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7 - gracie

Saturday

-> grayson

I wait inside my car for Merliah beside the cafe. What's weird is that she and Talya never mentioned where they actually live. A few minutes later I see her walking out of the cafe and hopping into my car.

"Hi Liah." I give her a smile as she buckles her seatbelt.

"Hi Grayson."

"So, have you ever went surfing?" My eyes focused on the road.

"Since I was little." She lets out a laugh.

I pull over to a parking spot near the beach and we both unbuckle our seatbelt. I open the door for her while she gives a thank you. We then both got our surfboards and head to the beach.

"Merliah slow down!"  I yell because she went racing to the ocean while I was still on shore.

"C'mon!"

I race too to catch up and lay my surfboard on the water.

"Aren't you going to take of your necklace?" I ask her.

"No! Its waterproof." She nervously says but I didn't mind it.

We paddle against the waves and wait for a big one. We then stand on our boards and begin to surf!

"Hey you're pretty good!" Merliah shouts even though we were surfing beside each other.

"Thanks..I guess!" I respond back giving Merliah a short laugh.

Her laugh is so cute.

"You love surfing don't you?" I ask her.

"Duh! Its what I do with my free time." She speeds away making me have to catch up to her.

"I do it with Ethan!" I yell so she could hear me from all the waves.

"Ok!" She yells back.

A few minutes later we stop talking and just doing our own thing surfing. Of course, I'm still watching her just in case.

"Hey Gray-

Merliah falls down her board making me laugh extremely hard. I stop surfing and sat down on my board. I see her come up from the ocean and I saw her hair.

"Merliah! Your hair has a pink streak!"

Her face turns into shock while she looks to her hair.
She relaxes and tells me, "Oh this is just what happens every time I'm in the ocean."

A few seconds later she touches her forehead in pain.

"Ow."

I paddle my board next to her to see it but she blocked it with her hand.

"Let me see it." She removes her hand to reveal a bruise.

"What happened?" My hand still touching her face.

"I don't know, I think its because when I fell down the board hit my face underwater."

"Let's go out of the ocean."

We both paddle to the shore. Once we were there, I told Merliah to sit in one of the beach chairs while I was getting an ice pack from the lifeguard shack.

"Here you go." I pull a chair beside her and gently dabbed the ice pack on her.

"Ouch." She pouts.

"Oh stop being a drama queen!" I dab the ice pack and she laughs.

"I'm okay now, thank you." She looks at me and smiles.

I remove the ice pack, "let's go somewhere else."