Let The Waves Set You Free [Renaissance]

[Carissa Evans]

Carissa made her way down to the beach where she liked to spend a lot of her time. Probably because she didn’t really go swimming all that much so when it came time for Carissa having spare time and stuff she loved to swim. It was something that seemed to calm her a lot of the time. Carissa wasn’t exactly sure why but she swam her heart out when she had the time or wasn’t on the go doing many things just to occupy herself. Carissa had always been like that though. She barely ever spent time just sitting around doing nothing, she thought it was just a waste when there was so much more she could be doing.

Carissa was someone who tried her best in everything. She couldn’t just do something crappy, it bugged her when she even tried because she always thought that maybe if she continued to do her best and try to smile every day something good would happen in her life, something would be different. Each day she woke up she had to continue doing this, continue pretending everything was perfectly fine. Carissa still though was happy for her life and even being at this school as it was a get away that she needed. Few people knew about her past and the people that did she cared about the most as they still seemed to accept her even after what had happened.

Carissa was wearing just a simple navy blue bikini and had her hair tied back into pigtails one of the only styles she wore it in if it was up and was thinking of whether she would just jump into the water or just sit for a while. There were a few others her right now but not many seeing as it was close to being completely dark. Just how Carissa liked it. In the dark she could do whatever she wanted and be careless, sometimes she just needed to be like that instead of being aware of every single movement that she made and how it could lad to many mistakes.

Sitting down at the edge wear the water would come and graze her toes she smiled slightly pushing her bangs out of her eyes and looking up at the sky where the first stars were beginning to emerge. She wished someone was here right now as she loved swimming with people instead of by herself but she had decided instead of bothering people to just come down and hopefully someone would eventually come down that she could talk to. Today Carissa was in a good mood. She had done good today and had nothing she regretted, she loved these days as they just seemed to be simple. And quiet. It was the way she liked it. She hated fights and everything like that. They just made her worry about thins that didn’t need to be worried about and retrace her steps to what she could have done to prevent that.

Carissa like to blame everything upon herself a lot of the time which tended to get people a bit angry at times but really as long as she kept most of her feelings to herself it was fine. She didn’t have to worry about anything else. This way nobody would judge how she viewed life unless it was a simple day. Her views really were logical after what happened with her family and all but she wouldn’t be willing to tell people the story behind how she acted each day. She liked to forget about that. Setting her towel across her lap she sighed quietly listening to the chatter around her. Crossing her arms she waited, waited for something to show that what she needed to do at that moment was jump in the water and be set free again.

[Renaissance Bennet]

Renaissance, for all her inginuity and cunning, could not think of a better way to spend her day than swimming. Except even swimming had gotten to be horribly boring. She knew her existance and mind was total crap if she couldn't find fun in the murky depths. Hell, she could pretend she was Jack Sparrow! Then she 'd remember that he was sexy Johnny Depp, not awkwardly tall and pale Rena Bennet. Aww poo.

She walked along the beach, her towel tossed around her shoulders, black and pink, just like her hair, and she scuffed the sand with her feet. She looekd down at her toes; they were pruny from having sat in the water for the past six hours. She thought that was grody. She thought feet in general were creepy. Toes especially. How she could spout her distaste for toes all the time!

She averted her attention from her toes and scanned the beach. A few surfers ran around, their baywatch bopdies drool worthy. Rena licked her lips and looked at them hopefully. Of course they wouldn't look back at her, if they did it would be a look of digust, nothing more and nothing less. She was completely used to those looks by now. She got them on a daily basis, mostly for her appearance. But you know what? Fuck them.

As she had guessed, the passd right by her, laughing in their heavenly voices to each other. one of them got about two feet away from Rena. She kept her eye contact away from them, but she also became painfully concious of the pinkish-red sunburn that fell across her shoulders, back, and upper arms. And the sunburn on her cheek and collar bones. Basically she became aware of all her sunburn.

After they passed, completely out of hearing range, she stomped the ground. "Fucking Dutch blood! Not supposed to burn! Dammit! Ouch!" sh yelped, stopping her fit, and gingerly touching her shoulders. She had flailed too much and she had jerked her shoulders. She sighed, and looekd around the beach once more. It was dusk, and people were starting to clear out. She smiled, and decided what to do. She was going to skinny-dip. Her smile curved at the corners, looking evil. First she needed someone to watch her stuff. And it needed to be someone who wouldn't look thoroughly freaked out if she told them what she was going to do. Afterall, it wasn't like she was going to get totally naked, she was only going to take her top off and soak under water to make it feel better.

