The two ranted on and on about their favourite cars, and then got into a debate about which one was the best. I fall asleep halfway through their argument, but from what I made out before I slept, they were fighting about whether or not a ferrari or a lamborghini was better.

Eventful.

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"I'm telling you," the guide fumes. "Don't go swimming out of the flags Jacob."

"Why not?" Jacob whines, "don't we all just need a little bit of danger in our lives?"

The guide smacks his palm on his forehead.

"If you don't swim between the flags, you'll get caught out in a rip. Don't do it."

Jacob doesn't listen, and decides to run into the ocean and swim a large way away from the flags. Lucky for him, he does get caught out in a rip and is carried away a long distance into the ocean. Jacob starts screaming his head off, flapping his arms around everywhere.

"CALM DOWN BRO!" Sebastian screamed, "conserve your energy!"

"Since when did you become a lifeguard?" Payton asks.

"I decided to take a life saving course after I nearly drowned at tiktok camp!"

"I'm so happy for you bro!" The guide grins, "but JACOB IS DYING!"

"AHHHHH!" Jacob screams, "I'M DROWNING!"

"Someone get the lifeguard!" Paige squeals in terror.

"Sorry guys, but we're on lunch break," this man wearing red trunks says. "I would, but it's not really good to swim after you've had food. I might get cramps."

"I don't really care whether or not you're going to get cramps," Cash says. "Save him!"

With a grunt, the lifeguard places down his egg sandwich, and swims into the water with a paddling board. Midway to saving Jacob, he stops and hunches over in the water.

"OW, MY CRAMPS!" He cries out, "I TOLD YOU GUYS I COULDN'T DO THIS!"

"For goodness sake," Payton swears, snatching a spare board. "I'm coming guys!"

Payton runs into the ocean, heading straight for Jacob who is still panicking. The lifeguard latches onto Payton's leg, complaining about his cramps. Payton kicks him in the face, and wriggles him off. The lifeguard is stranded in the ocean with his board keeping him afloat, slowly drifting all the way back to shore.

Jacob takes the board Payton gives him gratefully, and Payton guides him back to shore. We all cheer for Payton, while Danielle and the guide check up on whether or not he's okay. The lifeguard wakes up, and looks around the beach. He thinks that he's saved Jacob, because he starts cheering.

"Guys! I just saved that 13 year old boy!"

Jacob sputters water. "For your information, I'm not 13 I'm actually 22-"

"I SAVED MY FIRST HUMAN!"

"Congrats Gary!" His coworker beams, "you managed to finally save someone after 13 drownings!"

Wait... 13 drownings?! Does this mean that Jacob could've died thanks to this incompetent lifeguard?

"13 is definitely my favourite number!"

The rest of the crew pat the lifeguard on the back, and they go around cheering, yelling out his name. Shouldn't they be checking up on Jacob, and checking whether or not he's okay?

The guide lets Jacob go back to the van to lay down, and then brings out a bunch of buckets and plastic shovels.

"Let's build a sand castle!" He grins, giving us all a shovel.

What are we, five? But not wanting to upset the guide, I start piling in sand. Soon, we all dunk our heavy buckets onto the sand, slowly molding a sand castle. Of course, Danielle, Sarah and Zoe refuse to help and instead decide to tan in the sun. Despite us telling Danielle to put on sunscreen or she'll die from skin cancer by the time she's thirty, she doesn't listen to us.

Sebastian and Lauren work on their own little project, and funny enough, their sand castle is unnaturally orange. Then Lauren gets the idea to bury Sebastian in the sand. She buries him all the way until his head, and then the guide chucks a sunhat on Sebastian to protect him from the harmful UV rays.

Overall, it was a pretty good day at the beach. Considering Paris was silent most of the time, and was focused on tanning. We ended up finishing the sand castle, and then the guide took lots of photos of us all together. While Jacob was in the van, the guide also got out the barbecue and started making sausages. And unlike the ones we had on our first night in Tiktok camp, these were actually good.

We pack up for the day, piling all of our equipment back into the van. Jacob is sleeping soundly, and doesn't wake up. Thankfully he isn't singing sweatshirt, or whatever other songs he's made.

