The Big Fish by Madison Henley (the first e reader txt) 📗
- Author: Madison Henley
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The sun finally came out just a few minutes before it was supposed to set. Meredith rolled off her surfboard and swam back to shore. She was surprised to see a few stragglers taking pictures and laying in the sand when she got out of the water. She unzipped out of her wetsuit just before a soft wind picked up. Tying her hair in a poor excuse for a bun after pulling a grey and gold crewneck over her head, she bent down and slid on her some sweatpants and carried her board through the sand to the parking lot. Strapping her board to the rack on her hardtop, she made sure it was secure before jumping down and getting into her car. Her flip flops had picked up several thousand beads of sand that rested underneath the accelerator so Meredith threw them in the backseat and drove barefoot. She tore up the road for about five hours before stopping in the small town of Murphys. There was a fast food restaurant that was joined with a gas station right off the exit and Meredith stopped to grab some dinner. She had fruit and peanut butter packed along with her favorite grain bars but she was craving something that clogged her arteries. Her lukewarm hamburger and fries sat in the white paper bag as she walked through the narrow aisles of the convenient store. She had been eyeing the large snickers bar for some time now but it was the thought of all the calories she burned earlier surfing that finally convinced her it was okay to eat it. It wasn’t until she got to the freezer aisle that she was then reminded she didn’t exactly go surfing, but rather lay on her board and do absolutely nothing for six hours accumulating no calories burned whatsoever. She threw the snickers bar on top of some packs of mint gum before grabbing a beer instead. Fewer calories.
The good thing about these small towns were that they didn’t check for ID when buying beer or cigarettes. Meredith was four months’ shy of being twenty but her eyes told stories of an older woman so the sales clerk never bothered. She bought a large bottle of Purple Haze and immediately winced as the raspberry and banana aftertaste bulged down her throat. She had gotten so use to Sweden’s Dugges Idjit that the taste of cheap fruity beer didn’t please her taste buds anymore. She kept the bottle wrapped in its brown paper bag as she switched from sips to her bites in her hamburger as she drove the remaining two hours back to campus.
She made it a couple of minutes after midnight. There were fireworks lighting over campus, hues of red and blue scanning her face as she watched from the windshield of her car. She dug in the bottom of her bag for fries that had fallen out of its cup before drinking the remaining of her beer in one lazy gulp. Meredith smiled. This year would be different.
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
“Oh! Jesu—Jeez!”
Meredith adverted her gaze to dry erase board and grimaced trying to rid herself from the repulsive view she had just witnessed.
“Meredith!”
Georgia yelled, knocking over the tea Keliah had pushed to the corner of her desk so she would have more leg room. She immediately pulled her arm away from Keliah’s strong grip and walked towards Meredith.
“You’re uh…”
Georgia wiped her fingers against her slacks before tucking a strand
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