Confidence

 

Today’s a Tuesday, the sky is clear, the sun is beaming down, but it’s not going be happy skies from here on out. I going to be living a whole new life from now, because all I used to do was sit down in my office, open up my notes, and start helping out customers. Ah the good old days, but I can’t disappoint Anton who got me job at Apple in support and services. Which I did beg him to do. But the thing is that the office is in San Francisco and I live in Milford, Connecticut and thats about 2,972 miles away! So Anton suggested me that I should move from here, and you what I did. I got peer pressured and decided to move to San Francisco to accept the job. I know, dumb me

I always enjoyed Milford since it was my first home I ever lived in, and also I always used to country type of person instead of city due to loud noises I don’t enjoy. So I’m going to miss this place with my heart and soul, but anyway I can’t sitting around and mourning all day I have an uber driver whose going to pick me, who is supposedly rated one star which I did not know about. Anyways the uber driver just pulled up and was really nice: He greeted me with a hi, he took my luggage, and drive from the airport. From there it was silent drive to the airport since we did not want to talk to each other. Once I arrived at the airport it rushed as if a famous person landed. The planes were roaring, the cars were honking, that people were running and talking. I went over to the check in desk for Delta Airlines to check my bags in. “Hello my name is Carson Dexter, I’m here to check my bag in” and he replied with, “Okay I going to need your passport and boarding pass please”, so I gave my passport and boarding. When I did that she put bags up on the conveyer belt and I free to go. After this I was going to TSA and that always scares me, but this time it light as a breeze so I guess it didn’t scare me this time. My gate had just been announced but before my 4h flight, but before that I’m going to have to get the greatest snack in the world which is Nacho Cheese Doritos. Literally once of the best snacks ever, it have savory nacho cheese while also have the nice crunch and crisp of a chip. Suddenly someone said “Oh sorry sir for bumping into you”. I said, “It’s okay sir, you carry on with your day” . Anyways enough of that, I went down to gate and being surprised they already started boarding. I got to desk and asked, “Excuse me heres my ticket may board now”, and the employee said, “Sure sir, hope you have safe flight”

As I got on the flight, I immediately searched for my seat since this was going to be long flight and I would need my peace and quietness. When I got to my seat I got in a state of confusion and doubt. My seat was next to wings of the plane and when I looked over I saw that one of the wing flaps of plane wasn’t working properly. So I asked the flight attendant if that was going to be an issue as we were flying. She stated that it was not going to be an issue and we will have a calm and safe flight. I didn’t trust that since these type of errors can lead to crashes and I am sure I wouldn’t be in a crash or anybody else on the airplane. Well guess we’ll have to find out since now were about to take of into the sky. Everything was going smooth, except the baby who was crying and could not tolerate it, but in flight beverages came so I got coke to calm down my nerves. Besides that I was constantly looking a wing flap to see to if it was back in shape but it wasn’t so I asked more coke since I got real scared of that. I was having consistent thoughts that I wouldn't be able to see Anton ever again, would I never get to experience working at Apple,and could never live my life to fullest, but I tried to remain calm for myself. It was about 2 hours into the flight and we were pretty close to San Francisco but out of know where the pilot is making an announcement, “Hello Passengers, sorry to address this but we are expecting some hard technical issues, and I do not know why but please have your seatbelts on”. The first thing I did ,once I heard the announcement is I look at the flap and I think thats the reason for this happening, so I asked the flight attendant that flap was acting up but she still gave me the same response. Soon after the announcement the flight attendants got shocked and had scared face , and told the passengers, “BRACE BRACE”, and I was so confused , so I look at window and realized we were falling. “Holy Cow we are falling “ I screamed my self at top of my lungs. You could hear the panic in everybody’s voices, the crying in everybody’s expressions as if world was going to end. So after I could not stay awake anymore, my brain was in shock, my eyes wanted to close, and the worst is I felt I was going to pass out. Few minutes later my body completely shut down and could not feel or sense anything. BOOM!

