A Memory of Last Summer

What a life, a good one mind you. The curiosity and beauty of this life, of….of time, is amazing. Summer, one of nature’s ways of telling us to enjoy life, to really …live it! What a summer! What a memory!1

I woke with a start, feeling cold, hungry and soaked with dew. I waited for my eyes to really focus. Looking out across the nighttime, the beach winked a sleepless eye. I knew that when I would go home that morning, I would be hanged by my fanatically worried parents. As the slow sun rose up, creating colour and seducing the cold sand with its shine, the beach grew bigger. I started looking around me, seeing helpless frail abandoned towels gliding through the air with a helping hand from the cool breeze and hearing the rustling of the dawdling trees, feeling as if this sunrise could not be more perfect. But I was wrong.2

As I looked over my shoulder, I saw a glow of light, a glow of a ravishing person sound asleep with a towel wrapped around her silky soft skin. Stephania laid there sleeping. I laid down beside her and softly, but gently placed my hand on her hips. She had sensed me and slowly raised her eyelids, to show dark eyes of coal, filling me with warmth. She produced a smile that made her dimples widen.3

Slowly and silently she sat up, trying carefully not to break this intense moment. We gazed into each other’s eyes. Not moving, nor looking anywhere else, we both smiled. As the sun slowly rose, it melted the frozen sea and we could now hear the waves grazing the sand. She gave a shiver. I picked up a damp towel and cuddled her, making sure it covered both of us. I was not trying to be helpful, but I just wanted to get close to her.4

Her dark smooth hair covered part of my face. Then out of nowhere I got a gut feeling, that I should say something, and I knew what I wanted to say, the thing I had been dying to tell her, that…that I loved her. Now from feeling peaceful and quiet, one with the surroundings, I started getting nervous. Questions like lightening passing through my mind. Was it now the time? I wasn’t sure. I opened my mouth and was about to start explaining how I felt about us being together, us being a couple, that…. that I wanted us to take another step in our relationship, when suddenly, I paused. I was stopped by the sobering reality of the sun’s light.5

This was not the right time, Mother Nature in her own special way told me not to ruin this tender moment and that it was not yet time to let my heart speak. Cuddled together, we took one last look at each other’s faces, took deep breaths, moved closer and embraced by the sun’s warm, morning rays, proud as we laid there, as being the beach’s new young lovers. 6