Tides

chapter 10

florence's POV

Today i woke up early for only one reason. The results for the olympic surfing competition is coming out on exactly 9 AM and i needed to know who won. It's 8:45 AM right now and im so agitated. I really hope she wins, even if she's not here to celebrate it.

"You're up too?" dylan asked me.

"Obviously i wouldn't ever miss it" i replied.

"If she wins, we're going to celebrate on the beach" he stated.

"yea we definitely will" i breathed.

i finished my peanut butter and jelly sandwich too fast, that's how nervous i am.

"and later tonight we're all gonna have a hangout right? In the amusement park?" 

Oh great, zac told him before i did.

"yea, i was gonna tell you after the results came out" 

"Right. 5 minutes left"

9:00 AM

"refresh refresh refresh" dylan was making me anxious ugh.

Olympic surfing competition results

'1st place: Claire williams!!!'

'2nd place: Gregory johnson!!'

"oh my god. She did it!" i jumped into dylan's arms and started crying; from happiness of course.

"I knew she could do it" he said laughing and i noticed his watery eyes.

We heard mom and dad's shriek of laughter. They joined us with aunt maddison in the kitchen and i can tell you right now all our faces were smiley. This is probably the only genuine laugh i had since everything went downhill. I couldn't stop chortling.

"So to the beach we go!" Dylan said with all the enthusiasm in the world.

"Be careful please, we'll call you every now and then to check up on you" my mom sounded concerned and even though i wont admit it, i am too. 

I haven't gone to the beach for so long. Last time was probably when i was practicing with Claire and the next week i was too sick to surf so she had to go all by herself. Dylan was over at Zac's place and i had the audacity to leave her go alone at sunset. This is exactly why i blame myself, if i wasn't such a slothful person and just went with her maybe this would've never happened and she would be here, celebrating her victory with us. 

"Don't worry mom, we'll be okay i promise" dylan reassured her.

"Hey! no staying out late. Be home by 12" Dad instructed.

"Yea yea i'll go get our surfboards" i said as i walk to the garage.

Aunt maddison waved us goodbye as we left.

*

"hey are you okay?" dylan questioned as he looked at me.

We are currently in the car and are almost arriving to the beach, i invited isabella and tori to celebrate with us and dylan invited joshua and zac. Gonna be fun.

"Yea, I'm fine" i lied

"You don't look or sound fine, flor if you want to talk about it i'm here. We're in this together"

I take a deep breath.

"I-I don't think ill know how to not think about her while im surfing. I don't know dylan. I'm trying to convince my self that i'm fine when i'm not. I just want to hug her and see her one more time" i was wailing.