17 year old Rue Moyo and her camera find themselves working as a photographer over the Australian summer holidays. Spending the summer with 17 year old surfer Arlo and his family a romance sparks between the two. Along with new friends and drama.
" Come on Rue you have to do it, imagine how fun summer would be plus is would build your portfolio, not to mention the hot boys" Talia said
" My parents would never agree to it"
" Actually with a lot of vouching and months of convincing, I finally got them to agree. Just talk to them"
A few months ago I wouldn't have thought my parents would ever agree to let me go to another town, two and a half hours away and stay with a family they don't know and haven't met. Somehow my best friend Talia managed to convince them.
During school instead of actually doing our work Talia and I had grown a habit of making travel plans we knew would never happen, or finding great job opportunities anywhere but our town. One day Talia came across an ad for a beach town about two and a half hours away. A family needed a photographer to help take pictures of their son during his surf season. Talia showed me the family and god was their son beautiful. The typical surfer boy. He was tall with long darkish blonde hair and natural highlights, beautiful blue eyes and all around perfect looking bloke. I mean don't get me wrong he wasn't really my usual type, long brown curly hair. But I mean same thing. I checked it out and jokingly I signed up for it knowing damn well there was no way my African parent would ever agree to that.
The thing is I actually got the job, but Talia didn't tell me, she pretends to be me and talked to the family arranging everything. Turns out their son Arlo's aunt usually came over and took his pictures for the season and videoed all his surfing. Recently she had gotten a job overseas and was doing some photography there. So they needed a replacement, at first they recognised how inconvenient it was to hire someone from a different town, but Talia said after they saw some of the pictures I've taken they loved them. I wondered why they didn't just hire a local photographer but they were usually fully booked by other surfers and they loved the more private photographer style. So after months of Talia convincing not only my parent but me, I was finally packing to go live with the Harri's at an Australian beach town 2 and half hours away, for the next three months.
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