A day in the sun (Open)

Rain's feet made footprints in the sand as she walked along the beach. She listened to the waves as they crashed along the shore and felt the sun shine on her dark brown hair. Her stormy gray eyes scanned the horizon for any signs of storms gathering off-shore but she saw none, much to her disappointment. She closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh sea air, listening to the sounds of the seagulls flying overhead and to the occasional rustle of the trees farther up the beach. She smiled for the first time in what seemed like forever, at least since she'd left her father. She looked down the beach towards the part she'd stood on the last time a storm had come through the district. That had also been around the time that Triton had rescued her. She thought she spotted a figure lying in the sand but decided not to bother them, they looked content just to lie in the sun.

As she wandered along the beach, she found some flat rocks and decided to see if her skipping abilities had improved any. Rain launched a rock at the water and it skipped twice before falling with a plunk into the depths of the waves. Smiling in satisfaction, she picked up another rock and tossed it into the water. It also skipped but only once before it too sank to the bottom. For once in her life, she felt free, as if nothing really mattered and she could do anything. She sat down on the sand and made patterns in the damp sand, enjoying the suns rays on her slightly tanned skin.

As the day wore on, she kept an eye on the figure and watched as he ventured into the water. He seemed to go in pretty deep until his head went under and didn't resurface. She panicked then. What if he's drowned she thought, hurrying to the shore. Thankfully, she knew how to swim pretty well and always wore her bathing suit under her clothes. She stripped down to her bathing suit and jumped into the water, cold slapping her face and body with a shock. She swam strongly out the where he was and, taking a deep breath, dove under the water, finding that the boy was stuck in the sand. She resurfaced, took in a deep breath, and dove down to where his foot was caught. She pulled it and worked until she freed it, then she swam up to the surface and pulled the boy back to shore. "Hello, can you hear me?" she asked, feeling a little bit of the panic creep back in

She felt relief wash through her as the boy came back to life and got up onto his elbows. He threw up some water before turning to her. "Yeah I can hear you. Thanks for saving my life" He said, getting to his feet wobblely and going over to a backpack. He opened it and grabbed something before coming back and offering it to her. She saw that it was food but she didn't really want it. "Here take this" He said offering it to Rain. She was about to wave his offer away but then realized that maybe she should take it. She hadn't saved him for a reward, she'd simply done it because she didn't want anybody to drown. She took the food and looked at him as he asked. "So you live around here?" She nodded. "Just past the top of that cliff" She said, pointing up to the cliff. She frowned, sitting back at the memory that went through her mind. "Do you live around here too?" She asked, feeling curious. She hadn't really seen him around before but then again, she didn't really get out much.