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| Annika - 7th Grade |
Mr. Quinn jumped into the water
with a splash! His daughter Kasey looked frightened standing at the edge of the
boat. It had been almost a year since
her last time in the ocean. “Come on!”
coaxed her father. “The water’s great!”
Shaking her head, Kasey paced the perimeter of the deck above her
swimming father. She wasn’t going in the
water until she was sure it was safe.
“I don’t
want to.” Kasey’s hands were on her hips.
“Remember what happened the last time?”
Shuddering, she began rewinding the tape of her life to last summer. “We
were at that beach with the clear water, right?”
“The Boracay Beach
“Anyways…,”
Kasey began. Mr. Quinn and Eugenia
listened patiently for the billionth time to Kasey’s story. It had been right
after the tide came in. Her father waded in and asked Kasey to join him. She did. But to her dismay, Kasey saw two
small sharks lurking near her. She’d
seen them, let’s just say, viciously devour a small jellyfish. It happened not four feet from her body
.
Kasey
snapped back into the present. She
peered into the clear waters below. She
could see no sharks. Deciding it was time to face her fear, Kasey took a deep
breath and plunged into the warm water.
The water felt refreshing, giving her a break from
the hot-as-sulfur sun. She had fought
her fears and there were no sharks!
Being in the water wasn’t so scary after all.
Short
Story
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