Luke Giles
Ms. Lehmann
English 1-1A
27 February 2020
Pool Massacre
As I walked out of the pool, my right arm had a stinging sensation, but I didn’t really care at the time.
Until my brother said “It has blood on it!”.
I woke up in the morning on a weekend about two years ago during the summer. I really didn’t have anything planned that day besides staying in and doing nothing.
I unplugged my phone, laid back down, and played games for a while. I ate a bowl of cereal, then laid back down again. After a while, my brother was done playing the Xbox, so I hopped on it and played a game until 12 O clock, then let my brother play again. I did what I did and played on the phone. I got up because it was about to die, so I plugged it in and watched tv and watched my brother play the Xbox back and forth until my phone was charged, then played on that.
Once that was all done, it was past 2:30 pm. I was just waiting for something to happen. My brother came up to me and asked if I wanted to go swimming, so I agreed. I got my swimming trunks and my towel, and we grabbed our sandals and headed out to the pool. We were walking when I stepped on a pointy pinecone that made me screech, but not that loud, so we continued because it didn’t hurt.
When we got there, there was no one to be seen. It was quiet, so we went into the building to get our wrist bands so we could swim and not get kicked out. We headed out to the pool. We put our towels down took off our sandals, and jumped in. We played swimming games like red light for a while.
Later, I decided to dive into the 5 ft part of the pool. Before I did that, I knew I had to pull up as fast as I could, so I jumped head first, going down fast. I put my hands down to catch myself, but missed. My arms actually did hit the floor. I came out of the water and was joyful because nothing really happened, so I just swam back and forth.
We realized that the sun was going down, so we got out of the pool. There was a stinging on my arm, but I didn’t mind.
My brother said,
“Your arm has blood on it.”
I looked at both of my arms, and there was blood on my right arm. Then I touched it, and it started to burn. My brother and I went home as fast as we could. On the way there, I began to cry out loud and started to slow down, but my brother told me to keep running so I wouldn’t lose more blood. I ran as fast as I could to the car.
My brother started the car, and we drove off until we came to the house. We parked and ran inside. I went to the bathroom to look at it, but the blood was a whiter color, so I cleaned it for a while cleaning it up but finally decided to get in the shower and just clean off the blood. I got out of the shower and looked at the blood and realized that it wasn’t bleeding anymore.
I wrapped up my arm and decided to not touch anything with my arm. I played the Xbox and waited until night time. I unwrapped my arm, and it was still bleeding a little bit. After I noticed that, I wrapped it up tighter than before. I went to go lay down for the night and wait till morning.
The next morning, the sun was shining, and I woke up. I went to the bathroom and took off the bandage. There was a long scab on my arm, so I threw away the bandage and went to go lay back down and play on my phone. I never had a problem after that besides the time I stepped on a rusty nail, but that’s a story for another time.
Summary reflection
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific.
I thought of it and I typed on the computer while thinking of it and thats how I did it but sometimes I had to stop typing and just think which is what I usually do.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
There is a dialogue and the narrative tells you about the story #your brain reads it to you.
3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part?
I think towards the end turned out really well because I really liked how it was not boring and a little more action at least I thought of what was happening in my brain
1. Explain the process you went through to write this paper. Please be specific.
I thought of it and I typed on the computer while thinking of it and thats how I did it but sometimes I had to stop typing and just think which is what I usually do.
2. What qualifies this paper as a narrative? What are the requirements for this genre and how did you meet them?
There is a dialogue and the narrative tells you about the story #your brain reads it to you.
3. What is one part of your story that you think turned out really well? What do you like about that part?
I think towards the end turned out really well because I really liked how it was not boring and a little more action at least I thought of what was happening in my brain