"Untitled" by Donyale T

     It was regular summer day. My sister and I were sitting at home as we weren’t allowed to leave when our parents were at work. One of friends, David, who lived around the corner called and asked if we wanted to come over to his house to hang out. We knew that we weren’t allowed to leave but we didn’t see the harm in leaving. We thought that since we had stayed in all summer long we deserved to go outside just once. But then we realized that our parents would catch us if we snuck out. We knew that our parents didn’t get home until after 6:00pm so we’d just come home at 5:00pm. We took our skateboards and we snuck out. When we got to his house David and his brothers and sisters wanted to go to the park across the street. When we got there the younger kids went off to the playground, my sister and David’s older siblings went to the basketball courts to skate while David and I sat on a bench in the middle of the park. We were having a good time just laughing and talking. We walked to the snack shack on the other side of the park. There was this older womb just staring at us. I told David about it and he told me that he was just a grandparent of one of the kids on the playground and that he was always there. He had on this really long black coat and all black underneath that. He was extremely pale and tall. He was also kind of scrawny looking. We walked back to the bench and continued to laugh and talk.About an hour or so passed and I looked over at the basketball courts but my sister and the other kids weren’t there. I looked over and saw that they had moved into the middle of this cul de sac. At the same time I saw this black car parked up the street. A few more hours passed and the black car was still sitting there and then all of a sudden the engine started but I never saw anyone get in. The car just sat there with the engine running for about 30 more minutes and then out of nowhere the car went even further up the street and just stayed there in the middle of the street. I noticed all of this but everybody else was completely clueless. I turned to David and said “Hey do you see that weird car over there?” He said “Yeah that car is always here don’t worry about it.” So I didn’t think anymore of it. About 30 more minutes passed and the car was still sitting in the middle of the street with the engine still running. And then, all of a sudden the car took off down the street. It was barreling down the street towards my sister and the other kids. I assumed that it

would slow down eventually. But it didn’t. I’m not sure what happened but I immediately got up a sprinted towards my sister and the other kids. They were playing this game where one person would be skating and showing off their tricks while the others sat and watched. My sister was up and the other children were watching her. When they saw the car coming they ran away and my sister was still there. I was running so fast it felt like my legs were spinning like in a cartoon. I finally got to her and I pushed her out of the way right before the car swerved into the cul de sac. When I tackled her we hit the ground but I hit my head on a huge rock. When I hit the rock it felt like everything was in slow motion. It didn’t really hurt but I still felt a sting. Then I heard ringing. It was like in movies where there’s a bomb that goes off and everything sounds really far away. I could see all of my friends running toward me and when they got to me they all asked if I was okay and I physically couldn’t respond. I opened my mouth but nothing would come out. I heard my sister ask if we should call our mother so I nodded. My sister called my mom and explained to her what had happened. She took me to the doctor and they said I had a mild concussion and that I would be fine. When we got home my mom told me that that’s what I get for sneaking out.