The beach is a wonderful place to relax and enjoy the sunshine on your skin. Feeling the surf brush against your toes as you lie out on the sand. This is the life. She thought to herself about the work she had in store when she got home and almost grimaced before realizing this was exactly why she had needed this day away from it all. She could hear the gulls above her and was glad for the lack of company. Coming during the off season was perfect. No lifeguards on duty and no fussing children running past her today. Nope. A mid-week trip in early September was just what she needed to unwind. Alexis closed her eyes and allowed herself to slip into a quick nap.
The man who stood over the sleeping beauty didn't quite know what to think. He always came here because it was so quiet this time of year. It was like his own private sanctuary. Now there was a trespasser. Granted, it was actually a public beach and it wasn't yet sunset. But to him this was an invasion. He was still so angry from his day and he just couldn't go home yet. The quiet would drive him mad. However, the crashing surf, the gulls overhead and the wind blowing past him normally would calm him like nothing else.
Alexis opened her eyes and was startled to see what appeared to be a very angry man glaring down at her in her beach chair. She licked her lips and looked up at him trying to figure out how to ask what he thought he was doing invading her personal space this way. "Um, can I help you?"
Adam looked down at the woman more closely now that she was awake. "You're in my way," was all he said to her in short terse words.
Alexis looked around her at the otherwise deserted beach. Obvious confusion was written all over her face.
"Look," the man said, "I come here to be alone. You're here. I'm not alone. You need to go." He knew he was being unfair but damn he didn't need anyone else here right now.
"Mister you got a problem then. I came here to get away and there's no one here but me
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