After our morning surf, Me and Christine heading to Christine's house for lunch where her older brothers were waiting. Christine's older brothers, Aaron and Trey, and my older brothers, Seth and Matt, are good friends with each other. All the guys are around the same age.
We walk into the kitchen where Aaron, Trey and Matt were talking. We throw our towels and phones on the kitchen table while Christine starts grabbing bread and peanut butter and jelly.
"Where's Seth?" I ask.
"He's sick" Matt says. I jut my lip out. I hope he's okay! The boys start laughing and look at me, even though they didn't say anything. I take a glance at myself, making sure I look okay and then shoot them a glare. I start spreading peanut butter on a slice of wheat bread as Trey walks over to my side.
I felt like he was staring at me body. Suddenly, my bikini felt like it was showing too much.
"Are you ticklish?"Trey pokes my side.
"Huh?" I ask confused.
Before I knew it, he swooped me up, his body behind mine and his arms wrapped around my waste. Trey spins me around while Matt and Aaron laugh hysterically.
"Let me go! I'm getting dizzy!" I screech. I couldn't help but laughing along. Then I was dropped on my back super hard. It hurt like crap. I sit up.
"What the hell was that for!" I cry. Aaron walks over and helps me up. I dust myself off and take a bite of my sandwich.
"Yeah, she can't get injured. She's competing in 4 days for surfboard Regional" Matt says. He was leaning against the counter with his arms crossed smiling at me.
"Matt!" I screech. He wasn't supposed to tell anyone. My face was probably bright red.
"Aw, look! She's blushing!" Trey points out. Great, potential embarrassment. Trey is such a douche.
"You guys are freaking jerks!" I cry and quickly grab all my towels and food and dash up to Christine's room.
I could hear them call my name and laugh behind me. Christine follows me closely behind.
Once we're away she asks "Are you okay?"
I nod and furrow my eyebrows. "Yeah, I just don't need any more attention." I pull my hair back.
I woke up that morning to Christine jumping on me.
"Get up! Get up! One hour until we need to interview Mr. Kernshaw to compete!"
I shove a pillow over my face. "Whose Mr. Kernshaw?" I groan.
"The head manager of this competition. He wants to interview us and see if we're good enough surfers to make it to the first round! So put on something nice over your swimsuit and hurry! One hour!"
I roll over. I don't wanna wake up.
I walk down the beacon. My hair was in beach waves and I had some makeup on. I was wearing a strap dress that came down to my knees. It was bright yellow and suited my skin color. I wore matching flip flops with it. Christine wore white shorts with a cotton candy pink ruffles tank top and flats. Her hair was in two braids and she look gorgeous.
"Wait here" I say stopping in front of a smoothie shop. "I'll get our usual"
Christine nods and takes a seat on a bench as I walk in side. There was a small line and I walk to the back. A guy who looks like my age smiles at me. I smile back. The guy was a little taller than me and very muscular. He had brown eyes, dirty blonde hair and did I see a 6 pack rippling through his shirt?
"I hear your signing up for the surfing competition" He grins. I don't even know this dude's name yet he knows this?
"It spread around that fast?" I question.
He nods. "Its super hard. You and Christine were the first to sign up in a while"
"Great" I roll my eyes.
"I wish you luck. My name is Joel."
"Thanks. I'm Talise."
"Interesting name." he says.
"It means beautiful sea. It seems like I was born to surf. I don't know, its kinda strange" I blush.
"I like it" Joel smiles at me. "You seem nice. I would love to talk to you more. Can I have your number?"
Was he flirting with me? I'm a mess and a god like him wanted my number?
"Sure" I say quietly. We exchange numbers and I order our smoothies.
I leave the shop and hand Christine her smoothie. We head over to the shore where a camera crew was waiting. We were gonna be on TV!? I look at Christine and she shrugs as if she didnt know anything. I suddenly get a text message.
It was from Joel. Hey, Can't wait to see you again(;. My eyes grew open. Wow! Apparently Christine see's my reaction and snatches the phone from me. She reads it and gasps.
"Joel? He's the most popular guy in town! He's so hard to get but he's flirting with you?" She squeals. I punch her in the stomach for her to quiet down. I turn my phone on silent and shove it back in my bra, ignoring his text.
A guy working for Mr. Kernshaw came up to me. He was holding a clipboard.
"Talise? Your on in 2 minutes!" He reminds me.
I turn around to Christine with tears in my eyes. I was clutching my stomach fiercly.
"I can't do this! I've never been in front of live television before!" I cry.
She leans over. "Shh, you'll be okay. Just talk to him as if your were talking to your dad. And when you're out there surfing, just imagine I'm with you. Don't freak!" She whispers.
I nod once and walk out to be greeted by Mr. Kernshaw when it was my cue. Christine smiled and gave me a big thumbs up. Mr. Kernshaw kept asking questions about my life and family and where I was from and my name and stuff like that. And I told him truthfully. It was agitating at first but it came naturally. Like I was born to be in front of the camera. He asked me to show him how I surf and I ran out to the ocean.
I surfed like there was no tomorrow. I was amazing and he applauded for me once I was done. Then it was Christine's turn and I cheered for her while she surfed, just like she did for me. We stayed a while to see who else we were competing against. And I actually thought we had a good chance. The other people were good and Christine and I were great. For the first time since I moved, I actually felt more than confident that I had a huge chance of winning with Christine.
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Okayy well, I was gonna update tomorrow but I made plans tomorrow so I thought it would be better to update earlier than later. So enjoy!
What do you think of Talise and Joel really hitting it off?!(: and Who are you voting for to win the competition; Talise or Christine.?
Now, Talise has some different ways of pronunciations. So the RIGHT way is like this.
"Tal" sounds like the word "Foul" Kay? and "ise" part sounds like "eece" and in Reece. So it sounds like Taleece. Just keep that in mind!*
Next update: Friday! No later than!
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