The Day {Not official title}

Chapter 2 Lights Out {Danica}

Chapter 2: Lights Out {Danica}

            Two weeks after school had started, I was having trouble focusing. My grades went from A’s to C’s and it hasn’t even been a month yet. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the water. I think that’s what it is. I haven’t been myself. The last time I’d been in the water was a month before we moved miles away. This new house didn’t have a pool and I didn’t know where the public pool was, so I was stuck in this condition. Water and I have a very close relationship. I have to swim very often. This was the first time in my life I hadn’t been in a pool for this long of a period of time.  I have to swim somewhere. The first thing that popped in my mind was Rion. He had to know a way to help me.

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“Nope sorry, I don’t know any way to help you” he said.

“What?! The come with me and help me find somewhere where I can swim. Please?” I pleaded. I really needed to swim somewhere.

“I can’t, I have a ton of appointments today. I’m booked. I wish I could come with you,” I could tell he was lying but I wasn’t in the right mind to question him.

I clung to his arm and looked at him tenderly, “Please?” I didn’t do this often, but I was desperate. He looked at me lovingly, then sighed, “Dang it Dan,” he shut the door in my face.

            A few minutes later, he opened the door, fixing his black leather jacket. “You must be really desperate to swim.” Hair gelled and neatly combed, he slipped on his Nikes and sunglasses and walked toward Allen Avery, taking me under his arm and pretending like he couldn’t walking a straight line and almost pushing me off the sidewalk. I returned the kind gesture smiling in his face and secretly turning my left foot out causing him to nearly trip on his face. We teased each other like this all the time. I liked it, he probably did too.

            The blocks were filled with name brand store like Coach and Calvin Klein, accompanied with 99-cent stores here and there. Other than that, the streets were practically empty. No cars, no strays, no people, no birds, and not even a single security guard was in sight. It was like a big outdoor mall after the apocalypse started. It was foreboding something bad. I could feel it. All my attention was on watching my back and looking for any signs of life other than Rion and me. I watched him walk with his signature dose of lethal swagger, with just the right amount of stupid. He could make any girl his. If only there was a girl he liked. It was hard to mock or copy his walk. After all, you can’t mess with perfection.

            Even after a long while, we didn’t see any cars pass by or people walking. A block from AA High, I started to feel dizzy and weak. I could barely walk. I stopped and tried to steady myself against a parking meter to no avail. I called Rion a few feet ahead of me then I felt myself slowly slipping and everything went black.