What happens when lightning hits sand

    “Hey, do you know what happens when sand gets hit by lightning?” He said as he walked out of the dunes, when he had walked in front of us he threw a piece of glass next to us and said “it turns into glass. ”

Me and my friend Sophie were getting ready for our hike to Westhaven, we had done it before but never all the way from my house, in Mckinleyville. We didn’t pack that much and the day before we had found a new route to the beach. It seemed like we had already walked for hours when we got to Morris school we were on our way to her grandmas house, which was where the trail started.

When we got to the trail we started looking for a quicker way down to the river, which we saw the day before but we weren't sure if it led down to the right trail so we didn’t take it; When we found a safe looking shortcut we walked down a tree trunk and jumped onto the right trail. After about fifteen more minutes of walking down the trail we got to the fork where we had taken a left onto the river side. Walked and walked until we got to a huge log that must have came down the river, we didn't see it the day before but we may have passed it when we went up onto a hill to get away from a couple of scary looking pitbulls; we rested there and ate some of our pretzels and nutella. We passed seals on the other side of the river and found some sticks that we used for walking sticks. After that we  took a few more rest and since we didn’t want to cross the river we walked along it, it got pretty steep but we kept walking, finally until we got to where it was shallow enough to walk across then after walking about twenty more minutes we got to Clam Beach ,we got next to the parking lot and put down the two towels that we brought from my house and laid down to rest.

    Thats when we saw him he was a man in his early forties walk out of the dunes, he was in raggedy clothes and asked if we knew what happened when lightning hit the sand; without either of us answering he said it turns into glass and threw a piece of glass next two us.

We were really scared but then he asked “do you guys know if there are any police in the parking lot?”

Why would he want to know if there are police in the parking lot, and why is he talking to us?

Thats when Sophie spoke “No we haven’t been in the parking lot yet” and he said “oh well do you know what happens when lightning hits the sand?” And sophie said “it turns into glass?” “Ya how’d you know!?” Then he layed down next to us behind some beach grass and said “i don’t really like being around people, but you guys are okay” after about a minute of silence and me and sophie staring at each other She said “Well we have to go my mom is on her way and she’s going to be getting here soon”, “oh well remember to show her the glass, and remember what happens when lightning hits the sand” he said.

    When we got into Sophie’s car we told her about the man and she said how dangerous he could have been, we knew it was dangerous but found what he said kind of funny. During the car ride i kept thinking about the man we had met; and about what he was saying