Lisa asked if it would be okay to call over as she was in a similar situation all summer. Lisa was the only c***d of the couple who ran the on-site co...venience store on the other side of the lake and like Mel, craved some female company other than her mother. Mel offered Lisa some lemonade but Lisa suggested a beer. She’d brought a cooler box full of them and within minutes of their first meeting they were heading toward the dock. Lisa retrieved two cold beers and passed one to Mel. They soon. Appozhuthu udane sunni viraithu vitathu, akka naan unmaiyile lungi ilamal thaan veetil irupen endru solinen. Nee epadi vendumanalum irukalam ena vendumanalum seiyalam endru solinaal, naan ithu naal varai ivalavu jollyaga irukum pennai paarthathe illai endru solinen. Naan apadi thaan romba jollyaaga irupen endraal.Sari akka naan kandipaaga adutha vaaram veetirku vanthu lungi ilamal ungal udan irukiren endru soli sirithen. Nee matum thaan freeyaga irukanum endru onum ilai naanum freeyaga irupen. Ye sun ke wo kuch nahi boli.Fir ekdin jab mai ekdin khelke dopahar ko lauta to dekha, didi nal ke paas niche baith bartan maanj rahi ha, aur wo kala admi unke bilkul samne khada unse pata nahi kya bate kar raha hai. Par maine dekha uski wehsi nazar meri bholi bhali didi ke gori chucho par thi aur wo lagatar apne jeev ko apne kaale hoto pe ghumaye ja raha hai. Muje laga iska niyat thik nahi. Par maine gaur kiya wo didi se aksar batei kiya karta aur didi kabhi v sikayat nahi ki balki wo hasti aur. Through the thick Southern live oak canopy, I could just make out low-hanging, light gray clouds sweeping fast overhead- the rippling wake of the giant storm. I had made it; I was alive, I was dry. I stepped out on the porch and breathed deep, inhaling the pungent, mossy scent of soil and vegetation. It was as if the storm had scraped away a layer of earth, exposing the raw, primal roots of the land.After witnessing the wind and rain of the previous night, being outside felt like a novelty, so.