I went to see the sea, and the shells, you see, and inquired if they would give themselves up, as almost presents, set there in sand, hidden, it seems, for, only, me...
I found red ones and blue ones and pink, and I treaded them on a string, and made a necklace for someone, I think?
In my search over the sands, I wandered along the coast, and along the shore, away from the main beach, away from the roar: Away from the town, away from the church and the steeple --through the door --far away from the people.
I climbed over rocks, where the sea came close, and clawed at my ankles, and rounded a bend in the beach; amazed to find a wondrous little cove, seagull and crab my only host, both dancing safely, clear beyond my reach.
The cove was tiny; the sand was fine, and it shone a bright gold, in the warm light --the sun being high. The grains washed and shuffled to one side, babbling, in a rip, that threatened my footing, with a vicious swill of its tide. I felt as if I was the only one to have ever found the secret sandy retreat; it was so hard to get to, and so cut-off from the rest of the seaside gum-shoed street -- silicone detectives, searching for that perfect spot in the sun -- well, I felt I had just found it. I whistled with joy -- tweet, tweet...!
As I rested on the rocks, at one side, admiring the pristine sands, I was startled by a little dog that came running from out of sight; around a blind corner of the bluff, alright.
It was growling though a mouthful of clothes. I jumped down, as the dog ran off to the far end of the cove. I retraced its prints to see from whence it had come, and happened upon a second set. They were small and dainty: one with a shoe yet, the other not. They meandered up the blemish-free beach, and took a curve in the rock, disappearing around a large cold boulder, and I spotted a single sock. It was pink.
As I approached, hearing a little whimper, as if someone was crying -- or was it just a simper? I quietly crept closer, and saw an eye and some blond hair, peeping out from the side. It was a lovely young woman, about the same age as me. She was very shy, as much as I could see.
I said, "Hello, miss...do you need any help?"
She said, "Oh, yes please, my doggie ran off with all of my clothes, and I have nothing to wear now. Please help me." She sobbed.
I asked out of curiosity, "Excuse me asking miss, but why are you behind the big rock with no clothes on in the beginning?"
She said that she was taking her little doggie for a walk, and found this lovely cove, and it was so quiet, and isolated that she had taken off her bikini top to sunbathe.
She cried for a while, and then continued. She told me that she had gotten up very early that morning to take, Willie, her little doggie to the beach, and before setting out, she had eaten a very large breakfast, and drank too much coffee. She said she had eaten twice as much as usual, because she didn't want to get hungry whilst at the sea-shore.
She, sobbed some more, and then continued saying, "After a while, as I lay on the beach, my full little tummy began to rumble. At first I thought it was just gas, after eating so much." she said, with a hint of embarrassment in her voice, "...but after a while, of letting the gas out, I needed to go potty..." she muttered quietly.
"I tried and tried to hold it in, but after drinking all of that coffee...I just had to go...!" she wept, "...so, as been as it was so quiet here, I took off my bikini bottom and went potty behind this rock," she said shyly, "...and...and...and as I hid behind the rock, my naughty little doggie ran off with my clothes." she said in a pitiful, helpless sort of way.
I asked, again out of curiosity, "Well, how long were you behind the rock...?"
She said, "...I was quite some time?"
I said, "...But it only takes a few seconds to go pee-pee...? Why did you take so long, perhaps your little doggie thought that you had gone off and abandoned him, and forgot your clothes, and he is running all over the beach looking for you, trying to find you, and bring your bikini to you...?"
The beautiful young woman, shyly said, "I know...but I had eaten so much at breakfast...and all of those cups of coffee...and my little tummy was so, so swollen, that I had to do #1 and #2...! I couldn't help it. I had to go pee-pee and bong-bong..."
"But, again, it only takes a minute...?" I said, wondering.
She said, "No, I must have eaten too much, because it got stuck halfway out, and I didn't know what to do. I was afraid, and it took over half an hour. It was almost like having a baby!" she exclaimed.