they both reached the spot of the break at the same time, looking around for a catchable wave. it seemed like the ocean was playing tricks on them, as not a single surge or movement in the sea could be noted.
then the sea was alive again, and full of character. a wave was coming steadily towards the duo, and both teens paddled like their life depended on it. emma glanced back-to see sam directly beside her as well as the wave directly behind her. it was a good size- a six-footer maybe. nothing she couldn’t surf. then she realized the opportunity beside her. just as the wave was about to break, and sam looked ready to stand, she tugged on his leg rope, hard enough to make him lose his balance (and his board) and topple into the water.
he looked furious, and probably would have done something much worse to emma, but the wave was on her side, and carried her away from the boy. before she knew it she was standing, the wind in her hair. her yellow surfboard danced across the surface of the wave, and she was flying.
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two hours later, both kids sat , backs against the alcove, a picnic basket in sam’s lap. emma pulled out a box of tiny teddies, a packet of tim-tams, crackers, vegemite, two cans of sprite, and a couple of caramello koalas.
“it’s good to have such a nutritious breakfast.” emma joked.
“well, firstly, you had four weet-bix before we left, don’t even try and deny it.” sam remarked.
“i only had three!”she protested
“sure, sure.”
“i did!”
“and secondly, vegemite and crackers are totally healthy.”
she giggled. emma giggled a lot.
“now, it is time for my victory feast. if you would be so kind…”she prompted.
sam passed her the packet, a smug look on his face. emma wondered about that, but realized why the look when she opened the packet.
“sam!” she gasped.
“i got hungry.”
“was it necessary to eat all the tim-tams?”
“in my opinion, yes.” he laughed and then emma laughed and they both laughed, but not before emma made him promise to give her his caramello koala.
then they talked, talked about all sorts of things, from who would be cute together at school, to what they wanted to be at the end of year twelve, then who was a better surfer. a common, debatable, recurring and unavoidable topic.
the sun was now nearly in the middle if the sky, and emma guessed it was about eleven. She still had about seven hours to spend with sam in the cove. as much as she denied it, emma loved sam and sam loved emma. they had been best friends since birth, when their mother’s had made friends in the maternity wing after they both had to go through emergency-cezerians. they had done everything together, inseparable and totally comfortable in each other’s presence.
now, done with their food, emma leaned her head against sam’s sturdy chest, and closed her eyes.. a couple of years back, in the dark days, as emma called them, emma had clung to sam for protection. Her was her sanctuary, her stronghold. back then, when she was seriously depressed, she thought she would never be happy agin, that there was no point in life. sam had showed her otherwise. and she was grateful. Extremely so. because, in many ways, sam had given her life, more that saved it.
emma snuggled into his chest now. she can’t belive she used to think that she would never see of happiness again. Now she thought she might never see sadness again. what is happiness? she thought. this. is what she concluded. this is happiness.
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ok idk rlly what this is but i hadn't updated for a while so i decided to do this. ive been meaning to finsish this for a while but didnt know how to finish it and i decided to just make it all happy and cutesy yay. oh and something else i decided to do for some of the stories is do a cast. like down the bottom i will just write like: this character as this celebrity. like on the sid, but not on the side be]c then it woyud get all muddled. i will only write i for some of the stories because for some (for example this one) i dont even rlly like to imagine the characters as real people idk. but yeah, just letting you know bc ily guys.
also sorry there are a bunch of australian references in here that other countries probably dont get but most of it is just aussie food so yeah. peace out x
0.3 - waves
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