A Lost Summer Love BY JENN WEBSTER
Summer has been a season filled with fun, surprises, and romance; however, nothing lasts forever, and all good things must come to an end. The time had now come for summer to end, and for children of all ages to go back to school.
That certainly was the case for a young man named Billy; you see, Billy really did not want to go to school-he wanted to look for that new girl that he had just met this summer, and with that thought that summer was indeed coming to an end, Billy knew that he must find that new girl so that he could get to know her and then hopefully become his girlfriend before summer was out.
It all started when summer came around in June, and school was just out for the season; Billy was eager to have the most fun that he could have while, at the same time, looking for a girl who would become the girl of his dreams. One day, Billy was walking to the supermarket when the weather started to change, and it began to rain, so Billy rushed inside. While he was inside the supermarket, he laid his eyes on a gorgeous girl, a girl with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a beautiful figure, not to mention a beautiful face! In fact, she stood there right next to Billy!
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Billy became a bit nervous at first, but then he began introducing himself, saying to the blonde girl, “Hi, my name is Billy. What’s yours?” However, before the blonde girl could answer, she used telepathy, and then she was summoned to return home. And with that, the blonde girl ran away before Billy had the chance to get to know her.
But Billy knew in his right mind that he would find that strange but beautiful young woman, and that he might have other chances to find her. With that, the chance came on the Fourth of July, when there were a lot of people at the beach. Billy and his friends went to the beach on that holiday, not just because they were planning to have some fun there, but because Billy wanted to find that mysterious young woman. After some searching, Billy finally found the young blond-haired woman sitting on the beach! Billy ran up to meet her, but this mysterious young woman just waved her arms and disappeared! Billy just could not believe his eyes!
Of course, Billy was skunked again, but again, he knew that he would try again; yes, all throughout the summer, Billy had been trying to look for that gorgeous blond-haired woman, but no matter how hard he tried, every time he tried to meet her, she would disappear at every chance that he got, without any explanation! First, Billy searched for that blonde woman and found her at the mall, but she disappeared, and then he would look for that strange beauty at the amusement park, but try as he might, she just disappeared before he even had the chance to get to know her!
And so, with summer coming to an end and school about to start, Billy had become very sad that, in spite of everything that he had tried, he just could not get to know this beautiful blond young woman. But somehow, Billy began to have this thought in his mind-he thought, Maybe if I could just try and catch up to that woman one more time, then I would finally be happy… After having thought of this, Billy decided to go back to the beach and look for this strange but beautiful blonde woman one more time.
Just as Billy had reached the sands of the beach, he looked around for that young woman and soon found no one. But then, Billy saw something coming up from the ocean of the beach-why, it’s that same mysteriously beautiful woman that he had been looking for throughout the summer!
Billy ran up to that young blonde woman, and then said to her, “Boy, am I glad to have finally found you! You know, I have been looking all over the place this summer for you! Say, I wanted to ask you: Why did you run away from me when I was just trying to get to know you?! What’s going on with you, anyways?!” The beautiful but mysterious blonde woman then showed Billy something that he had never seen before: A mermaid’s tail! Yes, that’s right: The mysterious blonde woman had turned out to be a mermaid, and Billy himself just could not believe his own eyes!
Then the mermaid said to Billy, “I must go now, young man…It is required of all mermaids to come up and visit the surface every summer, and then change back into our tails and return to the ocean. Billy, I would love to be with you, but I must obey the orders of the sea king and return home. I am sorry…goodbye.”
And after saying this, the mermaid returned home. Billy was sad he didn't know she was a mermaid and that he would never have the chance to meet her again…but then again, there was always somehow next summer for Billy.
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