Chasing Swells by Nikki Godwin

Author:Nikki Godwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: beach, young adult, summer, beach read, teen fiction, teen romance, surf, drenaline surf, nikki godwin
Publisher: Nikki Godwin

For the last thirty minutes, Kaia and Sloane have been texting in the backseat, sometimes even passing their phones back and forth when cell service drops. Will has talked about sports (football is soccer here), how he didn’t realize surfing was a popular thing, and then he asked me about multiple places in the USA that I’ve never visited. Until recently, I rarely left California. I thought Hawaii was an adventure. I didn’t know I’d be jetting across the globe eventually.

Even though he’s done his part to keep the conversation moving along, I’m much more interested in what’s being said behind my back. I’m sure I’m oblivious to a lot of things, but I’m not naïve enough to believe that they’re not talking about me. Then again, if they’re genuinely talking about something else, I’d feel like a pretentious asshole for assuming they were talking about me. This is probably why Kaia still doesn’t like me.

“Here we are,” Will says, steering off of the road onto a dirt path.

A sign on the road reads Serenity Falls with a painted waterfall behind the words, but I don’t think this is the path that’s meant for tourists. Once the tree limbs begin to slap his truck, I know this isn’t where we’re supposed to be.

“You come this way often?” I ask, cringing as another limb snaps outside of the truck.

Will laughs. “I’m not walking a mile down the trails to get there when we’re jumping in the water anyway. This is a shortcut. It’s worth it if you don’t mind the tree damage.”

Sloane huffs in the backseat, so I turn back to look at her and Kaia. Neither says a word, but Sloane is definitely not happy with her brother.

“There are other places you could’ve parked,” she says. “You know I don’t like it when you do this.”

“The trees are fine!” Will yells, looking up at her in the rearview mirror. “If anything is damaged, it’s my truck, but I can live with the scratch marks. Storms do worse damage to trees than I do. They’re made to weather through these things.”

He pulls into a clearing, and I bet there’s one hell of a story behind how he and his friends discovered it. Tire marks slice through dirt and grass. He warns us that he’s leaving his truck unlocked, so anything that’s left behind is not his liability. I really doubt we’ll get robbed out here, so I take my chances. I pull my shirt off and leave it in the passenger seat. I throw my towel over my shoulder and exchange a glance with Kaia who seems all too unimpressed.

We trudge through the trees down a path that Will has probably traveled more times than even his sister knows. The sound of rushing water grows louder as we step over a few fallen limbs. My heart races as we draw nearer. I’ve jumped off piers before, but this is much more extreme. The more I think about it, the more I realize that Kaia was right – this is really dangerous.

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