It took me two whole weeks of lying in bed just for my back to stop aching. Finally when I was able to walk again Dale decided to take my wings out for a test drive. I wasn't ready for it but he said i didn't have choice.
It was a sunny day... I met Dale outside my home on a day where we didn't have school. "Hey... how are you feeling?" he asked concerned. "Fine" I replied even though on the inside my stomach was doing somersaults. I was wearing what I usually wore something comfortable and warm since it was windy. Dale immediately looked me up and down and said, "you can't wear that to fly"
"why not"
"try and push your wings out and you'll see what I mean" and i did I tried to push my wings out and they kept getting stuck in my shirt. Dale came behind my with a pocket- knife and whispered in my ear, "hold still" I froze not because he told me to but like before there was weird tone in his voice that made me feel paralyzed... yeah whatever i know it's corny but it is what happened. As his voice made me as stiff as a board his hands went to work... He cut two long strips out of the back of my shirt. "now try and push your wings out" he commanded. I forced my back muscles to cooperate. and slowly huge black wings started to come out of my shirt... it was breathtaking... for me literally it took so much energy for me to just get my wings out and i hadn't even gotten off the ground yet. As soon as my wings had fully emerged... the flopped to the ground. "whoa whoa watch it", started Dale, "you don't wanna pull a muscle in your back do you?!" He then gently took the bottoms of my wings and pulled them up... so the they weren't on the floor. "now i know that it takes a lot of energy to keep them up but you have to or else you'll regret it tomorrow morning.... trust me" I summoned all my energy to keep my wings up the way Dale had held them... slowly he moved his hands and came around to the front of me. "Geez Tommi.. if I've ever seen you look constipated--"
"Oh shut up" I said with my eyes closed.
After holding my wings up for what seems like an eternity Dale told me to try to flap my wings. The first time I tried I couldn't even move them more than an inch... then after a few tries i started to flap more and more powerfully. I could even feel.. and see my hair whipping around! "Good" said Dale taking off his shirt, "I didn't think you'd get this far today so I didn't wear a shirt with cut-outs"
"You underestimated me?!" I commented jokingly. Dale smirked evilly, "You never cease to amaze me do you" he then gracefully pushed out his own wings without even blinking. Boy I couldn't wait until I could do that. "now" he said grabbing both of my hands, "here's the scary part" Then he turned around (while still holding one of my hands) and started running "Dale!" I screamed "what the hell are you doing!!" Then I shut my eyes
The next thing i knew we were over the entire town.
 pyrojs · Mon Aug 06, 2007 @ 07:47pm · 0 Comments |
