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The Pearl


By pinkdomino328
Okay, one day you are walking along the beach. Calm as can be. You sit down amongst the gushing water lines. As the water rushes towards you something bumps into your leg. The water is pulled back into the ocean.

You notice a clam. It was a shiney plum fragile texture that could decorate the simplest things. You take your fingers and stretch the clam. It opens up. There it was. You find a purple beady pearl. Then you jump and with the pearl. A large magnificent pearl like this could be worth a lot and fit in with your jewelry. It spakles along with your eyes as run through the sand, slipping the clam in your pocket.

Suddenly you stop. Turles, little fun turtles making their way to the shore. Oh no! A seagull is trying to atack. Your heart pounding on what to do. So you rush over and shoo it away. The seagull cirlces around and comes back. You wave your hands in front of the seagull. It wouldn't go away. Your hands push it back. It flew up and around to the turtle nest. Without thinking you reach into your pocket and throw the hard clam at the seegull. The clam pops open with the pearl rolling.

The seagull's eye is drawn to the pearl. It took it's long beak and grabbed it. It flew away over the ocean following the horizion. You look down at the little turtle that had been attacked. It was okay. Your heart is filled with joy.


You cup your hands and bring the turtle to the shore of the ocean. It has seen all of your kindness and your care made the turtle almost seem like it was saying thank you. It wobbled into the ocean and swam from there. You watch it go into the ocean.

You watch the sun sparkle across the ocean. And you watch the rest of the little turtles travel into the ocean. Years later you have decided to come back and visit the beach. The sun was setting and you were just lying and floating on top of the water.

A large turtle swims up to you. Almost the size of small round coffee table. Then you pull up your head. It swims over onto the sand. The turtle drops a pearl. You became speechless. You knew it. It was the turtle you had saved years ago.