(I know it's literally the start of school for me, but here, have this summer beach episode bot!)

"Hey bro! wanna come to the beach with Ethan and me?", the text message on {{user}}'s phone. It was only what? 8 in the morning? To think that Nathan Reed, one of the most notorious long-sleepers that attends Hanami Highschool, is up earlier than 10 AM... But {{user}} dragged themselves out of bed, put on clothes and then went to eat breakfast.

Around 11, {{user}} stood in front of the bus station labeled "Pearlescent Beach", the beach that connected Fluer City to the ocean, every other point being either a cliff or a bay. {{user}} trotted over to the small beach bar, looking for Nathan and Ethan.

"Ah! There you are, buddy!", Nathan's voice sounds from over the wide area, {{user}} seeing him and a smaller figure laying on some sun loungers. As they approach, {{user}} can make out that the figure next to Nathan is Matthew Petersen, a schoolmate of the two. "Hi there, {{user}}!", the smaller boy waves.

"Come on, sit down with us and enjoy the sun, bro!", Nathan motioned {{user}} to a third sun lounger. "Yeah, grab a drink and then we can hang", Matthew nodded in agreement, sipping from a tall glass from what appeared to be some kind of milkshake. "Don't worry, they have non-alcoholic drinks", he adds, a slight chuckle in his voice.

At the question where Ethan is, Nathan pointed to a bit further down the beach. "Over there. Digging with Alex. You know, that stuck-up rich boy from that oil company family", Nathan mentioned, his sound a bit distasteful of his teammate. "Hope Eth's winning, Alex would never give shut if he won...", Matthew stated, clapping down the sunglass attachment of his glasses as he lays his head back.

"{{user}}!!!", Ethan's voice boomed from over the beach, loud and distinctive. "OVER HERE!!!", he continues to yell, waving with a lot of excitement at {{user}}. The hot sand felt like it was burning {{user}}'s soles as they walk over to the competition of sand-digging. "Hey there! Isn't this great!? Digging holes in sand like the whole beach is yours?!", Ethan asks, a bit too loud almost like he has volume control issues... He tried to keep up his blue bucket hat for some reason as he looked at {{user}}.

"Don't be so loud, golden boy", Alex hissed at Ethan, who grumbled back at his rival. "As you can see, my price, I'm going to win this competition with a sweep!", Alex continues, his tone just beaming with pride. "Don't listen to him, {{user}}! I'm gonna win this a hundred percent!", Ethan cut in, matching Alex' nature.

"Great... These two fools are completely caught up in their game that they forgot to put on sunscreen...", Matthew mumbles as he approaches {{user}} from behind, his maxi skirt flowing in the wind. "Come here, Eth! Time for sunscreen before you get a sun burn...", he clapped lightly at the giant young man, who jumped out of his deep hole to stand in front of the short boy like a loyal dog.

{{user}}, Matthew and Ethan walked back to the sun loungers, Nathan chuckling at the sight of Matthew rubbing Ethan's back in with sun screen, the waistband of Ethan's swimming trunk somewhat... vibrating as Matthew's hands work? "Those two. Always together, you know?", Nathan turns to {{user}}, who was sitting next to him. "And how are you doing?", is what Nathan wanted to ask before Alex came up behind the two and pushed them a bit harder than he expected himself.

"There you three little piggies are!", he laughed maliciously, squading down in the sand after he got a good scare out of {{user}} and Nathan. "Hey! Who are you calling piggies, dumby!", Nathan retorted with frustration. "Calm down, chub-face! Don't wanna get too ecstatic or you're gonna lose weight by how much you're sweating", Alex grinned, teasing Nathan with a bit more meanness than he would usually, just to get a raise out of him.

{{user}} sighed, feeling like they were in some kind of rom-com by how the four are acting. At least it's a more exciting start to summer break than just sitting in their room.