Chapter 3. I've been doing pretty well updating…be happy for that. I guess anyone who read Our Fifteenth Summer is…Anyway. Here is the third chapter. I hope you like it.
Spoilers: It is still AU
Disclaimer: I do not own Kate or Abby,
"What do you want to do?" Kate asked her friend leaning back in her chair.
"I don't know," Abby replied, watching Kate reach for the CD player, "Don't even think about playing that song again."
"What's wrong with that song?' Kate asked defensively.
"Nothing," Abby told her friend exasperatedly, "but you have played it five times in a row." There were several minutes that the two spent in silence. Well almost in silence because Kate had hit replay on the song. As the song finished Kate was stuck by an idea.
"You want to go for a walk up the beach?" Kate asked.
"Sure sounds like fun," Abby replied. Both girls rose from their chairs, walked into the front hall, and slipped on her flip-flops. Then Kate opened the door and they proceeded to the beach.
"Which way should we go?" Abby asked looking left then right. She could not see a difference, but she was sure there was one.
"Depends do you want a short walk into town or a longer, more tedious walk over rocks?" Kate replied.
Abby and Kate looked at each other for a moment then at the same they spoke. "A longer, more tedious walk over rocks." They laughed at themselves and then they headed off to the left.
There was a wall separating their beach from the next one. The tide was currently so low that they could have walked around the end of the wall, but neither one of them did it. It was a trait that they both shared. They preferred the route that was the most interesting to the one that was easiest. Neither one of them had ever been fond of the path of least resistance…
They continued down the beach for several minutes without talking. Occasionally they would pick up a pebble of shell to look at but mostly they just walked. The smell of salt water was all around them and the wind blew in their faces pulling their hair back. It was a pretty summers day and the sun was shinning high above them.
"We have a scheduled activity tomorrow," Kate told Abby suddenly. She had been going back and forth between telling her then and telling her about a half an hour before. Out of kindness she had opted for then.
"Really what is it?" Abby asked excitedly.
"Don't get too excited," Kate cautioned her, "Anna set up a lunch for me before she knew you were coming."
"Who is it with?" Abby questioned.
"I think it is a granddaughter of one of Anna's friends," Kate explained, "Anna likes me to meet as many people as possible."
Abby nodded in understanding. She had picked up several years ago that this was one of continual points of friction. Kate preferred to have a few close friends and be civil to everybody else. Anna preferred to know anyone and everyone sort of well.
"Right well we can both go," Abby decided, "then if we like the girl we play nice. If we find her annoying then we play hardball."
"Fair enough," Kate replied, "Oh this is one of the fun parts."
Kate and Abby both stopped walking and looked ahead of them. There was sand in front of them, but instead of a sloping lawn up towards a house, there was a wall made of huge chunks of rocks piled on top of each other.
"Now we have two options. We could walk across the beach or we could climb across the rocks. Which would you prefer?" Kate asked mostly as a rhetorical question because they were both already heading for the rocks.
Climbing across this set of rocks was not hard it was just something to spice up long stretches of sand. The rocks were in very big piece and the wall sloped slightly back so there were plenty of handholds and footholds. Kate went first and climbed about halfway up before starting to move horizontally. Abby followed quickly.
The stretch was neither long nor hard, so they finish quickly and were once again of flat sand. As the continued down the beach the looked out at the ocean. There were not that many boats out today. Of course it was early June. Massachusetts kids were not even out of school yet. It would be July before the island was truly busy.
The walked about ten more minutes before they got to a section of beach that was separated from the ocean by a line of rocks. Abby and Kate climbed up on one of these and surveyed the water. It was beautiful, calm, and clear. Sitting down on a rock, Kate slipped her shoes off and dangled her feet into the water. Abby copied her.
There was a pause while Abby reached into her pocket and Kate looked out over the water. "Chocolate?"
"What the…" Kate said as the looked at Abby, "Where did you get that?"
"Anna gave it to me," Abby said shrugging. She ripped open on package with her teeth while still holding out the other one to Kate. "Want it?"
"Sure," Kate replied taking the bar from Abby, "Chocolate is chocolate."
"So is this what you do every summer?" Abby asked after a moment.
"Sit on the rocks and watch the ocean while eating chocolate?" Kate replied, "No."
"No I mean roaming the town freely," Abby told Kate.
"Yea pretty much," Kate answered, "What do you usually do in the summer?"
"Hang out with Jess and Lindsey," Abby added, "or annoy Tony. That's fun. Occasionally I watch Charlie..."
"Sounds like fun," Kate told her.
"It is," Abby agreed, "In it's own special way." There was a pause. "Nothing on this summer obviously," Abby added happily, 'because this summer with be the summer of a life time."
"Watch out Martha's Vineyard," Kate said laughing, "Here we come."
Abby picked up a rock and handed another one to Kate. They both stood up and Abby started to sing. "We're pluggin' in the power. Crankin' up the sound," Abby belted.
"It's comin' your direction," Kate sang recognizing the song, "It's headin' to your town."
"We're kickin' up dust. Blowin' off steam," Abby half sang half yelled. "Let's go nuts now." With that she and Kate both jumped of the rock and onto the sand.
"Everybody scream," they yelled together raising their hands in triumph.
Anybody know what the song is? I love it but it is not very popular as far as I can tell. Anyway I hope you liked this chapter please review.
