Family Folklore by Brittany Atkin

It was the first day of summer, bright, sunny, hot, beautiful, and felt like a fresh start. Fourth grade had just ended and i was going onto fifth at a new school. I wasnt too excited because the thought of being the new girl didnt seem like much fun. New friends was a bright idea but wasnt all that great, my old friends were amazing, they were the best friends i could ever have, but that all came to an end when i heard i had to move. Summer felt amazing, my goal was to make it the best summer ever. Swimming, camping, hanging out, hiking, dancing, and so much more seemed like the best summer ever.

My friend Devin had just called and told me to come over to her place to hang out, i put my flip flops on and walked to her house. My mom wasnt home when she called but i went over anyway. When i got over to Devins my other friends Tiger and Lexi were already over there. After about two hours of sitting around the house, playing video games and watching t.v. we got pretty bored so we decided since it was such an awesome day we should go outside and play tag. The sprinklers had been going for a while and the grass was slippery so we had to be careful when we ran so we wouldnt slip and get hurt. Devins house was on a slight hill and was pretty steep but didnt seem like a problem. When we got outside we did the whole one two three not it thing and luckily i wasnt it. As i was running from Lexi i completely forgot i was wearing flip flops. I was running down the hill and slipped from my flip flops getting all wet. I fell pretty far and landed on a mailbox(how lucky). It seemed like i passed out for a minute or so and when i came to i started laughing, but something seemed wrong. Everyone was staring at me with a weird look on their face like they just saw a pig fly. Suddenly i felt a huge sharp pain in my wrist like a shark had just attacked me and rip[ped something completely out. I slowly got up but when i looked down to my wrist it was touching my arm all floppy like, it was so bad it was like a fish out of water. Suddenly i realized i had just broken my wrist, you could obviously tell it was broken from how i landed.

Devin walked me into her house, neither of her parents were home and same with mine. Devin rushed to the bathroom faster than a tornado and grabbed a splint from when she sprained her arm. She wrapped it around my wrist and let me call my mom. My mom rushed home faster than anything in the world, you would have thought she was going faster than light from how short it took her to get home. My mom drove to the hospital with my like a maniac. She kept asking me if i was okay every five seconds. It drove me insaine everytime i told her yes and with her following answer of are you sure.

When we got to the hospital my mom was speaking at about five thousands miled per hour to the doctor of how i needed to be seen right away. After about five minutes but what seemed like a lifetime the doctor called my name. My mom dragged me by my other arm that wasnt hurt into the x-ray room. The room was so dark it seemed like a cave. The doctor told me to put my arm on the x-ray table so i did. The doctor kept doing all this weird stuff with my arm like he was trying to find where i broke it but just seemed like a complete lunatic and had no idea what he was doing. Finally after like twenty minutes he preped the machine and moved my wrist in a certain way. The way he had my wrist was terrible. The pain was so excruciating i felt like i could just die right there. The doctor took five pictures with five painful different ways and sent me to the waiting room. The room was really weird, it had random pictures of firetrucks all over the place, it looked like crazy painter had walked in and splashed random spots of red paint everywhere.
After about ten minutes of waiting, the doctor came in with some weird supplies and my x-rays. From how it looked, it was definately broken. The doctor grabbed this weird foam stuff that was like bubble wrap and placed it over my arm tightly. I could have punched that doctor right there for grabbing my arm like that, he could have ripped it off by grabing it that hard. I flinched when he put it on and he asked sarcastically if i was okay. The doctor finished casting my arm and sent me on my way. As i walked outside it was still nice, beautiful, warm and smelt like barbeque partys. It was the first day of summer, supposed to be the greatest summer of all, swimming, hiking, vacations, staying out late, rock climbing, it all seemed so perfect. And then i felt a huge pain in my arm like i had just been stabbed by a fork in the wrist and reality all came back to me, i broke my arm, the summer was ruined. Although my summer seemed terrible, i still got to go swimming because the doctor luckily gave me a waterproof cast. The only bad thing about getting it wet was it itched more than anything in the world. It felt like i had ten thousand mosquios trapped inside my arm, stinging, biting and scratching.
I could go on forever about this but to sum it up, i ended up attacking my cast and took it off. I felt so relieved to have it off, i walked downstairs and immediately my mom freaked out and took me again to the hoispital to get another cast. Moral of the story? Dont do stupid things, they just get you to do more stupid things and pretty soon you will find yourself in a huge pile of things you regret that go up to your neck.