Water Wonderland
Coming new and fresh into the water, I roamed the vast oceans of the world with my parents. It was an extraordinary experience until I was old enough to go to school. H2O Elementary taught us about or lives, As though I already didn't know what I was going to do with mine. Continue circling the world. But my spirits gravened as my teacher explained what would happen to all of us at least one time in our lives. "All of you one day will go through the three stages of the water cycle. You will all evaporate, condensate, and precipitate. Meaning you will rise from the water as vapor, then condense or group with others of our kind and finally fall back into the water and eventually start the process all over again. Don't worry, no one will stay stuck up there in the sky. It's not painful so don't be afraid, you'll get used to it." Professor Rivers explained. Ring! "Saved by the bell, right?" Swimella told me. "Yeah, right." I replied quivering. Swimella noticed I was shaking and encouraged me that it wasn't going to be so bad. I remained sullen, "But it's the first day of summer tomorrow and it'll be hot enough for evaporation." "Fine. Come outside with me tomorrow and we'll go to the dodge-water court." "Ok." I said nervously.
Later that night, I shivered at the thought of what could happen to me. I dreamed that I was rising out of the water and condensed with my friends and family, but I was the only one that got stuck and started to suffocate from the lack of hydrogen mixed with oxygen. When I woke up, all I could fathom was being stuck in the sky.
The next morning, I nervously walked out of my home making my way to the dodge-water court. Swimella, acting as though she had been there all along, had greeted me excitedly. "Come on, let's play." After about only a few minutes, the ferocity of the game was exposed and the water-ball was being hurled across the court. But suddenly, fear invaded me as I slowly felt lighter and lighter while rising of off the ground. Swimella seemed curious of what was happening and I could only assume it was the evaporation stage of the water cycle. The surface drew nearer and nearer until . . . plop! Out of the water and into the air. I thought I was done for but nothing happened but me rising into the air. Abruptly, I stopped at a particular point and instead of feeling as light as I did, I felt as though I'd eaten almost a ton of food. I was condensating! After only a minute I began to fall from the group water people and plummeted back down into the Earth. "Now I'm done for, I can't control where I go on land and I don't know which way the ocean is anyway." As if on cue I began to seep through the soil and I found myself in an underground tunnel and rolled through it. In a matter of seconds I was back into the water. I swam as fast as I could until I spotted my parents at our house waiting for me. "We're so proud of you. You got through your first cycle and managed to find your way home." I beamed at them. Swimella came up to me pummeling me with thousands of questions. "I never thought the water cycle would be so easy. I can't wait for the next one!"