Leaving THE FOREVER |✔ #Wattys2017

Chapter- 3

Mark's POV
We reached the beach after a little while. Of course, I wanted to make most of my time on her bike. It was fast, awesome, and cool, and did I mention it was fast? How could I let the opportunity be short?

The beach wasn't as crowded as usual and a cool breeze greeted us. We found Emilia and Dash on the beach sitting next to each other. He had his arm around her, whispering softly in her left ear.

"Jeanette West and Mark Geller, where have you two been? We have been waiting, like forever." she said furiously, getting up.

Oh boy, she really has no idea how long is forever.

"You were off to the beach and without anyone's knowledge" I replied back and added "and with him."

Dash Harsley. Really that guy. He just pisses me off. Being the goalie in the team and the most handsome soccer player our high school have seen, everybody loves him. I noticed his perfect hazel eyes staring back at me.

"Seriously man, there's just a big misunderstanding. I do like your sister." he said, still staring. "And yes, Lia did tell Mrs. Geller that we were heading for beach."

Not knowing what to say, I rolled my eyes.

"Okay problem solved. Now let's do some surfing." Jean said holding her neon surfboard above her head. I forgot mine and had to rent one on our way to beach.

"We are gonna do it but first, you all must be feeling a little peckish. So let's all of us have lunch." Emilia said in her mild voice.

We all sat down and Emi gave us sandwiches. They were damn good, something only she and Mom can make.

"Mark if you want more, you can have mine." Emi said raising her sandwich and giving a smile.

I shook my head in response and as I opened my mouth to say more Jeanette commented "Awwww, you guys are the cutest twins ever."

There was never anything cute in us being twins except maybe the mixed features of our parents. They are really a good looking couple. Mom with her turquoise eyes and perfect fair skin and Dad with his dimple on the right cheek, which we both inherited. The only difference was our hair, mine was straight chocolate brown and hers were long platinum like Mom.

I insist on changing the twins topic and Dash helps by asking "The sweet thing that you were riding, when did you get it?" He points toward the parking space, raising his eyebrows.

"It's Jean's advance birthday gift. Sweet, right?" I replied.

"Your birthday is coming?" he asked "Hey, wait wasn't that last year?"

This made us laugh really loud. Loud enough to make others believe that we were a terrorist group who just implanted a bomb.

"Let's go surfing now." I said taking off my shirt. The sun felt good against my skin, so relaxing. Emilia and Dash went off without waiting. I couldn't help but notice as Jeanette took off her sundress. She was wearing a bathing suit under it which was the same color, her favorite color blood red. She grabbed her surfboard and ran off towards the sea.

"You wanna surf or are you gonna just stand there?" she yelled back, half giggling. I grabbed my surfboard, shaking off my thoughts and rushed towards the same direction.

The surfing went well. Especially when I accidentally shoved Dash, making him fall in the water. I am being clumsy these days, was my answer to the angry looks of Emi. Jean and I have been practicing on our surfboarding skill and were really getting good at it.

"Wanna hear a joke?" Dash said as we sat down at the beach after the surfboarding. He continued when nobody answered "What did one ocean say to the another?"

"Heard that one." I groaned.

Dash continued completely ignoring me "Nothing! They just waved." He burst into laughter at his own lame joke. Emilia and Jeanette moaned and I made the as expected face.

"Okay, this is like the worst joke ever, so I'm gonna take a long swim to forget it." Jean said still moaning.

"And I'm going to return these boards." Emilia said, getting up and grabbing her board and also mine. "You brought it from Stan's Boards, right?" she asked turning toward me.

I nodded and said "You're the kindest. I promise that I won't comment on your boyfriend for, like, 25 minutes in return."

"Thank you for the generosity Mark" she said with the sarcasm, that was also inherited. "and by the way, he is not my boyfriend."

"Not yet" was what I heard as Dash joined her, on her way to the shop, promising not to make any more lame jokes. He took a board in a gentlemanly way and intertwined his fingers in her empty hand. She readily accepted his offer and smiled back.

"Aww... " Jeanette said with a cheeky smile.
"Hey, don't you 'aww' them." I practically yelled at her. I fell silent as I continued to watch them.

"The shop isn't really far. They'll be back in 30 minutes even if they walk till there. And then you can keep passing snide comments on Dash." Jean said, noticing my concern. "I think things are going pretty smoothly between them and Emilia's really happy." she continued trying to get the too-worried-about-sister Mark out of the real me.

"I'm going for a swim now, for real." she said pulling herself up. Her skin gleamed in the sun and her wavy hair swayed in the wind, making her look more alive than ever. I watched as she walked into the water. I turned to watch a child as he made a sand castle. That brought out a lot of memories, some of them not very pleasant. I had to turn back and noticed was already shoulder deep in water. She took a few good strokes and turned back to return to the beach. As she did I finally noticed her expression, her face gripped with horror and trembling. I got up and without any questions ran towards her.

"Mark, please help me!!" she screamed, her voice pleading.
"What's wrong?" I finally asked as I kept moving toward her.

"I don't know. Something is pulling me down. It's trying to drown me. Please hurry." she said before disappearing into the water.

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