I was at Mountain Avenue, and it was so quiet it hurt your ears from the strain of no sound. The road was dark, and the lamplight reflected off the short white lines causing them to almost glow along the dark abyss of a road. I felt a slight gust of cool air sweep up behind me. It was as if a chilling non-existent hand swept up behind me and touched my shoulder to get me to move. My teeth slowly grinded together, when another gust of wind swept up on me. It felt like the wind and I were starting a pushing fight, because my feet were cemented to the ground. I heard the whoosh of a car speeding around the corner barreling down towards the crosswalk, and it zipped by leaving dust in my eyes. I still stood contemplating the daring cross of Mountain Avenue in the dead darkness of the night. Although I was wearing a glimmering white shirt, the dark blue shorts and coal blue shoes made me feel invisible to

"We have all been waiting for you to come home so we can eat!"

"Alex! Where the hell have you been for the last half hour!"

any pair of headlights that traveled towards me. It wasn't very late, but the time I took to stand on that corner was endless, and I knew that I had to cross soon before the year ended. I could just hear my mother yelling at me now.

Ironically, I was only going to be but two to three minutes late, but it felt like an eternity. The wind hand grown stronger, causing me to catch a little chill through my tee shirt. I could the hungry side of my stomach fighting the butterfly filled other side. Although I had made this cross so frequently before there was something that caused today to be so peculiar. I couldn't quite tell why the air was so unfamiliar and distasteful. I wanted to just get placed on the other side of the street without having to cross it myself. Still feeling cemented to the sidewalk, another car whooshed by me kicking up more exhaust and dust in my direction. The car that passed was just a blurry red object. It was going so fast, it was even hard to tell if anyone was even driving it. I finally jackhammered my feet out of the sidewalk and looked both

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