Hot Summer (Final)

Everyone was scurrying, everyone was either screaming or running or trying their best to collect their things in the sand. I grabbed my phone next to me, clutched it tight as I stood and followed behind Theo who urged me to run. But he was fast, really fucking fast.

And soon a beam of light shined in the direction we were running, forcing us to either hide in the freezing ocean or trudge our way through the grassy sand dunes. I followed Theo’s lead into the dunes, and tried my best to run up the fast moving sand. He grabbed my hand and pulled me, knocking us over into crunching grass and dead seaweed.

I rolled over top of him, gained my footing before we darted through the swarm of bugs and tall grass and whatever else that pierced our feet. “Fuck!” I yelped as a sharp pain ran up my leg, only helped by the guiding hand of Theo who dragged me through.

We were met with a fence, “Jump it.” He said quickly and knelt down to let me climb over his back. When I hit the sidewalk on the ot