The palms did not last long, but they were sounded by the click of the flashes.
And everyone wanted to take Misha. To protect him or pamper him, waiting for him to cry. But cordial to his lineage, to the courage of his few years: he emerged from the water and called everyone by his name:
Ma: Kei.
P: Benny.
Brother: Josh.
Sister: Aslhy.
Grandpa: Edy (the name was not yet recorded, or preferred to call it like that: like: heard: call it like that Grandma: Mary (in one of the three times repeated stories that totaled more than a thousand, this in its first three years)
And why did he call everyone? –They said looking at each other's faces.
Yes we are all here! – Aslhy told her, who was the one who cared the most for her brother: Misha. Because like that, she also did with Josh. She was her older sister for a reason.
And Josh saw it first: Misha had, in his left hand, one of those carters' crab and in her right hand, two more.
Everyone forgot about Grandpa Edinson's ritual.
And absorbed, they did not know what to do? With crabs and more for being in the hands of a little one. More than one thought that he would cry for a long time, if those little sea beings bite him or stab him or cut his skin with scissors, because of the two arms that he has like pincers.
But, they were like the cute little animals: these three road crabs.
To the shock of diving into a sea of salt.
He came to the surprise of a crab hunter, as he was named until he showed that he had other talents that made the previous ones be forgotten.
Misha! –He yelled: Aslhy, you are a true crab hunter!
Having come out of the water that he was already splashing his face and to prevent the little one from coming out of the water very soaked.
They went to sit on the sand.
In the distance: A flight of seagulls, following a pelican. Because this one carried many small fish and other crustaceans in its bulging beak.
And they fluttered him until they took away part of him, well what seemed like: a take away or give me. It was the dance of the hunt: that animals usually do in their natural habitat.
Ecstatic, of what they saw and what was happening to the swaying of the waves. They got so distracted that they forgot about Misha.
When they turned to see him:
He had laid out a track: not a very long one, and he had separated it with low walls of sand in several places.
Misha saw her sister Aslhy running on the athletic track of the stadium.
And she invented her own race track.
And the horses or Olympic athletes were nothing but: the three road crabs.
The largest around, of the improvised game: they made bets and celebrate the winner of the race.
I don't even spend five minutes of this dynamic way of having fun of Misha.
When suddenly a Pelican. He lunged onto the runway.
And he walked around looking at everyone and seemed to sing: Chim!, Chim!
Misha didn't even flinch, accustomed to these walks on the beach, along the Chimbote pier, along the Plazuela Graú: he used to see them fly, descend and ascend over the waves and take the fish.
And every time the pelican went: Chim!
Misha answered: Pysh!, as if wanting to communicate with him. Or like wanting to chase him away.
This is how every pelican that Misha saw was named from then on: Chimpy
In an oversight the Pelican: he ate the road crabs.
It was feared that Misha would start crying, claiming his natural toys.
Rather, he laughed, scrambling in the sand. For several times. And suddenly you hear:
Wow! Wow! -It was a cute puppy, one of those that are used to taking to the beach.
This daring little animal, though: he managed to chase Chimpy away. He couldn't help but take away the road crabs.
In an instinctive reaction: Bierny, he looked to the right. Kei to the left, Josh to the front. Aslhy backwards. Looking for the puppy's owner.
And no one showed up for the entire afternoon of the family event.
They baptized him, as Guarson, at the request of the little one, son of Traddad, who also out of love, they called: Peluche (remember the drawing he did and then painted)
Late afternoon, the sun still felt tender.
I have improvised a campfire.