Right Down to the Ashes

“No, but hear me out. We could do it. You and me. We’ll start saving now. Work wherever they’ll let us. I’m starting from scratch too, J. I want to do this without my parents,” she told him resolutely. They’d raise the money together. “Then, when we turn 18, we’ll graduate and we’ll take off. Wherever the waves take us. All the best spots in the world.”He stopped laughing and looked at her again, but this time there was something different in his bright blue eyes, something more like longing - of wanting something so bad that even if it seemed unattainable and ridiculous and a hell of a long-shot, you couldn’t help but try anyway.“I can’t do it without you, Jayj.”---JJ and Kiara spent years saving up to take a surf trip around the world and now they are living their dream with the one person they want to share it with most, even if they are both harboring feelings for each other neither will admit to. But on their next stop to Los Angeles, California, they find that a night of luck, drinking, music and a few crazy adventures might be just they need to get them across that line.