Pumpkin Eater

October 6th

You knew you were going to get caught.

You begged Billie to please turn around.

You told her you weren't allowed to swim past the buoys but she just said you were being "lame"

You didn't want to be lame....you just didn't want to get in trouble.

You're not a very good swimmer after all.

You'd hate to drown trying to impress Billie Eilish.

But when else would you EVER get the chance to hang out with her again?!

This was your family's private beach and your Mom had actually sent you outside to make the stranger splashing in your ocean tide go away.

You were ready to tell the intruder off, until you got closer and recognized her!

As soon as you noticed it was Billie Eilish, instead of telling her off, you just smiled and introduced yourself.

She didn't really seem to care about anything you were saying until you mentioned that this was your family's beach.

Instead of apologizing for trespassing or being impressed by your family's wealth - to your shock- Billie said this isn't your family's beach.

That this beach belongs to the native Americans and you're trespassing on their land and why don't you go back to whatever country you came from.

You blushed.

Then, just because you were mad, you blurted out that you are indeginous and this land has been in your family for centuries.....even though your Dad brought it from the state just 3 months ago after he won the largest lottery jackpot in the world.

You had actually grown up in a one bedroom trailer full of cockroaches and rats.

You were still getting used to your new luxurious lifestyle.

You didn't have any friends yet.....so you decided to be nice to Billie.

Maybe she would be your new friend!

Billie said she too was a native American.

You knew she was lying....but then again so were you.

You just wanted Billie to like you.

That's why, when she said she was here to practice some underwater dance moves for her new music video, you offered to help her out.

You couldn't dance, but thankfully the water covered for your uncoordinated feet.

It was Billie who kept getting further and further from the shore....she kept insisting the water needed to be deeper for the more complex moves.

You were already on your tip toes, struggling to keep your nose and mouth out of the salty ocean water when she swam effortlessly past the floating buoys.

When you tried to call her back, she just laughed and called you lame for suggesting you stick close to the shore.....

You didn't want to be lame...

So you took a deep breath and swam after her....

Billie got pulled beneath the current first.

When you saw the blood spurt up in the water you automatically assumed the worst.

Clearly Billie had just gotten attacked by a hungry shark!

You would have helped her but you didn't want to be shark food too!

You were swimming as fast as you could back toward the shore - but your leg got caught on something sharp.....then you were being ripped below the surface of the water and tossed back and forth!

You instinctevly opened your mouth to scream in pain as you felt the skin on your left shin being ripped open in a hot slice - the filthy salt water rushing into your open bloody wound felt like acid.

You begun to choke on the bloody salt water rushing down your throat.

You were going to drown before you could bleed to death!

You hoped the shark's teeth would devour you quickly - so you didn't have to feel anymore of this agony.

You knew you were going to die.

You just wanted to look the bastard killing you - in the eyes- before it finished you off!

You watched a nature documentary in school once about what to do if a shark bites you.

That you're supposed to punch them as hard as you can in the nose and swim away!

Maybe you didn't have to die.....

Not so close to home, anyway.

If you were going to die in your own backyard - you were going to die fighting.

So you turned around beneath the water, ready to punch the shark in the face - but there was no shark behind you biting down on your leg.

It was just a fishing hook.....some fisherman had accidentally hooked you!

You reached down and pulled the sharp hook out of your leg with a gulping growl!

It took a small chunk of your flesh with it - but you were finally able to swim up to the surface of the water for a breath of fresh air!

Billie had gotten caught too.

Unfortunately, she wasn't as fortunate as you - to just get caught by the leg.

She had gotten hooked through the jaw and upper lip - before being yanked right up out of the water.

You saw some of her teeth floating in the water stained from the blood gushing out of her forced shut mouth and nose....

Before you could do anything she was reeled back down into the water.

She didn't come back up again....

There weren't any boats in the water.

You must have been freed for a reason....

A messenger.

You must be a messenger!

Clearly you had been chosen to witness the rapture of Billie Eilish as the first sign of Satan's Earthside redemption.