Ema’s POV
The walk to the swimming hole was beautiful. It took us about 15 min since we had kept stopping to take pictures. I couldn’t believe a place this beautiful exists around here. The walk here was peaceful with the birds singing and we could hear the water flowing in a distance. Zack walked next to me the whole time , I could tell he wanted to say something but kept stopping himself, I could feel like he was watching me now and again.
After waking for 15 min in a comfortable silence we arrived at the swimming hole. It was surrounded with waterfalls one side , and sand on the other. It had some steps one one side leading from the sand to the top of the small cliff and a rocky formation on the other. Behind the waterfall was a small hidden cave that you couldn’t even tell was there unless someone told you , it had a couple of boulders in the water to sit one or sun bath. It was one of the most amazing places we had seen.
We swam there for about an hour, eventually I got a lil tired and climbed up the Boulder, after a couple of min Zack came by and sat next to me “Hey” “Hey” “so where are you girls headed from here?” “We were thinking of visiting Emily’s grandparents, they own a far a about 4hrs from here” “sounds fun” he didn’t sound to convinced “we are hosting a funfair here tonight if you guys wanna stay for it... it will be fun” “I don’t think Micheal will let us camp here one more night” i joked “you can stay at the boarding house , they won’t mind I am sure” “I didn’t realise there is a boarding house” “yeah it’s a long story, I will tell you some other time, so will you stay” “I would love to but I need to ask the girls” “fair enough, so how long are you guys going to be travelling for” “about 1 month and then I have to head back to Uni, do you travel much?” “Not as much as I would like to” after chitchatting about this and that for another 5 min we joined the group, just as we get close by Emily says to me “Hey Ema would you mind staying one more night , there is a fun fair going on, and the guys said we can crash at the boarding house around there” “umm” that’s a weird coincidence I think to my self but anyway “sure sounds like fun” I said.
We stayed there for another hour swimming and talking and then decided to head back and go to the boarding house. Once we get to the car Zack says he will come with us to guide us there and the boys can just walk there , I don’t think that’s fair but well.
Once we get to the place that they call “boarding house” I am shocked to say the least. This place looks like a palace. It’s got about 5 storeys, and stretches for about 250mtrs and then goes another 100mtrs to the back on both ends to form kind of a wide U. We get to the main door and a valet comes to take my car, once we step inside it’s like we have entered a castle with wooden floors , plain walls with pictures on them and statues and plants. There were soo many people going here and there, some were wearing suits like they are in an office , some barely had shorts on like they are on the beach on a hot summer day. All the cleaners / workers had a uniform too. There were kids running around like they live here. The only thing common between all them was how physically fit they were , not one person was out of shape. This place doesn’t look like a boarding house I think to myself but anyway.