IT was on the night following. Two young soulmates carted away to a small beach to talk.
It was a lonely seaside quite a little removed from Vickie’s residence.
Victoria’s friend had gone visiting, so the girl had asked her mother for a private time.
She asked for them to take a walk outside. It was night, still Sara obliged.
Well, Vickie and Nile’s parents weren’t blind to these little surprises going on with their kids.
They’d been watching them since they met and clicked like lovebirds.
Then they knew that if they pestered them about love, they’d stop talking to them altogether.
Now they didn’t want to lose their teenagers’ trust. They didn’t want them to lose each other, too...
As the adults had seen love where the kids still fought for friendship.
So the parents let the young birds play and like each other as they wanted.
They did like they didn’t care when, in fact, they met together to talk of them.
The boy’s parents and the girl’s mother soon bonded pretty much, but only Nile and Vickie didn’t know why they did.
They teased them about future but they’d say they were only friends.
But now Nile took the friend thing a little farther, as he walked Sara’s daughter all the way to beach.
He took up a fun chat that got more interesting with each distance they covered.
Then when they got there and sat down, only Nile was doing the talk...
Vickie was there gazing at him.
Yes, Nile knew the point when the smart young beauty could no longer “get her acts together”... as she’d often told the young man.
Nile looked particularly handsome that night, with the way he drove her far away from her mother’s nest...
With the way he took her all the way to his zone.
She looked at him and he was dark and bold, he was man and macho.
Vickie had tripped and she felt comfortable abandoning herself. She made herself comfortable gazing on him.
Yes, Nile knew the time his girl was no longer listening. So he drove their chat to be an interesting talk...
One that made her girl falls head over heels.
‘You see that star over there?’ he pointed a finger at the starry night. Vickie turned to look in the sky.
Nile stopped her. ‘Don’t try – you can’t see it. I also can’t, you know!’
Vickie shot an eye at him, surprised at the joke.
He wrapped it. ‘You know what? In China, people pay real money to buy and own one of those things up there!’
The girl talked now. ‘Are you kidding or what?’
Nile smiled. ‘You wonder how possible that is. Well, they’ll just pay some experts.
‘Those guys will give them a powerful telescope to pick a star, then they’ll name that star after them. Funny right?’
‘Yeah but—’
Nile cut in. ‘It happens at some corners in China. But those guys have been confirmed fraudsters.
‘They dupe people by claiming they’ve named asteroids after them. They give those people the name certificates.’
Vickie laughed. She liked her man’s way with words. She liked him even more.
Nile put off his sandals at the moment. He gently stepped his feet inside the beach sand, rested his arms over his raised knees, then he got back to gaze in the sky.
Vickie watched him do that. So she followed what he did without him asking her to.
Nile went on talking, while the girl dipped her bare feet in sand.
Nile pretended not to notice.
‘You know there are these things that amaze me:
‘How it actually appears as if the rainbow bends over to touch our earth.
‘Or just how the sky curves right down to marry sea.
‘I’m not even talking about the science. I’m just loving the art now!’
He turned to her as Vickie looked away right then.
He said, ‘Like how Lake Victoria happens to pour into Nile as the main source!
‘And how you’re sitting beside me here!’
He looked away as Vickie couldn’t help glancing back.
Her heart pumped when she heard those words. And it was not the science of the fact that floored her, it was the art...
It was the heart that spilled it.
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