By Gina B., age 14
The sand girl danced in the warm sun, throwing around sand and picking
wild flowers. As the sand girl brushed her sandy coloured hair she felt
like she was being watched.The sand girl looked towards the sea and there
was a water boy. His hair blue and blowing in the breeze, a face like no
other and his eyes, oh his eyes were blue, but not a normal blue but a
deep heart melting blue.
The sand girl stood letting her dress flow in the breeze showing her
perfect figure, her long hair and her face shining like the sun. Her sand
eyes locked with his water eyes.
He came in with the waves but never leaving his water platform. She
walked to him but without the waves touching her sand toes. The girl bowed
her head in shyness. The water boy smiled and then walked backwards and
then disappeared under the waters surface. The sand girl turned around
and walked up a sand hill, then lay in the sun dreaming of her vistor.
The next day, the sand girl climbed out from her sand cave and looked
towards the sea and the water boy was there. She walked over to the edge
of the sea. They smiled and soon started talking. They ran down the beach
together, she on her sand, he on his water.
The girl would go to sleep at night and in the morning the water boy
would be waiting for her.
One night she was thinking about him and realised that they had never
touched. The sand girl wondered about this for a while. She knew that their
friendship was more than just friends and as she thought about it she realised
she loved him.
In the morning she woke and saw the water boy. She ran up to him.
“I have a gift for you”, he said in his low, friendly voice.
“What is it”, the sand girl urged.
“Hold out your hand”, he said.
The girl did that. The water boy pulled out a blue/silver chain from
his pocket and hanging from the chain was a deep blue diamond pendant.
The sand girls eyes widened and her mouth opened in amazement. The boy
placed the necklace in her hands, but something so unexpected happened.
Since the necklace was made from water the girls sand fingers soaked up
the necklace like water and her fingers dropped off and fell into a mushy
pile next to her feet. The girl looked down, her fingers formed back but
the sand girl was sad. The boy realised it too, that they cannot touch
each other. Water and sand don't go together. The water boy, looking so
sad, reached down into the water and picked up the necklace which had flowed
back into the water. The water boy turned around and walked slowly
and sadly out and then disappeared into the sea. The sand girl dropped
to her knees and cried sand tears.
She woke in the morning and turned towards the sea, but her water boy
was not there. For days she woke, and he wasn't there. She became depressed
and sad. She loved him and he loved her but he still didnt come. She sat
crying one day and she heard a familiar voice calling out. She turned towards
the sea and there was her water boy. His head was bowed down and he wouldnt
look at her. She ran to the water's edge. He moved closer. The water boy
looked into the sand girl's eyes, then kissed her. For a second they were
fine but then they dropped together into a mixed pile.
The boy flowed out of the pile of sand with the tide. The girl woke
and found herself alone. Neither of the sand girl or water boy could
remember what happened when they kissed. The tide was out and the boy gone.
The girl woke in the morning and looked towards the sea and there was
her water boy.......
Every time the tide comes in, the sand girl and water boy meet, talk
and love but never do they touch.