A New Start

Chapter 4: Trying to fit in

Once Claire and her mom were at the beach, Claire was ready to go for a swim but first, she changed into her bathing suit first, Claire thought she looked like a ghost and had decided that she wanted to get a tan first, her mom put put sunscreen on her and she laid out in the sun for an hour, she laid for 30 mins on each side and finally she decided that it time to go swim.

"Mom, I'm going to go and swim now if it's alright with you"

"Ok, Claire, just be careful and make sure you don't get near any sharks and especially no boys"

"Ok, mom, I won't stay too long"

"Alright, Claire go and have fun, I'm just going to read a book, but remember what I told you about sharks and boys"

And after that, Claire took off to the beach, there wasn't many people there, so she thought to herself, that no one would annoy her too much,when she went to the water, a huge wave came and knocked her down, and after she got knocked down, she tried to get up as quickly as she can, and as soon as she got up, a lifeguard came up to her.

"Are you okay, miss" said the lifeguard
"I'm okay"
"You must be new to Florida"
"Yeah, I just moved here a few hours ago"

After that, Claire went back to the water being careful so she wouldn't get knocked down again, she went as far out in water as she could and had swimmer for about 30 minutes before she had decided that she already had enough time at the beach, and she went back to her mom, there was a few more people that showed up, when she got there, but had already spotted her mom. Immediately, Claire went over to her mom.

"Mom, I'm ready to leave the beach now"
Ok, Claire we can leave now, but I want to ask you why"
"There's too many people here and I got bored of swimming"
Ok, Claire now we can leave"

Claire was happy she was finally back home. The first thing she did was take her a shower to get all sea water out of her hair and a little sea salt got in her mouth. Then she brushed her teeth and put on some different clothes and went downstairs to eat dinner.

"How was the beach, Claire" said her dad
"It was fine, dad"
"Why didn't you enjoy the beach?"
"I got knocked down by a wave and I got sea water in my eyes and mouth"
"Oh, well next time you go, it may not be that bad"
"I hope so, it burned my eyes and it tasted real bad"
"Claire, my boss is having a party at his house this weekend and I was wanting to know if you would like to come, it's a father-daughter party"
"Ok, dad, but will there be a lot of people there"
"There shouldn't be, and you should know that my boss has two kids, and both of them are boys, one is named zack and he is 15, and the other is named Cody and he's 17, but they might try to get rowdy, so if you think that they might try something then you can come and stand by me"
"Ok, dad"