Megan's+Short+Stories


 * (Task 4)

Just Lucky ** “Did you see any whales?” Jodi my fiancé asks, as I come in the door. “A few,” I answer, “the customers were happy.

People often tell me that I should be a doctor or lawyer, but I quickly correct them. It’s not as though I’m not smart enough, not trying to boast, but I could have almost been anything I wanted to be, and with my jet black hair and blue eyes I am told I look the part, but that it is not what I wanted to do. So instead of a modern office in the city that I could have had, I work at a small whale watching company and instead of formal suit, I wear an old pair of overalls with the sleeves rolled up and a oilskin coat when it is raining –which is often.

“I’m going to see the seals, are you coming?” I ask. “No not today” Jodi replies. So like every other day, I clamber over salty rocks, to reach the Fur Seal colony. Gusts of wind blow my hair into my eyes, and salty spay covers me in a fine mist. I sit and watch from a distance so I don’t disturb them.

I’m not sure why, but I have always like seals even as a little boy...“Hey Sam look at this,” a voice yells, pulling me out of my day dream, “ Alicia look at all the seals” another replies. Turning round I see two kids, clambering as fast as they can on the slippery rocks. “Hey you two slow down, you’ll scare them,” They start heading towards me instead. “Hi, are you a seal expert?” one asks. “Can we touch them?” the girl butts in. “No, but I know about seals, and you can’t touch them they’re wild. I say, attempting to answer their questions.

They keep up their frantic questioning until I see the weather is getting worse. “Won’t your mum be worried?” I inquire. They consider this, then start to head up the beach “Oh! We need to go. Bye!” I decide to keep watching the seals, even though the rain was currently lashing down and the wind was almost blowing me over. I was getting colder so I headed back, but I was in a hurry and I slipped.

I landed weirdly with my leg twisted at the back and felt a sharp pain shoot up my shin. Although I tried to stand up, I couldn’t, and by this time I was too cold and tired to try. I’m not sure how long I lay there, but I remember finally hearing children’s voices, but I thought I was dreaming.

I woke up to a hospital room full of concerned faces, confused, but managed to realise where I was, I just wasn’t sure how I got there. “Sam and Alicia found you, they left something behind earlier,” I was told. “There was no one else on the beach and you had a mild case of hypothermia, you mightn’t have survived the night, you were just luckily they saw you.”