"Today was a good day," Paige wistfully sighs. We all murmur in agreement.

"It was normal, for once," Lauren agrees. "Isn't that right babe... wait, BABE?!"

Lauren looks around frantically for Sebastian.

"Where is he?" Trinity asks.

"I uh-" Lauren thinks. "I think we left him at the beach."

"Yeah, no shit." Lil huddy sniggers. "Can we just leave him?"

"Of course not!" Lauren sulks. "He'd be cold!"

"Cold, and wet," Charli adds. Lauren gasps.

"Wait, what do you mean wet?"

"It's high tide."

"Maybe that crabs will pinch him," lil huddy adds. Lauren starts whimpering, burying her face in her hands. Cash shoots death glares at lil huddy, while he and Charli are cackling in the corner of the van.

The guide turns back for Sebastian. Turns out Charli was right, it was high tide. Along with that, it was dark and cold. We search around the beach for 6 minutes before Zoe finally discovers where Sebastian is.

"Guys!" She exclaims, "look at this furry rock!"

"No offence, but we're looking for Sebastian. Not a rock," Maverick replies.

Zoe ruffles her hand around on the 'furry rock'. 

"Wait, why is it moving?"

Bubbles swirl up to the surface.

"Aw guys! I think there's a fish living in it!"

"Please Zoe, we don't have time for this," Paige impatiently says.

"Why is the water orange?" Sarah asks, walking up to Zoe's location. "Also, why does the rock look like Sebastian's face?"

"This isn't really the time for- wait, is that Sebastian?" Mychael asks, skipping over to their place. "Guy's it's him!"

Mychael pulls out Sebastian from the stand. The guide runs up to him with a first aid kit, but Mychael pushes him away and takes out his handy box of bandaids.

"Kiddo," the guide starts, "he doesn't need a bandaid-"

"I'm trained in first aid," Mychael shoots back. "I'll save him."

"Guys I-" Sebastian uneasily says, "I think I'm gonna vomit."

"Cash," Mychael calls out, "bring me the bandages."

"Oh, you're really going there?" Cash's lips curve into a smile. Mychael does not look amused.

"THE BANDAGES, NOW!"

Cash runs over with a roll of bandages, stuffing them into Mychael's hands. Mychael starts unwinding it, and wraps it all around Sebastian's mouth. Sebastian vomits, but since his mouth is buried under all of the bandages, it ends up rebounding back.

"Ew," Danielle says. "That's disgusting."

"You'd rather him vomit his guts out and pollute the sea-life here?" Mychael shoots back, "the fish don't deserve to get tainted by his vomit."

"My eyes don't deserve to get tainted with his vomiting either."

"Hey Sebastian, do you know where my hat is? I gave it to you, but I'm not seeing it anywhere."

Sebastian yells out, muffled. Sarah perks up, and starts laughing.

"What?!" The guide yells, "what did he say?"

"He said that the hat drifted away when the water got to him!" Sarah replied. how does she even understand all of the gibberish he's blubbering on about?

"HOW DARE YOU!" The guide booms, "THAT WAS PASSED DOWN MY FAMILY FOR 16 GENERATIONS!"

"It's okay Joe!" Jacob chirped, "I give you this piece of rubbish to past down to your future child! And then they can pass it on to their child! Then they can past it on to their child! Then they can pass it on to your child! Then they can pass it on to their child! Then they can pass it on to their child! Then they can pass it on to their-"

"SHUT UP!" We all collectively say as a group.

"What?" Jacob cries, "I need to say this like 9 more times for it to beat the 16th generation thing the guide had going on."

"Jacob, the guide doesn't want to pass on this piece of litter to all of his future descendants." Brooke explains, "look at it like this. Who in their right mind would want to give their child a tube of half used toothpaste that has a very explicit image of Sophia the first dancing with her friends?"

"Who even watches Sophia the first?" Maverick adds on, "That show is for 6 year olds."

"For your information, kid shows are actually very entertaining," Jacob grits. "You think I only watch Sophia the first? Oh, don't kid yourself. I also watch Peppa Pig, Bob the Builder, the Octonauts, Fireman Sam, Ben and Holly's little kingdom,  the Night Garden, Doc Mcstuffins, Ladybug miraculous-"

"That isn't something to brag about," the guide points out. "We've all seen those shows."

