The sun was shining down on my skin, making me look up to the blinding sun, and wonder how on earth did I get here. Everything was just so bright, the heat was so much, but there I was standing on the burning sand watching the cool waves hit the shore. As to try and cool me from boiling within in my skin.
"Why don't you go for a swim Kiddo?" ask the man that made his way over to me. He was ten year my senior, and was almost the spitting image of my father. "It's hot as Hell, and here you are all pale in the sun not cooling down. I bet a little bit of water would help the burning in that vampire flesh of yours," my brother Cash kid ruffling my dark beach waved hair.
"Hardy-har-har!" I laughed sarcastically pulling my knees under my chin, resting my eyes on a small seashell by my foot. "Well this little vampire doesn't want to go swimming, there can be sharks out there…" I drifted off recognizing that sinking feeling within my stomach, but swallowing it so I wouldn't throw up this time.
"Oh you're such a worried wort Stevie, there are no sharks in this water, and if there were I would be able to fight them off," Cash scoff buffing out his muscles, before crouching down in front of me. "Hey, you know I kid Silly, but you have to get over this anxiety issue...Someday you're gonna have to do something out of your comfort zone, so you have to just suck it up." he explained making my bite my lip in nervousness.
"But.."
"No, I don't want to hear it!" he interrupted me placing his hand over my mouth dramatically making me roll my eyes. "Let me show you that there no sharks, and once I'm right you have to come in there with me..or...You're dubbed scaredy cat of the beach for the rest of your life," my twenty year old brother laughed, making his face look younger in the progress. Without any other word he swam, going beyond the shallow end, and all the way over to deepest end that was easiest to see.
"Cash, come back in! You're going to get hurt!" I yelled my heart racing too fast for me to even hear it. That sinking feeling wouldn't go away, no matter how much I tried to push it.
"Come on Stev-" he called raising his hands in the air, but he didn't get to finish before something pulled him under. My eyes were bulging out of my head, and I was pushing my body to race toward my brother...My best friend.
"Cash! Cash!" I called, the sense of hope that he was just playing with me, but there was no movement not even a speck of blood. "CASH!" No answer. "Momma! Pop!" I screamed still searching the shallow end as if there was any hope, but there was no hope.