Last Day

Last day in Florida. This morning I woke up to see the sun rise on the beach. Sean was out cold in his bed so I didn’t worry about waking him when I made noise searching my drawers for a sweater. I had to bring a sweater because it was really windy on the beach and I had that shaky, cold feeling that comes when I wake up too early.
It was still dark and the tide was way in. I walked down a ways to this little sand dune that the water couldn’t reach, sat on top of it and closed my eyes. When the first light began to break, I noticed there was a woman doing yoga a few hundred feet to my left. It scared me that I'd passed her by in the dark; I could have stepped on her had she or I been less lucky. The clouds boomed with orange and purple, and the ocean reflected bright turquoise. I felt privileged because these were the types of colors that you just don’t see during normal hours.
The sun still hadn’t risen when I noticed that the woman finished her yoga. She looked over at me and smiled, then turned back to the sun. As relaxed as I had been before, she suddenly made me very nervous. I smiled back. When I looked at her again, I noticed that she was pregnant. I lay back into the sand and wondered what the rules were for starting conversations with people at sunrise. Being as we were the only two people sitting on the beach, I felt I had some responsibility to make a connection. You know, just in case something went wrong with the sunrise and we were the only two there to see it.
“How far along are you?” I called to her. I regretted it the moment the words came out of my mouth. (What if she wasn’t pregnant?!)
“Seven months”, she called back.
“Boy or girl?”
“Boy.” She seemed to agree that it was important for us to acknowledge each other.
“Ah.” I was relieved. As crazy as I imagined myself in my mind, when I finally opened my mouth, normalness came out!
“Picked a name yet?”
“Yeah. We’re thinking Adam.” I smiled and nodded my approval.
“Adom. Earth.” I replied. As if it mattered.
“I was thinking more, the first man”, she said with a smile.
“That too. Good name.” I turned back to the horizon and felt her do the same. The tip of the sun broke in a bright green flash like a scaly iguana in the sunlight-- just for a split second, I had the horrible thought that on this day the sun might rise green. To my relief, almost immediately after the green flash, the real sun appeared reassuringly and began to rise. I released my breath, threw off my shirt, and jumped in the ocean one last time. When I came back out, the pregnant lady was gone.