The Legend

Washed Up on an Island

      As soon as the plane hit the sea, my head banged against the seat in front of me and made my previous headache worse. I grabbed my head and started rubbing it with my hand. I looked around me and realized that the plane was taking on water rather quickly. I unbuckled myself and got out of my chair. I remember at the beginning of the flight the flight attendants went through their monotone ramble about in the event of a crash there's a life vest in the seat. I started messing with my seat and trying to figure out where the life vest was. The water was already to my knees, when I pulled on the seat in a final attempt to find the life vest. I pulled it free and put it on. I got out of the plane and floated up to the surface.

     I woke up on the beach, with someone I didn't know bent over me tapping my shoulder. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Then I remembered the crash and what happened. I quickly got to my feet and looked around me trying to figure out where I was. That's when I noticed the stranger. He had something familiar on his wrist. I looked down at mine and realized that it matched. I stared in disbelief after all this time and all my doubts he did exist. I wanted to hug him or cry or do something, but I was frozen. I eventually came out of my frozen state when he stood up that's when I pointed at my wrist where my birthmark was. He looked at his wrist and said in a thick Asian accent, "I know about the legend too, how about you come to my house and meet my family." I looked down and thought he already had a wife and kids. I held back tears while my throat was burning, as I thought that I would be alone with no soulmate. He noticed my concern and was trying to say things to clear it up. "No, no, no, by family I meant my parents and my sister." "I would love that, then you can meet mine." We got married a year later, on the same beach he found me on.