It was a wonderful September day in Miami,Florida. on the wide white beach along the coast of key Biscayne the sun was hot on the sand.
A slim young woman in her early twenties was lying alone down by the sea. She was beautiful,but her face was sad. Her long black hair fell over the book she was reading. From time to time she looked up from her book and along the beach. Then she put her book away in a bag and set up.she looked unhappily along the beach again.
"I can't tell him! I just tell him" she whispered to herself.
The sea was flat,calm,and the clear. And the weather was hot. It was too hot to work,too hot to play, too hot to drive into Miami ti meet up with friends, and it was too hot to stay at home. The wide green streets of Key Biscayne and the parking lots of the tell white buildings were almost empty in the burning sun.
Everybody was at the beach. Groups of friends lay on the sand, talking, laughing and listening to music. Some were playing ball games, others ran into the water to swim. Families with fat babies and sunburned children lay under the palm trees that grew along the beach. Mothers watched carefully as their children ran down to the sea to play in the warm shallow water. And at the far end of the beach.across the water, the tall white buildings of Miami stood out against the clear blue sky.
At the far side of the beach a narrow path ran between the tall white apartment buildings. Is joined the green streets of Key Biscayne whit the wide white beaches. A tall good-looking man about the same age as the woman was coming down the path. He was wearing a T-shirt and jeans and his arms and face were brown from the sun. At the end of the path he stopped under the palm trees looked out across the beach.
"Ikemi" he shouted.
"Max!" The woman stood up and waved. "I'm here! Over here!"
He saw her,smiled, waved back, took of his shoes, and came running toward her over to kiss her
"Max,din't."
"Don't? Don't? Kiss you? Why not? What's the matter?"he asked.
Ikemi looked away from Max."I'm sorry,Max,I'm so sorry, but we have to talk. There's something I have to say to you ... I wish I didn't ... I really with ...