that kiss

I can't sleep, I lay on my back staring up at the dark wooden ceiling. Why did she kiss me? Why did she kiss me like she meant it? Does she know half the town doesn't support people who do that? But the electric feeling I got through my body, the butterflies that felt like being on a roller coaster, I've never felt anything like that kissing guys or when I kissed Jackson. Imagine what Kasey would say or do if she had of seen. Tossing and turning I realise I was shaking the whole bunk and might have woken Raven in doing so.

"Thomasyn what are you doing? Are you okay?" whispers Raven

"Shit did I wake you? Sorry I can't sleep"

"Yeah you did but that's okay, here have some water it might help" she says throwing the water bottle up onto my bed.

"Thank you"

"Goodnight Thomasyn"

I pick up the bottle and down almost all of it, I lay it at the bottom of my bed and roll onto my side and shut my eyes. As I feel myself drift off to sleep I see Raven in a white room, she's wearing nothing but her grey bra and underwear. She looks stunning, her black hair is tied back in a messy bun leaving her deep blue eyes exposed, she looks directly at me and smiles her cheeky smile, she begins taking off her bra.

"Thomasyn wake up before Miss Kennedy comes in" Raven says shaking my arm.

"Who? What?"

"Just get up you sleepy head" she smirks.

"What's the rush Raven? We have all day"

"Curtis said Miss Kennedy will let us go for a surf earlier if we all go on a walk with her"

"What the hell Raven" I laugh "you should have started with that" I climb out of bed and grab my bag from under Ravens bed to grab a new hoodie and shorts. Looking around I notices no one else is in the bunk rooms.

"Where is everyone else?"

"Oh yeah everyone left a couple of minutes ago, I said I'd come get you"

I nod and take my shirt off so I'm standing in my bra, I catch Ravens eyes on me. She smiles and looks at the ground while I put my hoodie on and change out of my PJ shorts. I grab my phone and backpack and we head up the stairs and outside to find the rest of the class.

We find Curtis, Cooper and Jackson dawdling at the back of the group, they're talking about some of the Moonbright kids who can surf. They always do this when they meet other surfers, they critique them and try to replicate the things they thought were cool it's quite cute.

Miss Kennedy decided we should do the lighthouse walk, it's an hour loop track that goes past the light house and to some sort of sacred cliff thing.

"Miss Kennedy, I don't think my asthma is going to handle that steep part of the walk" says Beth.

Beth's asthma apparently stops her from doing any activity that could possibly result in the slightest bit of sweating and ruining her perfect makeup and hair. I don't understand why she would even come on the camp where the main activity I surfing and being outdoors.

"Okay yeah Beth you can just walk to the light house and meet us back at the surf club" Huffs Miss Kennedy.

"Thank you Miss Kennedy, can I take Natasha and Sammy so I'm not alone?" pleads Beth.

"Of course" says Miss Kennedy.

That trio is so focused on looks that they always miss out on the fun and life experiences outside of boys, Instagram and parties. I think our little squad has been friends since year 3 when Cooper asked all of us to his birthday party and we all got stuck in a tree we had climbed. Cooper accidentally pushed Curtis out of the tree and he broke his arm, Cooper felt bad so he fell out of the tree and broke his arm as well to make Curtis feel better. Ever since then it's been unconditional love for each and every one of these 4 weirdos.

The line to get to the top of the light house was too long with everyone waiting, so Raven and I decided to skip it and go straight to the cliffs. The boys were lucky to somehow get to the front of the line and were waving at us from the top. Smiling at their stupid impressions of the queen wave we wave back and continue down the path.

Should I ask Raven about why she was with Kasey yesterday and why she didn't defend me, I don't want to seem possessive or make her feel bad. But then she kissed me in the bunk rooms.

"Hey were you okay yesterday?" I ask

"Yeah I heard Kasey talking shit about you so I went over to confront her"

"But you didn't say anything when she called me a dyke"

"I did, when you left I just didn't want you to hear the things I said to her"

"Really?" that's so sweet of her. "Why were they bad?"

"yeah I went off, I think I might have been a little too hard on her but I've had enough of her treating you and others like shit, so I decided to do something about it"

"Thank you, really it means a lot"

She gives me a hug and holds my hand. She starts swinging our arms back and forth I begin to skip, she smiles at me and begins to skip along with me. We used to skip around school when we were little holding hands, everyone thought it was the cutest thing.

