The Screeching Stop

By Holly

"Please stop, please stop, we're lost," Taylor and I heard as we drove down the dark beach in the army green Jeep Wrangler.

As the Camouflage Jeep strolled down the warm, white, sandy, beach we heard shrill screams get louder and louder. The screams became so loud that they were almost deafening, "Please stop, please stop, we're lost!"

"I wonder if we should pick up those people," Taylor's uncle Chuck asked with a shake in his voice.

"I am not sure," Taylor exclaimed, "what if they have guns or are mass murders or something, maybe they're even con artists!"

At that moment the thoughts were pounding through my head and my heart was almost in my throat, I was so scared!

As the slightly rusted jeep moved to where we could see the frightening people we noticed they were just two teenagers. One wearing a T-shirt ripped at the sleeves with tattoos covering his arms to the point where no skin was showing. His jeans were ripped at the bottom. He had on untied, old ratty sneakers, that made a flip-flop sound as his heels came in and out of the shoes as he walked down the white sandy beach. The young teenage girl was wearing a short blue shirt with pink and orange flowers lined up across the front that showed her swimsuit ties tied tightly around her neck. Her hair had been thrown everywhere looking like she had just gone swimming. Her nose was lined up and down with small diamond stud earrings. As she walked next to the other teenager her short blue shorts and flip-flop sandals made shh flip flop shh flip flop sound.

When we were starting to speed up just after we passed the two teenagers one yelled "Hey man pick us up, we're lost!"

All of the sudden the army green Jeep Wrangler went to a screeching stop, sand flew up from the back tires and front of the jeep just barely touched the white sandy beach. Everything got quiet for a couple of seconds while the shock eased its way out of each of us.

"I could have sworn we were going to tip over," I said shakily.

After this shock the two teenagers just started walking over to the army green Wrangler Jeep and climbing in.

Chuck quickly said "What are you two doing out here this late at night?"

The two teenagers not listening to Taylor's uncle climbed into the jeep and sat down. Then they started saying, "Thanks man we needed this ride we've been waiting here for about like five hours. We thought we would have to stay here all night long and maybe even forever, you know we where just walking along then all of the sudden we were lost and we didn't know which way to walk so we just sat down and waited, and waited."

"No problem, now where are you guys staying," Chuck asked.

"Um where is that place again," the girl said.

"Um I think its called Cape San Blas Campground," the other said.

After driving around Cape San Blas for about 15 minutes we finally found the campground. We got the teenagers to their campground, dropped them off and went to our house feeling heroic. After this experience I learned that you should not judge people by their looks, just judge them by their personality and how they act.