The next thing I knew is nothing ,I could hear the sirens of the police, the flashes of the media, and surprise that I was alive. I was actually alive and not dead which was the most usual thing that ever happened. Everybody was astonished as I was alive and was rushed by new reporters but EMTS and police had to take me to the hospital straight away to see if I was okay. The ride was hectic as they took my blood pressure, my pulse, my breathing, and check my reflexes all to see if I was lucky or that I was god and just survived. The percentage for surviving was like 5% so that means I just ran of luck for the rest of life or I am immortal and survived. Either one is okay since I’m alive still. As I arrived in the hospital Anton immediately rushed me, “Bro are your okay, The second I heard about the crash I immediately booked I flight to get here as fast as possible”, I was going to say something but the nurse interrupted me, “Sir, he needs some rest you can talk him late”. So I went to CCU to get checked by the other doctors, who were also very curious on how I survived. Think about it, a smart young person who is scared of most stuff is alive, so it does give judgement and curiosity to people. Anyways I could see Anton outside who was worrying about since we were best best friends ever since we were kids so that explains why. I was also a bit worried but shouldn't since I a alive and being healthy but this stuff creeps me out. After they their examinations Anton was allowed to talk to me he said, “Bro thank god your alive, everybody is literally so worried about if you were going to be dead”, “Don’t worry I’m right here, happy and healthy”. But suddenly Anton saw mysterious green object in pockets and asked, “Whats that gem in your pocked”. I replied with “I have no idea but let’s take it out to see what it is. Soon after we both touched the green gem and some random noises happened, “Anton whats going on I can’t see anything”. Everything was just green a soon later we both passed out. Whoosh! It took us about 5 minutes to properly wake up and when we did everything look weird. If it as that green gem transported us to some magical realm and there was some spiritual element hovering above us. “Welcome to my Game” as it could talk to us so Anton replied with “Who are you and why have brought us here. “I am the Guardian of the game of the mysterious realm and you were selectively chosen of a astronomical wheel, and about that plane crash I made your friend survive so he could play my game. I shockingly replied with, “Then how could I get the green gem?”. He responded with, “Well you know that bag of doritos you were eating I put on your pocket with out you knowing”. Anyways he continued on how smart he is and then got to the point. “The game is spilt into two parts which will you both compete and finish, The first part is the Flaming Arrows and the second one is the Ice Walk. Me and Anton we very confident to finish this up and then this what melted out confidence. “But heres the catch, One of you will do one challenge and the other will do the second challenge”. This is where we both were confused and had no idea what to do. We took around 20 minutes to decide and this was the solution, since Anton likes the cold he’s going to the Ice Walk and I’ll do the Flaming Arrows. So we went to our individual challenges but when I was walking to my challenge I was being so scared but then I remembered that if your confident you can do anything. As I got to challenge I had to listen to boring rules, “Welcome to Flaming Arrows, the objective is get past the flaming arrows with them hitting you”. I was ready for this, when looking at the arrows I saw pattern which was Zig, Zag, and Jump so using this pattern I’ll be able to win. So thats what I did. I zigged. I zagged. I jumped, with arrows with one purpose which was to kill me but even thought they’re the hottest I ever felt I had confidence and when I got finished I yelled at top of my lungs. “I won, take that” I said then the mysterious element said, “No, you can’t win but any ways you friend isn’t going to win.”

I immediately ran over to Anton as he was going to begin his challenge so I yelled, “Have confidence Anton you can do it”. Anton said, “Gotcha Bro”. So before he started the rules had to be explained. “So you’re friend got lucky with the first challenge, but this challenge the Ice walk is going to be the hardest. In the Ice walk you must run across a strip a ice but the ice falls down if your there for too long”. Anton got the game rules clear so once he could go he rushed off the ice as if he was the flash but after a couple minutes he stood. I was worried as he was running the ice was falling down but Anton remembered what said of having confidence and then he took off. He soared past the ice feeling it was nothing and when he got to the end his feet were colder than Antarctica. We had beaten the challenges so now we could go home but the unthinkable had happened as gamemaster said. “Since you beat my chal;lenges you must face me and defeat me if you have hopes going home”. I said, “No problem your easy for us”, “Yeah, your going to be a walk in the park” Anton also said. So grabbed a sword and shield and before we went I said, “Anton you go left, and I’ll go right”. We strategize a game but the game master had more up his sleeve. First he sent out his little minions and those weren’t a challenge for us. I could hit them and they would die in one stike. Hen he sent out little spider bugs who were hard for us. They’re vicious fangs and hard skin made it hard for us, but we persevered with all of our might slashing through every bone in their body. We thought that was the end but it wasn’t until what came. “Your last and final challenge is that you must defeat me” The gamemaster loudly shouted. Me and Anton were scared but we did our original plan but this time he knew our every moves making us not being able to touch them. So I had an idea, “Anton lets charge at the same time so he dosen’t our individual moves. My idea had been successful as we both charged at the same time the gamemaster couldn't know which way we were going, so We both charged up our swords and sliced the game master into two halves. “Anton we did it we defeated the game master” I joyfully said, “Yeah let’s go home now” Anton said. Next we touched the green gem to see if it would teleport us home.

As I pulled it out of my pocket it wasn’t green anymore but blue so when we touched it blurred us out and we had no idea what was happening. Whoosh! I was so tired as well as Anton but where we teleported I was shocked. “Anton the Apple center” I shouted at him. Anton said, “Yeah I know and think the gem knew where we wanted to go” . I was a bit nervous go ing to step in but then I remembered if you have confidence. So me and Anton stepped in with pride and confidence waiting to see what would happen and would hope to change my life.