Broken
Chapter 7
I was laying on the beach,
trying to tan my hideously pale body, when someone's shadow
stepped in front of my sun. I looked up, a little peeved off,
right into Tyler's face. He was staring down at me, surf
board under his right arm and a huge grin on his face. I tilted
my sun glasses down and said, "Tyler? You're blocking
the sun."
He smiled and sat down next to me, "Sorry, hey you wanna
know what we're doing today?"
I looked at him, guessing it had something to do with the surf
board, I pointed to it, "I'm not riding that thing, if
that's what you're thinking."
His smile broadened, "Of course you are."
He grabbed my wrist and pulled me up, and dragged me towards the
waves.
"It's easy." He said, "All you have to do is
stand on it, and don't fall off."
"It can't be that easy." I retorted.
He just looked at me, grinning.
"What do I do if I fall off?"
"Just get back up and try again."
I looked at him, as if to say, you can't seriously think
I'm going to surf.
He laughed, "You're not leaving the beach today, until
you get on that board."
Finally I gave in and decided I might as well try it. Who knows,
I could be pretty good. I was wrong. I sucked. I fell off
everytime, and everytime I hit the water I could hear Tyler
laughing. He finally let me take a break and we went to
Louie's for some pizza and milkshakes. As we sat there eating
and talking, about nothing in particular, Tyler asked,
"Olivia? What did you mean when you said I would need to
find you some day?"
I looked at him, choking a little. He waited. Once I stopped
chocking I asked, "What do you mean?"
"You said I would need the little things you tell me, to
find you. When will I need to find you? I've already found
you."
I thought for a minute, "You never know, Tyler. You may
loose me someday and that might be the only way to find me
again."
We sat in silence for a minute, questioning. Finally he said,
"I don't plan on ever loosing you, Olivia."
I looked at him and sighed, "Those things are never planned.
That's my point."
He looked at me, with a confused look on his face. I just shook
my head, as if to say don't worry about it. A couple minutes
later Jason, Kellan and Carter came in for some pizza. When they
saw us there they sat down at our booth, squishing us into the
corners.
"So Ty, you and mystery girl, huh?" Jason said
jokingly.
"Lay off man." Tyler said.
"So mystery girl, when do we get let in on the big
secret?" Kellan said slyly.
I looked at him, confused.
"What's your name? When do we get to know?"
I looked at them, "Tyler didn't tell you?" I said
glancing at Tyler.
"Nope." Said Jason, "But I'd like to
know."
I looked at Tyler questioningly.
He just responded with, "I told you I could keep a
secret."
"Yeah, but I thought you'd tell them...maybe not Ricky,
but at least the others. Why didn't you tell them?"
"Yeah, why didn't you tell us?" Asked Jason.
Tyler sighed, "I didn't tell you because the only way I
got to know her name was after I promised I wouldn't
tell."
Everyone looked at me, then at Tyler, then back at me. I sat
there uncomfortably.
Kellan said, "So girly, why don't you want us to know
who you are?"
I looked at him, the said, "I don't care if you know my
name, my name is Olivia."
Jason said, "Ooohh Oliviaaa."
I looked at him, shooting him a threatening look, "You know
my name, not my story."
Jason replied, "That's okay, I like a girl that's
feisty."
I just looked at him, with a sort of daring look on my face and a
smirk.
Tyler, seeing the look on my face and not knowing what was going
to happen said, "Jason, back down." Then he looked at
me and said, "Sorry to break up the party guys, but
we've gotta get going. We have a surfing lesson to
finish." He said this with a smile dancing at the
corners of his mouth.
We pushed past the other boys and walked down to the
beach.
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