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Last chapter.

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"Beep, beep!” a car honked from outside. “Bye mom,” Adrianna called to her mom. “That’s my friends. See you at the competition.”

“Bye Adrianna,” her mom called back. “Good luck in the competition! We’ll be in the crowd cheering for you.”

“OK, mom, bye!” Adrianna rushed outside to her friend’s bright green VW bug. Angelique was the oldest of them, and had already gotten her license, so now she drove them everywhere.

Adrianna put both of her boards on top of the car, and then got inside. “Are you nervous about the competition?” asked Lucille.

“A little,” Adrianna replied honestly. “I really want to win, or at least get a really good wave so someone might offer to sponsor me.”

“Well, you will. You’re a great surfer. Unlike that Angela,” Libby said loyally.

“What do you think she’s going to do? To get back at us, I mean. I hope she doesn’t do anything during the competition!” Adrianna bit her nails nervously.

“Don’t worry,” her friends assured her. “We’ll make sure she doesn’t try anything,” Lucilla told Adrianna.

“Thanks so much. You guys are the best!” Adrianna exclaimed.

Finally they arrived at the competition spot. Adrianna set her favorite bright orange O’neil board down on the ground next to the car, and then got something out of the car.

“Crash!” there was a sickening crunch. Adrianna whirled around and her board, the one she was going to use for the competition, lay there smashed to pieces.

“I’m so sorry,” Angela said in a mockingly sweet voice from the front seat of her white BMW convertible. “I totally did not mean to run over it. But I lost control of the car, and it got run over. You should be more careful where you put it. Oh, that’s too bad you can’t do the competition, since your board is smashed.”

Angelique rushed over to them. “Oh my gosh!” she cried. “What happened?” then she turned to Angela. “What did you do? You just broke her board, on purpose, too! Is this the revenge for the stupid test? It was just a test! Why did you just do that?”

“I did it,” Angela replied to Angelique’s babbling. “Cause I felt like it. You guys deserve it anyway. Buh-bye,” she yelled to them as she drove away.

“This is it,” Libby said angrily. “This is war.”

“At least I brought an extra board,” Adrianna sighed. “But that was my lucky board. I was hoping to use it in the competition. Well, that proves it then. I wasn’t really hoping to win, I just wanted to get sponsored, but I changed my mind. I’m going to win. I’m going to take every one of Angela’s waves, so she gets out in the first round.”

“Yeah!” Lucilla nodded. “Do that!”

Adrianna paddled out, and then sat on her board, scanning the horizon for the perfect wave. Nervous tension was building up. She wanted to catch the first wave, before Angela. Now Angela paddled up next to her.

“Ready to lose?” Adrianna asked Angela.

“No way!” Angela replied with a laugh. “I’m ready to catch the first wave.” Then she started to paddle furiously to catch the wave coming up behind her.

Adrianna took off paddling too, and Angela was forced to stop or they would have collided. “Hey!” she cried. “I was going to catch that.”

“How amazing,” Adrianna replied sarcastically. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know.”

Then her wave ended.

She paddled back out to Angela.

“I can’t believe you did that!” Angela sputtered.

“Well, you do it all the time,” Adrianna retorted.

“Well, not at a competition!” Angela glared at Adrianna.

Adrianna ignored her, and then started to paddle for another wave, but Angela decided to catch it as well. Adrianna stopped, and Angela caught the wave.

This went on for the whole first round, taking each others waves, and insulting each other.

They eagerly waited for the judges to say who was going to the next round. Adrianna almost exploded from the anxiety. She had to win! She’d die if Angela won. She was so intent on beating Angela; she didn’t even notice the other surfers who competed with them as well.

“Unfortunately,” the judge droned on. “Two of you have been disqualified from the competition.”

“Please, please, oh please be Angela,” Adrianna muttered.

“Angela,” the judge went on. Adrianna nearly screamed of happiness. Angela got disqualified. Oh yeah-

“And Adrianna, I’m sorry to say, have been disqualified, for rudely stealing each others waves.”

“WHAT!” Adrianna yelled. Angela looked almost as shocked.

“Please paddle back now,” the judge continued, ignoring her outburst.

Adrianna and Angela glumly paddled back to the shore as the judge announced who made it into the next round. Adrianna’s friends tried to comfort her, but Adrianna just walked over to a deserted part of the beach, and sat down. A moment later, she noticed that Angela was a couple of yards away.

“You know,” Adrianna wondered out loud. “We could have both won, or at least gotten sponsored, if we hadn’t, well, cut each other off.”

“Yeah,” Angela muttered.

“But instead,” Adrianna went on, “We got so intent on making sure only one of us won, so we both lost.”

“I know,” Angela replied softly.

“You know what?” Adrianna asked. “I’m sick of this stupid grudge against each other. I mean, aren’t you?

Angela didn’t respond. She just glared at Adrianna.

“Truce?” Adrianna asked hopefully.

“No way,” Angela growled. “I am so getting back at you for ruining my chance to be a famous surfer!”

She stomped off. Adrianna called toward her disappearing presence, “It’s your fault as well as mine!”

Angela yelled something incoherent back at her.

Adrianna sighed. She was hoping that Angela would have agreed to a truce, so she wouldn’t be bothered by her again. But she should have known that Angela wasn’t going to stop their fighting that easily. She slowly walked back over to her friends.

“That Angela,” Lucilla fumed. “I can’t believe she totally got you disqualified. We so have to get back at her.”

“No, we won’t,” Adrianna corrected her.

“But,” Libby stuttered. “Don’t you want her to pay for ruining your chances to be a professional surfer?”

Adrianna shook her head. Because even if Angela didn’t agree to the truce, she did. She wasn't going to fight with Angela ever again.

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Haha. The ending was lame, I know.

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Luv, Cass