Chapter 1024

"What's stone skipping?" Jared had never played it, so he did not understand what Nicole meant by that. Nicole picked up a rock and showed him. "This is called stone skipping." "Oh, I have never played that." "You must have had a pretty boring childhood." Nicole mocked him. "I didn't find it boring. Everyone was the same." "Look how I do it." Nicole demonstrated it to Jared. "Did you see that?" Nicole asked as she looked back at him. "That easy?" Jared saw it clearly and found no difficulty. "Don't just talk. Try." Nicole looked at him with a provocative look in her eyes. "Then open your eyes." Jared picked up a rock and approached the beach. He planted his feet in a firm stance and held the rock steady, then threw the rock across the water, and it bounced off the surface five or six times, surprising Nicole. "Not as good as me, but it is not bad." Nicole looked at Jared with a slight disappointment for failing to taunt him. "Did you get anything out of the seminar you atte