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Above the Surf
By TurboWolffe
12 September 2007
I know it's sad, and we all know it is true, but that's how teens are: disturbingly disturbed.

I could feel the cold, brisk wind on my face as I came closer to the great gust of wind blowing over the edge.  A drop of water fell down from the dark, heavy clouds that hovered so ominously overhead.  I could hear the cold bolt of lightning as it hissed through the air, followed by a great roll of thunder that pounded nearly above me.  I wanted to wait until the storm was crashing directly above me.  I wanted to have a running start to a happy ending.  All that had preceded before this moment had just been an entire waste.  My life had been shit in the making, and I wanted to finally end that. 
A great, cold gust came hard at me as I stood there, my arms tightly crossed.  I could feel the rigid marks on my arms.  One was still wet, and I lifted my hand to my face to see the sacred red fluid that ran through my body, but it wouldn't for much longer.  I put my fingers to my mouth, and sucked the blood off, the irony tatse washing over my tongue, and down my throat.
The rain began to fall in large drops, and the wind blew harder.  A large bolt of lightning hissed and snaked in front of me.  Thunder sounded closer.  I tensed up, ready for the flight.  The rocks before me seemed like jagged teeth ready to snap over me, and explode my heart like a fruit Gusher.  I could hear the surf far below, pounding against more teeth. 
I closed my eyes, tried to let everything go away, tried to turn myself cold, tried to forget everything that was still in my mind.  I stopped shifting and sorting my memeories, and listened to everyhting around me.  I could hear the surf crashing below, the rain pounding to the wet rocks.  I could hear myself breathing, and I could even hear the wind slightly whistling over the rocks.
Then I could hear various rock tunes like background music inside my mind.  I could hear Linkin Park's, Bleed It Out.  I could hear Nickelback's Side of a Bullet, and Savin' Me, and I could hear something I couldn't quite remember by Korn, and I could hear Foo Fighters The Pretender.  So many lyrics and rock tunes just playing themselves out inside my head.  It was sorta the music of me, but then the rest of my life intercepted my wonderful music.
God, of all the times, why did I have to remember this now.  I struggled to push them into the back of my mind, clutching my skull. 
"SHUT-UP!," I kept telling my myself.
The thoughts persited, and I gritted my teeth together.
"GOD, GO AWAY!  GET OUTTA MY FRICKIN' HEAD!"
I took a breath, and just let them do what damage they would.  Then, damn it!  Why did I have to remember my embarrasing moments.  I hated that.  But it sure made it easier to jump.  Then I remembered all those times when i was sure no one cared.  It helped to feul what I was about to do, but I could slowly feel regret creeping into my numb, wet body.  I had to ignore that.
Then, I opened my eyes, and it stopped.  I glanced one last time behind me, the rain slowly turning into hail.  A Burning hot tear rolled down my face and was blown away as the wind picked up.
I turned back to my goal, waited one last minute, and ran across the rocks.  Drawing closer to the cliff face.  It seemed so long, so far away.  My feet seemed to move in slow motion as I tried so hard to speed up to the edge.  It was like I was asleep.  I couldn't possible be dreaming.  I could feel pain in my feet as I ran across the rock
I finally came to it, and as my feet pushed against the cliff-face I rslowly rolled over in the air, staring at the sky and the forked lightning over head.
"I'm sorry," I whispered as I could finally forget the past.

Reviews

Written by remoh (25 comments posted) 12th September 2007
liked it...i cud feel the emotions of the character while reading it. 
 
regards remoh

Written by Asferthecat (851 comments posted) 12th September 2007
A brilliant description of storm, cliff, rocks etc but, actually, there was very little about the emotions of the character. All that seemed to be running through his head was rock music. Perhaps that's teenagers for you - I'm too old to remember. 
I liked this story but was expecting him to be hit by lightening at any moment.
Dear She-Wolf
Written by stevetroster (1588 comments posted) 13th September 2007
IMO this is without doubt the best piece of work you have posted so far. As Cat states, some good descriptive work but it needed a touch more raw emotion. Perhaps one too many rock groups/song titles were mentioned and I didn’t pick up on the identity of your (ex)character. There are a few typos and grammies that a spell-check and a proof read should be able to sort out, e.g.: Tatse - Alrge - rslowly etc. 
 
Keep up the good work, all the best, 
Steve. 

Written by Lizzy (822 comments posted) 14th September 2007
Loved the description of the storm and the rocks, echoing his feelings I suppose. 
Lizzy
Above the Surf
Written by Josie (2825 comments posted) 15th September 2007
I read your story but have to say it is not my "scene" at all. We have just had a big funeral in Leeds of a wonderful mother who, fighting cancer as she has done, spent 7 courageous years raising millions of pounds for charity. Given the choice between life and death, what do you think she would have chosen? Someone throwing their life away because of their hormones in their teenage years is not just sad but soul destroying. How would this coward have coped with being on the front, fighting for his country in the First World War? Sorry to say all this but we can't all agree on the same things. Sometimes we differ.  
 
Here is a more inspiring story to read: 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2169779,00.html
Have I Got Room Here?
Written by TurboWolffe (98 comments posted) 18th September 2007
Is there room for me to quote in the midst of these awesome reveiws? yeah I s'ppose. I though this would really be crappy, but it wasn't. I believe i wrote this on 9/11, and when i went home, i remembered that i had forgotten to write a tribute to that day, and i realized that i coulda made this into someone leaping off one of the twin towers. :roll  
oh well! 
 
A Bottle of Brandy & a Pint of Irish Beer, 
TW 
 
P.S: I am going to revise this when i'm done looking at other peoples' works, so hang on! 
P.S.S: THANKS FOR THE REVIWS! IT MADE ME FEEL SOOOO MUCH BETTER!

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