"Alright, Sayvior. You came to the beach with a string between your ass-"
I opened my eyes and rolled off of my stomach. "You have a nice butt too, Ferg. Don't worry about it."
"That's not what I meant" He said. "You got a girlfriend?"
"No, I don't have time for a relationship"
Ferg stood up and I scanned him.
He was a little sweaty, and was only sporting sweatshorts.
"Here's what I think" He laughed.
"What's funny?" I asked, pushing the end of the umbrella that shaded me into the sand and pushing sand around it.
"I don't think you gay. I think you're a lying, lying, liar."
"What makes you say that?"
"You looked straight at the print, Sayvior."
I stood up, and started walking towards the water. "I can look if I want to. I'm not sampling it."
He walked ahead of me, but backwards.
"Fuck me, Ferg"
He shook his head and ran his hands down his face. "What you say? Wind in my ears"
Airhead.
"Block me, Ferg" I lied. "The sun is beaming down on me"
"That's what I thought you said"
A small wave washed over my feet. "This is as deep as I'm going"
"You're a joke, Sayvior" He laughed.
"The salt water will burn my cuts, so-"
"What cuts?"
I turned and walked back to my umbrella.
"What you say?" I removed my umbrella so that the sun could bless my skin.
"Ain't nobody trying to play with you, Sayvior" He sat down beside me on my towel.
His friends came back from the beach store, eating slushies and ice cream.
"Could you get me some ice from the store they just came out of please? I don't have any
more money on me, but I'll pay you back" I said. "Promise"
Ferg got up. "Yeah, yeah"
I turned onto my side and decided to put my umbrella back up.
"What brings you down to the beach?" One of them asked me.
"Darold invited me, but I thought that we'd be working out or something. I didn't realize that it was for leisure. I wouldn't have interrupted your guy time, or rented this umbrella" I explained, sitting up.
"You wear that when you work out?"
"More importantly, can we work out together?"
"No, I spent all my money on this swimsuit and that umbrella. Darold thought it was too much, but this was the best looking set" I said. "I work best solo"
"Love it"
"Great"
"Perrrrfect"
I opened my gym bag and put my shirt back on. "You guys made it creepy."
Ferg handed me a bag of ice. "What you need that for?"
I started to show him my hand, but dropped it and put it behind me. "It's just really hot"
His friend Rakim (I had just relearned his name) pulled my arm out from behind me, putting my hand on display.
"You can't fight anymore? What happened?" Ferg asked.
I snatched my hand back even though it brought tears to my eyes because it hurt. "Don't worry about it. It's nothing."
"Your whole hand and wrist are turning colors. Is it a fracture? How long are you going to be out?" Ferg asked.
I started crying infront of him and all his friends, but quickly got up and walked away, down the beach. "Don't say that to me"
I didn't want to talk about injury.
I needed to box.
"He didn't even hit yet, and he chasing after her" One of his friends said.
I stopped, turned, and Ferg almost bumped into me.
I reached down and grabbed his dick with my good hand. "If you think you're going to just fuck me, you have another thing coming!" I let it go, and continued walking.
"Sayvioooor, you're gay" He reminded, mocking me. "And that hurt"
"I will slap the fucking shit out of you, Ferguson. Leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you anymore"
"What you so mad for?" He started to run to catch up with me, so I had to run to get away from him.
I know we looked stupid as fuck.
My head started to swirl.
My phone rang in my top, so I pulled it out and it was coach calling.
"Sayvior, what are you doing?" Ferguson asked me.
What was I doing?
"You and your friends keep-keep sexualizing me and my hand, and he keeps calling to apologize-"
"Stop hyperventilating. Apologize for what?"
I shook my head no.
"Sayvior, stop hyperventilating"
I could not just take myself out of panic mode.
My throat got dry, and a big lump formed.
I took a couple steps back, and my eyes involuntarily rolled up before I dropped.
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