"How'd it get like that?"

"You're asking me? How should I know?"

The two brothers sat upon one of the hundreds of thousands of boulders that made up the shore line, drizzled with mist from the lapping waves rolling in to their front. They both twisted their necks and stared to their left - the focus of their attention: a deep sky blue colored residence, only half hanging on to a solid pier, while the rest of the small, one story house, which was contorted diagonally , clung to the emptiness of about twenty-five meters that made up the space between the home and the rocky shore below. The face of the dwelling seemed to stare out into the sea, with each of the two windows on the protruding side appearing almost as eyes.

"Well, I mean, what do you think happened?" asked the smaller of the two brothers, his mouth still hanging slack jawed from the odd sight.

"They didn't build it like that, that's for sure!" laughed the other.

"So?"

"So what? A storm blew it over there, or a tsunami picked it up and dropped it there. Some sort of natural phenomenon is my guess. If there're residents, they're lucky, that's for sure."

The tinier brother's eyes widened. "A storm? Storms can get that big, that strong? To move a house right down a bridge? I've nev--"

"It's not a bridge, Adam, it's a pier. Besides, that's just my guess. Maybe they did build it that way!" He coughed out those words in a chuckle. "Those idiots!"

Adam, unsatisfied with the answer, kept his gaze on the house. A frown crept across his face. "Tommy?" he asked, eyes glued to the blue building.

"What is it now?"

"Do you think maybe the house just wanted to enjoy the view?" he inquired innocently with wonder in his tone.

At this, Tommy barked a laugh. "Adam, you think the house got up and moved itself over there? It's a building, buddy, it doesn't 'enjoy views'. It's not alive, you know."

"Are you sure?"

Tommy continued to show teeth through an amused grin. "I'm sure, bud." he said, and looked back out to the ocean sprawled in front of them.

And just then, when only Adam's eyes held upon the home on a pier, he saw a window close and quickly reopen, as if to wink at him in knowing.