Sinking

10

I'm falling, falling hard-

Today is Thursday, June 18th. AKA: My Birthday! Today at exactly 4:23 in the afternoon I will turn 19.

I had just woken up. Laura is still asleep.

I stare blankly at the white sealing, trying to wrap my mind around how Beck came to me in my dream before I even knew he existed. then my mind wandered to thinking about Beck in general. His green eyes. his dark hair. His personality.

God I am falling hard.

"Maria?" Laura said from below.

"Morning laur!" I say.

"Good morning birthday girl!" she squealed.

"Do you wanna go to Starbucks for
breakfast in an hour?" Laura asked.

"Yeah! let's get ready." I said as I climbed down from the top bunk.

"I'm not gonna wear any makeup to Starbucks." i commented. Laura got up and smirked.

"Yes you are." he smirk spread across her face even more.

"Um... Laur?" I asked. "Are you okay?" I added.

"Oh, I know you are." her smirk remained on her face. then I remembered.

She

Is

A

Mind

Reader.

Dear lord have mercy on my soul.

"Oh my god, you read my mind again didn't you?" I asked trying to hold back my smile.

"You like Beck don't you?" her smirk turned into a full on devilish smile.

"Well..." I trailed off.

She raised an eyebrow. "well?" she continued.

"Yeah, kinda." I admitted. I immediately felt my cheeks get hot.

"This is good, but this is bad at the same time, you know what I mean?" she asked.

"Um no." My cheeks got even hotter.

"He's a nice guy in some ways but he is also really, how you say, bad. he just pranked me a lot and stuff. but all in all he was a pretty nice guy. despite the fact that I thought he meant to cheat on me." she explained.

"Okay can we talk more about this at Starbucks?" I asked hoping he would say yes.

"Yeah. let's get ready." Laura said as she stood up from her bed.

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Laura was wearing navy blue and white tribal pattern beach shorts and a white crop top that said "Maui" on it.

I decided to wear denim shorts and a plain purple tank top.

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"He can be sorta violent. like when he pushed me off the pier last December." Laura took a sip of her Mocha Frappichino.

"Yeah tell me more about that." I said as I sipped on my White Chocolate Mocha.

"Well, this was the day after I saw Emma making out with him at the Christmas party. he didn't know that I knew about when she kissed him. so the next day I texted him saying 'can I talk to you?' and he replied 'yeah let's meet up at the pier' so it was a pretty damn cold winter say so I put on my peacoat and I had on my dry clean only skinny jeans on and uggs. it was snowing that day. it was pretty dang cold okay, so we met up. I talked to him about what I saw at the Christmas party an wow I was done with him. well, I didn't exactly let him speak and he got mad and harshly grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me into the icy water." she explained.

Wow. violent much?

"Dang. he bad." I said. but that didn't stop me from falling.

"He said sorry about a million times and sent me chocolate labeled 'I'm sorry' I ate the chocolate but i never forgave him. Until just a few days ago." Laura started to tear up.

"I should have forgiven him a while ago because at the same time he was stressed out because his mom died from cancer." I saw a small tear slip down Laura's cheek.

"Aww. but it's okay now. he explained everything and now you know the truth. and now you guys are on good tirms." I tried to comfort her.

"I mean, he could have saved me cuz he's a life guard but he was just really mad." She said.

I nodded and she took a sip of her Starbucks.

"Drink the Starbucks it will make everything go away." I suggested. she laughed.

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"Okay!" Laura said as she waited for a good boogie boarding wave.

"Oh I see a good one." I pointed at the horizon. then we see a huge wave come up. the wave curled and grew. once it was time to lay in the board, i did and started to paddle with my arms. then I knew the wave was too big.

I tumbled and I can't breathe.

I black out.