THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW I DIED…

      I hope you guys like this one as well. I's a little different but good I hope. Enjoy! 

   

    Where was I ?, yeah I just jumped off a cliff with absolutely no idea how to swim. You know how people say when you’re about to die your life flashes before your eyes?, well that’s not necessarily true at least not in my case. I kept thinking, this cannot possibly be it. I mean, I refuse to die like this. This is quite a pathetic way to die to be honest. If I’m going to die, let it be while trying to save someone’s life or something. Not because I practically committed suicide. It seemed like quite a long fall but I finally hit the water legs first and then everything just became blurry. I felt the waves slap against my body as I desperately tried to push myself up above the water. “What did Priya say again about floating?. Damn! I should really have paid attention. Ok I think she said to do the frog thing with my legs, wait no that’s for moving forward…or was it. Ok frog thing with my legs then I think she said push the water down with my arms”. None of it seemed to work because every time my head came up above the water, the waves would pour over my head again pushing me further down. I fought the waves with no luck and then finally I just gave up. Maybe it was my time to pass on to “the great beyond”, but isn’t one supposed to at least accomplish something before they die? I mean we all have a purpose for being on earth right?. You can’t tell me I’ve fulfilled my purpose already and didn’t even realize it”. I just let myself sink to the bottom of the lake. My eyes where closed at first , then I thought “If I’m going to die, I might as well see what’s at the bottom of the ocean first hand or in this case a lake or whatever. I’m not even sure what I fell in to.” So I opened my eyes and what did I see? A mermaid!. Yes a mermaid, or something that sure looked like one. This is something they don’t tell you about drowning. Maybe all that water somehow get’s into your brain and you start seeing things. Ok so I thought, maybe if I blinked it would be gone by the time I opened my eyes. WRONG.

       The mermaid like thing kept swimming towards me . It wasn’t exactly like what they show in those Disney cartoons. From what I could see, it didn’t have hair. More like a mass of really bright red molten substance flowing from its head and spilling all the way around its face while it swam forward, kinda like how hair would move in water. The light was so bright I found it hard to keep my eyes open, so I moved my arms to shield my eyes. The thing stopped right in front of me and a wave of panic hit me. I know that sounds ridiculous considering the fact that I was practically drowning, that is if I hadn’t already drowned. It had beige scales forming a nice pattern from it’s face all the way down to its waist. I looked down from to see if it had legs and if I wasn’t under water I would have screamed. It had the biggest fish tail. If it were a fish, it’d probably be a shark or something. Its tail was covered in shiny silver scales. By the time my eyes climbed back to its face, it was like its face had grown five times bigger. It had really big yellow eyes with cat-like pupils, no nose and just a thin line where a mouth is usually supposed to be. I jerked my head back in shock and the slit opened releasing a very long whip-like tongue. The tongue wrapped itself around my waist. It began to squeeze me so hard that I thought I was going to snap in half like a pencil. The pain became so unbearable that I passed out. Somewhere in my state of unconsciousness, I felt a slender arm pull me.  I felt the arm pull me upwards and then suddenly there was no more water around me. I heard a tiny voice call my name and shake me in panic. I recognized it to be Priya’s voice. She kept applying pressure on my chest and blowing air into my mouth. After a while, I felt myself slip back to consciousness. Almost like I was asleep and had been woken up. I began to cough and spit water out of my mouth, and then I tried to open my eyes. I could only make out Priya’s face vaguely so I blinked a few times more, and then I could see her clearly kneeling beside me all wet and red faced. She sighed in relief as I coughed some more and tried to sit up straight. She hugged me and started to sob. I don’t know if she realized I wasn’t quite strong enough to hold her and console her.

“I guess I should pay more attention to all your ramblings about swimming hunh”, I managed to say. She laughed weakly and released me.

“You scared the crap out of me, don’t ever do that again.”

“I’ll try not to”, replied trying to remember what I had seen down at the bottom of the lake.

“I saw something down there, a mermaid type thing”. I saw a flicker of shock followed by panic on Priya face but it disappeared almost immediately.

“I should get you to the hospital”

“I’m fine, I’m not crazy. I know what I saw”. I was frustrated that she thought I was talking crazy and was desperate to get her to believe me. She hugged me again and made little circles around my back with her palm as she whispered that everything would be fine. Yeah right, there’s a monster down there and it may decide to take anyone who swims there. I wonder what scared the monster off. Was it afraid of Priya? . Come to think of it, she always wore this weird pendant around her neck that had something that looked like a fish on it. I wondered if It had anything to do with the mermaid thing I saw. Did I say this was the story of how I died?, I meant ALMOST died.

THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW I DIED…

               This is a bit long but I hope it's worth it.I'll try to put up the continuation as soon as possible. Enjoy! 

