Convincing Appearances (open)

[forsakensora]

Wolfgang never got to spend much time on the beach when he was younger. He always was working in some fashion; running around and wasting away with his gang of runaway children. He was often irritated by them; the people he used to live with before he got his first job. Only two of them were like him; forced to leave their homes. The rest ran away for all this bullshit he could hardly stand. There was Carla; beautiful and slender. She ran away from home because her parents wouldn't let her date Chuck; who ran away for the same reason. They first showed up wearing expensive clothes; skinny jeans and hoodies with golden and silver chains and large earrings hanging from their ears. Within' a week, their clothes were ruined, their earrings torn off in fights, and their chains sold for drug money.

Wolfgang refused drugs because he needed the money to buy food; which could bring him long term happiness, while drugs could only satisfy for a little while. Of course, he enjoyed cigarettes or booze every now and then. At this very moment, he sat in the sand in his knee-length, black cargo shorts and dark grey hoodie, drinking a beer he bought from Hario, a man who sold his alcohol to underaged folk. Since he was heading to the beach, Wolfgang didn't bother brining his shoes. In fact, he wasn't even wearing a shirt under his hoodie, in case he decided to swim.

The beach was empty; almost completely. There were some people sitting around. Most of them cleared out, except a drunken couple. They staggered around, exchanging sloppy kisses and gropes until they were ready to leave. For a while, Wolfgang just sat in the sand and enjoyed the quiet sounds of the ocean. He made a cup holder out of the sand and placed his drink in it and watched the water as the sun began to lower. He stood up and walked towards the shore, picking up a rock in the watery sand. A few crabs, smaller than his finger nails, ran to under rocks to hide. He gently picked one up and let it walk in his palm, its claws so small he couldn't feel it pinching at him. He smiled at the tiny creature, "To think...." He mentally pondered, "I'm probably the biggest thing you've ever seen."

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