Found

Today

Today

~Coral~

I stand in the gym doorway waiting for Ray to answer my question. I watch him as he just stands there in front of me not saying a word. I realize there’s no hope in getting him to talk.

Ray and I workout in silence, which is very unusual for us. I guess we were both caught up in our own thoughts.

I watch Ray begin to walk out of the gym. I quickly hurry over to him to ask if he wants to go for a run with me. As I go to ask him he darts up the stairs before I can even open my mouth.

~Ray~

I walk out of the gym hoping to leave Coral behind so I can talk to my Grandpa. I hear her following me and I know she’s going to ask me to go for a run. As much as I love to go running with her I know I must talk to my Grandpa, so I dart up the stairs as her mouth drops in confusion.

I get upstairs and walk towards the study, I know my Grandpa will be there probably reading his newspaper. I open the door and sure enough, I’m right. My grandpa’s sitting at the table reading his newspaper and drinking his coffee.

“Grandpa” I begin the conversation

“Well, hello there Ray. How are you on this beautiful day?”

I cut to the chase “Hi, I’m good”

“She had another dream last night”

My grandpa stares at me for a while and then begins.

“That’s the seventh one” he says as he marks it on the calendar.

“Didn’t you say the seventh one is special?” I ask

“I said the day of the seventh dream is special”

I listened to my grandpa say the day of the seventh dream is special and realize I left Coral, she’s all alone and has no idea what might happen.... today.

~Pearl~

I wake up at 6:20 which is way too early for me! I know I must get up because my pearl in its shell is shining Coral.

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 On my 13th birthday I got a shell with my very own Pearl in it. In my family on your 13th birthday you get a meaning gift. A meaning gift is a gift that contains the reason for why you were put on this earth.

I was very excited when I got my meaning gift because of how beautiful the shell and the pearl were.  The only problem was I felt like it wasn’t working. I remember how Coral’s and Ray’s gifts worked in seconds for them. My gift was so dull and I didn’t understand why.

When my parents died on Coral’s birthday that’s when it started to work. Every time something happens to Coral it shines coral. I guess Coral has some special power to make my gift work like that.

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I hurry downstairs and I see Coral about to walk out the door.

“CORAL!” I scream

I watch as she jumps from me screaming and I begin to realize how loud I just screamed.

“Pearl! One Good morning, two why are you up this early, and three please don’t scare me like that ever again! “ Coral says

“Um Good morning, and I just woke up early, and we will see about the no scaring you like that again… hehe.” I reply

I haven’t told Coral about what she does to my gift mostly because I feel like if I tell her the gift won’t work anymore.

“Okay well I’m going out for a run so---“Coral begins to say

I quickly interrupt her because I know I must go with her as much as I dread running I must sacrifice my pain for her. Oh, if she only knew how much I did for her.

“I’ll come running with you!” I say

She looks at me confused, walks over to me and puts her hand on my forehead.

“Are you feeling okay” she ask

“Oh! Yes Coral I’m fine I just want to come. Wait here I’ll be down in 5… or maybe 10. Just don’t time me! “I say as I run upstairs to get changed for the run… or shall I say the death of me.

~Coral~

I wait patiently for Pearl to come downstairs. I have no idea why she wants to come because usually running is the last thing on this planet she wants to do. Everyone’s acting so strange today. First Ray now Pearl, I thought I was the only strange one in this family!

I snap out of my thoughts when Pearl comes downstairs.

“Ready?” I ask

“As ready as I’ll ever be.” She says

“What?”

She stares at me as if what she said wasn’t supposed to come out of her mouth.

“Nothing” she quickly replies and walks out the door, of course closing it as if I wasn’t leaving too.

We head down to the beach, which is right around the corner from our new house. We start to see the sun rays over the ocean. We walk onto the beach and head for the shore.

After a few stretches we begin our sunrise run.  I slow down my normal past a bit so Pearl can keep up without worrying. I begin to look out at the ocean when I see a huge wave come and take out all the surfers.

I watch desperately as the wave comes to an end. I look out and see that there’s one surfer still left floating on his board. I suddenly come to a halt and I’m really not sure why I did. Pearl notices and quickly stops.

“Woah do you see that?” she says

“The wave?” I ask

“Yeah the wave that was—“

I look at her as she stares out into the ocean.

“Do you see that?” she ask

I look out to the ocean but see nothing but the one surfer floating.

“Just the one surfer” I reply

“Yes, the surfer, but look around him”

I look but I don’t see anything else.

“Coral there’s a beautiful blue surrounding him”

“I don’t see it Pearl”

“How can you not---“she cuts off her words as she turns to me starring in shock.

“CORAL!”

“WHAT?!?!?”

“YOU’RE SHINING CORAL!”