   

       Let’s go 12hrs back in time. I was fast asleep, dreaming of my hot English-Lit professor. He had just mentioned at the end of his class that he’d like to discuss something with me. I panicked for a second, where my grades slipping? Or had he discovered I had practically copied my last paper off the web? Oh no!. OK Raine, breathe. You don’t want to get one of your panic attacks in front of Professor Hottie, that would just be mortifying. I slouched a little in my seat and waited for everyone to leave. When there was no one left but just us two, he narrowed his piercing eyes at me and said,

“Are you afraid I’m going to scold you or something? ‘cause you look terrified”.

I swallowed hard and gave him a nervous grin.

“Well you can relax because that’s not what I want to talk to you about.”

Then he started walking towards me and I couldn’t help but stare at his well toned body and biceps. Where does he find time to work out? He couldn’t be anything less than 40 but he still managed to look so damn sexy every single day and in whatever outfit he threw on. He was now standing directly in front of me and then he leaned forward and placed his hands on my desk so his piercing hazel eyes were staring directly at me.

“Actually what I wanted to say is…” He moved his face closer and I could feel his breath on my lips.I closed my eyes and leaned in,ready for the kiss of the century and then…. BUZZ. I was jolted awake by the sound of my buzzer going off. AARGH!!!, who was buzzing me at...I glanced at my alarm clock, 2AM!. I staggered angrily out of bed and walked  towards my door where the buzzer was, pressing the answer button and almost yelling ‘WHAT!’ at the person on the other end.

 “Geez It’s me Priya, open up!”, came the voice from the other end of the buzzer.

Great! Priya’s here. Now I’ll never know what Professor Hottie was going to say.

I opened my room door and walked back into my bed room and sat down on my bed desperately trying to recite every detail of the dream so I wouldn’t forget any of it. A few minutes later Priya walked in to my  room dressed in her pajamas and bedroom flip-flops, with a house robe hanging loosely from her shoulders and with…..wait, did she just walk all the way from her dorm to mine with face mask on, in the middle of the night?. Then again, that was Priya for you, a girl who took after her bohemian parents and therefore didn’t give a crap about the norms of society. We met on the first day of our freshman year in college. I was late for registrations and by the time I got to the hall, the line was so long. She was dressed in a yellow and black zebra print strapless dress with a multi colored scarf around her head and a lot of what looked like handmade jewelry, oh and she wore brown leather cow boy boots. She was the last on the line so I walked up and stood behind her. She didn’t seem to care that she looked totally ridiculous in her ensemble which was what struck me most about her. As I walked up behind her, she turned around and took the sight of me in with her heavily dark made up eyes as if to consider if I was someone she could possibly be friends with.

“Guess your parents too thought it would be a ‘great’ idea to ship you off to this island to study hunh?”,which was exactly what I had been thinking from the moment my flight landed on this pretty yet a little secluded island. I smiled at her and she smiled back and that was beginning of an interesting friendship.

        So back to the present….

 “You know you could scare the shit out of someone with that face mask”. I pointed out.

  “I’m sorry Raine,I couldn’t sleep with that jerk next door blasting his heavy metal music”.

“Don’t you just hate that?”, I replied absentmindedly.

“Hate is such a strong word”,she said very matter-of-factly. I couldn’t be bothered with Priya and all her bohemian crap at the moment. I was too busy being pissed at not being able to finish my dream.

“You where dreaming about Professor Aron again weren’t you?,that’s why you’re in such a foul mood”

“I’m in a foul mood because you woke me up at this very ungodly hour”

She chuckled and threw herself on my bed, taking off her robe and flip-flops and tossing it on the floor.

“You were having a steamy dream about him”, she teased

 “Let’s just get some sleep ok?”, I said trying to avoid any further teasing.

“Yeah.If you don't sleep with him, I will and it won't be to get my grades up 'cause I get straight As in his course anyway",she giggled. “Oh and by the way, we’re going down by the lake tomorrow morning to continue your swimming lessons”. Priya was appalled by the fact that I didn’t know how to swim and she was determined to teach me . I slumped back on my bed beside her and muttered goodnight as I started to drift off to sleep again.

    The next morning, we were up early and were just getting ready to head off to the lake when Priya remembered she’d come over in her pjs.

“Oh shoot, I don’t have anything to wear, do you still have that t-shit and those shorts I left in your room the other day?”. She’d left this tie and dye t-shirt and yellow shorts from the last time we went swimming and  had to swim in them because she didn’t have any underwear on.Only Priya would leave her house without any underwear. After she’d finally forced me to put on the tiny shorts she bought for me for my birthday which I hated wearing because I felt my ass kept hanging out of it, we were finally ready to go.

