It wasnt until nearly a month later when things started to go back to normal.
It was Ethan and Elijah's 21st birthday and we were all (Amie, Ethan, Elijah, Me, Denis, Alex and Sub) gonna hang out at the beach and eat pizza.
I talked to Sub about how he missed Flebsy (He was out of state at a track competition.) Amie was chatting with Alex while Denis and and the twins splashed around in the water. Sub paused for a moment before speaking again,
"Youbknow, you and Elijah have been getting along alot better."
"I'm returning a favor."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing, but tomorrow I'm back to being a sarcastic little sh*t."
"Fair. Did you get Ethan a present?"
"I got both of them presents. Why?"
"Both of them? Meaning also Elijah?"
"Yes?"
"I'm dreaming." Sub falls back into the sand.
"Whatever, weirdo."
***
I sat in the living room, scrolling through my phone as Elijah did the same, sitting on the other side of the couch. The rest of the group had gone out to a party but Elijah and I didnt want to go because we weren't big partiers which surprised me about Elijah.
"I'm bored." Elijah declares, shutting his phone off.
"Same."
"What should we do?"
"I dunno." Elijah groaned and stretched before falling to his side where his head fell onto my lap. "Get off me." I whack his head.
"Rude." Sits up, "When did they say they were gonna get back?"
"I dunno. They're probably hammered though so..." I point out.
"True... what time is it?"
"7:30."
"Huh... You wanna see something cool?"
"What is it?"
"Theres this super cool spot like," Elijah just kinda points towards the beach then swipes his hand to the right, "over there. I think Ethan and I are the only people who knows about it. Not sure though."
"I mean... we've got nothing better to do." I shrug.
"Cool." Elijah stands up and heads towards the door, "I'm pretty sure we can longboard over there. You can borrow mine. I'll just take Ethans." Elijah offers.
"Nah, I've got a skateboard in my room." I jog to my room and come back with a black skateboard with cool orange and red zigzags painted on it under my arm.
"Oh that's sick. Let's go." He opens the door and walks out, me in his wake.
We headed to the bottom floor and outside. (Now, a little lay of the land, our collage campus was really big right but there was only one main road through it that the buildings with classes and stuff would be. Then there would be parking lots for to select students with cars. After that you would walk through a short sidewalk then there would be usually a courtyard with a fountain or something in the middle thsn maybe three or four dorm buildings would surround it. There were four of these courtyard areas all represented by a number. Amie, Sub and I were in courtyard B while Ethan Elijah and Denis were in A. These courtyard areas would have wide sidewalks that would go to different areas on campus, for example, the beach or the buildings where classes were held or the library ect.)
Elijah and I skated along the sidewalk towards the beach, me letting him lead considering I had no clue where this really was. We came to the sort of beach area where Elijah turned to the right and I followed. The sidewalk soon became sand and we picked up our boards before walking towards a little foresty area.
"I've been over here before." I comment.
"No the thing I'm talking about in kinda just farther that way." Elijah shrugs. As he heads into the palm trees with me in his wake.
After the sun started to set over the water as waves lapped at the sand only a few feet away we came to a large wall of rocks and smooth boulders. Elijah set his longboard down and climbed up, almost slipping considering he- like myself- was wearing flip-flops. I followed him up, almost slipping like he did but I managed.
On the other side was a more elevated area where if you walked a few more feet there were a bunch of reeds, long grass and cattails that swayed in the breeze. It was like a small outcrop where it dropped like 7 feet then there was the beach. A palm tree bent over the area, its leaf's nearly touching the ground.
"Woah." Was all I could say.
"I know, right?" Elijah turns to me. "Oh, check this out." He waves me over to where he sat, his feet hanging over the outcrop. I sit next to him, my feet hanging over the edge. The sun was low in the horizon, the sky turning shades of pink orange and red, the reflection of the water like a fire.
You could see the silhouettes of the cattails and reeds in front of us.
"Howd you find this place?"
"Stumbled by it a few weeks ago with Ethan. We were bored and just started to wander found this place."
"Huh." I nod, "Its sick."
"I know, right?"
"Oh, dude, I just got such a great idea!" I gasp.
"What?"
"Check this out." I stand up and jog over to the palm tree and climb up it to the best of my ability to I now sat among the leaves of the palm tree. The tree dipped slightly at my weight but it wasnt a big drop. Maybe only four feet if I did fall.
"Huh." Elijah nods, "Why did I never think if that?"
"You're an idiot."
"Rude."
"Its the truth." I point out.
"Maybe we should head back?" Elijah suggests, pointing at the sunset which started to fade away to hues of blue and purple.
"Yeah... maybe." I shrug, "or we could stay for a while. I mean, Its not gonna be too cold and it's beautiful out here."
"True."
"So, staying?"
"Why not."