p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongAUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm sorry for the extended hiatus, NaNoWriMo ate all of my free time. I reached my goal though! /strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongOoobserver, thank you for your kind review./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongJayXNitro, don't worry, I will continue as much as I can./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongI am The7, I am going to get to that in this chapter...but I thought Finn conquered his fear in emOcean of Fear? /emOr does he still have it? I know he's more comfortable with the ocean now, at least. I really need to rewatch that episode./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongSeandaronkhim, thank you for your kind words. I did check out your fanfiction, and while there are some issues with punctuation and grammar, it's well-structured so far./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongNow let's get onto chapter 2 of emThe Beach!/em/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"LSP was still kicking sand in Melissa's face./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Stop kicking sand in my face, you poser!" Melissa yelled, now throwing sand at LSP./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Don't call me a poser, poser!" LSP shot back./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Ladies, please, stop fighting!" Finn said. "Aren't we here to have a good time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"LSP and Melissa sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I guess we did go a little overboard." Melissa said. "Maybe we could take a break from fighting, just for a while."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Yeah." LSP agreed. "Just as long as we agree to keep fighting after this."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It's agreed, sister...I mean, poser."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Well, glad that's settled." Jake said, not noticing an approaching Marceline. "So, what do you guys wanna do now?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Uh, Jake?" Finn asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What? Why is everyone staring at me? Is there a booger hanging out of my nose? Oh no, it's Me-Mow again, isn't it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Marceline finally made her move and hissed at Jake, making him jump all the way up to the sky./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strong"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em5 minutes later.../em/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""When do you think he'll be coming back down?" Finn asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It'll be a minute." Marceline said, laughing./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Just then, the screams of strong"AHHHHHHHHHHHH" /strongcame back and Jake fell head-first into the sand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Never do that again!" Jake yelled at Marceline, taking his head out of the sand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""No promises." Marceline said, still laughing. She could see Princess Bubblegum glaring at her angrily. "Come on now, Bonnibel, lighten up a bit. We're at the beach! Who wants to go swimming?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I do!" Flame Princess said, which drew Finn's attention to her bikini again. Ugh! Why couldn't he stop looking at it? Then again, it wasn't his fault she had nice...flames. Finn awkwardly looked down, avoiding eye contact with the princess./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Yeah, sure, we'll go in." Jake said, before turning around and whispering to Finn. em"Hey, Finn. I know you're still kinda nervous about the ocean, so stay away from the deep end, okay?"/emembr /em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Got it." Finn replied. Well, no, he didn't get it. Where did the deep end start? Looking at the ocean, there was no sign that said "THE DEEP END STARTS HERE". Where was he supposed to stop?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Finn entered the ocean with hesitation. Hey, this was easy! He began doggy-paddling through the ocean as the rest of the gang got in, laughing and splashing. Even Jake, who was normally hesitant to water, seemed to be having fun./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Finn went further and further and further...until he suddenly felt his legs drop. The water rose up to his chin. Oh, man. He must've hit the deep end./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Despite his best efforts to get away, he went under. He desperately tried to pull himself up again, but it was impossible. He finally managed to choke out one scream:/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strong"HELP!"/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongAUTHOR'S NOTE: Suspense for the win. Hopefully the next update won't take as long. As usual, please RR./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongOoobserver, thank you for your kind review./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongJayXNitro, don't worry, I will continue as much as I can./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongI am The7, I am going to get to that in this chapter...but I thought Finn conquered his fear in emOcean of Fear? /emOr does he still have it? I know he's more comfortable with the ocean now, at least. I really need to rewatch that episode./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongSeandaronkhim, thank you for your kind words. I did check out your fanfiction, and while there are some issues with punctuation and grammar, it's well-structured so far./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongNow let's get onto chapter 2 of emThe Beach!/em/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"LSP was still kicking sand in Melissa's face./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Stop kicking sand in my face, you poser!" Melissa yelled, now throwing sand at LSP./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Don't call me a poser, poser!" LSP shot back./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Ladies, please, stop fighting!" Finn said. "Aren't we here to have a good time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"LSP and Melissa sighed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I guess we did go a little overboard." Melissa said. "Maybe we could take a break from fighting, just for a while."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Yeah." LSP agreed. "Just as long as we agree to keep fighting after this."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It's agreed, sister...I mean, poser."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Well, glad that's settled." Jake said, not noticing an approaching Marceline. "So, what do you guys wanna do now?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Uh, Jake?" Finn asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""What? Why is everyone staring at me? Is there a booger hanging out of my nose? Oh no, it's Me-Mow again, isn't it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Marceline finally made her move and hissed at Jake, making him jump all the way up to the sky./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strong"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-"/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"em5 minutes later.../em/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""When do you think he'll be coming back down?" Finn asked./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""It'll be a minute." Marceline said, laughing./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Just then, the screams of strong"AHHHHHHHHHHHH" /strongcame back and Jake fell head-first into the sand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Never do that again!" Jake yelled at Marceline, taking his head out of the sand./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""No promises." Marceline said, still laughing. She could see Princess Bubblegum glaring at her angrily. "Come on now, Bonnibel, lighten up a bit. We're at the beach! Who wants to go swimming?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""I do!" Flame Princess said, which drew Finn's attention to her bikini again. Ugh! Why couldn't he stop looking at it? Then again, it wasn't his fault she had nice...flames. Finn awkwardly looked down, avoiding eye contact with the princess./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Yeah, sure, we'll go in." Jake said, before turning around and whispering to Finn. em"Hey, Finn. I know you're still kinda nervous about the ocean, so stay away from the deep end, okay?"/emembr /em/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;""Got it." Finn replied. Well, no, he didn't get it. Where did the deep end start? Looking at the ocean, there was no sign that said "THE DEEP END STARTS HERE". Where was he supposed to stop?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Finn entered the ocean with hesitation. Hey, this was easy! He began doggy-paddling through the ocean as the rest of the gang got in, laughing and splashing. Even Jake, who was normally hesitant to water, seemed to be having fun./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Finn went further and further and further...until he suddenly felt his legs drop. The water rose up to his chin. Oh, man. He must've hit the deep end./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"Despite his best efforts to get away, he went under. He desperately tried to pull himself up again, but it was impossible. He finally managed to choke out one scream:/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strong"HELP!"/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"strongAUTHOR'S NOTE: Suspense for the win. Hopefully the next update won't take as long. As usual, please RR./strong/p