The Real Sharks: A Short Story

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The Real Sharks “You have enemies? Good, that means you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life.”- Winston Churchill. Winston was the former prime minister of Britain, author, and an all around smart and funny guy. This relates to my story a lot because of these giant eighth graders that tried to push us around and we defended ourselves and didn't let anyone push us around referring to the quote. “Chase, outside!” screamed Luke, “ Big one coming right at you.” “ I'm going!” I said. The waves were enormous in a hot summer day in 2014. and it was almost like the water had that one swell where u feel like you’re flying in the brisk cool sky when the wave lifts you off your feet. Even the birds had a nice swim for fish. As …show more content…

I quickly repositioned myself so that I Could catch the giant wave. “Yea Boy!” shouted Luke. I caught the wave right as it towered over me almost feeling like it was eating me. Right as I caught the barrel it crashed and I finally got swallowed by the wave. “Hey!” came a voice. As I looked up these kids were looking right at me “These waves are fresh, but we want them to ourselves.” I saw that look in their eyes that they weren't messing around and they weren't going to stop until they got what they wanted “Fine” I said. “We’ll Surf you for it.” “ No, leave!” the tall kid said. “Oh it's going to happen!” said luke clenching up his fists as if he were trying to crack a nut I was up first vs this tall big kid with spiky hair. As the wave came I knew i was gonna win as he was on the side where it was already crashing. As it lifted me off the ground and onto my board. He trailed me by doing the same but I had the lead. We were both on the wave so now it was whoever had the better trick. He quickly took action and tried to catch my drift and pull out a 180. The nose of the board caught the tip of the wave and he fell straight into the the crashing wave and disappearing into the water. Now it was all up to me, I just had to do a trick and land it but time was running out. The wave kept getting smaller and almost as if it wasn't good enough to trick. But I lifted my board up into the air planting my feet perfectly

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