Experiences Book 2/3 Excerpts

[Friday]

Oh I how love the beach, the smell of the salt water, the feel of the hot sand beneath your feet, the chill of the water, the small fishes and clams and jellyfish, the sand castles, and especailly the boys. Oh the boys of summer... Swim suits slipping down to reveal sexy tan lines, the defined muscles, the cat calls, the ohone number exchange. But Oh those summer nights... Haha. I never got those summer nights.. at least on this trip I'm thinking about. I could have if I had thought it was worth it. But I had Dewayne back home and the girls to think of there. Regardless I love the beach, the wind in your hair, the sand in your toes, and the salt on your skin. I love the freedom of feeling like you have all day to do absolutely nothing. I could and still can spend all day at the beach soaking up the sun, enjoying the eye candy. But I am a beach girl, what can I say?

[Friday]

Sierra and I drifted down the beach in the far swells, bobbing up and down in the water, it's such a relaxing feeling to be just pulled along in the water with not a care in the world, the sun's heat deminished by the cold water. We talked about a lot of stuff just drifting in the waves. But more than anything we talked about the boys, which not so incidentally we were also watching for. I'd never tell Dewanye this, but for that trip I had declared myself single, I was in South Padre for a week, why not be?

((Talk??-- Game boys))

We seemed to spot them at the same time, the three boys on the beach playing Volleyball in the sand. It was then that we decided we needed to head back towards our stuff and our other friends who we had left back with our stuff boogie boarding, I was sure that Lizzy and Sidney would be worried about us now. Not only did we need to head back but that would put us walking back through the boys we had just seen.

By the time we had made it back to the shore we were a bit further down the beach than the boys, which I was fine with. Gave me more of a chance to check them out. As we walked through them I couldn't help but notice the one in the red plaid swimsuit. He wasn't much taller than me, tan, had a nice body and checking Sierra and I out as well. I glanced up at him through my eyelashes when he wasn't looking at me. I couldn't help it when I subconciously pulled my shoulders back and stood up just a tad straighter. I know how to use my sisters. When I saw his gaze slide over to me I immediately looked straight ahead, and hoped that he hadn't noticed my very direct ogooling. As we drew even with him I slid my eyes over to meet his and smiled slightly before we passed and he was out of my line of sight.

We were just out of hearing range of them when Sierra and I both started giggling like the girls we are. "Wow," Sierra said referring to the nice eye candy we had just passed.

"No kidding," I replied with a smile. I might be in a relationship, but there was no harm in looking. And in this case I had liked what I saw.

"We are definitely going to have to come back with Lizzy and Sidney," Sierra said looking over at me, in which I was looking over my shoulder back at the red-plaid swimsuit boy (I guess he might have been closer to man, but at this point in my life they were all boys still). "Oh stop looking at him," Sierra exclaimed and pushed me slightly herself looking back at them.

"Fine," I said, "But we're coming back." I got no arguement with that remark.

After walking what seemed like a mile (it probably wasn't that far, but the walk seemed to take forever), we came upon Lizzy and Sidney who were walking towards us. I waved as they came into view and I got a wave back.

"There you guys are!" Lizzy cried with a winge of worry in her voice, "I turned around and ya'll weren't there. We were starting to get worried."

I remember supressing the urge to roll my eyes. What was honestly going to happen to us on a if not crowded, well populated beach? We had been in groups of two, it wasn't like we had gone off alone. "We're fine," I told her trying to calm the mother Lizzy that was always trying to take care of everyone. "We were just talking and drifting I informed her. Nothing happened."

"And we are going back out in the water. It's starting to get hot out," Sierra said and I couldn't help but agree(not to mention I wanted to go back to see the boys, well that one boy).

"Ya'll should come with us this time," I told them matter of factly. "We found good eye candy."

"I guess," Sidney said warily. We had been out in the deeper water where we couldn't touch. Sidney, who had been to a beach once before still wasn't very comfortable in the water and something about the salt water and the sunscreen together made her eyes burn.

"We will come," Lizzy said, and I could tell she wanted to go out in the water where we were and also see our eye candy. "But first we need to go put on sunscreen again."

I nodded with reluctance. I had been a tad red from the day before and wasn't against the idea and Sierra sure did need it. Where I always tanned, Sierra burned. She was red to the point she had gone out and bought a surf shirt and swim trunks that she was wearing now to black most of the sun exposure. Lizzy's hips were redder than a tomato and Sidney was suferring from a nose burn, but was otherwise the least sunburned of us all. I just hoped that the boys we still be there when we made it back that way.

[Friday]

I stood as it was my turn as we were going done the circle. I was slightly nervous, but I already had this planned out in my head, I was going to do it. "Howdy!" I cried trying to put some strength behind my voice.

"HOWDY!" The answering yell drowned out the noise coming from the room net to us. Justin, our group leader, had given us one goal. Be louder than the group next door. With our one and a half groups combined this was an easy feat for us.

I sucked in a breath of air and started gaining confidence as I went and did not falter. I didn't glance once at the card held in my hand which gave me my propmts. "My name is Kasey May Parker and I'm a Freshman Biomedical Science major from Leander, Texas, but more importantly, I am the Loudest and Proudest member of the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2013! AAAAA!" Everyone joined me as I let out my wildcat, throwing my hands straight up intp the air. I felt a huge grin on my face as the sound covered the room and Justin looked over laughing at me.

