A Strange Day in July

A Strange Day in July
By Sam
December 11, 2009


The car rumbled into the driveway to their beach house. Jason and Jill ran inside. "Whoa, this place is as big as a circus!" Jason trotted to the table for lunch, followed by Jill. Jason gobbled down some ham and cheese for lunch and Jill had roast beef and pickles.
After lunch Jason and Jill put on their bathing suits and strolled down to the beach. On their way there, they met an old sailor, he was smiling and waving. Jill was very friendly so she greeted him. "Have you kids seen anything strange around here?"
"No, why?"
"Keep your eyes out and remember this, everything is not what it seems." Jill and Jason kept walking down to the beach.
Jason found some nice smooth skipping stones. With a mighty windup, he flung the stone half way across the lake. He got 17 skips and had a proud look on his face. Jill only got 4 skips when she threw the stone. Jason went and found 2 more perfect skipping stones. Jason wound up and got 6 more skips than last time. He did it again, only this time he came within spitting distance of the end of the lake. Jason went to get more stones from the beach, but the stone came skipping back.
Jason picked up the stone and chucked it across the entire lake. He wanted to see it come skipping back. To Jason's surprise, it did. Jill looked puzzled and Jason could bet all his allowance that she was thinking, it grew legs and walked back. He knew that couldn't happen, but Jason thought the stone coming back was was weirder than a flying pig. Jason was at the end of his rope to get this stone not to come back. He tried one more time. Jason wound up and tossed with all is might. The stone made it all the way across the lake again. To both the kids astonishment, the stone came skipping back.
Jason and Jill were trotting back to the house when they met the sailor again, and noticed he had the stone. Jill knew it was their stone because of the white mark all the way around the stone. The sailor didn't say a word. He flipped the stone in his fingers, handed it to Jill and disappeared into mist. "Wow that trip to the beach is carved in stone. On that note, lets go home Jill."