Payson a 22 year old waitress who's trying to make an earning to pay bills, an apartment, to keep her car running and to pay for groceries. She had to drop out of college because she couldn't afford it, but didn't want to move back with her dad know...
"So what are you guys going to do today since it's your last day?" Damon's mom Ariana asked us at the breakfast table. "I'm going to the beach and surf" Carter said. "Ooh fun" she looks to me and Damon "what about you two's?" Damon smiles a bit and says "I'm taking Payson around the town, show her some sights" "Sounds like a great day" Damon's mom gets up and takes plates to the sink and starts washing the dishes.
The rest of us cleans up the table and I put the dishes away then we all go our separate ways.
Me and Damon head to the car and drive off. "So where to first?" "Around town, some sights, I was thinking of surfing" "Sounds like fun" "Good and you've never been to Florida right?" "Nope" "Where have you been?" I don't want to say not much I've only been to Arizona because of my grandparents, I look pathetic to him, he's been everywhere. "Only Arizona for my grandparents" I say anyways. "Really? Your family didn't take you anywhere on like vacations or anything?" No, we never went. 1 because we couldn't afford it, 2 when my mom died that's when things turned. I sighed and said "no we couldn't afford it" "I'm sorry but at least now you get to" I nodded. "Payson that's not all, is it?" He looked over for a quick second and then back on the road. "She died when I was 15, my mom" "I'm so sorry Payson" "It's ok" We fall into silence for a while.
We park and then both get out. "Here wear this" Damon hands me sunglasses and a ball cap. I put it in and he does the same. We walk into a little town and just walk in silence.
I look around it's bright and cute. Just like I'm in paradise, there's a surf shop. Damon point to go in there and I follow. "What are we doing in here?" I ask. "We need things to surf right?" "I've never surfed before" "I'll teach you" We buy two surf board and then headed out.
We walked back to the car and Damon put them on top of the roof of the car.
We got in and headed towards the beach. "Basically surfing is about balance. Of your physical and inner self. You have to feel the waves and when you feel them you jump up and glide across the water." "You've done it before haven't you?" "I did live in Florida Payson, me and Carter did all the time" "That's cool" "What was your pass time? Let me guess writing and reading" He wasn't totally wrong. "Yes and running or kickboxing" "Kickboxing? Really?" "Why are you so shocked?" "Nothing it's just I don't know" "Hmm I see" "Payson I just saw you as this.." I raise my eyebrow at him and he looked on the corner of his green eyes. "Keep going" "I just pictured you as a girl who maybe does running and Pilates" I laugh a bit "I mix it up, now I do love Pilates as well but kickboxing I needed my inner and outer strength, I needed to know I can defend myself" He looks at me like he's studying my insides, trying to dig deeper when I'm not being vulnerable. He brushes it off and parks the car. We both get out and Damon unlatched the surf boards.
I grabbed one of them and then I thought we don't have anything to go in. "We don't have anything to go surfing in" I say. Damon smirks and looks at me. "I got that covered let's just say Niki helped me" Uh oh, if Niki picked it out it's going to be way out of my comfort zone. We pick a place and set out things down. "Here Niki picked this out, go get changed" I grab the bag and head to the bathroom. I got in a stale and open the bag. Yup I knew it a black crop and black bottoms
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