Message In A Bottle

I was just sitting in the wet sand, letting the waves wash over me, when something hard hit my foot.

I resisted the urge to kick it and instead looked first, picking up a glass bottle, a letter rolled up inside it.

Beyond the shock of finding an actual message in a bottle, it looked like you saw in media, with barnacles and seaweed wrapped around it.

It took me a while, but I eventually managed to pull out the letter.

Before I could read it, an unexpectedly large wave hit me and disintegrated it.

Probably should have moved first.