Shore

It's a giant banana boat and it looks sturdy enough not to capsize. Well, it doesn't capsize but my friend and I get thrown off. It's not so scary at first. In fact, we swallow so much sea water from all the laughing as we try to get back on the banana boat.

I'm gripped with a brilliant idea. Why not swim to shore? It looks far but with the two of us swimming, it would be fun. Like people in Amazing Race! Like a real adventure!

So we let go of the banana boat and start drifting.

The sea. I have to admit the shore isn't as close as it first seemed. We swim to a life bouy and hang on for a while. The banana boat is gone. The waves are getting bigger.

"Now what?" I turn to my friend but she's gone.

So I swim to shore but the tide keeps taking me further and further. At times I almost reach it, I almost touch it, but another tide comes and takes me far, far away.