Love over water

Jemma

I hate this. Always when I think something is going to be so bad, it's going well. Every single time.
After I finished point one surprisingly easy, I worked on step two. On Monday I directly caught Jemma in school. I already talked to her about the trip the week before, but we were just imagining and neither me nor her were sure if we really wanted to do this. I mean we both are 16 years old and sometimes we may be to young to decide rational.
Her parents are actually the opposite of mine ( even though I don't know if I can still say this since my mother for a wonder became a new person ), they allow her anything, but sometimes she is even questioning the easy behavior of her parents and asks them twice if they are really okay with everything. Typical her, in her mind she's a eighty year old granny that cares of other people so well. I think she may even be scared that her parents may miss her, but they still have her good-looking eighteen year old brother Jonas. He's on our school and has a new relationship every second week, but I still wouldn't say he's a bad guy, he can actually be really nice and wise. He just has to learn some more lessons by becoming an adult. Jemma's farther is a great artist, he's having his own little Atelier here in our small village and displays Cartoons, that sometimes are funny and sometimes serious. His new
collection is about climate change and his display is always sold out. Jemma constantly tries to let her farther open an social media account to promote himself internationally but I doubt that he'll get along with all that modern technology, he's smart, funny and a great dad but technology is definitely not his subject. I can
remember how he always asked us how to open a new tab, while having hundreds of a old ones still open on his phone at our last sleepover. When there's something electrical broken in the house, you can't count to ten and he has already called an electrician, no matter what tiny problem needs to get fixed. I wouldn't say he's like a farther to me, because it's Jemma's dad but I really look up to him and enjoy his way to see the world so light and serious at the same time, like he shows it in his artworks. Jemma is the prettiest in our class, long brown hair, perfectly shaped eyebrows, hazelnut colored eyes and the perfect style ( which consists of just wearing beige but beautiful and outstanding clothings ), exactly like her gorgeous mother. She started her own restaurant as a chef a year ago and it's a total success. It is absolute lovely arranged, there are big plants everywhere and wooden furniture. I love the enormous gold lamps hanging down the wall, it's definitely an eye catcher. And you can clearly see who helped her decorating, Jemma and me. Jemma wants to become a digital artist and activist ( she's in any case the daughter of her farther ). So as her mother revealed her big project to us last year, she couldn't stop thinking about all the possibilities of decorating. We spend many many days planning everything and agreeing on everything while the lessons, especially in math lessons of course. Jemma is also one of the smartest in our class, she def got it all.
She is also the only one besides me and a new junior student, who we don't know yet, that got an invitation to the boat trip of our school, believe it or not. Mr. Godwin
luckily knows a lot about the "school over water" project since it's his second year of
leading it. So he told me that people from whole Florida got invitations and he guesses that we will be around forty person on board, including the teachers, chefs and on-board employees. Until this morning I didn't even know how the ship looks
like, but Mr. Godwin gave me a Flyer and it does not really include much information but it shows the ship. It's not the biggest and it doesn't look very expensive, but I like that, it gives me all the feelings when I think about going for a boat trip like in the movies. Before every class trip we take our class teacher always asks us for our expectations. If I had to think about mine for the boat trip the first thing that pops into my mind would be diving. I love going diving I can't go that often since my mother is a full time working nurse ( and yes, she always tells me the best stories for dinner, maybe coming back to that later ) and I don't have my drivers license yet. And I know, if you think of Florida, you think of the beach, but it's over an hour to the nearest beach with the car. But the reason why I am not spending as much time on the beach as I would like to is all that school work, I mean do I look like a machine to all my teachers? For becoming a marine biologist you need good grades, so I am giving my best, and it's also working pretty good but there is still so much effort behind it. So many of my class mates think that smart people don't even have to learn for class tests. What am I doing four hours a day in front of my desk then? Solving math tasks for fun? Definitely not. I would really like to have more time for my real passions but it will be worth it they say. Anyway, I can't wait to go professionally diving again, and seeing new reefs. When I'm back I can tell that I've been diving in so many countries, damn I'm already jealous of my future me. The other thing I wish for is meeting new people. I know
that there are so many people outside that I could have so much fun with and I'm
really sure that some of those are also on board. Social contacts are important for
humans, we can't really change that, that's our biology. In the past I always said that I don't really like meeting new people. I personally try to be polite to everyone, but

since I'm a Capricorn, I just show people my real character when I like them, so don't
judge me too early. And I think I'm not alone with that so I really try to not judge people to early as well. I also think that is it kind of fascinating how good people can complete each other. I mean look at me and Jemma. We know each other since ages now and we've experienced so much. The most favorite thing I love about our friendship is that I don't have to say a single word but look at her and she knows what I mean. We can laugh together about things no one else would understand and can bitch about everyone in our own language without anyone knowing. Me and Jemma have tons of nicknames. Not as weird ones as my classmates have ( they call their crushes like fruits and vegetables ) but mysterious ones like letters : HJP, L, R, IA, we got them all, and I love it. Jemma is a really special person to me and I can't stop smiling randomly when I think of the amazing time we're going to have on board.