Johnathon Strider's Story

Skye friendly waved her hand at Emm, her face looked very similar to John's they must of been twins she thought.
"Hey there, my name's Skye." She said with a smile on her face.
Skye looked up into the sky and it was clear she focused her attention towards the beach and saw that everyone else was there.
"Want to race back to shore?" She asked the group that was in the water.
"It would be nice to meet everyone else." Skye said pointing back to shore as if it were to be an island, and they were stranded on a boat.

After a while John finally saw where the girl who was yelling was pointing to and barely noticed an empty board. "not good Emm watch my board i think some one might be drowning." he said untying himself from his board then dived down keeping an eye open to see if he had to go deeper when he finally saw the boy he quickly made his way towards him (well about as quick as one can under water) until he finally reached the drowning lad who seemed to be unconscious. 'great all the more reason to worry.' he thought wrapping an arm around his chest then began to drag him back to the surface.

When he finally pulled the boy to shore Johnathon quickly looked at the one who was red from what seemed like embarrassment. "it will be ok but i may need you to call for a medic." he said with motioning with his hands to try and calm her down "but first we need to get the water out of his lungs cause even if the medics can get here fast he's still in danger." he added calmly then gestured for her to come closer.

Was he awake?

Valdimar opened his eyes, then reacted to the fact that he had barely any oxygen. He got up, turned over onto all fours, and tried to cough, the water violently coming out as hacked hard enough for him to tear up. The pain leaving slowly his neck, he felt a different feeling, queasily he tried to hold it down but to no avail, he vomited the rest of the water all over the sand beneath him.
"Aw shit, I wonder if they'll still let me have the job?" He mumbled. There was still the question of whom had saved him. He tilted his head up. There were a few people surrounding him. He flopped onto his back, careful to keep away from the puke as it dissolved into the white sand. He slicked his hair back away from his eyes, trying to find the most disappointed face, it was usually the one who had pulled him out of danger, or in this case death. His breath softened, and his eyes fell upon some red-headed dude.
"I'm not dead yet" His voice sounded a lot better than he had expected. Sitting up, he looked at who he was with, a very nervous girl... What was her name again? Lana! Well, his entire rep would have to be won back from everybody on the beach but, at least he might get a chance to get to know her better. That was, if she could look past the dark sand that he had just puked on. "Hey Lana, I'm guessing you're the one who caught me mid fall?"

Originally hectic Lana finally calmed down. She didn't think she was right, she had actually thought that was just normal surfer deals. His life had actually been in danger though! She still felt her heart pounding out of her chest as she looked at Vald horribly concerned, but he then started to move and hacked up a lot of the water he'd inhaled. Lana sighed in relief,
"Oh thank goodness, you're alive!" She smiled and exclaimed as excited as she possibly could get in the horribly frantic time,
"I, yeah, I guess, that was me. Sorry. I wasn't watching you like a creep or anything, I just happened to notice it. That's it. Are you okay?" Lana asked returning to a worried state, "That was a stupid question.I mean. Obviously you're not okay. I mean um. it's just that you just almost died, but I mean, considering the circumstances are you alright?" A ruddy flushed covered her face as she'd done more talking in the past minute than she had for a majority of the time she'd been at the island. It appears that this was indeed a very eventful day. Lana took a moment to turn to John and Emm,
"Thank you, for listening to me." She sighed in relief once more, truly exasperated.

Emm grabbed the board her brother had left and when everyone had rushed to shore she came too "Is he going to be ok?" she asked simply as everyone seemed so scared and frantic about this. Since Emm lived with her father on the beach, she saw this so many time, and to what she could recall never saw anyone actually drown. She still worried about him though and even showed it in her eyes. Her voice was calm, even around people she didn't know at all. She wasn't concerned about what people thought about her right now.

Hiro swam over to the shore with everyone else and watched as the man, who clearly knew what he was doing, stepped up. "is there anything I can do?" he said before noticing that the boy seemed to be just fine. Hiro let out a sigh and a slightly forced chuckle. "That was definitely a scare." He said, still a little lost of breath from swimming over as fast as he could and making sure he was okay.

Looking to the small crowd, it seemed that they were more interested in his well-being than his puke. This was entirely fine with him, as he didn't want to get in any trouble. They would probably happy to know that he wasn't planning on taking any legal action, as he barely had anything to stand on. He looked frantically around for his board, then found it stood up next to a shack. With that safe he was golden. Of course their was the now to deal with as well. Lana was making a very fast chain of sentences that he could barely understand. Might as well make friends with the grom that just pulled him out of the wake.
"Thanks brah, hope we won't be having to get that close again." He spoke in the general direction of his rescuer, who was accompanied by what seemed to be accompanied by his angry, but still easy-too-look-at sister. It was time to stand up however and there was not going to be any more pity for him any longer. It was just one crash, and there would be more, so it wouldn't be that much of a deal. "Excuse me everybody, but this Ice Brain is going back in."

