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Which opening paragraph is better?

Which paragraph is better to start my book with?

just some background: In the first and second they are camping on the beach. In the third they are at home and Bri breaks a vent. Its an adventure story about them losing their parents.

1)The waves rocked steadily against the shore, pulling sand into its salty hands. I stood at the edge of the water and I could make out the faintest etching of a ship on the horizon. I stumbled into the water and I began to kick towards it with an odd sense of urgency. All of a sudden, the waves began to rise around me, they lurched and collapsed onto each other and I was tossed under the water. I was beginning to panic when I saw a pinprick of sunlight above the water. I tried to pull and kick myself towards it but it moved upwards with me, I felt the air slipping away from me and the edges of my vision began to darken.

2)Basil Audentia awoke to the sudden grasp of cold water on his bare toes. Half-awake, he turned and reached across the mattress but felt only the soggy blanket under his fingers. Looking around, he realized he was completely alone. He scrambled to his feet and hurtled out of the tent. The tide had come in, and the small plastic tent pitched on the beach was drenched in a few feet of frigid sea water .Picking his way through the floating remains of their campsite, he scanned the horizon for a glimpse of his sister, Brigitte. He began to panic; she was nowhere to be seen. Basil was ready to shout her name when a hand wrapped around his ankle and pulled.

3)The waves rocked steadily against the shore, pulling sand into its salty hands. I stood a safe distance away, cautiously observing the pounding surf. Without warning, the water surged, heaving like a crazed animal it lunged at me. I tried to run but the sand fell away from underneath me and I began to slip towards the churning water. Just as the black waves began to collapse onto me, I heard a muffled crash.
I sat up in bed, nauseous, damp with sweat and confused. I looked over to see if my sister, Brigitte had been awoken by the crash. She was nowhere to be seen. Putting two and two together, I hurtled out of bed. It didn’t take me long to find her, I walked straight through the centre of the thick cloud of dust that was billowing in the hallway. BY the time I reached the source, the dust had settled, and I could make out the scene before me.
An aluminum vent had crashed through the ceiling and was lying crumpled and twisted on the floor of the small room. Brigitte stood ankle deep in plaster with a look of confusion, shock and guilt on her dusty face. Before I could ask what had happened, she began stammering an apology.
“I am so sorry Bas!” she said “I saw the vent in mom and dad’s room last night, and I thought that I could fit in it!” I sighed. I knew where this was going.
“So, this morning I woke up early and I thought I would give it try, you know, just to see where it goes and I went a long way Bas! It’s really amazing in there. So I got up here and I thought I would crawl over to mom and dad’s room and wake you up, but I guess I took a wrong turn and…” she gestured to the heap of metal “I am really sorry… I’ll make sure mom and dad know that you had no part in this” I sighed again, it was a huge mess and it would take us ages to clean but she looked so upset I didn’t have the heart to be mad at her. “Go get cleaned up” I said “we’ll clean up after breakfast”

GUYS: Boyfriends behavior is confusing me?

I’ve been with my boyfriend for 7months and everything seemed to be going good until recently. I feel like I’m the one who wants to have sex, like who is always initiating it. Like he acts like he doesn’t want to do it sometimes either because he says he’s tired or needs to sleep/wake up early. I’m wondering if i’m looking too much into this, and he really is just tired, that maybe i’m smothering him and need to calm myself or hormones down. Also his affection level is a problem with me, he rarely tells me he misses me, and he hasn’t said he loved me yet (which is ok, i know that comes on his own time when he’s ready) but like i asked him yesterday if he ever misses me and he said yes. And then I asked him why he doesn’t tell me and he said he doesn’t know why. He said he’ll feel like he misses me but stops himself from telling me. When I asked him why, he said he doesn’t know why and that’s just how he is. Is his behavior normal for a guy and should I back off a little? Give him some space?
He’s not the cheating type, i know that much…we were good friends for about 4yrs prior to us dating so i know him fairly well

how to wake up early for school?

Its been almost 3 weeks and I’ve been absent 2 times and tardy 3 times. I’m a senior and over the summer I was so used to sleep at 6 am and wake up at 5pm. Now its flipped, and I can’t find a way to sleep early or wake up early. Its kinda important to me to be on time since school starts at 9am. So I gotta be there earlier say 845-850. How do I stay asleep? Because when I go to bed at 11pm I can’t sleep, and I end up sleeping at 2 am. And its kinda been like that for 2 weeks. Also the days when I do sleep early I still wake up late. I got an alarm clock that charges your ipod and stuff I tend not hearing it go off…. It sucks!! Maybe I deep sleep too much.

Was that the right thing to do to her?

First of all, I used to be EXTREMELY shy but long story short I went to therapy and I’ve changed a LOT. I was on a small vacation with 2 other friend and we were on our boat drinking coffee and talking and suddenly I saw the most preppy girl from my school walking up to us. She used to torture me because of my shyness and she didn’t see how I changed so she though she could embarrass me again. She stud in front of me and without a word spilled my coffee. Usually I’d stand up, get a new one, and lock myself in the bathrooms. But that REALLY got on my nerves because its was 10am (meaning I woke up early) and I really was in a mood for coffee. She was about to walk away laughing and I grabbed her shoulder and said “B*tch, you better make your fake barbie face go get me a new coffee” and she said “Um, like, what did you say” and I said “You heard me. Get me a new coffee or I’ll break your face and shove it in the toilet” and she was just staring with wide eyes like she just say a ghost or something and then went and got me my new coffee. I kind of treated her like she used to treat me. But now I feel slightly guilty. And I’m really not a morning person so it was already very easy to get pissed off. Was that the right thing to do?

I want to better myself and exercise, but it\’s way too hot to even think about going outdoors. What can I do?

You’ve seen in the news about this crazy heat in the middle of the country, right? Well, I live around that area, so it’s way too hot to go outside and exercise. The closet gym is 20 to 30 miles away, we have a swimming pool, (not big enough to swim in though) but it’s in direct sunlight, so all of that’s out of the question.
I need something to do (inside) that’ll help me burn calories. Billy Blanks Tae Bo is amazing, but I need something else to do. Please help. Btw I try to wake up early to got for a walk, so please don’t suggest that. Also treadmills and stuff like that are out of the question. Thank you!

how to wake up early feeling refreshed?

It’s time for most people to go back to school now. One of the hardest things for me is waking up in the morning. I set an alarm in the morning, but I always fall back asleep. I don’t wake up until I absolutely HAVE to, and I end up rushing to get ready for the day. I have dinner pretty late around 8:30pm-9pm , and I’m not willing to change that. I go to sleep around 10pm-10:30pm. I want to wake up around 6 or 6:30 in the morning. I KNOW I take a long time to wake up, so I set my alarm 15 to 30 minutes before the time I actually want to wake up, but I can’t get myself out of bed, feeling good. Any tips on what I should do to wake up early? Thank you.

I have earned a good job in state government and have?

been working there only a few weeks…I think I made a stupid remark when my boss asked what I was going to be doing for the weekend–> I replied, “Probably sleeping all weekend, I wake up early and go to bed pretty late, maybe my mind thinks its going to “miss” something”…uhhh..was that bad to say?