The Boy At The House (1)

Let me tell you about The Boy At The House. Actually this is the story about "BG". Or the "Bible Gang" as they also are called. A rather powerful name, since the Bible is something of dynamite you could say. A book with power. Anyway. The "Bible gang", who are they? Well, they are a bunch of youngsters who live at the sea. Would you like to live at the sea too? Not? Well, read another story then!

Okay, who are they then, so we can start the story some time? Well, they are Daniel, Gina, Dilan, Luke and Paula. And what then is so special with them? Well, first hand, they solve all kinds of problems! But not just any way, but with help from God himself. Because the Bible Gang is, as you might have understood, Christians. When they face a problem they pray and search in the Bible after advice about what to do. And then problems get solved! Most of the time at least. But not always exactly the way they thought they would of course.

How old are these youngsters? They are around 12. Daniel and Gina are the oldest, they might be even 13. Luke and Dilan, well, they are just a little bit younger. And Paula is the youngest, she is only 10. I think. It doesn't really matter for now. Because they are young, yes, you could almost say they are kids. But then again, maybe not totally, because they usually face things that only grown-ups should face. And sometimes they might be even wiser than grown-ups, but I suppose that's because God himself helps them.

No, now you must hear this story. BG, let us call them that, live at the sea. In a little village called Fair. Fair is situated at a quite rocky coast, and in "Little Fair" as people usually call this little fishing village, live quite many fishermen. Daniel, Gina and all the tothers live with their families, who live in Fair.

One morning the sun was up early. Well, maybe because it was summer. All BG:ers were sleeping except Dilan. He couldn't sleep this night. Maybe because he was invited to drink a cup of coffee yesterday? So grouse! But he acted as if he liked it. Anyway, what to do when you can't sleep? Go to the beach of course! Especially when the sun is up. So Dilan went down to the beach. There is a beach in Fair, a rather long one, almost half a mile. Well, that's long at this coast that is rather rocky elsewhere. Dilan actually liked just to hang out on the beach, and this morning he thought he would collect some shells or just look for interesting things that might have been washed up on the beach by the waves.

So Dilan sits there and has collected quite a bit of shells and petrified animals or fossils as they are called, when he suddenly catches sight of a little boat on the sea. Yes, a little boat, not bigger than a dinghy it seems. Dilan stairs. The seagulls sail around and and block the sight a little, and the sun isn't that high yet, so it's not that easy to see. But surely it is a little dinghy bobbing out there! Dilan thinks. Why is a dinghy bobbing a hundred yards on the sea just like that? No clue!

He stands there and waits for a bit. The dinghy actually is coming closer slowly. The waves slowly push it towards the shore. Or if it is the current, because there are hardly any waves at this time. But after a while it is defnitely closer and Dilan wades out in the water to meet it. "Can I take care of the dinghy?" he thinks. "It might need an owner?" And directly he wonders if that was a too egoistic thought. But no, he concludes, there was something good in it too, and he smiles.

Now the dinghy is very close. It's going to be exciting to see what there is in it! He wades out just a bit more. And looks in it... And then Dilans's heart beats twice and he gets totally cold.
There, on the bottom of the dinghy, is a boy.