Them, In the Sand

They walked in the sand. The sand white and soft on their feet. The moon was something less than round, and radiant. The pale water swallowed the darkness and turned almost black, reflecting the moon afar. Two love birds walked on the beach amidst the music of waves crashing at the shore.

He took her hand in hers, soft and supple, and clutched at it. They looked at each other, her big eyes were deep pools of onyx. Her facial muscles stretched faintly and he saw the smile on her delicate, pink lips. The salty air of the beach made her hair fly. Her ivory skin gleamed in the moonlight like the tiny earring that shone when she tucked her hair behind her ear.

The couple sat on the night beach, with no one around. He had chosen a secluded beach, for he believed that humans always ruined the beauty of nature. The cool sand felt soothing against their hands and feet. He ran his hands through the sands and felt shells and stones against his hand. The beauty around them was mesmerising, and they laid down in the cool sand.

“Can you see the stars?” he asked as he looked at the sky.

She kept gawking at him. “Only in your eyes,” a smile escaped from between her lips.

Their eyes glued to the sky in astonishment. The longer they looked, more stars revealed themselves to their tiny eyes. Each star seemed to shine brighter than the other. In the midst of the starry night, their hands tangled and melted on the beach sand. As he traced the stars with his left hands, innumerous novel shapes formed in his head. He lost himself in the cluster of stars, it sucked him in, beneath the gleam and glory of the stars, he was far away, far away from her.

They stared at the stars, until their eyes met each other and she pulled him closer by his tie. “Give me your lips,” she said with a heavy breath. Still blinded by the illuminating stars, he found his lips against her delicate lips. The sound of sea was overpowered by the sounds of their kisses. Behind his head, something moved through the sand and made a rustling sound. He paid no more attention to it than he did to the passing waves.

It moved in rapid succession and stung him behind his neck. He lost himself in the kiss and inundated in her lips and looked into her deep black eyes, then shut his own. To consume her beauty one more time, one last time.

She kissed him harder every time as he laid there in the sand, in peace. Her kisses turned to slaps as she moved him. The black creature revealed itself, and with his shoe in her hand, she hit it till the creature was no more than pieces of black waste. She kissed him hard, her lips were salty and his, purple. She sobbed and hugged him, pulling his body from the sand towards her and the cluster of stars sucked him in.