Westport River
by Jack Denoia
Hi. I'm Jack. Today I went to school and I saw my friends. I said we should meet up at the park. They all said “Sure!” So after school we met up at the park and I said “We should go into the woods, I heard there is some scary stuff there.” So we ran into the woods and ten minutes later we found the Westport River. One of my friends said, `` Let's jump into the water!” Everyone said no except for me. I said “Sure why not?” So my friend and I jumped into the river and we were screaming because it was so cold. After that all my friends jumped into the river too and we were so loud we sounded like a train. We were all screaming and yelling so loudly that a person walking their dog yelled at us “STOP YELLING! WE ARE TRYING TO ENJOY THE SCENERY.” We were all sorry. A bit later one of my friends screamed because he felt something bite his leg and it hurt. Then he got pulled under water. We were scared and tried to grab his arm but he was too deep. One of my friends swam underwater and after that we all swam under to look for him. We grabbed his arm and when we got close enough we saw that a crocodile had him. We started to kick it and after a little bit it let go of him. We brought our friend to the shore and saw that his leg
was bleeding very badly. We called an ambulance and they arrived quickly. Because he was underwater for so long his heartbeat was slow. He was so tired that his heart stopped and they began CPR. They put him into the ambulance and brought him to the hospital. There was nothing else we could do for our friend so we hung around by the river some more.
One of my friends suggested we play truth or dare.. I was first and I chose a dare. They dared me to climb a tree and I did but when I got to the top I was super scared. I climbed down carefully and thought I'm never going to do that again. Then we played some tag. We ran around the trees and through the woods. One of my friends tripped and cut his leg. I ran to a nearby house and asked for some bandages. The lady asked how badly my friend was hurt so I told her his leg was bleeding pretty badly.. She said Oh my god let me come to help him and I said okay. We arrived with the bandage and the lady put it on him. There was blood gushing out of the wound and he was screaming out in pain. The lady was so helpful and said “I hope you feel better but now I have to go”. We said, “okay thank you bye!” Our friend stayed back and called his mom to pick him up. After that we found a kid roaming around the woods and we said hi. We said we were fine. He asked, “ How old are you guys and do you wanna be friends?” We said we are 13 and 14 and he said oh that's nice and that he was 12. Later that day we tried to make a boat that could hold our weight and we used Sticks, Logs, twigs and leaves. When we finished it we tried getting on. It started to sink and then it got to our waists. We saw the crocodile! One of my friends shouted, “ THE CROCODILE IS BACK. GET TO LAND BEFORE IT BITES YOUR LEG!” We swam to land and we thought we were fine. But the crocodile was not giving up. He went up the hill and was slowly getting closer. We ran for 2 minutes and we said we should probably go home because we don't want to get hurt and it was getting late. We all agreed and we said bye. I walked home and told my mom everything.