Aliens in Zekrete

Aliens in Zekrete

My dad likes doing barbecue on the beach. Our family often goes to Zekrete beach, south west of Doha. It is one of the quite beaches in Qatar, both, for the visitors and the waves, and perfect to build sand castles. I was always up for barbecue because for me it meant Sun, Sand and lots of fun on my own. I like the freedom I have on the beach as I could build and destroy any thing I want, which was often not possible at home without annoying any one of my parents. 

On one of the winter days in January, weather was perfect, a bit cooler and not so windy, for the beach. My dad decided it was time for barbecue on the beach. We packed our car, while mom made some sandwiches, I helped my dad in putting portable chairs and tables into the boot. I was allowed to take some of my beach toys. I picked my shovels, beach bucket, digger, toy cart and was ready for it. We drove in our Pajero towards Zekrete and passed by some camels and sand dunes on the way. As soon as I saw the table top looking eroded hills, like the Grand Canyon in America but slight smaller in scale, we’ll actually lot smaller in scale, I knew we were close. 

Once at the beach we looked for the perfect spot. As usual not many people were there, except some group of people on the furthest end of the beach. There was a lot of sea foam around, it was like a big bath tub and I was in it, I could easily spend hours playing with it. Pieces of it would break off from sudden gust of wind and I was running  behind to catch them. After I was done playing with the foam I took out the toys  and started digging sand for my construction project to build a huge kingdom with my own sand castle. 

While I built my kingdom my dad fired up the barbecue and soon there was nice smell of roasted meat and sausages, which made me slightly hungry as I was digging for quite some time. I carried on with my construction project digging more sand, mixing cement and building road. By the time my dad finished barbecuing the meat, I had managed to build myself a kingdom with castle and few houses with some roads. It was time for lunch now. My mom prepared the table and I was ready to enjoy my favourite sausage with some cucumber, lettuce and tomatoes.

After the meal, it was perhaps the sea air, I felt very tired and wanted to sleep a bit and I asked my mother if I could just lie down for few minutes and she should wake me up to finish few more houses in my kingdom. As I lied down the sound of waves acted like a lullaby and I quickly fell asleep. 

I don’t know how long I slept, I was woken up by sense of cold water touching my feet. As I opened my eyes, it was pitch dark, and  I was surprised to see that there was no one on the beach. My kingdom was washed up by rising tide. I got really scared and angry and started crying thinking how could my parents leave me like that all alone on the beach? 

Several silly thoughts crossed my head, perhaps something happened to them may be they were washed by rising tide and what not. I gathered some courage to get up and find my way home. I thought may be I could get to the road and there I could stop a car and ask for help. As I was walking to find the road earth started to shake rapidly, huge sound of running engines started coming from the sky and as I looked up I saw bright white light coming straight down on my face from what looked like an alien spaceship. It was coming closer to mr faster and faster, my whole body started to shake with the ground. The light became brighter and brighter. I closed my eyes and the shaking increased even more. Terrible feeling swept across my whole body thinking some aliens are coming to pick me up and in a shock I opened my eyes and I saw my dad with a torch light trying to waking me up. He was screaming at me asking me to get up as it was getting dark, car engine was running and it was time to go home. I realised I was just dreaming. I was glad that it was just a dream and no aliens came to pick me up.