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Margie and Mike decided to spend part of the day by the pool. They filled the cooler with their favorites. Margie wanted a couple of mimosas. Mike made up a pitcher of Shandy, his favorite cheap pilsner mixed with lemonade with sliced lemons. They threw in some bottled water and some fresh fruit as well.

They took turns diving, and then they floated around and did some laps. The usual swimming stuff. Then they laid out their beach towels to lay out and get some sun.

“We deserve this.” Margie said.

“I don’t know if we deserve it, but I’ll take it, it’s been a long week.” Mike replied.

They applied their sunscreen and poured a couple of drinks, and finally got themselves comfortable under the warmth of the day.

Margie lifted herself up to take a sip of her mimosa. She thought she saw something reflecting in the pool for a second.

“Oh my goodness.” She said.

“What?” Mike asked.

“Nothing, I thought I saw something reflecting in the pool, but there is nothing to reflect.” She answered.

She had some of her drink, and laid back down. As she went back to lay down, she thought for a moment that she saw it again.

“That’s so weird.” She says.

“We should set a watch timer in case we fall asleep, I know I could fall asleep today, for sure.” Mike said, and he raised himself up to grab his watch and set the timer for 20 minutes.

“Wait a minute.” He said.

“What now?” Margie asked.

“It looked for a moment that there was something reflecting in the pool, like you said. It’s not there now.” Mike replied.

“There’s nothing in the sky but a few clouds, and there’s nothing above the pool to reflect.” Margie said, as she sat up. Now they are both sitting up and looking at the sky, in all directions, and they are puzzled.

Mike changes his angle as he looks at the pool. He slowly raises and lowers his eye level.

“At a certain angle I can see something, but it’s opaque, and it’s creeping me out.”

Margie does the same thing, and she confirms Mike’s observation.

“It’s only visible at a certain angle, the way the light refracts off the surface of the water.” Margie adds.

They both bob their heads up and down around that angle, and they concur that this is an odd anomaly.

“It looks like some kind of ship, like a UFO or a flying saucer thing.” Margie says.

“I wonder if someone is playing with a drone.” Mike says.

“There must be something in the sky somewhere, that we can’t see from here. Light is playing tricks on us.” Mike asserts. “It’s like a mirage type thing.”

The two of them walk all around the pool, and they are changing their eye level at each area of the pool.

“It only happens kind of over where the towels are, that’s the only place I can see this.” Margie says.

“Yeah, me too.” Mike adds.

“I’m going to get a ladder and go up on the roof and see what I can see from there.” Mike tells her.

As Mike is retrieving the ladder, Margie continues examining the surface of the pool from various angles, and all around the perimeter of the pool.

Once on the roof, Mike walks all over the top of the flat roof of the house.

“I can’t see a darn thing in the sky, as far as I can see.” He yells down to Margie.

She yells up to him. “Yep, nothing’s changed down here, it’s still there when look at it just right, at that same angle.”

Mike comes down from the roof and rejoins Margie. They sit down on their towels.

“Should we tell anyone about this?” Mike asks. “Who would we call about something like this?”

“It’s pretty weird.” Margie says. “If you told me about it, and I didn’t see it myself, I’d think you were lying for attention.”

Mike agrees. “Yeah, that’s probably what people will say if we tell anyone.”

The two of them continue to angle their heads just right, several times, and see the strange reflection come and go as they do. Just then, the surface of the pool where they see the weird little craft’s reflection starts to ripple, it becomes disturbed and there is slight turbulence.

“It’s gone.” Mike says. “I don’t see it anymore, it’s not there.” He says as he angles his head around.

“Yep, me too. Not there.” Margie says. “I’m going to need more mimosa.” She adds.

“I should have gotten stronger beer.” Mike replies.

The End.

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