We reach the edge of the cliffs where there is a lookout you can walk on that hangs out over the edge. We walk out to the end where the seat is, Raven gets scared and falls into my arms laughing, I giggle and sit her down before sitting next to her. She's too proud to admit she has a fear of heights so I do my best to discretely comfort her. I look over the edge, something roughly 10 metres from the rocks catches my eye. It's not moving like a shark or dolphin, it sort of looks like seaweed but seaweed doesn't move that fast. Holy shit, what the fuck. I swear I saw a face, it had a human face but something was off its eyes were larger and the features more dominant and high. Surely raven saw that to? No, she's still sitting and looking at her phone trying to forget she is dangling over a cliffs edge. Raven gets up surprisingly and walks to the barrier and points at something.

"Thomasyn that rock looks a lot like your necklace"

"Whoa it does, that���s awesome, and it was probably sculpted to look like that rock or something"

The rest of the grade finally caught up to us, everyone walks over to the ledge to have a look at the whirl-pooling waves crashing against the rocks. Everyone looks tired and hungry, the track loops past the surf club and is meant to take 15 minutes.

"Alright let's head back to the surf club for lunch and a surf" Announces Miss Kennedy.

YES A SURF! Without the Moonbright kids, or at least until they come down. I am beaming with happiness, the waves looked good and the wind is blowing just right for a nice swell to be forming, I enjoy surfing with the Moonbright kids but this is the first time we haven't had to wait for them and go with just our class.

Raven and I start walking so we're at the front of the group, she looks at me with a wide grin. I know this grin, she starts walking faster until she's speed walking, and I increase my walk so I match her.

"3,2,1….GO!" she shouts as she sprints off.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" I call out just behind her.

We're both very good runners since I play rugby and she plays soccer, taking long bouncy strides down the hill makes it seem easy, we reach the bottom. I'm drafting behind her so she has to run against any wind and I can cruise along. I see the surf club, it's about 400 meters away, my legs feel like jelly but I cannot lose to Raven. I put my head down and hold my breath, pounding my legs into the ground and pumping my arms as fast as I can to reach maximum speed. I don't look anywhere else except the surf club. Slamming into the wall of the surf club panting and red I turn to see where Raven is, she slows her run to a jog and stops in front of me somehow doesn't even look phased after the run, not even the slightest bit of sweat too be seen.

"Little bit puffed there flash?" she smiles

Between breathes I get out a small laugh and point to my backpack and signal for my water bottle .Raven unzips my bag and hands me my bottle while bowing down.

"Here you go your highness"

I take a big sip, breathing in-between swallows "thank you"

Miss Kennedy gets back with everyone shortly after and gets out a big box of ingredients to make wraps with for lunch. Jackson and I bump into each other in the line, he smiles and offers me the tongs for the chicken.

"Thanks" I smile at him

I'm glad his not mad or awkward about it but I can imagine he must still be hurt. He was very straight up and honest with me which I adore.

"Come on Thomie, I don't have all day" he laughs and nudges me

"Sorry old man"

I go to hand him the tongs but when he reaches out I pull them away until he gets fed up and holds my arm still to grab them. He is the only other person I know who calls me Thomie other than Raven, so I call him old man when he is being needy or grumpy.

I get to the table where Curtis, Raven and cooper are sitting and talking about new tricks they're going to try. I pull my chair and the one to next to it out for Jackson and me to sit. Joining in the conversation I ask Curtis about his 360 he's been trying.

"Yeah its going real good, I can get a 180 so far" he explains

"I think you'll definitely get the 360 in these waves"

"Shit yeah, they have way more curve than the continuous back home"

Curtis has been trying to land a 360 on the continuous for months but the waves are just not big enough or have enough curve to them, however Moonbright is known for its big swell.

"Thomasyn you done eating?" asks Raven

"Yep" finishing my last bite "want to go get changed now?"

"Yeah let's get in early so we get a good spot" she adds

That's exactly what I was thinking, we grab our plates and wave to the boys who are still eating and Banting. Beth and her little crew are in the bunk rooms taking selfies for their Instagram and snapchats, we grab our bathers and just get changed in the corner since our bunk is separate and sort of hidden by a half wall.

Walking out of the surf club we find our wetsuits in the massive line of hanging wetsuits. We double check with Miss Kennedy and grab our boards, she follows to supervise us and sits on the sand with her book. Well so much for supervising.

