“YOU SCARED ME TWERP.” DRAKE SAID.TODD GRINNED.SLOWLY THE SUN SANK DOWN

         INTO THE WATERS.
         
           “WHY DON’T WE CALL IT A NIGHT?” TRACI ASKED,HE VOICE FALTERING SLIGHTLY.
         
         SLOWLY THE BOYS SAT ON THE SAND AND TALKED.CLAE WALKED AWAY FROM THE GROUP
         
         AND OPENED THE SURVIVAL BOX.SHE TOOK OUT A PACK OF MATCHES AND SLIPPED
         
         THEM IN THE POCKET OF HER SHORTS.SHE WALKED UP PAST THE BOYS INTO THE
         
         DENSE UNDERBRUSH AND FOILAGE.SHE CAME BACK HER ARMS LOADED WITH BRANCHES
         
         AND WOOD.TRACI FOLLOWED HER EXAMPLE.DRAKE GINGERLY ARRANGED THE WOOD AND
         
         CLAE LIT A MATCH.SHE TOUCHED IT’S FIERY TONGUE TO HTE WOOD AND IT SLOWLY
         
         CAUGHT.THE TRIO SAT BACK AND WATCHED THEIR FIRE BLAZE.THE LITTLE ONES,
         
         MOSTLY THE SEVEN AND EIGHT YEAR OLDS SAT CLOSE TO THE FIRE,AND THE LITTLE
         
         BOY TRACT HAD SAVED,SIMON,CLIMBED INTO HER LAP.CLAE STOOD UP AND WALKED
         
         OVER TO THE JAGGED FORMATION OF ROCKS.SHE SKILLFULLY CLIMBED UP THEM AND
         
         STOOD THERE.THE SUN WAS GOLDEN AND STILL SINKING DOWN.GLITTER TOSSED
         

         





         BY IT’S CARELESS RAYS,SCATTERED ACROSS THE WAVES.CLAE REMEMBERED THE
         
         STORIES SHE HAD BEEN TOLD BY HER MOTHER WHEN THEY WENT TO THE BEACH.
         
           YOU WERE RIGHT MA,SHE THOUGHT SADLY,THEY DO LOOK LIKE LOST FAIRIES.
         
         CLAE LOWERED HERSELF TO THE ROCK’S FLOOR AND SAT INDIAN STYLE.SHE LOWERED

         HER HEAD AND SILENTLY CRIED.
         
         
         
         
         
         DRAKE HAD BEEN TELLING JOKES WHEN HE LOOKED UP TO SEE CLAE PERCHED
         
         LIKE A MAJESTIC ANGEL ON THE ROCKS.SHE WAS GOLD AGAINST THE DARKENING
         
         BACKGROUND.THEN SHE HAD SAT DOWN AND LOWERED HER HEAD.DRAKE MADE HIMSELF
         
         SAY SHE WAS MEDITATING.BUT HE KNEW SHE WAS CRYING.DAVID GLANCED UP TO
         
         DRAKE AND THEN SAW CLAE.UNLIKE DAVID HE GOT UP AND WALKED TO THE