“Oomph!” Lisa’s eyes flew open as she felt the wind get knocked out of her.
“Good morning, Mama!” Asher greets from atop of her.
“Kid, why did you jump on me?” Lisa groans still trying to catch her breath. Sometimes she forgets that she has a kid.
“You were snoring so loud I thought there was something stuck in you,” Asher replies.
Lisa gasps as she grabs Asher’s sides. “I’ll show you loud.” She tickles his side, making Asher laugh loudly.
“Mama stop! Stop!” Asher gasps as he tries to bat her hands away. “Stop!”
“What do you say?” Lisa prompts as she continues the merciless attack of tickles.
Asher gasps. “I’m sorry, Mama, you don’t snore!”
Lisa stops. “I thought so.”
Asher wiggles away from her. “You snore like a trucker!” He high-tails it out of his mother’s room before Lisa can grab him and start another tickle war. “I’m going to get ready for church!”
Lisa gets ready as well. Wearing nice button down shirt and some jeans; she stuffs her wallet in her pocket as well as her keys. She gives Jennie a quick text, telling her that she’ll pick them up in an hour for the beach.
“We match!” Asher screams gleefully as he looks at his mother’s button down shirt.
“All set?” Lisa asks Asher.
“All aboard!” Asher says as he runs to the SUV.
Lisa pulls in front of the address Jennie texted her to an hour ago. She can see that the garage is open and Ellie was wearing her cute swimsuit with ladybugs and a pool tube around her waist, dancing around in the garage. Riley pulls in from the sidewalk on her bike, wearing a wetsuit.
“Weesa!” Ellie screams when she sees Lisa and Asher come out of the parked SUV. Ellie abandons her pool tube and flings herself at Lisa. “Weesa!”
“Hey, Elle!” Lisa greets as she swings her around and around.
“She’s gonna throw up!” Jennie warns from her place in the garage. Next to her were a couple of small coolers and a beach bags.
Lisa stops and looks down at Ellie. “You okay, bud?”
“I don’t feew good,” Ellie says clutching her stomach.
“Let’s get you back to your mommy,” Lisa says, rubbing Ellie’s back as she walks towards Jennie.
Jennie gives her a glare as Lisa gives her back her kid. She rubs Ellie’s back as she tries to comfort the tiny girl.
“Okay, kiddos, let’s pack up the car,” Lisa instructs the other two. Riley grabs the beach bags as Lisa grabs the bigger of the two coolers while Asher picks up the smaller cooler. “Ready to surf, Rile?”
Riley shrugs. “I don’t think I wanna learn how to surf.” She drops the beach bags in front of the trunk of the SUV.
“Why not?” Lisa asks.
Riley shrugs again. “I just don’t think I’ll be good at it.”
“It’ll be fun, Riley!” Asher says. “It’s not scary at all! And my mama will protect you in the water!”
“Asher was really bad the first time he tried surfing,” Lisa says. “He flopped all the time.”
Asher nodded furiously. “But now I’m really good. You can be really good too!”
Riley still looks uncertain and continues to wring her hands in her wetsuit. She was refusing to meet their eyes.
“Tell you what,” Lisa says crouching so she can look directly into Riley’s eyes. “We try one session of you on a board. If that doesn’t work out, no hard feelings then you don’t have to try again. Is that okay?”
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