A Symphony in Shorts

Save Me! [Part 1]

                                             Save Me!

Raizel is a freshman in high school. Her best friends keep having fights (and they always seem to start because of her), everyone at school thinks she has a temper problem, and she doesn't really fit in with anyone. Not to mention that her best friend of ten years hasn't been very nice lately. Seeing her in distress, her guardian angel comes down to Earth.

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Ten years ago . . . Easter Day

The Easter egg hunt was over and Brooke and I counted our eggs. Our parents stood by, grinning from ear to ear and snapping pictures of us in our pretty dresses. Brooke Carter was my best friend. She was pretty in my parents and younger brother's eyes. I didn't completely agree with this notion. Brooke had long dark red hair, a round face, and, according to my mother, an adorable amount of baby fat.

"I have ten eggs," I declared gleefully.

Brooke was still counting hers.

"How many eggs do you have, honey?" Brooke's mom asked.

She bit her lip as she said, "Somewhere between fifteen and twenty. I lost count a few times."

Our two families burst into deafening cheers and crowded around her, congratulating her and hugging her. They didn't even bother to recount her eggs. And at that moment I realized something: I couldn't even beat my friend in Easter egg hunting. My own family chose her and her accomplishments over me.

Eyes brimming with tears, I ran. I didn't know how long or how far but I ran until my lungs were about to collapse. I sank to the ground and cried. Through my blurry vision, I made out sand and water. I was at the beach, I concluded. Almost everywhere you turned in my small town, you would either see beach or water. We didn't live on an island, but at the tip of a peninsula.

Water licked at the sand and I felt overwhelmed by the sudden eerie calmness that filled me. I stared into the glinting sea. A monster wave was rushing towards the shore and I couldn't think of what to do until it was too late and the wave had crashed to the spot where I sat.

When I woke up, I was in my dad's minivan. I was soaking wet and shivering with the cold, but I was just thankful that I hadn't drowned when I was swept out to sea.

"Thank you," I said, looking up towards the blue sky.

"You're welcome."

I shrieked and spun around like a top. In the driver's seat was a boy about my age. "Did you save me?" I questioned, doubtfully.

He nodded. "It's sort of my job."

"To save young girls that get hit by giant waves?"

"To save you. I'm your guardian angel you know."

I was speechless for a second. Someone slammed on the glass and he disappeared.

"Was that a boy?" Brooke shrieked. She gawked at the front seat.

I decided not to tell her. I didn't need her getting a guardian angel too.

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