Valdimar struggled to get back up. Finally reaching his point of uprightness, he smiled confidently at Hiro, who had come check on him. He smiled at the fellow grom. Valdimar noticed that he was a bit weak in the knees after such an endeavor. The small wobbles could have been traced by a sharp eye, but they weren't too noticeable as they would probably be gone tomorrow. They were weak enough however, to trip and fall towards Lana.

Couldn't get any worse now could it

Most of the time, Lana would have been watching, totally prepared for his tumble, but she'd been acting a bit to hectic at the time so when Valdimar came falling at her she was more than startled. Luckily her instincts didn't tell her to cringe away, she instead stretched out her arms catching Valdimar without much distress. She'd grown up riding the public transit so she had the whole bracing herself thing down.
"I don't really have much to do here right now, do you want me to walk you to the first-aid station or the Shack? If you fall and hit your head on something it'll be less than pleasant." Lana frowned seeing that Valdimar didn't make it away from his crash totally clean, she wondered if he possibly had a minor concussion, but she threw that idea out before she could make any other hypochondric guesses as to why he'd fallen. Odds are, if anyone had just scraped with death they'd be a little disoriented. Lana assured herself that this was nothing to worry about.

With a laugh John stood straight "yeah you and me both after all that is the first time i had to actually get that close to a male not counting the many times my old man fished me out every time that happened to me." he said with a smile then looked at lana who had thanked him. "no need you were just concerned about his saftey only natural for you to call out for help." he pointed out in a kind tone different from the tone he had earlier before looking back to Vald. "are you sure your going to be ok to walk?" he asked when Vald fell onto Lana "well then i think my work is done." ha said about to walk to his board that his sister was still holding. "you know emm it would do you some good to talk to these people you know you can't hide behind me forever." then stopped and looked at Hiro "hi sorry about earlier let me introduce myself now name's Johnathon Strider, though most just call me john for short."

Emm just growled "why, they all look stupid." she said in a hushed tone. she got her 'i don't like people' face back on as she talked to her brother. "I mean I can just hang out with you and they can talk among themselves. they don't need me and I don't need them." She said. She was pretty stubborn on the fact that she didn't want to. It was just her fear of people holding her back. Emm did not want to talk to anyone in fear that they didn't like her. She could just hide behind John and listen to them converse and she would be alright with that all of the time, as long as it meant keeping her distance.

Valdimar tried to smile as he got up off of Lana, "Sorry about that little tumble, but I swear I'm okay to surf". Swerving a bit with arms outstretched, he looked for his balance, finding it soon after. He heard a soft remark about insults, and him. It had been John's younger sister, one of the girls he had seen before.
"Whats the matter? I'm not a shark so I don't bite." Hiro was there too, probably worried about his little accident. Valdimar walked over to a water fountain, a smug grin on his face. He rinsed his mouth out and splashed some water over his face. Something was nagging him about Hiro in the back of his head...something about work. He shook his head, the water dripping from his face. He could worry about work later. Now was the time to make some friends and have fun.

Placing his board in the sand John sat down for a second "sorry if you heard any of those insults." he said looking at the rolling waves. "but don't worry i'm sure Emm will warm up to every one in time." stretching he quickly lied down on the sand 'my family owns this place but sometimes i wish we could just live a normal life.' he thought placing his hands on the back of his head. "any way don't push your self too hard other wise i might have to fish you out of the water again and trust me when i say nothing is fun when people are fishing some one else out of the water it just makes others worry and make you look like a big idiot." Looking at the shack he argued with himself on whether or not to head in.

"i guess i'll see you later i going to head in." he said pushing off the ground and heading in with his board. 'i think i might go to my favorite spot and hang around there for a while.' he thought putting his board away and heading up to his room to get changed slipping on a shirt and a pair of jeans he quickly grabbed his wallet, even though he was working he did have enough money for basic stuff anything that was really needed. After he finished organizing he sat down on the bed and stared out the window waiting for the sun to begin to set

Valdimar turned to Lana, after John had departed.
"I'm feeling like a nap myself." He drudged along after bidding a farewell "See ya" to Emm and Lana, making his way to the shack. He set up his board against the wall, then flopped onto the couch. He was just too tired to climb up the stairs. It had been a rough day, missing breakfast, waking up at sometime around noon, having a nice little dunk, then blacking out. John had been there to grab him, and he was thankful of that; but overall it was a rough day. Maybe tomorrow would be better. He could still wake up and go surfing at night! Sure it would be riskier, but the surf would be empty of all the tourists, and he could focus on just the surf. It was settled then, he would nap, wake up in the evening, then go surfing. All this deciding was hard work, and slowly, sleep began to overtake him. Soft, surf ridden, sleep.