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Chapter 3

I meet up with my friends in a restaurant where we usually hang out and tried to look fine as I dried my eyes the moment I parked my car. I walked to the table where William and Liv were waiting for me and they already know what happened to me a few minute ago. I took the seat in front of them as Liv chugs his bottle of beer while looking at me and William sits there also looking at me reluctantly.

“Beer?” William offers.

Liv puts the bottle down, “Man you look dreadful.”

“You actually have to say that Oliver.” William scolded. “Here, have a beer.” He handed me one.

I accepted, “Thanks.”

“Look Harry.” William leans closer to me, “Don’t let it get in your head, man. We have this huge surfing competition coming up next week and you can’t let something ruin your focus.”

Liv nods in agreement, “We all know your dad has always been not very supportive of you and your surfing career from the beginning so that’s not really shocking anymore.”

“I’m not sad about that Oliver. I’m sad about my mom. I left her like that.”

“Hey, you can always call her and check on her without staying in that house.” William encourages.

I take a long drink from my bottle of beer as William asks, “So where are you staying tonight?”

“I’ve called up Maddie and asked if I can crash her place and she said yes.” I answered.

“Of course she can never say no to you.” Liv commented. “Maddie’s utterly obsessed with you.”

“Well I am utterly obsessed with my boyfriend Oliver Langley.” I look over to my right and found Maddie already sitting next to me. She kisses my lips and I wince as I felt hurt from dad’s punch.

“Hi baby.” I say over her lips.

She smiles before turning her attention to Liv, “Is there something wrong with being obsessed with my own man?” She asks him.

“Well hi Maddie. It’s nice to see you too.” Liv answers with a smile.

I smile as I lowered my head down so Maddie won’t see me laughing. Maddie cups my cheeks with both her hands and forces me to stare at her, “Are you okay baby?” She asks.

“I am babe. Thank you for coming here despite the time.”

“Awe baby, it’s nothing.” She smiles at me.

We stayed in for a while and talked for a little bit before we finally decided to call it a day. I drove to Maddie’s house where I’ll be staying over for the night. She carried my luggage for me as I carried my surfboard all the way inside her apartment. Maddie has always been here for me and it’s not the only reason why I am keeping her, but she’s just always there for me. She loves me too much and I am quite scared that I am actually not giving her the same amount of love I ought to give her as my girlfriend.

We kissed for a while after we had sex and laid over her bed like how we usually do. We started off as friends with benefits after meeting her over Tinder and ever since then I kind of forced myself to be in this relationship with her since she was also trying to help me void out my problems with my dad. I guess my world only revolved around surfing and having sex with Maddie to keep myself busy.

“Your dad hurt you again?” She asks.

“What’s new?” I answer.

“So what are you planning to do now?” She asks me and she’s always worried about me. “You left home. What about your mom?”

“Maddie, I don’t really want to think about that now. Please.” I answered, sounding annoyed and intending to. “I have this surfing competition and you know it’s really important to me. So just drop it.”

“I’m sorry.” She says softly before she positions her naked self over my body and hovers over me. “So this competition coming up, you’ll be busy with Oliver and William.”

I nod at her as I rub her thighs with my palms. “Why?”

“We both know there’ll be more women flocking around you after.” She sounded jealous and I hate how she acts like this.

“Maddie they’re just fans. And you’re really not helping my mood right now.”

She pouts before landing her lips over mine, “I’m sorry baby.”

“Why don’t we just fuck again before we sleep?” I cooed.

She nods before kissing me as she carefully placed my hard erection inside her.

Somewhere in London, England

July 14, 2020

7:10AM

Sunny Day, Temperature 23℃

Days passed and it was finally the day for the surfing competition. It was a perfect sunny day and the waves looked absolutely stunning. Liv and William joined too but on a different category as me. There were prominent people here who are known in the surfing world and this surfing competition will be very helpful for me to be more popular. I see a few professional surfers who were going to do an exhibition act for the crowd and I cannot wait to take photos of the people I idolize.

Around eight in the morning, it was my turn for the category I signed up for, I prepared my surfboard as Liv and William kept cheering for me. They kept reminding me to remain calm and never do something outrageous to avoid any accidents but they know I am stubborn. I was insanely nervous because this was the biggest surfing competition in all over England but I have a good feeling that I am going to win this since I have never lost a surfing competition before. I know I should not be complacent and I still have to do my best to win this and shove it my father’s face that I can be professional even I am not going to be like him.

“You’ve got this Harry.” William cheers me on.

“Win the crowd. Good luck, bro.” Liv adds.

“Thanks lads.” I say as I clipped the string attaching the surfboard to my ankle.

“Remember, don’t catch bigger waves that you can’t handle. You don’t know the waters in here. Let me tell you that the waves is huge and the current will really pull you down” William reminded.

I belly paddled my way to the shallow water where bigger waves were found as I was competing against a Portuguese who came all the way from Portugal just to join this competition. I rode one big wave from another and performed a few tricks that I have been perfecting for months now which all came to perfection as I portrayed them. I feel speed as wind passes through my face and the awesome feeling of being connected to this wonderful energy through the surfboard. The roars and the taste of salt still amazes me as I stand on my surfboard with huge adrenaline from the sheer power that I am dealing with. The pay-off is a real mountain-top experience of human accomplishment.

As I was about to perform my last trick trying to impress the crowd and the judges who were clapping and cheering my name as soon as I saw a bigger wave, I didn’t hesitate. I remember how William would always scold me not to try a catching bigger wave than what we have been practicing because it will be risky for me in case I perform it during a competition. I let it slip my head and tried riding the bigger wave which will probably make me a champion. It’s now or never.

Out in the spur of moment, I was caught off guard when I lost my balance riding the big wave and I was suddenly tossed around in the powerful surf off the central coast. I held my breath under the water trying to swim back up for some air but the waves we too big and the current is pulling me down. I was getting into trouble being under the deep waters fighting against the very strong current as I held tight onto the string that was attached to my ankle.

I no longer cared about the competition because I was already fighting for my life.

I kept swimming up because I was almost out of breath and I need air. As soon as I was finally able to rise my head out of the water, I see a 40-feet plus wave about to wipe me out and it was too late for me to swim away as it crashes right over my head pushing me down deeper to the water. The strong current broke the string and pulled me off deeper away from my board.

Shit, the current is going to pull me deeper into the ocean if I don’t get out from here.

Suddenly I accidentally felt something sharp struck on the back of my right thigh and there was blood instantly. I look over to my leg and found a huge elongated coral poking through my right thigh, I groaned under the water as the pain was utterly unbearable. I forced to pull thigh off the coral even if it was terribly hurting and when I did, there were more blood surrounding me and I panicked as thoughts of sharks came into my head. I grope onto my thigh as I felt the growing pain beginning to hurt even more and started feeling as if my entire right leg was getting numb.

I was completely drowning as I screamed for pain and help under the water, running out of breath before I lost conscious when I hit my head on a bigger coral as the strong current under the water was dragging me around lifelessly.

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