(RAINA)Night Around the Corner

[Link Dempsey]

The day was long. Full of modeling pictures were taken and three hours of soccer practice. Link did take shower before he went to the beach. As night was coming around it began cooling down. His thoughts were thoughts of his moves for his soccer foot work and his pictures that were taken at the photo shoot. With his poses that he learned when he had moved her. Something different. Nothing like he had once thought of. Although, he did his one and only pose with him pressed up a against a wall showing that his body has no fat, pure muscle.

Back to reality. Link is sitting down on the dry sand with the wet and the waves of the ocean going down th beach from the high rise that ended a couple of hours ago. Having his legs in front of him, laying his elbows on his knees. With his hands held together in a fist. Below his elbows laid some medium colored, ripped denim with blue highlight nike shoes. And he had a button down black shirt with two unbuttoned buttons at the top.

Every second the model breathed in the salty smell of the salt water all around him. The smell also included some fish smell. Deeply, he breathed in the smell that calms the nerves in him. For the next photo shoot that is tomorrow. Told that he has to do good for. The magazine is waiting for him. He looked down at the sand instead of the mixed colors are orange, pink, blue, and purple across the ocean. At the sand he could see seashells that are all mixtures of white, black, gray, and some peachy color.

Some footsteps crunched in the sand not far from where the soccer player was sitting. He turned his head to the sound to find a shadow of someone standing before the boy.

[Raina Lakota]

It had been a long day on the ranch, and Rain wanted nothing more than to just get away from it all. Her parents had spent the entire afternoon bickering again, which left Raina to do all the barn chores, evening lessons, and to prepare dinner. It didn't sound like much, but it was the work of three individuals all piles onto one young girl. It added up and it made Raina want to scream. There was just so little time to do so much work.

Thankfully, however, the day had passed quickly. Night was now quickly approaching and Raina wanted nothing more than to just relax. She had managed to sneak out after dinner, making her way down to the beach. The beach always seemed to calm her nerves. The smell of the salt water, the feel of sand between her toes, and not to mention the beautiful view, Raina loved everything about it. It was one of the few places that she really considered to be sacred around their small town.

And she fully intended to join it. Since she had snuck out, though, Raina still wore her dress from dinner. A light gray-brown dress that fit rather snug, with her favorite pair of cowgirl boots. Since it was rather chilly, she had a light gray-brown jacket drooped from her shoulders. Her parents believed in looking fairly nice for dinner, so she normally wore dresses for the occasion. Her hair was pulled in a messy side pony tale, and she hardly looked like a beach-goer. But, she didn't care.

Her main focus was making it down to her favorite spot to see the sunset. Just down the shore, it was never crowded and Raina found herself walking rather quickly. When she managed to make it there, however, she was surprised to find that a boy was already there. A rather attractive boy. Raina bit her lip, watching him for just a few seconds before she finally spoke. "Do you mind if I join you? ...This spot really has the prettiest view of the sunset." She smiled sheepishly, looking down at the boy. She was never good at talking to boys, but she hoped it wasn't that obvious.

[Link Dempsey]

Link looked up to see who was making the shadow. He saw a girl who looks more like a cowgirl. Her lips mouthed the words, "Do you mind if I join you?" Those words went through his mind. No one asked to join him before. "This spot has the prettiest view of the sunset." Thats true. Its the reason why he is here. Plus, its the perfect place for him to think of the highlights he had today. Where to go when he plays center midfield during soccer. Or new poses he learned today. The photographer likes strange poses. He doesn't mind at all. Its his job, he gets money. Then he becomes a happy boy with food in his stomach.

Link moved one of his arms as he nodded. As he spoke he pat the ground next to him, "Go ahead." His face is in a poker face. He grew up with it and he is used to hiding what he feels and knows. This girl doesn't seem half bad. She might be fun to have around. Might not be bad having her around as the sun goes down. As he looked back into the sky, the colors got brighter. A grin crossed his face. This sight makes him lose that poker face.

This sight reminds him of when he was young. How his father took him to the fields of seeing this site. Just thinking about it makes him smile. Great times when he was younger. Link would always had that soft smile on his face. The same soft smile that is on his face now. This one place brings him so much memories of him and his father. Making this adult a happy boy.

Link wanted to keep talking to the girl and not have an awkward silence, "This sunset is very calming." He continued looking at the mixed colors in the sky. Clouds are just as colorful. There is nothing more beautiful then this site upon the water side.

[Raina Lakota]

"Thanks," Rain smiled at the boy, her smile turning less sheepish as he agreed for her to join him. She slid down in the sand next to him, crossing her legs straight out in front of her and leaning back so that her hands had to prop her up. Out of the corner of her eye, she studied the boy for a few moments. He was very attractive and really showed little to no emotion on his face. Rain really couldn't tell if he were annoyed, happy, or indifferent that she had joined him. It was strange, because most people were so darn easy to read.

