Hey everyone This experiance really happened to me, a couple weeks ago. I changed the names and dramatized it a bit. <><><><><><><><> I roll over, still groggy from sleep and slowly open my sore eyes. I kick my sleeping bag off and lay on the mattress for a bit, soaking in the warmth of the sun. After awhile the heat gets a bit to hot and I sit up. I crawl over to the entrance of the small tent and zip it open, revealing the sunny forest outside. I grab my shoes and crawl out of the small tent, breathing in the fresh, crisp air. "Zoey? What are you doing?" I hear, My friend Emilys voice sounding a bit worn out. "Emily! Good day today. Want to go rafting?" I ask, feeling wide awake and happy. "Sure, let's do it" Emily says, smiling politely and brushing her brown hair. "great! Can't wait" I say, smiling. <><><><> "Ok Zoey, once we get the raft in, your going to go in first, ok?" Emily calls to me over the rapids. "got it! Ok, lets get it in!" We both heave the raft in the water and I step in. Suddenly I lose my footing and fall, the raft ripping out of Emilys hand and I scream, falling into the icy waters. I start floating down the river, staying afloat by my lifejacket and hanging on to the raft. Tree roots that were sticking out of the ground were whipping at my face and arms and the rocks were bumping against my ankles. I continue screaming, finally slowing down enough to swim towards a rocky bank. I heave myself and the raft onto it, my body aching as Emily comes bursting out of the brushes. "Zoey! Thank gosh your ok!" she exclaims, coming up to me and heloing me up. "yeah, i'm fine, lets continue down." I say, smiling a bit. "are you sure?" she asks, uncertain. "yeah." <><><><> I feel Emily poke me and I open my eyes. "where are we?" I ask. "sorry, I thought we should go a bit further," Emily says, smiling. "that's fine." I reply, looking around. "don't worry, we've got plently of time." Emily says, reassuring me. <><><><><> "Zoey, we have a big problem!" Emily yells and i feel the rain drops hit me. "****" I say before pointing to the closest bank. "up there, we need to get out of the water." I say, just before a clap of lighting flashes through the sky.
"Ok! Great idea!" Emily says, paddling close to the shore. We climb out and drag the raft out as icy raindrops hit us at a stinging rate. I scan the area, the river already flooded and the sky filled with dark clouds. We were stuck on a small island formed by the flooding river, which was moving at a dangerous rate by now. "Emily, we have to hide under the raft!" I scream and she nods, helping me flip the raft and the both of us crawling beneath it. We stay under there for awhile until I hear a small crunching noise over the pounding of rain. "Emily?!?! Are you actually eating chips, now?!" I yell, snatching the bag of chips she held with the hand I wasn't using to hold the raft down. "Sorry." she says and we fall silent for a long time, shaking from the cold and the little help our swim suits were. "Zoey? I think I want a chip right now." Emily says quietly just before the raft was ripped out of my hold and swept away by a sudden feirce gust of wind. Emily and I both scream for a second before forced to walk in order for the wind to not knock us down. "over in the trees! We will get sheltered better from the rain and wind!" I yelled and we scurry over towards the trees. We huddle close together, shaking feircly. "Emily? Here are your chips." I say and hand over the bag of potato chips I have suprisingly saved. "screw the chips!" Emily says and throws them. After awhile I stand up. "Emily, we can't stay here. We need help or we are going to die!" I yell and start stumbling through the brush. Emily follows and we end up in the woods. Suddenly I see people on the other side and I franticly wave, yelling for help. Emily falls to the ground and soon so do I. We both start giggling uncontrollably. I see that my skin was getting a blue tint to it and I had to shake Emily numerous times in order to keep her consience. I look up and see the people were still staring, talking to each other, making lots of hand gestures. We were still giggling, we didn't know why, but we decided it was a side effect on getting hypothermia, which we knew what was happening. I started to feel tired when suddenly I hear a loud noise and look up to see the people have started a motorboat and I slowly get up on weak legs and help Emily up. We start walking towards the shoreline and explain to the people what had happened. They let us on their boat and we sped away on it to the other side to their campground. Afterwards Emily and I had to go to the hospital for having mild hypothermia. Now, we are planning another rafting trip next month.
Thanks everyone yeah i'm fine now but my friend and I agreed it would have been a pretty good story to tell