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Sunday Morning

"Kylie! Wake up!!" I hear banging on my door and the voice of Chris. He opened the door and I rolled over and moan, "Kylie there's some guy at the door, something about surfing lessons?"

I immediately sit up, checking my phone. Hold up, 6:30am?? "Why this early?" I ask Chris.

"Uh I don't know? Get ready he's waiting."

I scramble out of the bed and run to the bathroom. I look in the mirror and see a complete mess. I brush my hair out to put it in a high ponytail and quickly put on some waterproof mascara to look halfway decent. I decided to wear my new black bikini I bought yesterday.

As I came down the stairs to grab a towel I see Ethan talking and laughing with my Grandma like they were old friends who got split up years ago.

He heard me approach and his eyes shift in my direction, instantly I notice a light pink hit his cheeks and he clears his throat.

"Well I'll let you two get going!" My grandma says standing up.

"It was nice to catch up with you, Mrs. Beal!" Ethan said politely to my grandmother.

"Oh, please! Ethan how many times do I have to tell you! Just call me Jill!" She scolds him and I laugh. "Now you two get out and have fun!"

Ethan's pearly whites come into show and he laughs, "Bye Chris! Bye Grandma, love you guys!" I say to them as we walk out.

As we walked down the steps of my porch I decide to ask him the most important question of all, "E, quick question. Why are we up before the sun?" He chuckled, picking up my board off of the post.

"Well I figured we could practice in the sand first for maybe an hour or two, because we can't just go out in the water first thing. Then we can grab some breakfast, and come back and you can try the water." He says.

"Take all your lesson girls to breakfast?" I tease him.

"Oh yeah for sure, every single one." He smiles and nudges my shoulder. "Nah just kidding, you're the only one."

Once we reach the sand, he drops my board down to our feet and drops the wax on the sand. He immediately drops down and begins applying the wax to the board.

I admire his muscles as they move. How can one guy be so sexy?

"Alright! All done. Ready to learn?" He claps his hands together excitedly.

"In a way," I laugh. I really hope I don't embarrass myself.

"There's no way you can embarrass yourself, I promise." He said reading my mind. "Here, lay down on the board, with your feet touching the end of the board." I do as he tells me to.

"Good! Alright now act like you're pulling yourself through the water, good good. Now, sit up with your legs on either side of the board."

I continue doing as he tells me. I feel so awkward, not because of Ethan, because of anyone else who sees me. Even though it's literally 7am and we're the only ones out here.

"Okay this is the hardest part. Now act like you see a wave you want, you're laying back down and paddling, slowly, keeping your balance, leg by leg stand up and turn sideways. Lean back some, awesome! You're a natural!" Ethan says in the most encouraging voice I've ever heard.