The Foster

part 7

"Psst." I heard from beside me. I rolled over and opened my eyes.

"Why are you waking me up?" I whispered to Ross, whose face was inches away from my own.

"Morning walk on the beach? Come on." He said, pulling me up by my arm.

Ross grabbed a key and we made our way outside without waking anyone up.

"Anna will kill us if she finds out we left." I said as we walked down the stairs to the beach.

"She won't find out. She's been exhausted lately." Ross told me.

"Okay. So why did you bring me out here? We are both barefoot and in our pjs." I said as we stepped onto the morning sand.

"Sunrise. It's always pretty, clouds or no clouds. I wanted to witness my first beach sunrise with you." Ross said, holding my hand.

"I'm flattered. But why me?" I asked. Before I knew it, he crashed his lips against mine. I kissed him back   which surprised him. After a few long seconds, he pulled away.

"Because you make everything great." He grabbed my hand again as we continued walking.

"We should really get back..." I said after a few minutes of walking.

"Maybe you're right. Okay, lets go." Ross sighed as we turned around.

"Any idea what we are doing today? It looks like it might rain." I asked Ross.

"Nope. I just hope the rain doesn't ruin our last day. We have to leave tomorrow and Anna really saved up for this trip." He told me.

"Yeah. But we can still have some fun. Like maybe there are some cool inside places to visit around here?" I asked.

"When we get to the hotel we can check the brochures in the lobby. We can make some plans so Anna won't have to." Ross said.

Once we got to the lobby about 10 minutes later, we started looking. Most of the things were outside activities which would have been great to know yesterday such as parasailing, swimming with dolphins, shark sighting boat rides and much more. Eventually we came up with two that were inside.

"Well there's a live performance. Today is either something from Shakespeare, or Mary Poppins. I think the little ones would like Mary Poppins more." I told Ross.

"Yeah. There's also an inside water park that we could go to. Or both, if it's cheap. Just so happens, this booklet have some coupons for the water park." Ross said.

We started walking back upstairs to our room.

"Okay. So let's tell Anna that we can go to the water park, have an early dinner, then see a show. Sounds fun to me!" I said.

We unlocked the door and walked inside. Anna was already awake, scrolling on her phone.

"Before you get mad, we were just outside to watch the sunrise. We didn't want to wake you. But we came back with some fun plans." Ross explained.

"Okay, don't let it happen again. Now what plans?" Anna asked.

Ross explained all of the plans we made to Anna. At the end, Anna had a smile on her face.

"So that's a yes?" I asked.

"Sure! Sounds cheap and fun. Better than staying inside all day watching tv." Anna said.

We all got dressed and ready for the day ahead. First, it was just the live play. We all got into the car and went to the theater.

"Mary Poppins starting in 5 minutes." The loudspeaker said.