SAVING ACE

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Olivia Rose Spencer

"Olivia!"

"Olive, Olive, please wake up!"

"Miss Spencer, can you hear me?"

I was hearing all these voices from a distant corner of my mind. My whole body felt numb and I didn't remember why I was sleeping or why everyone was sounding so worried. Finally, everything came back to me and I opened my eyes.

"You finally woke up," I snapped my head to where the voice was coming from.

I recognized him as one of the lifesavers, his name was Ace, he was a year older than us, studied in Berkeley and played basketball in the varsity team. He was, for a lack of better word, hot. Towering at an impressive height, and with an even more impressive body, adorned with tattoos that scattered around his chest and arms, he was the dream of many people. I was staring at his eyes, pools of hazel, with green specs swimming around in them. I quickly found my voice again, snapping out of the reverie I was in.

"Where's my brother?" I asked. "Is he fine?"

"You just woke up after being passed out for half an hour and you're worried about others? That's really selfless of you."

I recognized the room in which I was at the stall that the lifesavers had at the beach. I sat up on the sofa where I had been laying down and stood up. I suddenly felt dizzy, falling onto Ace. I grabbed his bicep to steady myself.

"Oops, sorry."

"Where do you want to go?"

"To see my brother and to go home."

"Your brother is fine, he's just a bit shaken up because you passed out. You probably won't be sick later, since you already vomited all the seawater that you gulped."

"I did?"

"Yeah, you did."

I walked out of the stall with Ace following close to me. Oliver was pacing around as my parents were both talking on the phone.

    "Olive!" Oliver ran to me, hugging me tightly. "I'm so sorry for running to the sea like that. Mother told me that it was really selfish of me to go to the sea. That I shouldn't have dragged you to this and that I should have been left in the sea by myself."

    "Nonsense, don't listen to what Mother says. You didn't know that the current was that strong and as your big sister, I'd never let anything bad happen to you, Ollie."

    "Thanks, Olive, I love you so much."

    "I love you too, Ollie."

    "Olivia Rose Spencer! Why did you go off to the sea like that?" My Mom marched in my direction, her blue orbs furiously trained on me.

    "I wasn't going to leave Oliver in the sea, was I? By the way, why didn't you say something when you saw Oliver going to the sea? You knew the sea was dangerous for Oliver to be there."

    "I was sleeping, Olivia, how'd you expect me to see anything?"

    "But Father was reading the newspaper."

    "Oliver should learn how to fend himself in the world. He won't have us around him all the time."

    "He's just a little boy, Mom, he's only ten."

    "When I was ten your grandmother was already dead and I had to take care of four younger siblings as you well know. We have to leave to San Jose immediately, your father has an important meeting with the board of Stanford. Oliver, give your farewell to your sister and meet up with us in the car..."