That day at the beach.

It was a pleasant evening at the beach.I was sitting on a rock,my feet lazily skimming the water.The sun was an orange-reddish colour,slowly sinking into the water.As I shifted my gaze towards the beach,I noticed that it was oddly empty.Usually this time,it would be full of people.Children playing on the sand,or running up and down,adults taking a walk,old couples seated on the sands.The ice cream man,the peanut vendors,men with ponies offering rides and the flower lady were missing too.I shrugged it off and turned back to the horizon.No sight of any ships either.It was now a slightly pink greenish tinge.I had lived here all my life and I had never noticed the sky in this shade before.As I tried to recollect any such incident in my memory,I realised that everything was very still.Now where did the breeze go?Something fishy was going on.Hey,the usual scent of fish was not there too.Then I heard a low rumble.But the sky was quite clear,so it could'nt be thunder.There!I heard the rumbling noise again,this time a bit louder.By now I was convinced that something wierd was going on.I had watched the 5 o'clock news bulletin,so there was no way I could have missed any news,if they had mentioned anything.A little tense now,I let myself out of the water.The rumbling noise was heard again.It sounded a bit like an angry dog growling at a cat,only this had to be a very,very,big dog with a deep throat and (gulp!)an empty stomach.In the horizon,I saw something like a dark wave rise up.I curiously walked a bit closer to make out what it was.Hey,this wave didnt recede into the water,it stayed on the surface,like a hump.Slowly,another hump rose up behind the first one.What was going on?And another one rose.And another and another.I stood transfixed,wondering what this creature was.It was creeping on the water,well,you might call it walking on water.Only,this creature had no legs.Then out of the blue,it threw its head out of the water,and roared!It was a piercing noise,I thought I would be deafened.Oh no!This creature fitted a certain description very well.But it was supposed to be a myth,and it existed in Scotland,if it was true.Could this be the feared Loch Ness Monster?If so,I was done for.Fear lends wings to the feet they say.But what was this?I was rooted to the spot,unable to move.Turn around and run,I was screaming inside my head,but no,I could not move a muscle.Then,as suddenly as it had appeared,the monster slipped back into the water.Was it gone?Would it come back?I didnt want to wait to find out.I started running away fromthe beach. Hey,I was not paralysed anymore.This discovery led me to whoop and scream in joy and relief and I danced and yelled through the way back home.I put down the whole incident as a slight jangle of my nerves for which I was taking medication.Later that night,I was taking my tablets before going to bed.As I was about to pop them in my mouth,my mother stopped me."You need to take only two,why are you taking four?"Eeps!Thats what I had done this afternoon too.Then it struck me.Had I been hallucinating this evening as a result of the extra tablets?Well,I had been.The next day's papers read,"disturbed teen runs amok on streets"!Now how was I to even walk on the road?But wait,I was pretty sure I saw the Loch Ness Monster........

My first blog.A bit busy now,so will come back and complete it later.