Her eyes traveled the ebach for a third time, and they landed on a girl sitting at the edge of the shore. She looked freakier than the norm teen, so Rena decided she'd ask her.

Her strides were naturally long and smooth as she came up to the girl. She spread her towel out next to the girl, and looekd at her, flashing a bright smile. "Heya! I'm Renaissance, but you can call me Rena. Can you do me a super huge favor?" she asked, hoping she didn't sound too weird or just creepy in general.

[Carissa Evans]

Carissa had her gaze moving to the surfers just like the other girl and just like her they didn’t even offer her a glance. Oh well still definitely worth looking at for a little bit. Plus she honestly wouldn’t have cared even if they had caught her staring, that would have probably just made them think of themselves even better then before. Those guys were always the type who thought they were the greatest anyways so what did it matter. Plus even if they did see her they would completely forget about it the next day. Her gaze wandered over the beach area and she spotted the girl probably at the same time as Rena had spotted her. Yay, someone that was different from the average teen, perfect person to talk to even if only for a little while.

Giggling at how she introduced herself and everything she could tell she was going to like this girl already, she was bubbly and definitely someone that would be easy to talk to. ‘ Hey, cool, im Carissa but you can call me whatever, have enough nicknames to make a book’ she said with a small smile turning her gaze to look out at the water once more while she listened to this girl talk. She came off as a bit weird to her but that was probably why she actually was staying there and listening to what she had to say. Anyone that was normal and boring just didn’t suit her at all, she liked things different.

Carissa turned back to her again and grinned ‘ um…maybe, sure I dunno..what is it that you want me to do? Nothing too impossible is it?’ she asked her with a smile though knew it would be most likely something a bit odd though that honestly wouldn’t bother her at all. Anything to get a chance to meet someone new was fine with her. Carissa used to be very shy and she came off as such a weird person that most people didn’t try to get to know her or anything so she had few friends that she actually cared about. Others just tried to be nice to her because the way she was always wandering around made her look like some person who has no friends.

Carissa was fine though with having few friends, that way people didn’t get to know about her life and how much pain she went through. She didn’t like them knowing about it because she shut her own past out too. Something that was actually looked down upon from her counselors and everything. They thought she should just remember and not forget. Stupid thing to do as she believed. She thought shutting it out was much easier for her to handle. Then she didn’t have to suffer and she could live again. Shaking these thoughts out of her mind she looked out again ‘ so planning on swimming then’ she asked her quietly not sure wy she spoke quietly all of a sudden she just was a very soft spoken person and really wasn’t all that bubbly though for some reason this girl seemed to get her talking easier then most people.

[Renaissance Bennet]

"Heh, may I call you Snugglebottoms then?" Rena asked, her face smiling. She just had to wonder what her face looked like without makeup. The thought almost made her shudder. She probably looekd like a boy, what with the sunburn and her hair pulled back into a bun on the back of her head. A boy...with pink hair. She ground her toes in the sand and looked at around at the dwindling beach goers. The numbers were getting fewer and fewer, and basically all that were left were some surfers trying to catch the last few waves before last call, and soem cracked out bums. Oh how Rena loved the beach at dusk. The sun had barely sunk beneath the horizon, or barely started to. Too early to swim half-naked.

"Hmmm, it's a little early for what I'd like to do, so how about we just talk? You seem like an interesting girl, got anything fun to do around here except for getting wasted on drinks at the local tiki hut?" she asked. She already done said activity the day before, and she was none too keen on doing it again, seeing as how she was sick with blue puke for the better half of the morning. Rena examined the girl a little more. She seemed terribly familiar. "Hey, do you go to Darlington Academy?" she asked, her semi-social side getting the best of her. "Because I recall a Carissa girl around the campus a lot," sh said, mroe to herself than the girl.

Now she was just beginning to realize how social she was being, and she was flooded with a sense of pride that left her feeling warm and glad. She was always proud of herself when she was actually able to communicate with a human being this long and not fuck it completely over by saying something random or something just completely stupid.

She decided not to jynx it with a possible new friend, and she stuck her toes in the water. It was cold, but not too terribly cold. Just cold enough to run in and dive under after a good girly squeal. She smiled softly at the thought. She used to skinny-dip with her first boyfriend. She lost her v-card with him while in the water. He was always nice, but he had dumped her because he ahd to move. She didn't hate him, and she still talked to him, but he always spoke about his new girlfriend. Oh well. Swimming was still good to her, even if other things weren't. She licked her lips, and waited for Carissa to talk. She was genuinely interested in what the girl had to say.