second chances

chapter 2: love sick

The night she had was full of both good and bad thoughts, Ritha could dream of tom on sail with her on a cool clear sky day. The day after they met would be even more complicated , Ritha had some hard time she was falling for tom second after second , Tom was a character unto himself , but it was difficult not to like him. Ritha then went back to the club after breakfast , she entered the cabin and had to great coach miley, she was the early bird always . " hi coach", she said " hello ritha how was your night", "kind of good but not very good it was moderate", " ok don't put yourself on pressure ,i know what you are passing through Jennifer told me" , " thanks coach you are really a good person besides being coach", ritha said to miley as she hugged her. Lanna and Jennifer entered as soon as ritha let goof miley , " hey there" Jennifer said , " is everything alright here", " yes nothing wrong so far so good this bright morning", miley said , " by the way girls today is going to be tough as you see the sun is bright and you have much to do so get ready for action" miley said , " ok you heard coach so lets go hit the waves" ritha said and they went and prepared their selves for some surfing , " This day truly looks hot and sunny but lets take our surfing to the next level" lanna said and they set for the sea , ritha was so focused on making it out of the giant wave but the more she tried the more her performance on the wave was pathetic she remembered miley's words but she could not listen she had many voices in her head and kept her from surfing well, tom ad the other boys arrived at the beach and they also went into the water and started surfing. " hey" tom said "is everything alright there , need some help" , " ok all is is not fine ,i cannot surf the giant wave but i am going to make it on my own thanks by the way but I am fine ", " ok that was a little bit intense but trust me I was once like that but not anymore so if you let me I can teach you and you are going to make it I trust you extinct", "really" "sure ritha , here is a clue ,try to bend when you are surfing inside a giant wave to gain speed and stretch out your arms to be more stable and you are going to make it", " ok I will give it a try hope it works tom" ritha left and paddled towards the restricted area to give it a try. "Here goes nothing" ritha whispered to her self and then stood on her surfing board and surfed the wave that was coming her self "you are doing it ritha " tom shouted , ritha became even more eager and confident to surf under it and she did , she went under the wave she watched the water as she surfed under it and she could fell as a shark in the water she stretched her arms widely to gain balance and closed her eyes , she made it out of the wave she shouted in happiness and then paddled to the beach ," woo nice one ritha you finally did it" Jennifer said " thanks Jennifer i thank tom the most he told me how to make it through the wave and now I can no longer be afraid of the giant waves" "so , go talk to him" , " ok I think I am not afraid of him either" ritha said to Jennifer and then went to talk to tom . " hey I just wanted to say thank you for helping , I normally like doing thins on my own but that wave caught me off guard I couldn't do it but then I noticed I needed a little help and now you are the reason I made it, thanks again tom", " yeah my pleasure" I think now I have to go see you", ritha said and lanna then appeared she went closer to tom. "Hey tom ,I admire your moves and I wish you could teach me as you taught ritha" , "sure I will just show you, come closer", lanna came closer , tom placed his hands on lanna's waist and raised lanna's hands , " band a little bit" tom said and so did lanna " then this is how you handle a giant wave so all you have to do is to maintain position for at least thirty seconds" lanna waited until the last ten seconds, tom started a countdown after lanna accidentally fell on tom ," oh sorry could have stayed a long time and my legs trembled a bit" , " it is no big deal i am glad you made it lets go give it a try". Ritha was starring at every move that lanna made and all her happiness vanished that moment and Jennifer had been watching ritha all along . " ritha is everything okay you look worried", " Jennifer promise me you will tell no one about this ," " okay I promise", "Jennifer I think I kind of like tom but whenever i get a moment with him lanna is there to ruin" " it you know what I will go talk to her I will make things right" Jennifer said and went hurriedly to talk to lanna and ritha was not able to stop her. " Ritha I think we need to talk" lanna came to ritha a few moments later " you see about tom I think I have been ruining your time with him but I was not aware will you forgive me", " wait who told you all that", "Jennifer did", " lanna I am so sorry I had no idea what she was about to do but I did not want to be so rude but may be you are the one to be happy with tom now let me set things right" ritha went to Jennifer " what are you doing I told you not to say anything" , " but I just made things right " no you made it even more worse" , " what are you even talking about", " never mind Jennifer but you must apologize right now" ritha said and they went to the grocery where lanna was . " lanna I know I have been had on you but may be I have to admit it I am sorry for being so hard on you woud you forgive me" , " Jennifer apology accepted but there is something even better we can go surf that giant wave it looks like fun right", "yeah sure and thanks lanna" , " that what friends are for so what are we waiting for",lanna said and they all went into the water. "Hey" pete greeted tom as he approached him at the grocery "hey pete", " so how is it going", " so far so good", " I've been watching you with the girls" , " you mean training them", " nah don't be silly I mean loving them you know...." , " huh come on I didn't even take a step on any of them" , and they all laughed " but pete you really have no idea how they've been acting strange when it comes to me especially lanna but ritha is a kind of girl who likes being on her own" , "then go for the best girl for you tom cheers by the way" pete said to tom as he offered him a can of cola , pete continued at lanna as she was surfing . After a while the girls returned to the grocery and the other club members came around the grocery pete hen took a microphone " what up barracudas , so now we are going to make history lets part as never until evening time" he shouted and then started the music and they started the party every one started dancing . The night fell and every one had a dance mate every one except ritha it was so boring for her lanna was also alone , tom approached her " is every thing fine" , " yeah kind of , I was just enjoying this cool breeze and warm sunshine", " care for a drink" , " yeah she said nodding her head" , tom then fetched her a coconut cocktail, " all I wanted in this time , you read my mind" , " I knew the right thing for someone like you in this evening" said tom and a wide smile broadened on lanna's face " thanks" said lanna tom then grabbed a guitar and sat next to lanna and started playing it . "Wow I didn't know you could play the guitar" , " I am a guy full of tricks and new things" , " can I try" , " yeah sure you'll do it" , " I will try but would you help me" , " yeah come closer" tom said as he passed his arms over lanna 's shoulders and started showing her how , after he took the guitar and played a song slowly and slowly tom sang it smoothly lanna fell on tom's shoulder and sang with tom.