Cold Bitterness Regret -Open-

[Nora Blackburn]

Nora watched the waves move inland and then back out to sea. Her contemplating nature taking her over as she stood there in the early morning. No one was on the beach and her morning walk caused her to drift this way. She wasn't far from her rather crazy aunt's house and with it being so close this happened to be the first time she was able to walk on the sand and watch as the waves drifted without pause or hesitation. Unlike her.

"O why not"

She sprung forward like a spring that was let loose, her arms pawing at her shirt before lifting it. She paused thou for her pants kicking them off carefully, putting her clothing and her shoes in a pile on top of her messenger bag before again shooting for the water. Without anyone around, her undergarments would serve as her bathing suit since this was a last minute choice. Her legs felt the flickers of water that were kicked up from her feet before she backed up out of shock.

"ooo.... cold...cold...."

She shouldn't have expected anything less since the weather was changing for the winter seasons. But it was too tempting to pass up, too tempting to wait until the weather improved. She had yet to swim in the ocean and no cold water was going to stop her.

Clenching her teeth together she marched forth. Determined to get used to the cold before turning away. It was probably a smart idea to wait until the sun had a chance to warm the water but she had things to do and wouldn't have another free chance until the end of the day. Or at least that was what she was telling herself.

With each inch of the water moving up her body, her spine shivered. Once it past her waist she couldn't help but make an agonizing face of why she decided to do it now.

"here goes.."

She said to herself her teeth chattering as she spoke. And with nothing in her way she clenched her teeth and plugged her nose with two fingers, letting her body to a slight dive. The water rushing over her, seemed more than a shock since after all there were places on the body that were not fond of cold.

Rising up from the water she gasped for air, running her hands over her now wet hair.

"Okay too cold..."

She couldn't stay in the water, she knew she would get adjusted if she stayed in but she wasn't sure how long that was going to be so instead made her way towards shore.

Her small body shivered as more flesh was exposed to the air.

"Well if this wasn't the stupidest idea"

Her teeth chattering as she spoke. She wouldn't be surprised if her hair-brained scheme led her to get sick. That's all she needed. Moving her hands down her arms to brush some of the water off, she rang out and then strained the tank top that covered her bra before sniffling.

Now she was all wet and cold standing on the beach, and the idea never crossed her mind that her clothing would be full of sand when she would try to put them back on. So now instead of worrying about getting a cold she had to worry about how she was going to manage to put on her clothing without tracking sand through out.

What a horrid idea that she could have ever thought up of, instead of being refreshing she was now unprepared and freezing.

[Roth]

Roth untied the knots keeping his boat tethered to the docks and began to push it out into deeper water. Roth looked up as his dog Carlos who was found when Roth old boating instructor Johnny was bringing to boat down to the San Fran docks for him. Roth usually kept him at home but he always brought him along if he was taking the boat out. It was pretty early in the morning but Roth wasn't really doing this for the pleasure of it. Every year right before winter it was crucial to make sure that you used or drained out all the gas in a boat or else it would either freeze, or fuck up your engine as Johnny would say.

Roth pushed the boat off the dock and hopped onto the back of it just barley making it. Roth scurried past the seat hopping over the front passenger seat landing onto the drivers seat. Roth gently turned the old key in the ignition and started up the boat and drove off into the early morning fog. Roth looked over seeing he had about an eighth of a tank to empty out before getting back. If he ran out before that he brought his oars for some manual labor.

Roth cracked the boat to about full speed along the beach. Roth watched as the sun just began to crack dawn and the fog began to lift. Roth began to near the beach to get a nice glimpse of the city skyline as the fog rolled through it. While driving through the waters Roth noticed a faint out line if a figure in the water. Roth cut the engine speed by half while getting closer to the figure. Through out the combination of the retracting fog and getting closer to the dark figure Roth saw a girl in what looked to be a two piece swim suit out in the water.

"What the hell, Christ that waters gotta be about 30 degrees tops!" Roth watched as the girl moved out of the water and began to sort out her clothes which Roth presumed were covered in sand. Roth got right up to the beach and cut the engine letting the boat float into the sand with the current thus stopping the boat.

"Hey" Roth opened the front window which acted like a door and stood on the front of the boat. "You need any help, ya gotta be frozen alive being covered in water with these winds." Roth looked down as Carlos, his ship mate Boston Terrier came up on the front of the boat seeming to smile with his tounge flapping out in the wind. "I got some towels here in the boat if ya want." Roth called out once more and waited for a response while he bent down and began to pet the dog.

[Nora Blackburn]

Nora rose with her clothing in her hands, still clad in her undergarments and tank top that barely shielded her from the breeze. Sure it was cold but not what she was used to. Back home, the water was always cold. Specially since most of the top weather was between 70-80 degrees top.

Giving her clothes one last shake she overlapped them over her arm and then grabbed her bag and shoes.

"I seem to be perfectly fine, well, except for the horrid idea that getting one last swim in would be a good idea."

She laughed lightly at herself as she took a few steps towards the boat, smiling at the dog and then at the owner.

"If it wouldn't be a bother a towel sounds like heaven right about now."

Her teeth still chattered slightly when she spoke. A shiver moving over her body, her wet, reddish locks draped over her shoulder as she pretty much looked like a drowned animal. A pretty pathetic site as well.

When offered on board she would take it with her arms full of her belongings.

(ooc-Sorry it's short)

[Roth]

(ooc: aw don't worry about it)

Roth looked at the shivering girl covered in the oceans salt water as she began torespond through chattering teeth and condensating breath.

"If it wouldn't be a bother a towel sounds like heaven right about now."

Backing up into the boat Roth rumaged through the passenger side comartment taking out two plain white towels that came with the boat. Roth walked out to the end of the bow and jumped down from the boat leaving his bare foot prints in the wet sand of the low tide rising. He jogged up to the frezzing girl and handed her one of the towels around his arm.

"Here, take this one to dry the best you can, and then wrap yourself in this one so you don't wrap your sefl with a soaked towel." Roth held out the first towel as her smiled at the red headed girl on the lonley beach with the sun now fully perched over the horizon line.

Roth looked over to the boat to check on Carlos now sitting on the drivers seat trying to salvage the warmth left over from himself. "Why don't you come on board" Roth turned his head back to her. "I'll take you anywhere you wanna be." Roth continued to smile warmly as he moved over a foot and a half as he outstreched his arm inviting her to his boat.

[Nora Blackburn]

She did as instructed, putting her clothing back down to take the dry towel in her hands. She couldn't help the chatter of her teeth that seemed very loud as it went on. She tried to clench her jaw shut but to no avail her body was trying to warm itself up its own way.

"Thank you."

She rubbed the towel down her arms, her legs, taking a step back to throw her hair over her head and brush the towel through it. Wasting no more time, she, when handed, grabbed the second towel and wrapped it around her small body. It seemed to make things a little better since her body seemed to shiver only slightly.

"I have no where to go except home and that's on shore. But if you don't mind the company, which had used your dry towels I wouldn't mind a ride. Course I've never been in a boat before."

And without really taking another thought about it, she put her small hand into his outstretched one.

"Course I should grab my belongings first. I wouldn't want someone to come by and grab them."

She laughed to herself as she tried to grab her things, fighting with the towel to stay around her, her hair to stay out of her face, and trying to make sure sand didn't fill her bag or clothing any worse than it already had.

Nora was sure her first impression made her look frumpy and clumsy.

"I'm Nora, Your?"

She looked at both him and then at his dog with a smile as she took his hand once more, her other arm busy holding everything including the towel around her.

((ooc-Sorry for the delay been working like crazy and its been draining me.))