It was a beautiful sunny day we were close by a beach. We made it through the day looking through stores and exploring new tastes. We did so much but time passed by so fast that the sky is already settling into it's new color. One last place she said. I just need to go to one last place. Since no one else would step up to accompany her, I did. We decided to drive to the beach.
During the car ride, I saw clouds beginning to form. The car felt to go faster and faster each time you hear a big wave hit shore. And it only grew louder and louder and louder and louder! I was so confused and so nervous. I didn't know what was going on. I could hardly move my head to the left or right, I could hardly sit upright. I only looked up and watched the sky as it starts to dim. Before I know it, we're here and she was.. nowhere left to be found? I'm finally able to sit upright.
I look to the driver's seat and see that the door is left open. That's weird, she wouldn't leave me here without telling me. I unbuckle my seatbelt as quiet as I can. For I fear that maybe someone else may be near. And quickly after a man approached behind the car, I slouched down my seat. What if someone took her? What if he took her? Then the drivers door slams shut. I cover my head with my arms and start to lose my calm. Where could she be! If I stay here I might just be hurt. I might just be gone! or maybe even worse.. dead.
I groan and I weep for help but of course none of this helped. I am still here. I'm not even trying to get out. So I start to the door very cautiously. And this isn't even the hard part! My hand stops when I have just the right amount of space to get out of the car. I slowly start to slip out of the car. Foot first, then the rest. The first touch on the floor, I can already feel what lays ahead. I feel what I have to do. I know what I have to do! It is to go over.. there. I close the door shut reassuring I am okay. And something beat me to it because without a single thought or felt of movement I was here.
I was here when the clouds were turning dark. I was here when the sun was soon to set. I was here when the waves grew more rapid and bigger. I was here when a tide was coming in. I am here. "This is my boat get off!" the voice says. I cannot make out if it is a guy or girl. I honestly can't tell. I don't understand anything but I feel my life depends on me holding onto this boat and getting this man to either help me or just die in the waters. And in a blink of an eye he was gone. Gone? did a large wave take him? Did he just give up? what happened? I looked around with arms stuck to a small boat and notice right in front of me, there is she. I have so many questions to ask, so many. Like what happened in the car. Where did she go. Why did she take me here. How did I get this far into the ocean. Why am I fighting the waves to stay on this boat? And before I could speak any words, I close my eyes and put my head under water. With no question or hesitation I went. And I opened my eyes to a view so beautiful so frightful, yet so fantastic.
I see the underwater creatures bright and clear. Like as if the sun has set from the sky and is now hitting the ocean giving it its bright glowing color. I take my head out of the water and straight away notice the clouds were gone but no sun to be found. Then I notice the waves have dimmed down. It Isn't so hard and scary as before, it wasn't. It was calm and relaxing. Great for a boat to sail. I try getting myself on the boat to tell what I saw. To speak of how beautiful it looked underwater to her. Yet, I couldn't get up. So I spoke from down here. "There are sharks down there." And with that one sentence said she was trying to make the boat go back to shore. or so I thought. And before I knew it the boat has disappeared, but we were fine.
We still had each other. We were fairly close to the shore too. I go underwater to a more bigger breathtaking sight. This looks like Dory, Finding dory. There's the whale shark and big fishes and other creatures. Even anchors and weapons. Yet the animals here didn't seem so big. Though it was still very big in our minds. Yes, she joined me to look around the waters until I feel her hand on my shoulder and I quickly get my head up and out of the water. Then she looks towards large rock that seems to take us to the shore. So we grab hold and start to move using the rock to help us. And with the blink of an eye, we were out. Free from the waters. Free from the oceans sight. Not at the hotel, not at a store, not even a restaurant. We were back in our car. Our original car, not rented. Again with our family.
I hold two toys and tell the stories of the ocean we were in. And as I told those stories my eyes kept zooming out from what was right in front of me. It zoomed out so far I could see the outside of the car and the people inside, including me. And you know what I noticed? I kept getting younger each second you can hear the hard ocean wave hit the rocks on the shore.
