On Fire

I flung my body into the air in a strategic yet dysfunctional way. My arms flailed in the

whispy sky hitting the clouds as the whooshed by. The butterflies in my stomach slowly faded

away and my stomach started burning. I felt like I was on fire. My foot was heavy and had a

heartbeat. I didn’t know what to do I was a baby bird flapping my wings aimlessly trying to fly but

only falling closer to the water. The mist of the waterfall behind me sprayed my back and sent

chills down my legs and up my spine.

As my body plunged into the scaley water I flexed every muscle in my body. The pain

from my foot was so overpowering that when my head finally was submerged in the water I had

forgotten how to swim. After a few seconds of confusion and excitement I kicked and flapped

with extreme power. The water around me was swirling in so many directions that when I broke

the surface my head looked like a message in a bottle floating through the deterrent sea. I let

my lungs fill up with as much oxygen as they could hold, almost exploding.

After catching the first breath I couldn’t seem to set the world right side up, my heart was

still racing and my head felt like it was on backwards. I looked down at my foot to see nothing

but red, crimson, magenta, all different shades and colors. My eyes focused in and my toe was

spewing blood. My spine stiffened and my neck felt like jelly. My face went cold and my lungs

forgot how to work. I was in shock and the pain was excruciating. My friends were all celebrating

my terrific jump but I was a wall, just standing on the rocks, existing, not moving. I tried to walk

but my limbs were frozen, I collapsed on to the rocky surface. My eyes went hazy like a cloudy

day in early January.

Seconds felt like days and I thought I was floating through space on a magic carpet, just

riding through the sky enjoying the view. My foot still burned and my lungs still had a hard time

remembering how to do their job. My vision slowly started to become three dimensional as the

magic carpet disappeared and I was back to myself. I blinked a couple times, flustered, not sure

whether to cry, scream, or laugh. My foot was on fire and I just stared at the sand.