Three teenagers set off for a day at the beach. It wasn’t
their normal sunny and warm day but cloudy, windy, and barely in the 70
degrees. The girls stood there with their tall colorful surfboards looking over
the muggy beach horizon.
“Are you sure you want to surf this today? Looks kind of
choppy” Angelina said, a short caramel complexion girl with wild curly brown
hair looked towards the rolling tides. “Looks like it may even rain.”
“Hell yeah, look at those waves,” replied Star, tall and
slender with chocolate skin and dark black hair tied in a bun.
“What’s up with you, Angie, you aren’t afraid of a little
cloud are you?” Laughed Staci, a slender brown skinned girl with dirty brown
locks down to her butt.
“Of course not, I…” Angelina begins to say.
“Then let’s go!” Staci darts off towards the water with her
surfboard.
“Yeaaaaa!” Star shouts running after Star with her board.
“Maybe we should get our wet suits!” Angelina follows after
them. The girls dive into the water and get on top of their boards swimming
deeper into the ocean floating over small waves. Angelina frantically swims
behind Star and Staci who are much more faster swimmers than her. They get to a
middle ground where they can wait for waves. Star attaches her leg leash and so
do Staci and Angelina.
“I see one!” Staci pointed. “This ones mine!” Staci paddles
on her stomach to an on coming wave forming. She gets in position as the
mediocre wave forms rapidly and she hops on the board to her feet balancing
with perfect precision. She glides on the wave as the other girls cheer her on.
“Yes! That was a good one!” Staci yells back at the girls as
she comes to the end of the wave waiting towards the shore.
“There’s one coming, you can take that one, Angie,” Star points
to a part of the water that had waves developing.
“No, you take it,” Angelina insisted.
“Okay then,” Star scurries to follow the waters rhythm. She
also glides along another mediocre wave focused until she comes to the end
where Staci is still waiting on her board.
The waves are becoming a bit larger now and Angelina can
feel the water changing under her feet.
“Come on Angie! They’re perfect!” Staci yells out to her.
Angelina paddles and cuts through a few waves to prevent
them from taking her back to shore. The water is getting colder and her arms
are feeling the change. She struggles to find a good wave.
“That one!” Star yells out. Angelina hears them but is more
focused on keeping her body from getting colder. She looks up at the sky and
sees the clouds getting a bit darker.
“Hurry!” Star yells again. Angelina centers back on paddling
and sees another wave she can get. She paddles harder, arms freezing and hops
on her two feet, legs shivering. She somehow gets her balance and connects with
the wave. She smiles a nervous relief and rides the wave not realizing the wave
is growing larger behind her.
“Oh shit!” Star yells out. “Ride girl ride!” Angelina doesn’t look back at the wave but
keeps her gaze forward. She feels a hard
gust of wind on the back of her neck and water splashing harder on her back and
neck. She looks behind her at a gigantic wave crashing one by one right on her
heels. Her eyes widen, heart beats faster, and legs tense. She can hear the
girls yelling but can’t make out what they are saying. She faces back forward
and started to feel like she had been riding for eternity. Her knees wobble and
the cold wind stiffens her body. All in an instant thought she wants to let go
and ride the wave on her stomach but if she knew if she made any sudden moves
it could take her out fast. She could see the girls now as their jaws dropped
and started paddling away from her. She looked behind her again as the wave
suddenly took her.
She flew off the board and crashed backside into the water
snatching her ankle leash off. She twirled and twirled under the water holding
her breath and folding her arms to her chest. She felt something scrape the
side of her foot, then her thigh, and her stomach. She yelled out in pain but
ended up sucking in water as the wave died down pushing her towards the shore.
“Angelina!!!!” Star paddled towards the shore.
“Angiiiiieee!” Staci also paddled after her. The clouds have
now become a full dark grey and thunder began to roar. Angelina lay flat on her
stomach like a dead fish, eyes closed. The girls finally make it to shore and
run to Angelina’s side flipping her over on her back. Staci looks back out at
the water for Angelina’s board but doesn’t see it. Star slaps Angelina’s face
and puts her ear to her mouth.
“Oh fuck, she isn’t breathing,” Star cried out beginning
CPR.
“Come on Angie!” Staci grabs Angelina’s freezing hands
squeezing them. “Wake up! Wake up!”
Star continues to press on Angelina’s chest and checks her
breathing again.
“She’s breathing, she’s breathing!” Star yells and continues
CPR on her.
“Come on Come on!” Staci starts slapping Angelina’s face.
“You guys okay!” A guy surfer and his friend in shorts run
over towards the girls. Angelina spits up a ton of water coughing and gagging.
“Oh shit! Thank you, God!” Star falls back. Staci grabs
Angelina hugging her. “You’re my only sister! I would die if I lost you!” she
began crying. The two white boys catch up to the girls.
“Dude, that was amazing!” one blonde and brown eyed boy
spoke up.
“Is she okay?” the other blonde and blue eyed boy asked.
“Yea, I think so,” Angelina replied struggling to rest on
her elbows.
“We caught all that on camera, dude. I’m Tony and this is
Braxton,” the blonde haired guy introduced himself handing his phone to Staci
to see the footage he caught.
“That was like a 10 foot wave, dude, we thought you were
gonna bail!” said Braxton.
The girls watched the video as Angelina was toughing out
this monster wave.
“Oh my God,” Angelina covered her mouth.
“You’re a beast dude that was a total blow out wave with
this weather!” Tony added. “You should join our surf team man!” Braxton added.
“But she almost died!” Staci said. Angelina smiled wildly at
the camera as she fought the ferocious wave with the large clouds and rolling
thunder. Her and the wave; that could barely keep up with her. She cringed when
she saw the wave take her down and looked back out into the water still
splashing and growling.
“So worth it.” Angelina grinned.
And this was the beginning of a new adventure for Angelina.
THE END
Ride Your Wave
We all have waves in our life that we aren’t sure we can take on. There are
even waves in our life that are unexpected. There are even waves that almost
kill us. But once we come to the end of that wave and back in stable waters, we
end up looking back and smiling and asking ourselves, was it worth it. And it
usually is. So embrace your waves, get through them. Ride them. And prepare for
another.
-Princess Diaries.
BLACK WOMEN DO SURF!!
JUST incase you were reading my blog expecting some white girls or even some tanned white boys.....SIKE!! Oh, black people surf too. You didn't know. Check out some links below if you wanna know more. I've also been inspired to carry on this story maybe even into a screenplay...Let's see where Angelina goes with this :-)
Meet Imani Wilmot
https://surfgirlja.wordpress.com/about-us/imani-wilmot/
Soul on A Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNpGeS9qKs&feature=youtu.be
Black Girls Surf...Blogger
https://browngirlinaring.wordpress.com/tag/black-girls-surf/
Watch Full Documentary White Wash
https://youtu.be/OXk-U-4-EZ4
Black Surfer Documentary Teaser
https://youtu.be/CZH-Up1Kk-g
What waves have you gone through?
Would you watch a movie about a black surfer?
Comment below ...thank you!!
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