• I walked down the beach, the damp sand squishing between my toes. The foamy waves sloshed over my ankles and the sun burned brightly above. It was the first day of summer vacation! I smiled happily and looked into the churning waves. I could have sworn I saw a flash of a ghostly girl wearing a white dress in the water. This had happened many times. I would look into the waves and see a flash of a hand, a dress, and sometimes a face. I was in the middle of deciding whether or not I was crazy when a deep voice interrupted my train of thought. "Hey Kaya." I looked up and saw a beautiful boy staring at me with a look that melted my heart. I grinned foolishly. "Hey Zach." He swept me into his arms and we kissed, long and hard. My heart was still pounding when we came up for air. Every time I looked at Zach I saw a miracle. How did I, an average girl, end up with Zach, extreme hottie? But all thoughts of this disappeared when he took my hand and led me towards the beach parking lot. We got into his blue Honda and I opened my mouth to speak. Zach covered my mouth with his and began to kiss me deeply and passionately. Our tongues intertwined and his hand moved towards the waistband of my jeans and began to inch slowly up under my shirt. Gently I pushed him away. He sat back with a hurt look in his eyes. I looked down guiltily. Zach had been making these kind of moves over a month ago, but I just wasn't ready. We'd only been going out for a few months. Quickly I changed the subject, "Before you came, I was looking at the ocean and I think I saw a person in the water... do you think that's strange?" "It was probably a scuba diver." he answered heavily. I silently disagreed. What kind of diver wears a white dress? Zach stroked my dark brown hair and then sat up. "I've got to get to work, do you need a ride or are you fine here?" I sat up too. "I'll stay at the beach. Have fun at work." He grimaced and rolled his eyes. We both knew how much he hated his job at Pizza Hut. I kissed him good bye and got out of the car. Zach pulled out of the lot and I watched his blue car disappear into the road of traffic. I mentally pounded myself as I walked back to the beach. Why did I always push him away? Almost all his visits ended like this and it was all my fault. I looked gloomily into the waters again. There was the girl! My eyes widened as she snaked out her hand and grabbed my ankle. I screamed and the life guard looked up in annoyance from the make out session he'd been having with a girl in a bikini. I shook my head at him in embarrassment and he turned back to the girl. Cautiously I bent down and looked more closely at the girl. She had released her grip on me and was now grinning playfully. I gasped in horror at what I saw. Long feathered wings sprouted from the girl's back and her eyes were an unnatural icy blue. A shining bright ring hovered above her head. All her features were sharp and pointed and she was too beautiful to look out. She grinned even wider now. The angel opened her mouth and I could here her words as clearly as if she was right next to me and not in the water. "Come girl. You belong with us." she hissed. I jumped back and shook in fear as she leered at me. "We will come for you." and then she was gone, melting back into the murky depths of the sea. I shivered and blinked. It must have been a daydream. I had definitely not seen a angel in the water. That was just crap. Angels didn't live in oceans anyway, what was I going on about? But as I waited in line at the hot dog stand I still couldn't shake the feeling that I had REALLY seen an angel. And then my worst fears were proved when I looked down and saw red marks on my ankle where the angel had touched me. I looked at the sea and shrank away from the waves. What was in there?