      We took the route through the woods to get to the lake,as we did our usual early morning gossip. We were just talking about the girl that was announced missing a few days ago when we heard voices in front of us. They sounded like they were arguing about something. Priya was still going on about how creepy the whole missing girl situation was, when I shushed her. We crept closer and crouched behind a tree not very far from what looked like two men standing behind a truck were. We watched as they dragged out a rather large bin bag out of the back of the truck. For a few seconds, I couldn’t make out what the content of the bin bag was and then it dawned on me. OH MY GOD!!!. Priya was probably thinking the same thing because she gasped and covered her hand over her mouth to stop herself from screaming. It looked like they were carrying a body. I could make out the head and shoulders, and the other guy was dragging the body by the ankles. We watched in horror as these very questionable characters argued about where to bury the body. They started yelling after a while and we could hear the conversation.

“I told you not to put too much in her drink, just enough to knock her out for a few hours,but no. You always have to do it your way don’t you.”,one of them said.

“The bitch had it coming,she should have known better than to call me a  stupid punk in front of my frat brothers.”, the other replied, dragging the body as he spoke. I turned to Priya too see if she was as terrified as I was. To my complete horror, she was making a face like she was about to sneeze. Oh God! , she’s going to get us killed. Priya was one of those people who liked to be overly dramatic about sneezing.

“Shit, what do I do?, think fast!”,ok usually when I don’t want to sneeze out loud,I pinch my nose. So I horridly grabbed her nose just as she was about to sneeze……Didn’t work.

ACHU!!!

I froze. Ok that wasn’t so loud,so hopefully they didn’t hear. WRONG.

The men both stopped and stared in our direction. They looked at each other as if they were doing some sort of communication with their eyes and then one of then put his hand inside his jacket and pulled out a small gun. The other dropped the part of the body he was holding and did the same.

SHIT!!!

As they started creeping towards us,Priya whispered “RUN!” to me and with that, we started racing towards the left where there were less trees.

    My heart was beating fast and I could hear the blood pounding in my ears. As I ran behind Priya, I kept thinking, “This can’t be it for me,I’m only 21. My life has barely begun”. I could hear Priya panting as she raced on, and behind me the heavy footsteps of the two men chasing us. I couldn’t see where we were going because the branches of the tress made the path a little dark.  After what seemed like forever, I could finally see brightness and before I could thank my stars, I realized we were approaching the edge of a cliff. “Oh God, we are so dead!”. Priya got to the edge of the cliff before me and she yelled “JUMP!” .Before I could register what was going on she had disappeared.

“What the hell did she say that for?,she knows I can’t swim". I stopped just at the edge and turned around and I could see the silhouette of the two men approaching. I couldn’t move, I kept watching their shadows until I could actually see them. Then I knew I had two options. Stand there and get shot or jump and possibly drown. With every second I wasted contemplating, the men drew closer. The first man was very close now and started raising his arm with the gun in it when I just decided that I’d rather die drowning than get shot and with that,I juMped…... TO BE CONTINUED.

New blog...YAY!!!

   Ok,so I decided to create a new blog. I kinda got bored of the last one. I haven't decided what I'd put up here yet. Probably my stories because well i'm not good at writing about real life situations....or maybe I will,whatever feels right at the time I guess. It's past mind-night right now and I really should be asleep because I have to be up early tomorrow. I'm quite spontaneous and this isn't something I really thought through so i'm a bit tongue tied on this first post,the second should be more interesting hopefully. Anyway, I'm going to share one of my recent short stories. It's something I came up with while listening to Beyonce's All I could do was cry. I'm always inspired by music, in fact i've never written a story without blasting music from my ipod. I fear for my hearing abilities in the future due to excessive use of earphones with considerable loud music coming from them but anyway,I digress.
So,yeah here's my little story. I hope it's interesting enough.
    
                                        MY INSTINCTS NEVER LIE
    So I’m sitting here on this very uncomfortable church bench, about to witness the love of my life get married to the most pretentious bitch I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting. How can he not see her for what she really is? How can anyone not see?. This is not me being jealous and bitter because he broke up with me for something I can only describe as a silly little misunderstanding, and just three months later he decided to get married to this prissy heifer. Ok so maybe I got a little carried away with my keys when I had that nagging feeling he was cheating on me, my instincts never lie. No really, they’ve never been wrong before. Like that time when I was 15 and Emma told mom she had to stay back in school after hours because she was on the debate team and she was a very important member. My instincts told me she was sneaking around with that boy Tony and I was right because 9 months later she dropped the bomb on all of us. She was always slow that one, didn’t she know what a condom was? . Now where was I….oh yes, why Terry broke up with me. I had this nagging feeling Terry was going back to his old ways of being a two timing ass hole and when I have that very annoying nagging feeling, I can’t sleep or get anything done until I get rid of it. I had a feeling it was that red haired waitress at the coffee shop he all of a sudden started visiting much too often for comfort. Why wouldn’t I think something fishy was up? He doesn’t drink coffee for heaven’s sake.

