sand castles and fun time in the sun time

Leila's bare toes wiggled in the warm sand when she set foot onto the beach, immediately relishing in the bright sunlight and the calm sound of waves lapping against the shore. She squealed excitedly like a child and scouted the area for the perfect area. There. The spot was a good ten feet away from the water where half the sand was moist with sea water and half of it was still perfectly dry to the touch. She ran over there and nestled herself comfortably with her towel (in case she decided to go into the water) and her book (in case she got bored) next to her along with her bucket and shovel. The daughter of Epione tied her dark and messy hair up into a ponytail and rolled the sleeves of her white cardigan up with her eyebrows furrowed in determination. She was going to make the best sand castle ever in the history of sand castles and nobody would ever compete her goal of first place in her imaginary contest.

Leila looked up and instantly looked back down as she blinked furiously from being blinded by the sun. Once her vision of dark spots cleared, she glanced back up with a hand over her eyes to block the light away from it. It was a boy and the boy spoke, asking if he could join. Hmm, that was certainly a question. She thought about it for a moment before throwing on a carefree smile with a shrug, "Sure! The more the merrier, right? Besides, maybe even with your help, we can build a bigger sand castle than I could on my own."
She started drawing in the sand with a stray stick she had found- thinking of what it could look like and how they would make it. She dropped her stick abruptly and held out her hand. "I'm Leila by the way. Nice to meet you! What's your name?"

"Thanks!" Leila beamed at Will with another smile. Truth be told she thought that her artistic skills were average bordering below average but she was glad to hear that he thought she wasn't as bad as she presumed. She considered her singing better than her crappy drawings but then again, it wasn't like she was a daughter of Apollo or anything. Now those were some kids who could sing. She ditched the stick and trying to plan out how to make the sand castle and just started making it. Whatever it was. She formed lumps of moist sand together and started carving it down into actually shapes with slender fingers.
"So who's your godly parent?" Leila asked curiously. She thought he might be a Hestia or Apollo kid since he seemed so warm and friendly. It was nice to find someone so easy going in a camp full of teenagers and their angst.

"Apollo? Wow that is pretty cool but I've heard from some other campers that your dad is actually pretty hot so..." Leila trailed off with a laugh. Oh gods someone needed to stop her from making such horrible puns. She noticed how he was making a turret parallel to her own and got the idea of what he might've been thinking. Connect it together when they were finished with their own little buildings. Or at least thats what she thought he was thinking. She'd never been really good on reading people's thoughts. Only emotion.
She pushed back a strand of hair that had fallen in her face behind her ear and glanced up at the boy before talking. "My mom's Epione. Not part of the big twelve but I think she's awesome in her own way."