"I think we have a challenge..." his words trailed off as he kept grinning at me, a same broad grin spead accross my own face. "I think someone needs to step up and take that." I snak back down into my chair grin still plastered on my face. We countined you to go around the room everyone giving their own 'greeting', but no one came close to me. I was lost in thought though.

That greeting was more than that. It clicked everything into place. I belonged here at Texas A&M. I was pretty certain before but now I was for postively sure. This was right, this is where I was meant to be. I had to live up to my statement of the loudest and proudest member of the Fighting Texas Aggie Class of 2013, and I planned on doing it.

[Friday]

"Hey, What's up? This is Kaylie the girl from the beach. Anyways this is my number."

"hey whats up"

"Not much, we just got my car back."

"ohh hey which one are you?"

I almost replied the one with the braids, but that wouldn't have done anything. I had braided Sierra's hair too. And the one with the brown hair wouldn't work either, we both had the same colored hair, at least when it was wet. Mine was slightly lighter otherwise. "The one with the longer hair and that was wearing the bikini." This worked, my hair was a lot longer and Sierra had been in her surf shirt and trunks at the time. I hoped that distinction would be enough for him.

"ohh the one going to a and m right?"

"Yup, that's me." I didn't think about it then but that's what they said at the end of the That's So Raven intro. Funny.

"Ohh hey I'm Travis by the way "

Travis. I liked the name. But then again I had liked the boy and was ready to claim him for tonight. And since he had only replied to my text and not Sierra's... I was pretty sure he had aleady called his claim on me.

[Friday]

The texts continued, and it was easy to be flirtasious over them. I was hopefull that we would get to go out tonight with them, and just have a good time. It was one of the reasons I had come to the beach for.

"so instead of the beach why don't you guys come to our condo tonight and we can go swimming there," Travis had sent and that got us all excited. All of us since I was reading all his texts out loud to everyone else.

The itonic part was Sierra had just been talkig earlier that day about how she wished we would meet sme guys with a condo and they invited us back to it. It had been one of the conversations we had while we had bobbed up and down in the water on the beach before we Travis and his friends.

"Same time?" I aksed him

"Ya around dark."

"Alright well we will be there."

"You know you and I could hang out earlier if you wanted."

Those words stopped me. 'You and I'. Not what I wanted to hear. I wouldn't have minded the you and I if I hadn't been with my friends. In fact I would have been flattered, and I still was, but I knew that couldn't happen. It would leave my friends out and besdies that, my friends would never in a million years let me do that.

"I would, but I can't leave my friends. That would leave them carless and I don't want to leave them out."

"your gay"

"No if I was gay I'd be hanging out with Sierra."

"Well come prove it" was the text I got from him right after I got into the shower. At this point in time Sierra was texting for me, and she didn't know what to reply back with so he was stuck waiting for me.

A few minutes later my phone went off again with just a single symbol. "?"

Sierra not knowing what to do replied. "She is in the shower"

That was the last thing I wanted, because now he knew he wasn't talking to just me. And that it was possible that it wasn't me before. I didn't know how I was going to redeem myself or out night out.

[Friday]

"Ya baby I would have."

"Ya baby. If I was good... Probably not..."

"I'd try if you want."

"Idk babe"

"Ya so you can dance with people I don't know >.> eh... you do it already so whatever"

"Your the one who said I wouldn't dance....."

"No I didn't."

"O... well I would try."

"Sorry for trying"

"I was just saying too. Don't be sorry no need."

"You wanted me mad??? Lol babe I was never sad"((mad?))

"Ok well we are talking. Would I try to dance? Yes. Would I want you dancing with another man? Ahh duh no. Bit it doesn't matter"

"What's it abou then? Please tell me."

"What is it about?"

"Just to talk?"

"What you wanna talk about?"

"Like how? I don't remeber.... I can't."

"I remember me hating that I didn't have you."

"If I recall you said that was a mistake..."

"It's ok baby. It's just an argument." ((wipes away her tears, hug))

"How? How is it?"

"Cause I'm not like you. Like at all..."

"Yes I do."

"You still can..."

"Idk what to say."

"Am I really that crappy of a boyfriend?"

"You want to dump me."

"Am I that crappy?"

"Said tonight lol...."

"Never. But you questioning if I care about you says it all. And I just wanted to know when all you ahve thought of breaking up with me. I remeber that one time on guildwars..."

"Answer me that one question?"

"Why do you think of it everyday? I'm not trying to be mean I just want to know these things."

"Do you really think it's a mistake?"

"Ty ...."

"Thank you for doing it then. Makes me happy. Cause I always feel like the mistake."

"I just do. Always have"

"No I don't. Not at all. i just never thought I'd bea good boyfriend. But you say so much of me being great. It stuns me."

"Becasue I hear so much of me being one. Without a job and stuff."

"Ok. I'm sorry. I'll tuck you in ok babe."

"I love you baby. Sleeptight my beautiful girl. Night my beautiful princess I love you."