's the same height as mom, five foot three, she hoisted me upon her shoulder, spinning in circles. I felt the gust of wind as a factor from Raven's spinning, I put my arms ahead of me, impersonating Superman. "Woooo!"

Raven shifted me around so she was carrying me bridal style, I looked her in the eyes and saw the signature smirk she and Emmet had whenever they were scheming. She rocked me once. "Raven, don't even." She rocked me twice. "I am your baby sister!" She rocked me a third time. "Raven!" with my parting scream, she tossed me into the ocean water, I held my breath in advance. Floating beneath the surface of the Earth's blue liquid, I embraced the gravity ignorant atmosphere. I was weightless, my crazy hair floated around my head, the water didn't care that I was damaged, it just let me be as it hugged me from all angles. I was enveloped in a secure blanket, that which seemed to tease me of another universe with it's taunting encirclement of warmth.

I felt a grasp at my forearm, I didn't dare open my eyes under the water, I knew it was Raven anyways. She dragged me out of my water haven. Once I resurfaced, I gave her a pleading look, but since Emmet left, she's been so over protective. She grabbed me from behind the neck and marched me out of the ocean to meet mom.

Walking to our beach site, mom was finished setting out lunch, watching us approach. She nodded at Raven, who released me from her iron hand and sat on a towel, beginning to eat lunch. "Isabella Marie Dwyer, what did you do?" mom asked me, with her stern face, as I put on my sunglasses again.

"Nothing, I didn't do anything!" I protested, squatting on my own towel. As I was about to take a bite out of my sandwich, Raven threw a slice of bologna at me, sticking to my cheek. I turned to face her, "Mutey, you are so very clever." Calling bullshit on me by throwing bologna.

I took a large bite of my sandwich and opened my mouth to gross them out. We started laughing as we consumed our lunch, joking around, people watching and constructing story plots for our fellow beach goers.

On the search for our new victims for our absurd stories, I saw two teenagers a few spots away from us. They both had black/brownish hair, the girl seemed to be a bit younger than me, and the boy seemed to be a bit older. Through my sunglasses I couldn't really make out their faces, but I nonchalantly point at them to mom and Raven. "Okay girls, they strike me as either siblings or-" Right as mom was about to go on with her ideas, the boy stood up yelling at the girl as she watched in horror.

He kept shaking his hands around, yelling about something, but because they were to my left, I could barely make it out, if at all. I watched as he threw the sun block bottle down, and his eyes went looking in our direction. Self-consciously I bowed my head, willing to not be seen. Looking up again, I saw he was giving the restrooms a sickly death glare. If looks could kill…

[[Sorry if it seems out if character, it's a flashback. And yes, I know Phil isn't her father, but I couldn't stand making Charlie the bad guy :( AND I know she has no sister, and there isn't any character named Raven- she's mine.

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