Everyone nods in agreement.

"Out of all of the shows you mentioned Jacob, I only watch one to this day," Trinity smiles. 

"Oh really? Which one?" Lil huddy taunts.

"Ladybug miraculous!"

"Oh yeah, I watch that as well!" Paige chimes in, "I love that show!"

"Yay!" Jacob squeals, "we should start a fanclub!"

"O.M.G, YAS!" Lauren squeals even higher, "I LOVE THAT SHOW!"

"Who's your favourite character?" Jacob exclaimed, "mine is Ladybug. For obvious reasons."

"I love Tikki!" Paige replied, "she's so nice! And also really wise, and-"

Danielle noticeably grumbles. Jacob hops over to her, enthusiastically grabbing her arms, and waving them.

"Dani and I like to watch ladybug miraculous together!" Jacob sings, "sometimes we even cosplay as them-"

"SHUT UP!" Danielle snaps, then lowers her voice. "They weren't supposed to know about that."

Cash snorts. "Okay while y'all act like 9 year olds, the mature and grown adults here will-"

"No," Paige interrupts. "You like watching ladybug miraculous as well."

"No I don't!" Cash replies, flustered.

"We literally share the same netflix account. I've see it on your watchlist."

"Well this is embarrassing," Maverick smirked, patting his brother on his back. "I never knew you were still 9 years old."

"You like watching ladybug miraculous as well!" Cash fights back, "I-i know you do!"

"What?"

"You don't think that I've seen your credit card bills? The $2000 spent for merch?"

"I uh- i," Maverick stutters, "how'd you know about that?"

"Hey!" Jacob frowns, "you told me you were broke and had no more money to buy sweatshirts from my company!"

"Well technically speaking, what Cash said was a lie," Maverick admitted. "I did not spend $2000 on merch."

"Oh thank goodness," Trinity said, relieved. "You know I really thought that you spent $2000 for those garbage quality suits that-"

"I actually spent $20,000," Maverick quietly adds after. 

"WHAT!" Jacob fumes, "YOU COULD'VE BOUGHT SO MANY SWEATSHIRTS WITH THAT MONEY! WE HAD SO MANY DEALS, SO MANY DISCOUNTS! OUR MOST EXPENSIVE COLLECTION OF SWEATSHIRTS WERE ON A BUY ONE GET ONE FREE DEAL!"

"Sorry, but your sweatshirts are way too cheap to be considered expensive," Lil huddy adds in. "Seriously, charging $10,000 for a single sweatshirt that's been made by children in China is just not good enough."

"Wha-?"

"It should be at least $40,000. Jesus Christ Jacob, learn something about supply and demand. Learn something about overcharging your clients and ripping them off for ugly ass clothing that makes them look like a delirious runaway child from the cats musical. Even though it'll look absolutely horrendous, it'll give them high status in society."

"Oh, okay," Jacob takes into account. "I know, I'll infuse each of my sweatshirts with poison so they keep on coming back to buy more-"

"Yes," Lil huddy chants.

"He's gonna have a lawsuit on his hands really soon," Payton mutters.

"And bleach each of the sweatshirts with strawberry jam, so the ants will climb up and sting the client to death-"

"Yes," Lil huddy smiles, "go on my child!"

"Can I have one of those sweatshirts then?" Noen emotionessly asked.

"And for a finale, I'll make them with really bad quality, so exactly after 2 weeks the sweatshirts will disintegrate into thin air."

"YES!" Lil huddy screams, "I'VE TAUGHT YOU WELL! FINALLY, THE PROTEGE HAS LEARNED FROM THE MASTER!"

"YAY!" Jacob screamed.

Him and Lil huddy ecstatically jump around, dancing. Noen gets annoyed, so he ties down Jacob with a rope, and leaves his friend left to jump up and down in the water.

"Does he always carry around a rope with him?" I quietly ask Brooke as we leave for the van.

"Um yeah," she shrugs. "He does. It's weird, I know."