Fire Child 

  

  

  

 Heather Marlow 

  

  

  

  

  

  
 College English 1 
 Period two  
 11\17\06 

  
 “SKY…. SKY WAKE UP! Sky come on get up. They’re looking for you. They think you started it. Sky you need to get up… you need to get out of here now.” 

  
 May 10th 2006  
  	 I woke up on a park bench down in the park. How I got there I don’t know. I think it rained last night. For this journal is soggy and damp, and the pages look like they were sitting in a mud puddle. And my clothes are soaked. But how did I not wake up? A lot of odd things like that keep happening. First these odd dreams keep happening and I’m in there… they seem like a memory but I don’t recall them at all. And I can’t remember any of my past it’s just I wake up day-to-day as if nothing happened the day before. As if I weren’t there at all. I know it happened. But now I just need to know what has happened. Which is why I’m writing everything down. I don’t have any cash so I found this ratty old peace of filth. Wow… talking to a book is really weird. How do people do it so naturally, as if it were real.  Any way these are the only points I do remember 

 1. 	 My name is sky.  
 2. 	 I’m broke. 
 3. 	 I sleep on park benches. 
 4. 	 Cops don’t like people sleeping on park benches. 
 5. 	 Bikes are use full when you can get a hold of one. 
 6. 	   And that I’m 17 with no place to live. 
 7. 	 I can’t remember anything else.  
 But how do I remember that I forget everything else. Or that I had days before today, can any one help me understand any of this? Or am I supposed to go through life a blur. Any way I have to get try to get a job. Park bench sleeping and loitering are going to get my in trouble with the cops. And that’s the last thing I need.  

  
 May 11th extreme early hours of the morning 
  	 I just had the most EFF’ED up dream ever. It was another one of those odd could be a memory but I don’t know what’s going on kind of thing. It went kind of like this.  

  
 “Sky wake up come on you have to get out of her. WAKE UP SKY NOW!” there was shouting in the background everything was black. A pale icy hand came out of the dark ness and grabbed my arm and shook me awake. I think I let out a muffled scream. His cold hand burned my arm and he wouldn’t let go.  
  	 “Your freezing let go of me. It hurts, why do I have to go your making no since”  
  	 “You know god damn well why you have to go there looking for who started it and you know all about that now don’t you sky? You have to get out of here, you have to get some place safe before they come looking here they already think you left. You have to run through the woods and just keep on going there is a boat waiting for you it will take to you the main land. JUST GO!”  
  	 The owner of the voice yanked me out of the bed I was sleeping in and shoved me out the background. In just my Pj’s of a black XL T shirt and shorts. The wind stung my legs like needles as sprinted through the woods. 

 Why was I running? What did they mean I knew why I had to flee and why they were looking for me? All the dreams make little to no sense, I’ll figure them out one day. I’m thinking about going to take a jump in the ocean, I’m all sweaty (that’s another thing I always wake up really hot and sweaty, as if I were on fire while I was sleeping. But wouldn’t that burn?)  
  	  

 Later 
  	 Took a dip… the water was a lot warmer then I thought it would be. Should the ocean feel like bath water? Any way the sun is now just coming up I can barley read what I wrote before. That’s what I get fro writing in the dark. I wonder how I always end up back in the park. Any way the sunset is wonderful this morning. It looks like some one set the morning sky on fire.  

 I have to get out of here. There looking for me everywhere. I can’t let them know I did it. How would I explain it. I would justify it I can’t just say it happened. They would send me to get tested. Probably kill me then do test of my dead body. How to get out How to get away. Where am I… the beach? How did I get here? Ah not the first time I couldn’t remember. All I know is I need to get out of this place, and find a place to hide. How could I explain all that I have done to a couple of people with no understanding in there blood?