The waves are already getting bigger with each set. We catch 5 or so really good ones before others start coming out, not everyone can surf so they bogey board or sun bake on the beach. Camp has been quite chill, everyone's sort of been doing there own thing and we have all gotten along apart from Kasey but that's expected. No one seems worried about hanging out with the coolest or most popular, even Damon who has hardly spoken to me all of high school, the guy who every girl at home talks about and loves came up to me today to ask me how to improve his take-off on waves. Literally nothing but good and chill vibes I'm loving it really.

I paddle in to get a drink from the drinking fountains they have on the beach, having them on the beach is such a clever and innovative idea we should do that. The Moonbright kids arrive and run straight out to the water. Percy one of the few girls walks up and stands next to me while she puts on her leg rope.

"How are they?" she asks, talking about the waves

"They're really good, breaking slowly and aren't to heavy underneath either"

"Sweet! Catch ya out there?"

"Definitely, I'm just taking a water break"

The sun starts becoming lower and people start getting out, it ends up just being Raven and I left in the water waiting for a final wave to catch in. Raven attempts to catch on but didn't paddle hard enough.

"Party wave next one?" I ask

"Oh definitely, that's if we can both get on it" she laughs

We sit and wait for a fairly big wave, the sets are rolling in roughly 3 minute intervals but it feels like ages just waiting and it's almost dark. A big wave sets starts building in the distance.

"This is the one alright" yells Raven

She had started paddling from closer in and is already on the wave, I paddle with everything I've got but fall off the back. I turn around expecting a second wave but there isn't one, that's weird it just disappeared or maybe it joined up with the one Raven caught. I turn around to see where Raven was, she emerged out from the white wash and was making her way to the beach. I swivel my eyes back out to the waves, I see a wave about 200 meters away. As the wave gets closer the bottom of it looks really dark like something was following it. I turn my board around and catch it All the way into shore where I see Raven waiting at the top of the beach entrances. I glance back out at the water to see if I can see the thing that may have been following the wave, just as I go to turn around 3 dark figures emerge half out of the water. Their hair long and dark dancing in the water around them and covering their faces. Their skin looks grey and perished.

"Thomasyn are you coming"

I turn around and give Raven the thumbs up and begin walking up the beach to her, I take one last look back at the strange figures but they aren't there anymore. Was that even real? We reach the surf club and take off our wetsuits before entering, everyone is already dried and showered waiting for dinner in the main room. We tiptoe to the bunk room being careful to not drop heaps of water everywhere since we left our towels inside. I grab my clothes and walk to the shower room, Raven following behind me. I go to walk into one of the shower stalls when Raven grabs my waist and directs me into the disabled shower locking the door behind her. I turn the shower on and steam fills the room.

She stands in front of me, looking into my eyes, she smiles the cutest smile and takes my hands and places them on the clip of her bathers. I undo them and she pulls it off, my eyes glance down at her body as she takes off her bather bottoms as well. She runs her tongue along her teeth and grabs my waist, she traces her hands along the band of my bather bottoms, I let out a deep breath and she smiles. I take of my top and bather bottoms, pushing me against the wall and slowly kissing all over my neck before licking up my neck to my ear. I turn her head so our lips are inches apart and kiss her, her lips are soft and smooth her breath warm, breathing me in as she presses up against me harder, letting our breathing get harder and faster. Letting out an excited gasp she smiles at me and parts my legs with one of hers placing soft and warm kisses on my chest. I trail my hands down her chest to her waist were I grip her and turn her so she's facing the wall, I trail her neck and back with kisses while my hands wrap around her chest to excite her hard nipples. When I feel they can't get any harder one hand gently follows the curves of her back to her ass where I slide my leg between hers to open the gap.my hand stays outside until I hear her let out a small moan, I slide my fingers in she's wetter than the shower. I move my hand rhythmically Raven gets louder with each motion, she takes my other hand and gently bites it to soften her moans. I see her legs begin to shake so I grab her waist again and turn her, she bites my bottom lip before letting a final moan out in my ear. She kisses down my stomach until she's right above it, she blows cool air over me before putting her tongue to use. She has one hand on my thigh to stop me from bucking against her, her other hand changing speeds and motions while her tongue does the opposite. I try grip onto the wall, my toes curl and she trails up my body the way she went down until she reaches my lips, she smiles at me panting. I can't resist her touch and kiss her hard, our tongues dancing between our lips. I can't help but break the kiss with a smile, she smiles back at me before marking what's hers on my collarbone. She wraps herself in her towel and leaves the shower with a beaming smile. I lock the door and take a moment to let what just happened sink in.