Trampoline Incident: A Short Story

Trampoline Incident As I sat there in the emergency room, my head numb, my hair red, and sweat covering my forehead, not really knowing what was going to happen. That’s probably not what you would have wanted to be feeling on a Friday night in second grade. But, that’s what I was feeling. The moon was out and I heard an owl hoot, and crickets were chirping all around me. My family and I were at a party at my best friend Emily’s house. “I’m going on the trampoline”, I said. Even though in the back of my mind I was thinking, “Don’t do it, don’t do it Anna”. We were bouncing around and I started turning across the trampoline. But, at the same time Emily was jumping across the trampoline towards me! The collision happened so fast I didn’t

Emily’s tooth had cut my head. Almost as if she had bit my head. Blood was everywhere and I was just standing there in a daze. Sweat covering my entire face. My other friends were screaming in horror. “AHHH!!!” So many thoughts were running through my head. “Should I help Emily? Should I start crying?”. My head was screaming OW! Red liquid was everywhere; in my hair and on the ground. But Emily’s OW was screaming even louder than mine, and her’s wasn’t in her head. She was scream crying, blood from her mouth gushing everywhere. I only got to see her for a split second before she was driven to the hospital. About an hour later, I was sitting in the waiting room - in ironically the same hospital as Emily - with my mom. Waiting there felt like hours until a nurse finally called us in. As I walked to the room I could hear my heart beating out of my chest. As I lay down in the chair, I still had no idea what was happening. “ Don’t worry sweetie, this will only take a couple minutes”, the nurse assured me. That didn’t make me feel any better though. Especially after she told me to drink this weird liquid and suddenly my head was numb.