Night Trip to the Beach

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Chapter 16 of Velma the Vegan Vampire Continues from yesterday:

Muriel pulled up in the rented Fiat 500. “All aboard!” she called to her friends who were waiting on the pavement.

Andy and Sammy climbed into the back, and Velma sat in the front. It was midnight and they were taking a trip to the seaside.

“It’s going to take us an hour and a half to get there, and low tide is at 2am,” Muriel informed them as she pulled away. “Sunrise is at 7 so we’ll need to head back no later than 5. Ok? Here we go!”

Velma connected her phone to the in-car stereo and began her favourite playlist.

“Elastica again?” Andy whined. “Haven’t you got any Spice Girls?”

“No!” Velma and Muriel chorussed, and then they both laughed.

“I’m sitting in the front on the way back!” Andy warned them, “and my phone’s choc full of The Spice Girls, Will Young and Take That! So take that!” He laughed and Sammy joined in with a supportive bark.

The journey was very enjoyable since there were hardly any other vehicles on the road. When they arrived they parked in a beach front carpark which was free between 8pm and 8am, and had no trouble at all finding a secluded spot on the sand to lay their blanket.

“I’m going for a swim!” Velma declared as she began to undress. “Who’s with me?”

“It’s October!” Muriel said. “I was just thinking I should have worn another jumper!”

“What about you?” Velma asked Andy, “are you as gutless as blondie here?”

“Well, I like an icy swim as much as the next person but, swimming in human sewage – not so much.” He showed her the Surfers Against Sewage app on his phone which informed them that nearly 2 million hours of sewage overflowed into England’s lakes, rivers and seas in 2025.

“Yuck!” Velma, her bottom lip showing her disappointment, pulled her trousers back up.

Muriel tried to cheer her up. “I brought my badminton stuff!” she said in a sweet talking-to-children voice.

Velma grinned. “Yay!”

But Andy wasn’t so sure. “Bit risky,” he said. “It’s dark. What if you lose the shuttlecock on the beach? Plastic hazard to wildlife.”

“Unless,” Muriel responded cheerfully, “you use a fir cone instead of a shuttlecock!”

Velma jumped up and eagerly took the racket Muriel offered her. She offered one to Andy too and all three of them got in position. Muriel drew a line on the sand with the grip of her racket. “That’s the net,” she said. “You both go on that side, together. I’ll play you both at the same time.”

“We’re going to wipe that confident smile off your face,” Andy told her. “It’s two against one and you’re going down!”

“Bring it on Sewage Boy!”

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Come back Monday for the conclusion of chapter 16, unless you’d rather read it now 😀

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