I was your average seventeen year old boy, i went to high school, played football,video games, and was obsessed with cars. i had what was considered a typical job at the time, working fast food, living paycheck to paycheck, scrounging for a living. in essence i was miserable, that is until something amazing happened.

i was working and we were packed, the people lined up out the door and i was running the register. it is important to take into account that it was pouring outside and the people that were standing there were starting to stink from the dampness. now any person can realize that when a person is under pressure they tend to make mistakes and when this happens customers tend to get angry.

one particular customer decided to start screaming at me about things that were beyond my control, so i took off my apron and threw it out into the crowd of customers that were steadily growing more and more angry. i then proceeded out of the store and into the rain. i stood there for a minute just letting it soak me. i basked in the life giving rain watching lightning streak across the sky and listening to thunder roll pounding my ear drums like mallets on a bass drum.

it was amazing how something so simple as a thunderstorm could clear the mind as it was with me. something about rain had always been calming to me, perhaps it was the sound, or the feeling of the water hitting my skin as i stood in it, allowing it to soak me.

i started to walk to my car and as i reached it something incredible happened, i could feel the air begin to charge around me and i could smell the ozone. there was a flash of light and all want black to me