MaxEcho14789

What keeps me happy, What I lose more each day, What keeps me going, What keeps me from you, It's my own fault, you know! Makes me slow down, Makes me stop and smell the flowers, Makes me idle, Makes me drown in time, It's my own fault, you know! When it's gone I dream, When it returns I sleep, When we touch it leaves me, When I get it back it makes me forget, It's my own fault, you know! What's wrong, What's the matter? What could it want, What should I do? It's not my fault, you know.

        They reeked and were full of holes. Had this seemed like a good idea to me at some point? I tried to tell myself that I was being forced to do this, that I had been tricked into coming here somehow, but it felt like this was my own idea. I looked over at Summers, who was busy getting a pebble out of his shoe. Then I looked down at the makeshift raft I was standing on. The odor of the rotting wood I stood on went unnoticed until a few minutes ago, and now it was giving me a headache. I wondered if Summers had the same headache, I hadn't heard his usually energetic voice since we stepped on the raft.

         Isn't it ideal? The thought of adventure? The thrill of being out in the open, in a place you have never seen before, heard before, felt before, and thinking of that feeling of conquest and fulfillment is enough to get most people a bit excited. I am not like most people, however, and neither was Summers. He was foolish enough to go with me... Or was I foolish enough to go with him?         I live in a house by the beach. My parents moved there to get away from the city, but we're still a drive away from the closest city . I'm not the only kid that lives here, but the houses at the beach are spaced a bit far apart, and I never real

    Wind blow, Whistle chime, Tell Tale of Earth and Sky,    Tell tale of long ago, Where youth now ages as old,    Tell tale of Green Hero, As he treads the Earth, Evil flees, Long Ago, As he Comes.    Overhead, the wiseman flies, fleeting soars, ancient glides.    Owl listens, and in time, Wiseman's wisdom, swiftly flies.    Maiden waits, as prsion crumbles, tower falls as hero comes,    Hero comes, with Owl's wisdom, Evil flees from the land, long ago...