Chelsie

Summer Night
 It was a typical hot summer day, stuck in the house trying to figure out something to do with all my friends. As we sat there and contemplated on what to do that will be fun for us and didn’t need any money to do it. We were all stumbled and then it crossed one of my friends mind “Let’s go to the park and have a picnic” sound like a great idea. The park wasn’t too far to walk from our house since none of us had cars to drive there. So we gathered up all are necessities blankets, umbrella, speakers, and tons of food.  Walking there was an adventure kind of hot, getting tired of carrying all of our stuff but then finally we reached the park in relief. Then my friends and I found a nice spot in the shade we all just laid out and had a good time. Being at the park relished our inner child having no worries and just messing around and having a great time. We notices it was starting to get dark so we packed up all of our stuff to get ready to leave. As we were walking we were in groups of two a little distant from one another caught up in one’s conversation. Myself and my best friend Zariya were in the back walking and laughing had no care in the world. As I pushed the button to cross the street waiting for the light of the little man to come on to cross, still dying of laughter from the previous conversation I was having with my best friend, then finally the cross signal came on as we stepped off the side walk  into the street only walking three steps I see huge bright head lights and in fear I shirked and immediately grabbed Zariya’s arm. But she wasn’t paying attention and as a reflex she shrugged my pull of an arm away and the car hit her! Thank the Lord s she had a large umbrella in her hand to take some kind of the force from the car off, so only thing that really got hit was her arm. As I am just standing there so startled can’t even get a grasp for words to ask “are you ok?” She is just standing there in un realization of what just had occurred then suddenly the man who had hit her parked and came back making sure she was okay and didn’t need medical care. The impact was so hard that his side view mirror had broken off. Lucky that she had the umbrella right in her arm that is why she didn’t get hurt. I have never been in a situation like this before neither had my friend still in shock I checked her to make sure she was okay and everything. With this happening in my life made me really realize how life is so precious and to really value the time we have with loved ones. I always constantly think to myself what if I didn’t notice the car, or what if I didn’t tug her as I did to move her out of the way, and even what if I was on the opposite side.  Just this experience itself helps me open my eyes on life and always to stay careful and cautious of my surroundings.