      Being the good girl friend I was , I asked him in the calmest way possible why he liked going to that coffee shop so much all of a sudden. He brushed me off and said they had the best muffins in town. Not a very convincing answer. No further questions asked, I decided to get in my Nancy Drew mode and find out what my boyfriend was up to. I asked to go with him and try out these supposedly awesome muffins. He didn’t object because of course if he did, that would look a little fishy wouldn’t it. As soon as we walked in the shop , the red hair bitch almost fell over rushing  to be at his service. She slowed down when she saw me behind Terry. They both tried to play it cool but I could tell there was some sort of tension between them. Their muffins weren’t all that. In fact, those where probably the worst muffins I’ve ever tasted in my life….or maybe it’s just because I was very upset that my suspicions were being confirmed. Emma said I was just being paranoid that I should give it a rest. When I told her about the ‘tension’ , she said it was probably a harmless crush and that Terry loved me and would never do anything to hurt me. Like I said, she was always slow. I decided to give them 3 months to get to know each other well. Well enough to possibly start mashing genitals. I mean if she was a decent enough girl ,  she’d wait at least that long before she got intimate with a guy she just met.

         My instincts told me one Saturday morning to tell Terry I had to go out of town for an impromptu business meeting. What? Being a personal shopper is a very important job. Anyway I left the house very early in the morning and went to the far side of town to do a bit of shopping while I waited for Terry to bring his little heifer home. Knowing Terry that’s exactly what he’d do, well that’s what he usually did when he used to be a ‘player’. I got bored of the shops 8 hours later and headed home. On the bus ride home I actually considered the fact that I just might be wrong this time. Terry tolerated me a lot. More than most guys would. For someone who used to screw around a lot , he seemed to have eyes for only me  since we started dating. I hopped off the bus in a very good mood , my head buzzing with naughty things I could do to make up for not trusting him. I decided to stop by the little grocery shop a few blocks away from his apartment to buy some potatoes to make pot roast, his favorite. Still in a good mood, half skipping with my bag of groceries in on hand and approaching the apartment, I decided to look up at his window to see what he was up to. I expected to see his silhouette bending over a canvas but NO! .I saw the silhouette of girl in what looked like her underwear. She looked like she was talking to him. I was shocked to say the least and all that rage I let go seemed to rush back in to my lungs. As if that was not enough , I saw him walk towards her and help her put on a shirt. I looked down at my keys in my free hand and a brilliant idea popped into my head. No need walking in there and causing a scene, after all he did say I had quit doing that. So I took my keys and left a very nice present for him on his car. It satisfied me more knowing he’d just gotten the paint job done. I was about to storm back down the street when I realized I hadn’t quite done enough. I decided to be creative with my potatoes. I stuck one in his exhaust pipe, I saw that in a movie once. Classic!.

        Long story short, he broke up with me in court. He told me he hadn’t been cheating on me and that what I saw was him giving Katy (that’s the heifer’s name) her shirt back after he’d cleaned it up for her because he had spilled coffee on her. Again, where did the coffee come from?. Everybody is standing up now. I can’t believe I let Emma talk me into coming to this stupid wedding. Just because Katy babysits for her doesn’t mean I should be here. I mean it’s not my kid we’re talking here. She’s walking down the aisle now. Urgh!! Look at her. What an ugly wedding dress. Some people just don’t have taste. Who made her bouquet anyway?.Lilac and pink, really?. Could she walk any slower?

‘Dearly beloved, we are gathered here…..’

I’ve always wondered why the priests always say that at every wedding. Couldn’t they be more creative? .I think I’ll just tune out till this silly charade ends. Emma so owes me for this.

 ‘Do you Terry Anderson, take Katy Summers to be your lawfully wedded wife, to love and to hold. In sickness and in health till death do you part?’

‘I do’

Oh he has no idea what he’s getting into, my instincts tell me she’s a manipulative wolf in sheep clothing.

‘Do you Katy Summers, take Terry Anderson to be your lawfully wedded husband, to love and to hold. In sickness and in health till death do you part?’

‘I do’

 How can anyone not see that pretentious smile and how she uses those big brown eyes to hypnotize him?

‘Now if anyone here objects to these two being joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace’

Wouldn’t it be interesting if at this very moment……

 Suddenly some burts into the church, panting…..

‘KATY!!!!, what are you doing?, you’re getting married?. I thought we were just on a break’

There’s a grave yard silence all around the church and every head turns to face the intruder….

‘Umm, and who might you be young man’,asks the priest

‘I’m Jason, Katy’s fiance’.

There’s mumbling going on amongst the guests as they exchange puzzled gazes at each other.

HA!! I KNEW IT!!. Ooohoohoo, who’s laughing now?