South Carolina-Personal Narrative

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It was a beautiful morning in South Carolina. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and it was a good day to go fishing. I was getting all the fishing gear ready after I ate my breakfast. I had my bait, my fishing rod, and a few bottles of water. As I was about to head out and pick up Danny, my beast friend, my mom Clare told me “ please son please, please don’t go fishing today, I had a bad dream about you yesterday don’t go”. I told my mom its only a dream, nothing is going to happen. I left the house and picked Danny up and we launched our boat in the Caribbean sea without noticing the rip tide warning flags on the beach.

The tide kept pushing us further and further out into the deep, dark waters where the scariest of all creatures laid. As I was trying to paddle back, Danny gets angry because we cant get back to shore and knocked his brand new fishing rod into the sea and then he even threw the bait over as well. I told Danny everything will be OK, we have enough food and water to survive at least two days.At the end of the first day we had already ate and drank almost half of our food and our water. I didn’t know how we were going to escape this we had no shade beside the clothes on our backs. The the blazing sun turning …show more content…
I told Danny, are you OK, he told me “yes, I am fine you look so delicious and meat can I eat you”. I told Danny what did you say he just kept on repeating you look Delicious. Then out of know here Danny pulled a knife out of his pocket, tried to kill me with it. He cut my shoulder and gave me a scar on face We fought on the boat until I saw a paddle right next to me and hit him with it. Danny fell overboard and as I went into the water to look for him, then suddenly the big shark came back as Danny body came floating back up and the shark ate him with his big jaws leaving nothing but his blood in his trails and swam
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