I slept in the next morning since I didn’t have any lessons scheduled for the day. I spent the day working on my board but took a break in the afternoon to go out for a ride. My throat was bothering me all day and my head felt foggy. I tried to tell myself it was from working with the shaving of the foam, but it felt like more than that. My back screamed with pain if I moved the wrong way. Bending over a board all day wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, but the water felt good on my sore muscles. I stretched my back out as I swam a little, dragging my board behind me on the leash.
“Are you stalking me?” I heard when I came up from a wave.
I laughed and found Ginny sitting on her board a few feet away. “I think I should be asking you that. Since this is my beach.”
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