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Three

[Garrett] – Roy, where you at man? Let's go longboarding

[Roy] – No can do, I'm with Beatrice. Maybe tomorrow

[Garrett] – You guys make out yet?

Typical Garrett, but I wish…Roy thought to himself. It was a Friday afternoon with the sun torturing Coconut Cove as high school kids were going to parties or just relax. For Roy, his Friday consisted of going to Beatrice's soccer tryouts and then celebrating with her at the "Frozen Penguin", their favorite ice cream parlor. They were waiting for their order of a mocha sundae with chocolate sauce that was lightly covered by candies like M&M's, snickers mini bites, and Reese's cup.

Roy personally thought Beatrice had kicked some major ass in her soccer tryouts. It was sort of funny and annoying to see her worried about whether or not she made the JV team. Even Quinn and some of the older soccer players were blown away with her performance, but Beatrice was still anxious for her outcome. This isn't the Beatrice I know, she's probably be boasting about how she did Roy thought…

"Alright Bea," Roy said, "What's wrong?"

Beatrice looked up, realizing that she had been spacing off most of the time they had been at the ice cream parlor. It wasn't just the soccer try outs that had been worrying her; Lonna had left Beatrice and her father three days ago.

It was just a normal morning; Beatrice had finished her breakfast and was cleaning the dishes when Lonna came raging out of her room with her suitcase. Her father, Leon, was following after her, yelling about how she had been taking his NBA money since they first met. It was a strange thing to see her father yelling Lonna because it was the usually the other way around. Lonna yelled at her father that she didn't need him anymore and would never see them again. Beatrice decided to avoid the fight and left as quietly as she could. When she got home, her father seemed to have come down with some sort of depression and secluded himself in his room. He still hasn't left his room since the fight; it was confusing to see her father like this. Beatrice's father was usually laid back and never had the motivation to stand up to Lonna the way he did.

"Do you really want to know?" Beatrice said.

"Of course," Roy replied, "It's the soccer tryouts isn't it?"

"Not quite,"

Beatrice then explained the Lonna ordeal to Roy. No wonder she'd been so distant, I thought she had found out about my crush on her… Roy thought. Beatrice and Roy usually hung out at lunch, but he couldn't find her at all this week and was forced to hang out with Garrett.

"Bea, I wish you had told me sooner," Roy said, "remember our promise?"

"I know…I was going too but the soccer try outs distracted me,"

"It's fine, so what are you going to do about your dad?"

"Well, I'll talk to him tonight,"

"That's a start,"

The waitress finally came by with their sundae and the two dug in hungrily. The sundae was completely gone within a matter of minute; Roy was left with some serious brain freeze. Beatrice giggled to herself as Roy was groaning and reaching for his head.

"Dudes, you shouldn't have!" Mullet exclaimed.

Roy had gotten Mullet an ice cream cone chocolate dipped with sprinkled nuts, the Tarzan like boy munched down the ice cream in much delight. As he was eating, he asked them,

"So how's school?"

"Boring man…Beatrice's tryouts was the only big thing going on this week," Roy said.

"Oh yeah? How did they go?"

"I…" Beatrice started.

"She kicked some major upper classmen ass," Roy said.

Beatrice smiled to herself, he's so sweet today but it's more like all the time she thought. He even offered to walk me home after tonight and help deal with Leon, Beatrice and Roy had decided that they would keep the Lonna ordeal a secret from Mullet until things got back to "normal".

"You guys up for a little boat ride, we could catch the sunset," Mullet offered.

"Sure, let's go," Beatrice said.

The trio got settled onto Mullet's rowboat and they rowed away from shore. It was almost magical, the land wasn't too dark and birds were flying through the sky. The gleam of the setting sun on the water glittered; it was like diamonds were in the water. The sounds of wildlife were coming out with the frog's calls and crickets chirping away.

Roy started to space off and started to reflect on his life. Adventure's always finding me, ever since I got to Florida Roy thought, why can't I just relax and live life like a normal high school kid nowadays. It's not like he didn't like the adventures the three on them went on but his other interests like longboarding and girls were being tossed aside for this whole Jet Skiers business. Plus he had school work to deal with and building this boat wasn't exactly giving him enough time for that. Most nights he'd be up till midnight trying to do his homework and then waking up early for school, Roy felt like a zombie most of the time.

Meanwhile, Beatrice was thinking of how she would be able to "fix" her father. Maybe it'll be a wakeup call for him, he might even get a job, and Beatrice just feared that she'd have to find a job to support both herself and her father. But she most definitely didn't have time to maintain a part-time job with soccer on her plate.

"Guys, look out!" Mullet said.

Roy snapped back in reality and saw what Mullet meant, the Jet Skiers were back. There were four Jet Skiers, four boys and one girl on the back of another rider. Is that who I think it is? Beatrice thought. They raced pass their row boat, causing the boat to rock back and forth violently. Roy grabbed onto the side of boat, praying the boat wouldn't tip over.

Luckily the boat didn't, it was a few minutes before the waters were calm again and the boat was stable. Once it did, Beatrice blurted out,

"Quinn,"

"What?" Mullet asked.

"One of my friends," Beatrice answered, "she was with those Jet Skiers,"