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Fire Eyes (English Assignment 2012)

Heyo Kids. Yes this was an english assignment and i got 19/20 for it :) Which is okay I guess, I was kinda aiming for full marks since I want to be an Author (and heaps of other things aswell.)  Sorry, if that makes look kinda weird or rude. But I dunno, It just wanted that. Ya know?

Anyway they gave us pictures to base the story off. Mine was a picture of a family hanging their feet of a jetty with a sunset and boats.

Anyway hope you like it :)

Everyone has fear. It’s the thing that comes every time your brain is not ready for something. It’s like when you’re alone in the house and you begin to hear strange noises or maybe before you enter a dark room and think when you turn on the light there is going to be a scary figure with a bloody knife. Those are curable fears. My fear is a fear that cannot be cured.

My fear begins in my past, my nightmare past.

Fire erupted all around me. The heat scorched my wall full of photos and slithered it’s self towards me. The smoke choked me with a tight grip. I screamed out but my lungs caught my voice making come out as a pathetic squeak. The only way out of my room was through the 2 storey jump window. I wasn’t ready, fear caressed it’s self all throughout me, making me a servant under its power. My mother burst through the door and held me close no matter how much the fire burned. She gave me a look that said its okay. I looked towards the window which now was beginning to get covered by flames.  My mum picked me up like a baby and burst open the window. Down below the window was a mass of fire fighters, police and doctors. I gave one last look at my mother and she nodded. “I love you darling.” And she let go. I shouted and screamed as I saw her being eaten by the flames.

Even though I saw my mother die, as I fell I felt a calm. It was a weird calm though like everything was okay but I knew it wasn’t.  Was this calm like the one before the storm? Or was it that because I was under the fires spell too long that I began to hallucinate?

These questions erupt through my head every day.  How do I answer them? And how do I get that calm that I once had back again?

~~~~ 5 years later

After the big incident, dad felt like we all needed a big change. With that big change it meant that we all moved far away. As we left in our car with my big brother, I felt as though I left something behind, like a little piece of me was lost in all the rubble.

When dad meant far away, he really meant it, we changed whole different scenery.  We changed to the beach. At first I wasn’t overly excited with the idea. I thought of tsunamis and giant waves but after a while I though the better, water= no fire.

My mother’s death brought great grief over me; I had graphic nightmares of fires. I began to see that if I was anywhere near fire I would be engulfed by a single flame. So when it came to birthdays I would wish without the candles. In science when we had Bunsen burners I would exit the room and go straight to the library or counsellor.

It wasn’t all bad. I just missed out on a few things here and there but when my friends decided to help me face my fear, my incurable fear. I wasn’t ready for what they had in store.

~~~

“We should really help her with her fear, don’t cha reckon Matt?”

“Yea, we should Karina.” Replied Matt

Karina and Matt whispered quietly all throughout science class with their plans to help Ember with her fear.

“That’s perfect!” Shouted Karina.

“Karina please stop shouting!” Scolded the Science teacher busily trying to clean up some broken glass that some kid had spilled.

Later that day

“Hey Ember!” Karina happily called out in the hallway full of lockers.

“Whoa, Hey Karina, How are you?” Ember replied startled.

“Okay, okay. Well, I was talking to Matt right. And we were talking about all three of us going on an outing. Nowhere special, just the beach.”

“If it’s nothing special then why are you asking if I can go?”  Ember asks suspiciously

“Oh you know, just making sure.” Karina Winked “This weekend Okay?”

“Yeah Okay?”

(The Weekend)

Karina and Matt had set up a little bonfire for Ember, to help get over her fear.  They thought it was a great idea.

Now was the time to get Ember. Their faces lit up with happy smiles. They arrived at her door. Karina and Matt dragged her down to the beach with a blind fold across her face. 

But when they took the blindfold off and she saw the burning inferno.  Her memories flashed before her.

Her family was sitting on the pier all eating ice cream. The sunset blushed over the sea. The sky was painted with purples, oranges and pinks.  All the boats teetered across the quiet ocean. It was like the world wanted to be quiet, just for a second everything was perfect. Then her mother gave her a small hug and smiled.

When I saw the bonfire that Karina and Matt created, I smiled.

“Thanks Guys.”

My fear can’t be cured. It never can and never will be but that doesn’t mean that I can let it rule over me.