The Summer Bucket List

Chapter 28

Chapter 28 -A

Ella's POV

"I'm so excited to finally go scuba diving!" I tell Austin as we go through the drive thru to get our breakfast.

"I know, so am I." He tells me, not sounding near as excited as I am, but I brush it off.

"Imagine all the fish, all the different colours and types. Do you think we'll see a Nemo fish?" I ask him thinking of one of my favorite movies "Finding Nemo".

"You know it's just called a clown fish right?" He replies bursting my bubble a little bit.

"It should just have its name officially changed to the Nemo fish because that is what almost everyone calls it. Not the clown fish. Many people are scared of clowns you know. It is an actual phobia called coulrophobia, so we should really be considering those people who have a fear." I ramble on.

"What about people who are scared of the name Nemo? It called nemophobia." He tells me.

"You just made that up." I state and stick my tongue out at him.

"Eat your breakfast." He says and I give him a death stare. "What are you doing now?" He asks me and I continue to give him the death stare.

"I am giving you the death stare." I respond and he starts to laugh. "What's so funny?"

"Is that your best death stare?" He asks and I nod. "Well it's more funny then scary. Oh and it won't kill me." I laugh a little. "If looks could kill, this one definitely would not harm a fly."

"You are underestimating my abilities. I have magical powers in my eyes that kill, but I hardly ever use them." I say causing us to both die of laughter.

"Oh Ella what would I do without you?" He asks me.

"I don't know." I simply answer a huge grin on my face. "Are we almost in Radoat? I want to get into the water and see the fish."

"We have about 45 minutes until we get there, and don't forget about the coral and other plants in the water. You don't want them to feel left out." He tells me.

"Oh Austin you are an idiot."

"How so?"

"You just are."

"Ya, well if I am an idiot then you are a mega idiot."

"Well my heart has just been shattered into a million pieces." I fake being hurt.

"Aww I'm so sorry Ella." He says sarcastically.

We bicker back and forth for the whole 45 minutes until we get to Radoat. When we get there the streets are filled with people everywhere. It is a Wednesday so it makes sense, but I've never seen a town flow as nicely as this one. Everyone seems to know exactly where they are supposed to be and everyone is so polite to one another. Austin and I park the truck along the side of one of the streets so we can walk around.

"We still have one hour until we go scuba diving. What do you want to do?" Austin asks me.

"I could really go for some ice cream." I tell him.

"You and your sweets. You can't go a day without them can you?" He asks me and both of us laugh because we know it's true. "We can go find an ice cream place and you can get the ice cream that you want."

"Yay! Mint-chip ice cream, here I come!"

We walk down the street a little more until we come across a little ice cream store. We walk inside and see that it isn't busy like the outside is. There is a lady standing behind the till and a man sitting at a table, other than that it was deserted.

"Hello dears. What can I get for you?" She asks in a nice gentle voice.

"I would really like some rocky road ice cream and Ella will get some chocolate mint." Austin tell the lady.

"Cone or bowl?" She asks us.

"Do you possibly have chocolate waffle bowls?" I ask her. "They have them where we live, and I absolutely love having them with my ice cream."

"We actually may have some in the back let me go check." She says and walks into the back.

"You are a charmer Ella." Austin tells me.

"You and I both know I just ask, and it usually leads to me getting whatever I so desire." I explain to him.

"We had some in the back. You wanted chocolate mint right?" She asks and I nods. "What do you want?" She asks Austin.

"Rocky road in a regular bowl please." He tells her and she hands Austin and I our ice cream.

Austin pays for our ice cream and we walk around the downtown for a little since we still have about 45 minutes. We walk past a handful of restaurants all completely different from each other and no doubles anywhere.

"Can we go in here please?" I ask Austin as we walk by a cute little clothing store. "I want to try on that dress." I say pointing at a white dress with flowers all over it.

"Sure, if you like." Austin says and I walk in.

I get the lady to get me the dress in my size and I try it on. It fits amazingly and looks adorable, but then I look at the price and think otherwise.

"Are you going to get it?" Austin asks me when I walk out with it in my arms.

"No, I love it but it's a little too expensive." I reply and put it down on the return rack.

"Ok well I'm going to buy a few things then we can go scuba diving." He tells me and I go wait outside.

Soon we are walking towards the ocean to get ready to scuba dive. We soon get everything on and I have to say we look quite silly, and it doesn't help that everything is so heavy. I'm assuming it'll get lighter once we get into the water. Before I know it we are in the water listening to a guy tell us about the safety measures and precautions. We go underwater and it looks beautiful. Millions of colours and little creatures and plants everywhere. I look over at Austin and see that he is having lots of fun as well. I even get to see a Nemo fish and that was probably the highlight of my day.

(A/N: Scuba diving, that sounds mighty fine, and just like other chapters I've never done it before so I don't exactly know if this is what happens. It's too bad that the dress Ella liked cost too much money, oh well I'm sure she'll find a dress that she likes better than that and she'll forget all about that dress. I really hope that you've liked this book up to this point, there is still quite a lot to come, so until then.

TTYL!!!!

-Kimberleigh)