Escape it all

Chapter 2: New kid?

Ella J's Pov:

It's a Thursday morning, and the sun is shinning through my cracked bedroom window. I have the biggest headache in the fucking world right now. Probably after last night.

 My mind rushes back to the party Kyle, Maria, Chloe, and I threw at my place. Everyone knows us for throwing the best of the best parties. With both my parents gone, I guess the best way to get over the grievances is to party all night, and drink all day.

I finally rolled out of my bed and grabbed the closest thing next to me that could relieve me of troubles. I look over and grab the bottle of Tito's and head out of my room to go find Maria. I see her slumped out on my pullout couch and hand her the bottle of Tito's.

"Drinking this early, again? It's 8 am." Maria says but takes a big swig out of the bottle anyway. 

"Isn't that the best way to start out the day, feeling nothing?" I said back to her, its nothing but the truth after all. I would much rather live out my mornings hammered and messing around, than grieving over my problems.

She laughs, "I guess you're right. Do you know where Chloe and Kyle are? I haven't seen them since last night, and they were hella fucked up. Theres no way they would've gone home like that." 

I thought back to last night, trying to remember when I saw them last. Last thing I do remember was the four of us and everyone else who had came to our party in the front yard. "Did they slump outside?" 

"Honestly I wouldn't put it past either of them." We both walk out the front door and look to see them both sitting on my dock.

Holding hands?

I double blink my eyes, just to make sure that what I was seeing was accurate. Maria whispers to me, "You see it too, right?" 

"Yeah. I thought they hated each other, more or less." I said with furrowed brows.

"What happened to board code? No messing with other boardies. " Maria said still whispering while looking at me.

"I don't know. How long you think this has been goin on." I say sitting back on the couch I put on my porch. 

"I mean they look pretty close, I just find it weird. They've always had those petty argument and shit. Those two, I would least suspect." She sits next to me and hands me the bottle again. 

"Young love." I look at Maria and we both start dying laughing, cackling even. We must've laughed way too loud because Chloe and Kyle almost immediately ripped their hands away from each other and rushed back over to us.

Kyle was the first one to say anything to us, "Well, good morning ladies." He says grabbing the bottle out of my hands.

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We all hop in to my 1990 Jeep Wrangler and headed to Chloes dad's restaurant, " Waters Fish n Chip" We all sat down at our usual table in the corner of Chloes dads shop. We ordered fish and chip, the special, aka the best meal on the island. 

We laughed over nonsense and finished eating our meals. Chloes dad comes up to us as we were about to leave.

"Chloe can I speak with you." He stares at the rest of us. "Privately." 

"Uh. We were just about to go down to the water." She says to her dad standing up grabbing her book bag. 

"Chloe, now." They both walk off to the back of the shop.

Chloe's Pov:

"Chloe, Im about done with you and your friends consistently coming I hear and eating all of this food. You know this will come out of my pocket right. You wanna live in the shit hole like your friends?" He says getting more angry with me.

Like I get it, but he's always tried his best to give us the best life but I'm starting to get really tired of it. He takes all of his anger out on me from a stressful day of work. He wonders why I hang out with the boardies. They're more like family that I have really. 

"I get it. But dad but my friends need this. You know where they come from. They can hardly afford food in the fridge." I say with sad eyes, hoping to get out of this mess with my dad.

"They can't keep food in the fridge because they spend it all on liquor and weed." My dad says as he's swiping the counters in the kitchen

My cheeks immediately flush red. "Thats not true!" I lie to cover our asses. 

"Yeah. Sure its not true, just lie to your father. These days you seem to treat them more like family than us. You just toss us away. Ive done everything to keep this family afloat and you treat us like shit!" He whisper yells to keep from interrupting his customers meals.

"Think what you want. Im going out." I say storming out.

In the background I hear, "Do what you usually do. Run away from everything."

Ella J's Pov:

We've been waiting in the car for a while now. "I hope everything is okay."

"Everything is fine, she's the best liar we know, she can get out of anything." Kyle says from in the back seat.

Maria looks at me from the passengers seat with wide eyes and smirks, "So I see you two have been getting pretty close. What happened to no macking other boardies."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Kyle says and looks back out the window. "Here's Chloe now." 

Chloe rushes into the backseat of my car and says. "Lets go to the fucking beach already." we all cheer and turn up the music and on our way to the beach we go with all of our boards placed on the top of my jeep.

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Not too long later we wind up at the beach. Chloe and I unhook the boards from the top of the jeep and we all grab ours. 

For the next few hours we were just riding waves till our legs hurt. And across the beach I see this really fine guy. I haven't really payed any attention to guys lately. More so this past year, ever since the incident with my parents. 

This guy sits on the beach and starts waxing his board. He tall, tan, very muscular, dark-brown hair. I noticed myself zoning out and a wave topples over me. 

This never happens to me, I never let guys distract me like this. I finally resurface and I hear Maria yell to me, "Yo, you good. I haven't seen you topple like that in ages. Get back on your game." 

"Yeah I'm straight." I yell back. I lay half myself on the board just staring at this guy waxing his board. 

Chloe paddles over to me, "He's gonna notice if you keep staring at him for this long. You'll burn holes through his skin." 

I splash water at her. "Im not staring okay! Just admiring." I say back to her.

"Go say something to him then." She says and nudged me

"Absolutely not!" He look at her like she has 10 heads. She's gotta be out of her damn mind. 

"Well why not, come on look at yourself. You could pull that." She says gesturing to me.

Were both just floating on our boards and I say, "Don't you think it's weird that he looks so unfamiliar. Everyone knows everyone here." 

She glares at him even stronger, "I think I do know who that it. I saw a new family moving in down the street from me."

"Oh, so he's one of those collar assholes." I say back to her. 

"You never know unless you find out." She says laughing and paddling back to Kyle and Maria. 

She leaves me to my thoughts. Might as well forget it. 

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How do you think chapter 2 went. Will Ella J go talk to this mysterious guy? Find out in chapter 3 :) Kisses