Before You Go
“Becka put a stick of gum in her mouth. Jude thought of all the gum he scraped from the table and, screw it, asked for a piece anyway.“Open a pack of gum and suddenly everybody’s your friend,” Becka joked.Jude smiled—he couldn’t help himself—and took the gum from her hand. The late-afternoon surf was nearly perfect, the waves rolling in rhythmic succession before breaking and thundering to the sand, like white horses galloping to the shore. “Broken waves,” Jude murmured. He listened to the drone... of the sea’s white noise, imagined it as a musical soundscape, a song, and felt the dry sting of salt air on his skin.Becka rolled her pants to the knees and waded a few feet into the warm, low surf. “You ever go skinny-dipping in the ocean?” she asked. “It’s religious.”Jude didn’t comment. The girl had no clue. He saw that the beach had slowly emptied out, only stragglers remained, families squeezing out the last minutes of pleasure before getting into their cars, a few joggers in both directions, a lone fisherman casting a line into the ocean, back bent and eternally hopeful.“We should head back,”MoreLess
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