Consequences

Boat trip

10/16/2014
I wiped beads of sweat on my forehead and sighed. Shawn's father had decided that the best punishment for us would be to do a chore. After one month, we'd thought he would forget about it but he came to my house this morning and told me that he needed us to clean his boat. What a mean thing to make us do a Sunday afternoon. But we didn't really have a choice. The sun was hitting really hard today and I forgot my sunscreen. I glanced at Shawn who was rubbing the floor of the boat and groaned.

" Brian instead of eating some Cheetos and humiliating us, come help!"

My neighbor's best friend decided that the show was too rare to not come watching. So he was sitting on a bench near us, trying to get some good pictures.

" Hum... No, I'm not the one who's grounded."

I rolled my eyes and got back to work. We kept doing this for two hours. After that, the boat was shining.

" Okay let's go home." Shawn said.

I stared at the boat and smiled.

" Wait! We have the keys right?"

He nodded slowly. I got in the boat and looked at them.

" Come one guys! Let's have some fun, I've always wanted to navigate!"

Brian chuckled and joined me. I stole Cheetos from him and waved at my neighbor.

" Get your ass over here Shawn, it's two against one, you've lost!"

He smirked and took the keys from his pocket.

" But I have the keys so we're not going anywhere."

I sighed and Brian mumbled something in my ear. I smiled and stared at Shawn who was waiting for us. We walked toward him and I yelled "1, 2, 3 !". Before I could blink, Shawn was lying on the ground with Brian on top of him. I reached his hand and took the keys without too much struggle.

" We're going to a boat trip Canada, if you don't wanna go, then just stay here and wait for us like a puppy."

He glared at me but eventually followed us and made his way to the boat.

" Do you even know how to ride this engine? Because I don't."

" I'll learn by doing it. "

His eyes widened while I started the motor and made the boat move. To be honest, I was a shit at this, I almost collided with a few other boats and Shawn and Brian were holding tightly the edge of the vehicle to not fall. When I moved away from any other engines, Shawn stood up, pushed me away from the tiller, and grabbed it.

" Okay you obviously suck at this, I'm taking over!"

" But you don't know how to drive it neither!"

" At least I have my driving license, unlike you! Just go sit down with Brian..."

I sighed and made my way to his best friend. He was still eating his Cheetos like nothing was happening and was admiring the view. God this boy was something else.

" Shawn, you should sail around the coast, it would be nice!" He said.

My neighbor groaned.

" It's not a tour dude, it's not even safe, if the police are around we're going to be in trouble and I'm done spending more time than I need with this freak. "

" Hey shut up! You definitely don't know how to have fun! "

I could see he was really angry, it wasn' t like our usual fights when we just argued to piss the other off.