Attacked by a shark

Chapter 1

Dameon and i walked quietly out of the house and ran towards the ocean. "The sea water is so much colder at night!" Dameon exclaimed as he kicked and splash water everywhere. I held on tightly to my pull over just realising how cold it was.

As we walked on, i noticed a little bamboo house lit up at the side of the beach, i walked over with Dameon and peeped inside. "Look, its a boy!" I whispered to Dameon, "He looks like he is around your age!" Dameon looked at him and walked towards the door, "What are you doing?!" I exclaimed in a whisper.

He smiled and knocked on the door, the boy ran towards the door and peeped through the little hole, "Who are you?" He asked, looking at us warily. "Hi my name is Dameon, my sis and i just wanted to take a walk and then i saw your little house" Dameon smiled and pointed at me, "She's Danielle" I looked at the little boy and smiled.

Suddenly a loud voice boomed from what seemed like their kitchen, "Who are you talking to Jacob?" a huge man with a beared face appeared, he looked really scary and had a huge scar across his face. I stammered a little and said, "I.. im sorry, we were just passing through. Sorry." I grabbed Dameon and we started running.

"Come back!" Jacob shouted, "My dad may look and sound scary but he's not!" I stopped running and turned around, i saw Jacob's pleading eyes and looked at Dameon. "You want to go over or go back to our house?" I asked, half wishing he'll want to stay and half wishing we didnt leave the house.

"Lets just go over and check him out, he wont harm us, right?" Dameon gave half a wary smile and walked towards Jacob's little house. Jacob was so glad we came back, i could see it all over his face. "I'll go get some drinks" Said Jacob's dad. We sat on little stools and waited, "Sorry, we dont have comfy chairs. My dad and i have been staying here all my life." Jacob said proudly.

"All your life?!" Dameon asked with awe, "So you live here then? In this tiny house?" Jacob laughed and replied, "It may be tiny, but it sure is cosy!" He turned to look at me, "You two are here for holiday i guess?" We nodded our heads.

The conversation continued for about an hour more before we decided to head home to sleep. Jacob's dad was the life guard on this island and Jacob doesnt go to school, he helps out at surfing shops to make surf boards in the day and works at a bar at night whenever he feels like it.

"He sure leads an easy life" Dameon said while we were walking back to our house, i though about it for a while and said "Did you realise Jacob didnt have a mom? His dad cooks and does the house work, i realised."

We walked on in silence for a while and went to our own bedrooms and slept till day light.

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The next day after breakfast, mom and dad let us off to go do whatever we wanted. We ran towards the little bamboo house and realised that both father and son must be working, so we went round all the surfing shops and finally found Jacob.

"Hey Jacob!" Dameon shouted out loud even thought the shop was really small. Jacob was shaving a wooden surf board and looked up at us grinning "Wanna try making a board? This one is just a new sign board for the shop." He answered. Dameon jumped up happily and ran towards him "If we fail at making the boards, wouldnt you loose a lot of profit?" I asked.

He just looked at me and said "You could give it a try, if the board does not take shape, i'll make it into a kids board, how's that?" He chuckled and started taking polyurethane blank and fiberglass out.

We spent almost the whole day trying to make the board, but it was harder than we thought. But nontheless, we thanked him and walked back to our house. "That was fun, even though sometimes it was quite frustrating" Dameon gave a sigh of relief and sauntered off. I strolled slowly and wondered about all the millions of questions in my head, and realising he was much more mature than i thought he was for his age.

'Dameon is only 16' I thought to myself, 'Jacob cant possibly be much older than him with such a baby face' I smiled at the thought of that and running the whole way home so that Dameon wouldnt tell the whole story to dad and mom before i could say anything.