Small Green Man

I overheard my mom talking to her friends.

Friend 1: You are lucky you have a good daughter. She seems not to behave like crazy teens of today.

Mom: She only looks well behave from the outside but that girl is so stubborn if you really knew her.

Friend 2: But....look at her she stays at home and read. Unlike my daughter always out with her friends.

Friend 3: My daughter is the same too,so many friends,I wonder if they are really her true friends.

Mom: My daughter has only 3 friends but they are loyal to her.

I said to myself, mother's!!!they spend their free time talking about their kids and when at home they spend time nagging their kids!!!!

So I left them without noticing me and went to sit in the balcony. I am lucky that we live near the sea. Everyday I can see the beautiful white powdery sands,hear the gentle soothing sounds of waves,look at the big blue ocean and the giant mountain from afar!!!!

Every morning when I wake up I always look outside and enjoy the tranquility of the beach with no people or few people walking or jogging in the sand. Sometimes I can't resist swimming in the sea early in the morning.

I remember before, I think I was 6 years old, I almost got drowned. I wake up early and run to the beach to take a bath and without knowing that the sand under the water is not stable it suddenly became a trap for me.

It's a good thing that my dad's friend decided to take an early swim so he run to save me and grab my shirt at the back and fish me out of the water before I totally sunk down.

I was so afraid at that time and I went running home and after I have a vague memory of that day event, I can't seem to remember if he told my parents that I almost get drown but I guess he did because my dad called me and said to me"tomorrow Daddy will teach you how to swim so you will never get drown again".

That words from my father comforts me alot.Learning to swim means I can do something to protect myself from drowning.

The fallowing day I was relaxing in the balcony and I look at the spot where I almost drown and the memory came flooding again.I remember vividly how I panick.The feeling and the sensation that you want to hold onto something but their is nothing solid to grasp only water and space. I keep kicking so my head stays up from the water while trying to feel the sand under my feet but now it's gone and all I can feel is water.

The feeling that I keep going down even if I tried harder to kick up is so frightening. I feel so helpless that nothing can prevent me from sinking down it. I was gasping and desperately trying to push my head up!!!!

And then a hand grab my shirt at the back.

As I grow up my swimming skills improved and the memory of nearly drowning doesn't frightened me anymore.

My room has a window with the view of two palm trees separated by 5 meter space. My mom decided it's the perfect place to dry our laundry. So she tie a wire to both trees thus creating an area to dry for our clothes naturaly.

I love this window that my father design .It's a big window and has a nook and a space big enough to used as a chair or a bed for siesta. It's view is the place where mom dry our clothes. Sometimes I can catch my mom placing our clothes to dry and I run to help her. Sometimes I just observed her gracefully and efficiently hanging dry our clothes one by one.

Everyday of my life as far as I can remember my mother force me to take a nap after lunch. She believes that I will grow more taller if I take a nap in the afternoon. She will not live my room until I fall asleep. Sometimes I can fall asleep quickly and sometimes if I can't sleep I just pretend I am sleeping. So my mother can leave me alone.

This weekend I spend all morning swimming.Maybe I miss swimming since I was so busy with so many school activities. Imagine I was the president of Science club,English club,vice president of student body and managing editor of our school paper.I also recently join cheering and yelling club and I tried out in basketball.

I am so tired so I told my mom I am going to take a nap. I went to my bedroom and decided to sleep in the window.I closed my eyes hoping I will fall asleep. After sometime I am still awake. I open my eyes and look at the palm trees and I observed that the shrub moves and I thought it was just the wind.

Then out of no where, a green thing appear and it move slowly. It has a big eyes with the head that looks like a giant mouse,a triangular ears and maybe 2 to 3 feet in height.It has a very thin body, a hand and a feet that looks like human.

I froze when it look at me directly in the eyes and then it was gone!!!!!!I feel my hair stand up by itself and every hair in my body fallow the same and I shuddered like I was so cold.

I said to myself what is that thing?Did I just imagine it!!!!! I scan the whole area trying to see if it hiding in the bushes.Then I run out from my room and went directly to where it appear and investigate if the green man is still their but the green man is gone and lives no traces at all.

Every time I was in my room I always look in the shrub direction hoping to see the green man again but it never appear. Maybe it was just my imagination that I saw a small green man!!!