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“Are you all right?” she asked.
He gazed at the surf. “This is my first time in the ocean. I’m
from Kentucky.”
“Are you stationed here?”
He shook his head, still staring at the incoming swells. “I was
on duty overseas until I broke my leg and the Marines gave me a
medical discharge. I’ve got some buddies stationed here. I came
to visit them.”
“A combat injury?” the blond boogie boarder asked.
“No, a stupid accident six months ago. I don’t know if I’ll ever
walk right again.”
“Wanna catch some waves with my board?” the dark-haired
surfer asked. “You don’t need two good legs to ride a boogie
board. Come on, I’ll show you how.”
The two boogie boarders helped get him in position before the
oncoming waves broke, and then pushed him off. The soldier
whooped during his first ride, a big grin stretching across his
face. “That was so cool!” He sounded like a ten-year-old kid.
When the ride ended in knee-deep water, Jamie and the two
surfers helped him stand and return to deeper water. After several more rides, his enthusiasm hadn’t waned but he grew reluctant
to ask for help when the board stopped in shallow water. “I really appreciate you lending me the board to ride the waves, but I
can’t keep asking for your help to stand up.”
The dark-haired surfer shrugged. “It’s not a problem. You don’t
have to ride the surf. Sometimes I like to paddle around past the
waves because it’s kind of peaceful just bobbing with the swells.
Wanna try that?”
“Say, I’ve got a second pair of goggles in my bag,” Jamie said.
“Maybe we can swim around the point to the kelp beds to look
for fish. They gave a good show a half hour ago.”
The soldier shook his head as he stared at the point. “I’d like
to but I don’t think I can swim that far.”
“You can paddle my board,” the dark-haired surfer said. “I’ll
swim next to you.”
“And I’ll come with my board,” the blond man said. “You should
be okay.”
“I’ll be back in a jiffy,” Jamie said. She darted out of the water
to retrieve the goggles.
They were in no hurry swimming around the point as the foursome chatted. The Marine mostly talked about his tour overseas.
Jamie sensed he had a lot to get off his chest, but he was reluctant to share too much with strangers.
Once they entered the kelp beds, Jamie played the role of tour
guide. Within ten minutes they saw at least a dozen different
kinds of fish including sting rays and a leopard shark. The Marine
reacted like a boy on his first trip to the zoo, punctuating each
of many comments with an exclamation point. “Wow!” “Look at
that!” “Super awesome!” Some of his questions made the others
laugh. “How do the fish close their eyes at night?” “Barracuda?
I thought that was a kind of muscle