The Wind: A Short Story

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All of a sudden the wind started to pick up. I was almost home. I sprinted to my front door and hid inside. Little did I know that that wind would cause so many problems. One of the most confusing days of my life consisted of lots of phone calls, missing a day of school, and even an urgent care visit! It was a great day. Everything was fine and stress free. As soon as i opened the door to leave school, a blast of wind blew me a few inches away from the door. “Oh my gosh!” we all exclaimed. I finally made it onto the bus and out of the wind. A few stops later, and it was my turn to get off the bus. Everyone prepared themselves by putting their jackets on and hoods up, because we knew how crazy the wind was going to be. I jumped off the bus …show more content…

Of course, being the dramatic person I am, I was imagining every terrible thing possible. “What if they have to take my eyeball out?...What if they can’t find anything and I'll be stuck like this forever?...What if they have to numb my eye with a needle or something?” After 30 minutes of paranoia, we made it to urgent care. As soon as i walked in, people were staring at my ugly, purple, swollen eyelid. I couldn't wait for them to call me back so people would stop looking at me. I was relieved when the nurse called ‘Lauryn Tharp’. They took me back to the room and the nurse looked at my eye. To make matters worse, he couldn’t figure out how to turn on the machine! It took the 7 longest minutes of my life for him to look at my eye. Guess what he found! Nothing! I started to get even more paranoid. I laid back on the chair and the nurse told me to close my eye. All of a sudden he flipped my eyelid inside out and behold! There it was; a huge chunk of dirt. He swabbed it with a q-tip and i could finally see again! My dad and I had no clue how this dirt got into my eye. Suddenly, my mind went back to running home from the bus stop. It must have flew into my eye then. My eye was very irritated and had a few abrasions, so the nurse gave me eye drops and told me not to touch it. I went home, and was all better the next

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