We're in the shade, taking a break from kungfu drills. He's on his back with an arm thrown over his eyes and I'm sitting about three feet away, wishing that I hadn't thrown myself down so carelessly. If I move closer, will it be too obvious? What if I squeal at an imaginary beetle and jump away from it (and incidentally closer to him)? No, I don't want to seem too girly. Maybe if I subtly scoot closer, millimetre by millimetre…

"How would you like to learn to surf?"

My concentration is broken and my little toe stops in its 1mm journey towards my Kungfu Instructor. "Ugk?" My response is all eloquence.

"Well, I might go surfing this weekend or the next with a couple of mates. But if you like, I could teach you to surf instead," he elaborates.

"Yeah, I could be up for it," I reply after a bit of pretend consideration. KI in boardies. KI in boardies and no shirt. KI in boardies and no shirt, and dripping wet. Hmm, big decision there.

We lapse back into a comfortable silence. I'm torn between resuming my eventual migration westwards and examining the freckles on his arm (from behind my sunnies). They're fascinating. They're not a 'constellation' as some have charmingly named freckles. The explosion looks like someone carrying a bucket of freckles had tripped and upended it all over KI's arm. I wonder, how far do the freckles extend?

"…sharks."

"Mmh… Sharks?" I snap out of my reverie.

"Yeah, my mate reckons he saw one the last time we surfed. We shot out of the water pretty quickly, haha."

"Do you…do you think we'll see a shark?"

"Who knows? Maybe we won't even get to see it before…" he tails off with a wicked grin.

I take my sunnies off and stare at him in alarm.

"And I once had a huge stingray swim towards me."

Steve Irwin. My eyeballs threaten to pop out.

"But I reckon the ones you gotta watch out for are the jellyfish," he continues. "Those can hurt."

"Are they lethal?" I squeak.

"Only the box jellyfish. You won't even make it to shore if you get stung. So you definitely wanna watch out for those. Then again, their tentacles can stretch out so far that you can't actually see the jellyfish."

By now, he's nearly shaking with laughter at the horror on my face.

"And they're practically invisible."

I chuck a pinecone at him. The things I put up with when I like someone.

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This is art


Nic wished that we had eaten dinner after the pride parade

Categories: Blokes [t], Perth [t]

holy crap
first comment on a new entry by the zebra. i am honored. lol.

maybe he was testing you? kinda looked like he was wating for a reaction. good luck with the surfing! heh.

by the time i send this, i bet someone else beat me to it.
» middaymoon on 2006-11-07 12:30:07

Looks like you were wrong middaymoon!

Hehe that guy sounds like he has an... interesting sense of humor. :P
» randomjunk on 2006-11-07 04:34:01

yes. i was wrong
what happened to the huge influx of comments that usually accompany your entries? ah well
» middaymoon on 2006-11-08 11:01:18

Nice one. Well worth the wait.
» quittingtheday (218.215.199.198) on 2006-11-09 02:35:15

Can u spell schoolgirl? J - A - M - I - E...

Tsk tsk tsk...
» Joel (203.100.23.136) on 2006-11-09 09:11:43

Before anything, is he single and heterosexually available?

If yes, make that move. Boys that age would do anything that moves so quick!
» Paul (60.48.191.132) on 2006-11-11 11:42:53

It gets worse once you're married. Thank God for divorce. Kidding. :D
» little-b on 2006-11-13 09:44:58

middaymoon: Ha ha! You overestimate the commentiness of my posts. I'll keep an eye out for sharks!

randomjunk: I think the word you're looking for is 'evil'.

quittingtheday: Now you can wait for two whole weeks while I'm away! :D

Joel: Bleh! :Þ You know you love it!

Paul: God, he better be single and straight! And I should take your advice, he's more your age! :D

little-b: Mmm, you make it sound so appealing. Lol!
» theZEBRA on 2006-11-15 02:19:21

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