Didactic Magazine

Running (The Pain is Gone) 

We were running, me and him, Jesse is his name, as I watched his hair flow in the wind I fell in love. He is so beautiful. My name is Sarah Tomlin.  I love to run.  When you’re running you feel so free from everything like you’re flying through time and space with no path or end.  I run to get away form all of my sorrow and pain, but it’s not the same when I run with him.  When I run with him it’s like my stomach is filled with butterflies. I met him in 3^rd grade out in the field during P.E. The coach said, “Get in a line, were going to have a race.” When I got in line I realized I was the only girl racing, but it didn’t matter to me.  So when the coach blew the whistle  I took off and I was faster than all the boys and I was passing all of them when I came to the one in front and he looked at me and I looked at him and smiled and hit full speed and passed him easily. When the race was over, I won; I introduced myself and found that his name was Jesse.

             No one knows what we’re running from, they were big and dark and I wasn’t scared because I was with Jesse, but we kept running and when I looked up a big piece of ice fell form the sky, it almost the size of ping-pong balls. We started running faster they started hitting us. One hit me on my arm and I felt like falling to the ground and crying but I knew I had to keep looking and he was still right there, and like always he was. When we got to the barn house we ran in and turned on the radio in the door and we listened to them say that the ice was getting bigger. This is the biggest ice storm anyone has ever seen. Later that night when the ice storm had stopped we ran into the woods. You see were alone, Jesse ran away from his foster home and my parents died when I was five in a tornado, I keep having flashbacks to that day.

            I remember laying in my bed with my dog Lucy and she started whining and I remember my parents running into my room and my dad picked me up and my mom got Lucy. We got to the cellar they kissed me on the forehead and my pushed me in as my mom was kissing my dad and crying, she knew there wasn’t enough room for him, as I started to cry I heard a loud boom as the house broke into pieces and my mom and dad were picked up and spun into a whirlwind as I screamed and cried. I was so scared. The next day at school I met Jesse and ever since then he has been my best friend, we take care of each other. I am now seventeen and me and Lucy and Jesse are still running. And the pain is gone. 

By: Rachel