Ticket to the Show

The sun was just above the horizon. The bright, fiery sun splats red-orange rays everywhere. As soon as it hits my skin, I looked at the bay just below; how it reflects on the water, how it makes it very sparkly—so serene. I sat on a side road concrete barrier. I just got out of school and I often walk through this road going home. The sunset here is really nice, you can definitely see the beauty of nature, plus, it is close to the house—I think. They say I am too soft for a boy, but, I don't think it matters. How can you tell if a boy is being a man? Usually, there are bunch of people hanging out in here, but, it's just me today, it is kind of strange. I would like to take a picture or sketch the scenery out but my hands are too attached to the barrier, it stands like two posts catching the weight of my body. I closed my eyes to feel the breeze on my skin and hair. The random passing of cars makes it seem livelier, peaceful, like the passing of time where everything happens in a tick of a millisecond. If someone caught me being weird like this, it would be very awkward that I will, for the next two years, never do this again; thus, I am not opening my eyes sooner, so if people saw me, I would not know. I breathe heavily, cars are synchronously joining the harmony of the breeze that is continuously flowing. There, I slowly opened my eyes as I felt the dimming of the surrounding. Nobody was there to shame me for being weird. Nobody saw me sitting by the bay, closing my eyes, like an emo outcast... but, I saw something... someone? I had to squint my eyes, and leaned a little forward, to make sure. My visions are perfectly fine, or maybe I am just hallucinating? Why am I hallucinating? I am not on drugs, I would never do that! Am I... losing it? Because of school? "What the f..." I blurted out. The thing swam to the rocky side of the bay and sat on it. No, there is no way in hell this is true. I slowly unzip my bag. I did not take my eyes off of it because it might be gone the second I turn away. I rummage through my things, searching for my phone, but before I can even grab it, it turned to me. IT SAW ME. I stiffen. It did not move as well. Its skin is green and scaly, that is all I can remember before it jumped in back on the lake.