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“Emily come on let's go”. I heard my older brother Tyler call from downstairs.

“I’m coming”. I yelled back down to him.

My family was getting ready to go on a very important trip that morning. A trip that I was looking forward to for years.

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My parents love animals. They met in college after both being assigned to a project together. Eventually they fell in love, a few years later they got married, and had my eldest brother Nathan. Three years after that my other brother Tyler was born, and then finally there was me there only daughter.

Anyways like I was saying we were all getting ready to go on a trip, a very special one to be exact. You see before they got married, my mom and dad took many trips to different areas of the world in order to research different animals. They loved going on those trips, but they also wanted to spend time with us. Then one day my parents came up with an idea. For each of our tenth birthdays, they would take one of us on one of their trips around the world. I was two when my oldest brother Nathan went on his trip to the African Savannah. A few years later Tyler went on his trip. This one was to the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

Finally on my tenth birthday, the day came for me to go on my special trip. This one was two the Amazon Rainforest in South America, and since it was the last one, the whole family was coming.

After exiting the airport, my family and I got into this special car, and drove to where we were going to be staying. It was a very luxurious treehotel. It was night by the time we got there so we went to bed.

Morning came and my parents told my brothers, and I that they had to go out into the town for a little while, but we we’re free to explore around while they were gone, and they left.

Tyler suggested that we play hide and seek in the forest, I liked that idea very much, but Nathan was a little more hesitant, stating that something bad could happen, but I was able to convince him with very big puppy dog eyes.

It was decided that Nathan would seek, while Tyler and I hid.

Tyler and I both went in different directions in order to make it harder for Nathan to find us, I ended up in this area by a river, and saw a long vine on the ground. I decided that this was the perfect place for me to hide.

In order to make it harder for Nathan to find me, I took my shoes and socks off, and placed them somewhere a few meters away. I then went and laid down on top of the vine.

However as soon as I did, the vine started to move. This startled me, vines couldn’t move on their own, and there definitely wasn’t anyone around who could be moving it, so how was this possible. I soon got my answer when I was soon face to face with a huge anaconda!

I tried to back away, but the snake lunged at me before I could get away.

The next thing I knew, the snake was wrapping it’s coils around my body. I attempted to get up, but everytime I made the slightest movement the snake would squeeze me tighter making it really hard to breathe.

I was then enveloped by darkness, and I felt myself slowly sliding. It was then I realized what was happening, I was being eaten! The anaconda was swallowing me headfirst down into its stomach, I began to panic, and let out a scream which was muffled. I tried to wriggle myself free, but the snake was too strong, and it just kept sucking me deeper inside as I kicked my legs.

Eventually though, it managed to swallow me whole. I could feel myself being squeezed and pushed through the snake’s body before I came to a stop in what I assumed was it’s stomach.

This was when the reality of the whole situation hit me, and I began to panic, and scream.

“Let Me Out”! I cried as I desperately tried to escape, but nothing I did worked. Then the snake started moving, and I lost hope. Was this it? Was this how I died, a tasty meal for this snake? I pondered these thoughts as I lost consciousness.

I awoke to the sound of murmuring, and found myself in a hospital, surrounded by my parents and brothers. As well as a doctor and a few nurses

“Thank goodness you’re alright”! My mom cried.

“What happened”? I asked.

“You fell into the river and almost drowned. Answered my dad.

Wait what? I wondered in surprise. I clearly remembered being swallowed by that Anaconda was that all a dream?

My dad nodded.

Luckily Nathan and Tyler rescued you.

The doctor spoke up.

“You should be fine, just rest here for the night, and tomorrow you can resume your vacation”. He said.

He then told my parents, and the nurses to follow him.

After they left, Nathan and Tyler told me what really happened.

Tyler had seen the snake eat me, and ran to get Nathan, who grabbed a machete. They eventually found the snake on the other side of the river and had to cross it in order to cut me out which Is why my parents believed I almost drowned.

After they told me that, I thanked them for saving me, and we laughed.

One last thing, I don’t blame the snake at all, It was 100 percent my fault, and now I even work with snakes at the zoo.