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“We have a deal.”
Chapter 62
Sawyer
Ikept my camera on Asher, screaming and running at full speed, until the water got too deep to run anymore. He never looked back-- just dove in and started swimming.
“Holy cow, someone has to catch him before he drowns or gets eaten by a shark,” I got out while laughing so hard I could barely breathe.
“I’ll get him.” Lou jumped on a jet ski. “Someone go get the other two. They ran into the bush.”
I was so focused on Asher that I hadn’t seen his friends go in the opposite direction.
“Aw, come on, now I gotta find those two. What kind of instinct sends them into the bush and not the water?” Charlie nodded for Gunner to join him.
I sat on the shore filming Lou circling Asher with the jet ski, until he finally gave in and accepted the hand Lou was offering to get him on the jet ski.
“He’s gonna be pissed when he gets in here, ya know.” Robert sat on the sand next to me. “He sure was scared. Didn’t he ever think about needing something to protect himself out here?”
“On a private island?” I turned the recording off. “What would be out here? Pirates?”
“Yeah, actually. There’s lots of pirates, and not the kind with a wooden leg,” Robert got serious. “These waters are loaded with modern day pirates and they mean business. You really should consider security.”
Lou and Asher drove up on the beach before I had a chance to ask more questions. Asher wasn’t as mad as I thought he’d be. He dropped down on the shore flat on his back, panting.
“I’m not sure how or when, but I’m going to get you back for this.” He threw his arm over his face. “I almost died.”
“You didn’t almost die, boy. Actually, I’m impressed with your ability to swim that far.” Lou handed him a bottle of water. “Don’t be mad at your cousin. He had no idea we were doing that.”
“That’s true. I didn’t, but it was hilarious.” I waved my cell in front of Asher. “When you’re done dying, you have to see this video.”
“Did you plan this?” Asher’s friend Angelo demanded when he dropped to the sand.
“Yeah, I planned to scare myself so bad that I almost swam to Florida,” Asher mumbled. “I planned it so convincing that I swam out there without caring if sharks ate me just so I could scare you.”
“Who are these guys?” his other friend, Mike, groaned. “I thought they were going to chop us up into little pieces.”
Gunner and his boys stood quietly, listening to them whine until Lou spoke up. “If it’d make you feel better you could chase us next.”
The laughter started slow, then erupted, until not one of us could breathe.
My yacht came around the bend, right on time. “Who’s ready for lunch?”
“You had that big thing come here just to bring us lunch?” Charlie asked. “I have lunch in my pack.”
“Come on, Charlie, we know what you have is cookies. So let’s go eat lunch, then you can share those cookies.” Gunner pretended to take Charlie’s pack. “Sawyer, let’s go over what you need. We’re gonna need to start right away.”
I followed Gunner to the yacht while the others, one by one, stood and followed. Marcus had lunch ready when we got on the yacht and Gunner wasted no time. He dove right into his notes.
“What did you figure out on your trek over here?’ Asher looked over my shoulder at my drawings. “You want me to draw that?”
“I think I can handle it, but we can go over the plans later.” I went back to my sketch. “I’d say the wooden walkway is at least a mile with maybe an additional three bridges.”
“That’ll need an engineer. Do you have one in mind?” Asher took a seat across from me. “What’s in the shaded area on your sketch?”
“It’s the area where we’re going to put rain collectors and a shower.” I turned the sketch for him to look. “Then over here the dry land path starts. I thought we could have bicycles stationed there.”
“You can build a shed area to house them with a solar panel for power,” Asher added. “The solar panels can run lights along the walkway as well, if you put one here and here.”
