Personal Narrative
Finally Long Beach!!!! I’ve been stuck in my car for a millennium. I was so happy to see my best friends —— and —— finally. The moment we laid our eyes on each other, I ran as fast as I could with the hot sand beneath my feet, my brother trailing behind me; annoyed by the sand I kicked it as hard as I could. It covered my brother from head to foot, he looked like a tiny version of Sandman. Abhay(my brother)started wailing and tried to tackle me and I fell on the itchy sand with a thud; the sand somehow got under my shirt and my brother and I were scratching ourselves like monkeys with ticks. My friends were laughing so I took a crab leg and stuck it on their hair. All hail crab queens —— and ——!! There was a long awkward pause and we started guffawing simultaneously. —— hugged me so hard I almost choked and maybe died if it was any harder. Coughing and laughing we caught up on how exciting/boring life was.
“Wanna play dare or dare or fly a kite?” —— asked excitedly
“Dare or dare duh!” We said simultaneously
“I’ll start, cmon —— ” I said in a mischievous voice
“So what dare do you want her to do??” she whispered to me
“Dare 1 is shaking her butt while holding two dead crabs” I said while rotating my butt in circular motions with a proud smile for creating a disgusting dare for ——
“And Dare 2 is dissecting the dead crab!!!”
“Eww!! Akanksha, that is soo gross. I love it!!”
“ARE YOU GUYS DONE YET!!!!!” —— hollered
“Coming!!!”
“So, dare 1 or dare 2?” —— said because I was giggling really hard, I couldn’t even stand straight and needed —— for support.
“Uhh..Dare 1” —— said with a scared look on her face
“Okay, you have to rotate your butt while holding dead crabs and we’ll be taking a video” I said in a sassy tone
“And you need to upload it on youtube” —— added
It won’t be hard to find the crabs; the wet, sticky sand was littered with them, there were hundreds of them, maybe thousands. Our feet touched the cool water while we searched for the perfect crabs. After looking through at least 50 crabs we finally found the ones perfect for ——. Some of them were too big and the others not big enough or that they had a couple limbs missing, the others just gross. It took us about 15 minutes to make —— touch the crabs, another to hold them; she was terrified. Her face turned a pale green in disgust, she gingerly picked it up and shuddered.
“Go ——!! Whoo!!” —— shouted as encouragement which seemed to get her face to its natural color, tan.
—— seemed relieved when our parents called us to eat lunch. We ran back in harmony. I ate spicy potato rice, the potato crunching with every time I chewed and the rice evening it all out. My friends ate rolled up paratha. Our siblings were flying pretty kites that danced in the strong wind.
“Let’s get back to dare or dare.” I asked
“Ya, sure. I’ll go next” —— said
—— and I stepped aside to discuss the dares.
“Dare 1 is —— singing “Maria hee, Maria hoo, Maria haha ” with a crab above her head” —— suggested
“Ya and dare 2 is the same thing”
“Sure”
“—— COME HERE!!!!!!!”
—— sprinted as fast as a cheetah. Panting she said”Dare 2”
“We didn’t even ask you but ok. So you have to sing “Maria hee, maria hoo, Maria haha” while holding this crab above your head” —— told her, giving her the crab.
“3!2!1! Go!” I hollered while holding up my phone to take the video, —— beside me with hers and ——’s phones.
“Maria hee, haha, Maria hoo”
“Stop!!!” —— shrieked “You’re laughing way too hard”
“Ok, let’s restart. Maria hee, maria hoo, Maria something-something. I’m done”
“It’s maria haha” —— said rolling her eyes
“Fine! Maria haha, happy”
“Now it’s your turn Aihika” —— announced with a very fake and evil smile
Then I knew my dare was not going to be good. They ambled far away from me. I played with the lifeless crabs by kicking them, plucking one of their legs out, and ‘performing surgery on it’.finally after what seemed like thirty minutes the crab queens arrived.
“Dare 1 or dare 2”
“Dare 1”
“You need to ask a crab to prom” —— told me
“Say ‘Will you go to prom with me my beautiful dead crab’ while twirling it around”
“Fine, take the video with my phone ——”
“Gimme” she said and I gave her my phone
“Start!” —— screamed
“Will you go to prom with me, my beautiful crab?”
“Dead crab”
“Oh shut up ——!!”
Back to ——, —— and I walked away from her while whispering what the dares should be. We decided dare 1 as taking a crab to my mom and calling it yummy and dare 2 as square dancing with a crab.
“—— come here!!” I yelled at her
“Dare 2”
“Square dance with a crab and say ‘I love you crabigail’”
“Start” I said
“I love you crabigail” —— said while moving side to side, holding the crab’s claws.
“——, your turn”
It didn’t take long to figure out ——’s dares. Dare 1 and dare 2 are the same thing; singing baby while twirling a crab around.
“——, dare 1 or dare 2?” —— asked her trying not to giggle
“Dare 2”
“Sing baby while dancing with the crab”
“Ok. Baby, baby, baby ohh like Baby,baby, baby noo like baby, baby, baby ohh” —— sang, I started to cringe.
“No offense but ——’s singing isn’t the best” I whispered to ——
“Aihika!! Don’t be mean”
“——, ——, Aihika come here, we need to go!!” My mom called out
We ran back to our cars and begged our parents to stay longer.
“Can you take pictures of the three of us? PLEASE!!” —— wailed
“Ok” her dad said
We lined up and smiled, our arms around the others’ necks. —— lost balance and fell on me and I fell on —— like dominos. The sand got into my clothes again. Ugh!! We went back into ——’s car and hung out there for some time, till we reached the next destination.