Just a Dumb Surfer Dude 3 by Connor Chase

Author:Connor, Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

I had to knock at the front door of the house several times before I heard someone sleepily stumbling towards the door to answer it. Nathaniel just gripped my hand and smiled up at me, obviously amazed at my ability to find his house so quickly, as I knocked and waited. I was getting impatient, hoping that Nathaniel hadn’t gotten his colors confused and told me the wrong house. If I woke up the wrong person and they came to the door to find some black teenager holding the hand of some little white kid, there was no telling what might happen after that.

I tried to push that negative thought out of my head.

When the door finally opened, a man who was probably in his early thirties was yawning and scratching his head. Brown hair was sticking up in every which direction as he tried to wake himself up. He had the build of an ex-college football player but the face of someone who had done more important things since his glory days.

Please let this be Nathaniel Senior, I thought to myself.

“Um, hello,” I said, unsure of how to approach the man about the child, “I was walking on the beach, and—”

When the man’s eyes landed on the boy, they grew as wide as saucers, shock spread over the man’s face, and he nearly came out of his skin.

“Nathaniel!” His whole body seemed to jerk, as though it had been a long-dead relative who had knocked on his door. “What are you doing out here?”

Then his eyes finally landed on me, and the shock turned to confusion. Obviously, he didn’t know me from Adam.

“Hello.” I did my best to smile innocently. “I was walking on the beach this morning, and I found Nathaniel out there. Alone. He said this was his house. And…I guess it is?”

“Daddy!” Nathaniel let go of my hand and ran to wrap his arms around his dad’s leg as if trying to merge his body with his father’s.

Obviously, Nathaniel living through the terror of being alone on the beach and not knowing how to get home had made him appreciate his father even more than he probably already did. I vaguely remembered being that young, feeling as though if you held onto your parent tightly enough, nothing could ever harm you.

The man continued to look both shocked and confused at the same time while trying to figure out what was going on with his son and focus on me at the same time.

“I don’t know if he just walked out of your deck door or something.” I shrugged. “But I knew he probably wasn’t supposed to be there alone. So…yeah. I’m glad we found the right house on the first try.”

“Um,” The man shook his head, “I’m sorry. I took an Ambien last night to help me sleep. I’m a little foggy. You found Nathaniel?”

“Yeah,” I stated evenly. “On the beach. When I was walking. Alone.”

The man’s eyes grew in horror once more, and he crouched down to look his son in his face.

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