Jokingly he said, “You trying to run off without saying so-long to your bestest bud?”
“Gary!” I cheered when I saw him.
He climbed down from his jeep and took a surf board down off the top. It was one of the nicest long boards I’d ever seen and when he said he was giving it to me to remember him by, I nearly started to cry. He said that it was my early twelfth birthday and Christmas present combined.
On the top of it were the words, Have Waves Will Surf in sparkling blue and white letters outlined in red pinstripe. On the back of the board, right across the edge it said, Eat My Wake! He then showed me the bottom of the board and it had my name in huge fancy blue and white letters that covered the entire bottom, ALVIN HOLLOWAY and running through the middle of my name in gold was, 2X Jr Surfing Champion.