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Years ago, when I was a kid, I went to a beach that was near my house with my family. We arrived there in the afternoon. Thankfully, the beach wasn't that crowded. As I hopped out of the car, I challenged my siblings to a race to see who could get to the beach first. I instantly ran to the beach the second they agreed to the challenge. I laughed while running, and in the end my older brother arrived there first. My parents walked towards us while talking to each other and carrying our stuff. I went to my parents to help them carry our things, after a while we finally finished laying down all of our stuff.
Luckily, my mom brought a big umbrella and a mat for us to sit on. My dad, Oliver, and Flo went out to surf first while I stayed at the beach with my mom and my little sister Cisca.
I made some sandcastles with Cisca. Me and Cisca managed to make an impressive looking sandcastle. I asked her if she wanted to fill some water around the castle, and she agreed. We went to the ocean to collect water by using our buckets. When we came back, there were random kids kicking our sandcastles. “Brother, why is our sandcastle getting kicked?” Cisca asked, getting teary. “ Cisca, don't cry..! I'll try to stop them, okay? “ I replied. Cisca nodded and I walked towards them. “Hey! Stop it, what are you doing? You can't do that!” I snapped.
They looked behind at me and laughed, one of them spoke up “ So what? Do you think we care about a loser like you?” pointing at me. They try to threaten me, by saying “You think you could stop us from destroying your little silly sandcastles? Pfft, in your dre-” before one of them could continue. Someone threw a handful of rocks from behind. As the rocks kept hitting them, they yelped in pain and looked around to see who was hitting them.
But they couldn't find who it was. They tried to avoid the rocks but failed miserably. Eventually one of them gave up and ran away, and in the end all of them ran away. I was confused, who could've possibly thrown rocks at them?.. it couldn't possibly be me or Cisca. I spotted a small bump of sand, so I approached it. Then I saw a person hiding behind it, holding a handful of rocks. I blinked in surprise, I then asked “Were you the person who threw rocks at them?”
The person replied “ Uhm, yeah, I figured they were bothering you by ruining your sand castle so I tried to help you.” “Oh, thank you then. What's your name, do you wanna be friends?” I asked. He nodded and replied “ My name is Oscar, yours?” “My name is Lando,” I replied back with a smile.
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It was a perfect day to go to the beach. Which was exactly why I had planned with Oscar to go surfing. We agreed to meet up at 3pm like usual, but I arrived earlier than he did. I took a moment to admire the beautiful view right in front of me while waiting for him to arrive.
I heard someone approaching me and glanced over my shoulder. Looking up, I saw that it was Oscar walking his way towards me with a bright smile. And I couldn't help but smile right back.
As Oscar finally put his stuff down besides mine, I got up to grab my own surfboard.
“Hey Lan, you ready to surf?”
Oscar asked with a grin, holding his surfboard.
“Of course, let's get going!” I cheered, heading towards the ocean.
After I had answered, Oscar followed me towards the water. I felt the wind blowing through my hair, the sun warming my face, I looked behind me to take a look at him. Only to find his gaze on me, his eyes as mesmerizing as it could be. My breath hitched as I realized and I looked away so he couldn't see my face burning up.
I went in the water and started to paddle with my hands while trying to see if there would be a wave coming. After a while I managed to keep a steady pace and saw a wave forming. I looked around to see if there was Oscar. And I managed to see him, and saw him smiling back. I did some tricks as there was a wave. But I didn't notice that I was suddenly further away from the beach and Oscar was nowhere to be seen. I had only realized when it suddenly became slightly foggy and there was a shadow that seemed to appear out of nowhere.
I tried to surf back to the beach but there was this sound coming from behind, I couldn't help but look at what was behind me. It turns out that it was a boat and it was suddenly coming closer now, sensing the danger I tried to go back to the beach.
I looked behind at the boat to see if I could spot anything, I managed to see something a bit odd in that boat..
There was.. A massive empty cage? Weren't those types of cages used to catch large marine animals?
I kept surfing, trying to keep my distance as far as possible from the boat. I could see a glimpse of the beach, I can make it, I'm almost there!-
Suddenly, a shadow appeared above me. I looked up to see that it was the massive cage I saw earlier.
By the time I realized what was happening, it was too late. I felt a sharp pain behind my back, it felt like I got shot and I couldn't breathe. I gasped for air and tried to call out Oscar's name. I caught a glimpse of Oscar from a distance, but it was all too late… I had blacked out.