Her eyes shifted out to the sky now, pondering this for just a few seconds. The sky was shifting into more magnificent shades of purples, blues, oranges... Raina couldn't help but to smile. It was beautiful. And, it really eased her stress levels from the day. It was like the simplicity and the beauty of nature just helped to melt away the stress and pressures of the real world. Maybe that was why she always had loved nature.

Growing up, Raina had always tried to spend most evenings watching the sunset. It was nice to do so when she had lived in the plains. It was so flat in the plains that you could easily see anything for miles on end. Rain had spent a lot of her early years lying in the grass there, watching the sunset from the tall grasses and counting the stars with her friends til late hours in the night. The beach here in Diznae seemed to be the closest she could get to that, but she would gladly take it.

Watching the sky, she momentarily forgot that the boy was next to her. When he spoke, she jumped slightly, turning to face him with a genuine smile for just a few seconds before she looked back to the sky. "It really is. It just... melts away all the pressures and the stress from home, you know? It's like no matter what events have gone on throughout the course of the day, a sight as simple as this can make it all better."

[Link Dempsey]

]Link could sit here all day. Nothing was better then this moment right now. Sometimes he would forget the girl was there. He would just remember when she speaks. "It really is. It just," he turned his head to her as she spoke. The smile he had faded to a straight face. "Melts away all the pressures and the stress from home, you know? It's like no matter what events have gone on throughout the course of the day, a sight as simple as this can make it all better."

The boy took in here words in nodded in agreement. It does. All he would want one day to have a break from the stress that modeling gives him and the pressure his coach gives him. Nothing, but this calming sunset can make it all better. Seeing the colors can change a person for a minute. Make them think nothing or no one is around. Thats what he like all about it. Getting away. Being someone different. Even if it is for only fifteen minutes. Its the most perfect feeling any guy can get.

Link spoke with a straight face that was still upon his face. He wanted to think that he is being serious and not trying to ruin this calming moment. His eyes looked down at the ground as he saw the navy blue ocean that had gotten darker from the sun setting over the horizon. "Your right. Thats exactly how I feel everytime I come here. The sounds of the ocean can make it feel like this is your home and no one is going anywhere." A smile grew upon his face, he began to chuckle as he spoke and looked back at the girl sitting next to him. "I'm sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Link." The boy felt like it was rude that she doesn't know his name. It wasn't very gentleman like of him to do that. At least he fixed that mistake.

[Raina Lakota]

Rain's gaze shifted back to the boy for a few seconds, the same genuine smile on her face. As he turned to face her, however, she almost wondered if she should have spoke. His smiled seemed to melt away off his face into a rather blatant line as he looked at her. Was something wrong? Rain mentally went back through what she had said, but saw nothing wrong with it. Maybe he just didn't like company?

Not that it mattered, Rain intended to stay. She didn't want to return home just yet. She hated being indoors and the beach was kind of her escape. Her eyes went back to the sky, catching the last of the quickly fading colors. A low glow at the edge of the horizon was all that was really left; the rest of the sky had shifted into its natural navy blue for the night and a few stars could be seen peaking out from the clouds.

Her eyes glanced down at the tides, the ocean also seeming much darker. It mirrored the color of the sky, signaling that it was now, officially, dark. As the boy spoke, Raina's gaze shifted to him again, her smile reappearing as she heard his words. "I'm so glad that it makes sense to you! Most people think I'm crazy for wanting to come down here every evening. It just helps, though." Rain shrugged. And as he introduced himself, her smile only grew. "Don't worry about it! I'm Raina, but call me Rain. It's nice to meet you, Link."

[Link Dempsey]

A smile came across her face after he had spoke. Her smile is soft and sweet. Nothing he has seen before upon a girl's lips. That smile on her face made one on his too. "I'm so glad that it makes sense to you! Most people think I'm crazy for wanting to come down here every evening. It just helps, though." Link nodded at her. Everything she says is true. Not one thing that came out of her light pink lips was a lie.

"Don't worry about it! I'm Raina, but call me Rain. It's nice to meet you, Link." The boy was relieved that she said that, he felt like he wasn't being much of a gentleman. But the boy needs somthing to say to the lovely lady sitting next to him. Girls must be treated with respect. No matter who they are.

"Well then, my pleasure to meet you, Ms. Rain." His smiling stayed. And he plans on keeping it there for awhile. Even if the sunset is pretty much gone for the night. He wouldn't mind sitting out here with Rain for awhile.