Young Writers Society

Ivy shrugs.

"Why not?"

She swims to the shore and pulls her sweatshirt over her wet clothes, then leans down to wring some of the water out of her dripping skirt. It's practically see-through, but her partially inebriated mind doesn't register that.

"Lead the way,"

"Alright, lets go," Ari says, jumping up onto the rope ladder, and immediately scaling the first half of it in three quick steps. "I promise not to go TOO fast," Ari says, chuckling.

"Yeah, good to know," Ivy mutters, starting to climb.

When they climbed down from the bluff, and onto the beach proper, Ari stopped for a minute, listening. Ivy came up behind him, and he motioned for her to stay still for a minute. Then, he heard screaming "P-people where the hell are you?" followed by a female body prancing around half-drunkenly in the sand.

"Emma, is that you?" Ari called out after her. He began to walk quickly toward the girl.

Emma turns to see a man walking up to her, she backs away, not knowing who it is, with the bottles still in her hands. She then squints her eyes and sees that it is Ari, she stops where she is, waits for Ari to come closer and gives him one of her bottles.

"Drink, you need more... In you... Where did you go anyhow?" She asks,

"You're drunk, Emma. We went to David's Grotto to go swimming. Do you know about it? Most locals don't even know about it. Come on, lets go, I'll show you," Ari said, and he proceeded to half-firemans carry Emma down the beach and up the rock outcrop.

"Who's David?" She asks, "Why you gots a gun?"

Ari shakes his head sadly as he helps her up the rock.

"Erm.. Thanks," she syad, as Ari helps her up,

She manages to get up, she looks over and smiles, feeling a little dizzy she sits down on the rock top, holding her head. five seconds later it passes, she hiccups then gets up to her feet.

"I ain't... EVER going to get drunk, ever again!" She laughs,

"Thats what everybody says," Ari says laughing. "C'mon, we're almost there. Just drop yourself through this hole here. Theres just sand at the bottom--it won't hurt," Ari says quickly before dropping the rope bridge down and juming back into the grotto.

Emma looks at the guy with the blond hair, she taps his back and gives a smile,

"I didn't catch your name. Or that other girls... You left me remember? Mind tellin' me?" She asks,

"Joshua Baldwin. And this is Ivy. You're Emma, right?"

"Yep! Do you want a bottle? Ari was being a pain and didn't want one, or if he did... I can't remember..." She says,

She hands him a bottle.