Without A Nightlight

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The moon shone down on the lake like a spotlight. Ii \\as a warm summer evening, and I found the night sky, with its lightening stars, relaxing to watch. Five of us were sitting on the dock, wishing we could go for a swim. Paul asked Chelsea and me if we wanted to get on a big yellow tube and go across the cove. It sounded like fun.
We were on the tube, paddling across the lake, when Chelsea said that she was having doubts. Was it safe crossing the lake in this lube'/ Paul said he had done this before and that there was nothing to worry about. The boat speed limit was five miles an hour and all boats needed to have at least two lights on.
We were cruising along when, suddenly, Kari started yelling from the dock, saying she heard a boat coming. We didn't think anything about it, figuring we were on the opposite side from where the boat would be. Then suddenly, the noise became loud enough for us to hear over our splashing feet. We all began to panie.
We yelled back to the dock, asking them if they could see a boat, but no one could. So we kept going until the roar was louder than our voices. Then, all of a sudden, ...
... Kari started screaming, "Come back!" Her voice sounded scared, so we desperately started looking for a boat. Out of nowhere, oxer the roar of the
engine and the kicking of our feet, Kari yelled, "Oh my God, there's a boat!" Fhe way she said il terrified me and I started to cry. None of us knew what to do.
We stayed as still as we could. Chelsea and I were on the tube. She was on ny left and Paul was on my right, floating in the water. Once we were still, all could hear was my heart pounding, the yelling all around me, and the roar of a )oat coming closer and closer every second. Then suddenly, right in front of me, vas my worst nightmare. There, just a few feet away, was the boat. It was :oming right at us l
Chelsea fro/e right in her spot, screaming. I pushed her into the water and umped in after her, just in time to save my own life. As I went under the water, felt the boat skidding over my shoulder like a jet.
I looked up through (he water, hut at first I could not find the surface. Anally, 1 go! to the lop and took the biggest breath I've ever taken. But the errifying situation was not over. The boat came back, looking for what it had truck, and almost hil us again.
Chelsea was above the water by the time 1 came up, and I could hear her tiling for Paul and me. I answered her, but Paul did not. It seemed as though ve were culling for Paul forever, but thinking back, it was only about twenty econds. Ai last, Paul came to the surface, and we made it back to the dock. Oiri had lo pull me in with Ihe life rope because 1 felt like I could not move. )nce we all got onto the dock, tine of the men who was in the boat brought our ube in for us.
Paul kepi saying that it was all his fault and that he was to blame for us limost being killed. We assured him that we had made the decision lo go and he vas not to blame. We sat on the dock telling our own versions of what had lappened. The only way that our stories differed was the way ihc boat hit all of is. The boat hit me on the shoulder while 1 was trying to push off the bottom of he boat. Chelsea pushed off the boat with her hands; Paul got hit on the head.