Endless Summer (emison)

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It's 3:45 and the girl that Alison challenged to a surfing competition is nowhere in sight. Alison's annoyed with Emily's lateness and the fact that she's sitting with her butt on her surfboard and her feet in the sand looking like a complete idiot because she's alone. She can see some guys in their black wetsuits, catching the large waves. Alison almost decides to give up on Emily coming and go out there with them, they looked young enough. But instead she sat there, playing with the tight fabric of her black and pink wet suit.

After tracing the pink Hawaiian flowers on her light blue surfboard for what seemed like forever, someone ran up to Alison from behind, panting and out of breath.

"It's about time you showed up." Alison said, not looking up from the design on her board.

"I'm so sorry I'm late. I got held up on my way here because Christian-"

"Wouldn't stop talking to you? Yeah I know." Alison interrupted. Typical Christian. She looked up at Emily, who was standing over her, holding her banana yellow surfboard under one of her arms. She had a full black wet suit on, similar to the one that the boys that were already surfing were wearing. The tight fabric clung to her body and Alison quickly looked back down at the sand to prevent herself from staring.

"So...are you all ready?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, if you are." Alison said casually as she stood up. She reached down and picked up her own surfboard and tucked it under her arm like Emily as they walked to the water's edge. As they approached, the wave came in quickly, the sea foam covered their feet as they kept walking farther into the water.

"Shit it's cold!" Emily said, jumping a little as the wave hit her feet.

"We can always call off the bet. You can forfeit and I can be the 'Queen of Surf' in Cape May." Alison smirked.

"No way. I never back out of a bet." Emily said, shaking her head and walking farther into the water.

"Wait," Alison said, holding out her arm to stop Emily.

"What?"

"We didn't state who gets what when they win." Alison said. "Or more like, what do I get when I win."

"Well what do you want?" Emily questioned as she frowned and looked out at the surfers in the water.

Alison thought for a moment, looking out at the water in concentration.

"When I win, you have to take me out to dinner. Not like a date because you have a girlfriend and I like guys. Like a friend thing, but you have to pay." Alison decided.

Emily chuckled, "Fine. But when I win, you have to take me to buy me mini-golfing and then buy me a milkshake afterwards."

"Not going to happen because you're not going to win." Alison said, shaking her head.

"How exactly are we going to decide who wins?" Emily asked as they got up to their waste in the water. Both girls climbed on top of their boards and laid down with their stomach against it. They began to use their arms to paddle themselves out towards the group of guys who were still surfing.

"Let's see who can do the best tricks and stay on their board." Alison said. "The longer you stay on, there's a better chance of becoming Queen of Surf at Cape May."

"Fair enough." Emily said, as they got closer to the distance that guys surfing were.

"Hey!" one called to both girls as they got closer. He waved to them and motioned for them to come towards the group of four boys. Alison and Emily changed their course and paddled their way over to the four boys who were all sitting on their surfboards with one leg on either side. The boy who had called Alison and Emily over looked like he was in his rely twenties, like the rest of the guys in his group. His short brown hair had beads of water in it and was dripping down his face. He was smiling at both girls, showing his dimple on his left cheek.