A Collection of Stories

Sample of A New Book

So maybe I was starting to regret the thirty boxes of Sponge bob Macaroni and Cheese, or maybe I was sneaking pictures of my baby brother cuddling the cardboard boxes. I was totally putting these in his graduation slideshow. Possibly his wedding, if I ever let him get married.

"Hey, Thena? Can you roll the windows up, it's rai-," His face turned white, and then a bright red.

"Jamie, did your voice just squeak?"

"Shut up Athena." He turned his head away, trying to bury himself in the mac and cheese.

"It did! Jamie's voice just squeaked! You're turning into a man!" He turned to me abruptly.

"I already am a man." He spit at me with venom.

"Ew, I sense attitude. Is this when the mood swings start? This is so great, you're starting you're awkward teenage years." I chuckled.

"Shut up Athena! Just stop, leave me alone!" The hate in his voice made me flinch. Never, in our whole lives have we showed each other anything but quite the opposite. I felt like he had smacked me, just the way his voice sounded hurt me more than anything I've ever felt. Which included physical hits themselves.

Immediate regret was shown on his face, he pushed the boxes off of his chest and reached for my hand laying on my leg.

"Athena I'm sorry," he apologized after grabbing my hand.

I sighed, I really wanted to rip my hand away and show him just how hateful I could be. Trust me, the only person whom I am not hateful towards is him. But Jamie is my only soft spot, hearing him treat me like that breaks my trust.

So, I could either bite back- break some of his trust and hurt him just as much as he did to me- but where would that get me? Or I could forgive him and get over it, people make mistakes. My pride is screaming option one, but Jamie is more important to me than my pride.

"It's okay kid, I understand. I love you, you know that?" and I squeezed his hand, turning my head and looking at him. Jamie unbuckled his seat-belt and climbed under my arm- still holding my hand.

"Yeah I know, I love you too Thena," he gave me his goofy smile and squeezed my hand back, but I saw his smile didn't reach his eyes. He snapped his head back towards the road- and let out a scream.

"Athena! A deer!"

Without even looking I slammed on the breaks.

Jamie slams against the front dash, I spin the wheel left, the tires are screeching and i'm begging them to just stop.

But they don't and the rain-slicked asphalt grabs my friction and I'm sideways. Not just me, the whole truck is rolling.

Again, and again, and again.

I didn't even hear us stop but my seat-belt is stuck and the drivers side of the cab is off the ground- passenger side to the ground.

The windshield is broken and Jamie is gone.

"Jamie!" I scream, it feels like glass in my throat and I can feel something hot dripping down my face and through my shirt.

"Jamie are you okay! Jamie !" I pull at my seat-belt, shards of glass digging deeper into my fingers, but I still yank.

Rain is pouring through my shattered window and lighting crackles around in a furious, almost desperate manner.

"It's not coming off, dammit, Jamie! Jamie!" I kick my feet swinging them so I can use my body weight and try to break the strap.

The belt starts to give a little, but not enough. Putting my feet on the driver's door I go to push against it.

Pain. It shoots through my body and I scream, my ankles are broken. Looking down, now I can see the misshapen bones- useless.

Salty tears burn down my cheeks.

Behind my shoes and through the hole of a windshield I see two yellow circles.

They get bigger and bigger, blinding almost. What are they?

Headlights-

its too late to scream and another earthshaking BOOM echos through the air.

I feel like a doll, flying through the air and for two seconds it's peaceful almost. The rain is pattering on my face while the lighting glows throughout the sky.

But concrete comes too fast and my body plows onto the road.

Lightning flies all around me. Sparks flying off the truck and the car that smashed into mine. The storm gets ten times as strong and the rain washes away all the glass beside me.

My head is ringing and I can't move, but I can see a charred, red car right in front of me. A man steps out, screaming something, it only makes my ears buzz more. I desperately grab at my ears because all this noise hurts. I just want to go home.

I can feel my eyes drooping and suddenly I'm really tired.

My world turns into a mix of black and reality, a man is walking towards me and I can't move away from him. I don't want him to touch me, it will just hurt. As he reaches down to grab me, a streak of white light strikes down beside him. As in warning, and he jumps away, but the light was too close to my eyes and now I can't open them.

Its all black.

Through the darkness I can hear the overpowering thunder, rolling and moaning, and loud enough to silence the ringing in my ears.

I'm exhausted, but I can hear one last blast of thunder- stronger than the rest. A lions roar, so loud I curl in a ball, ignoring the pain from moving, and cover my ears. It rings on for what feels like hours, but after it ends I swear, it said a word. Slow, deep, and full of mourning.

Athena.

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Hey guys, Red hasn't been feeling too good lately so I decided to show you guys what I've been working on separately from the group.

     This is a teaser kind of, of a book I've been working on (for awhile) with a rough sketch name of Who I Am. This isn't the first chapter, it's number three as of right now, and it's all -as I said before- rough.

     It probably won't be up for awhile -a long while- but I just thought I'd put it up to see what you guys think and fill in for our sick Red.

     Thanks guys,
Much love-
       Blue