Wall

Short journal entry for my class. Dramatic moment in my life, had to weave in one lie and one secret. Can you guess what they are?

I was holding on for dear life.  The cable had snapped, and I was about two stories between me and the floor of the climbing wall.  I felt like I couldn’t hold on for much longer, because I had been climbing for several hours and I had just about lost all feeling in my hand.  I tried hard not to look down, but when you try to do that, you end up looking down anyways.  I was sweating up a storm.  I tried climbing back down, but there weren’t enough stones with good grip to help me get back down.  I just had to wait for someone to climb up to where I was and hand me an emergency cable so I could get down easier.  As I saw the person with the cable starting to climb up, it was obvious he was doing so in record time.  But it felt like it took him two years to get here.  During that time I was thinking about how much fun I was having doing this rock climbing up until I lost my cable.  These things weren’t even supposed to snap like this.  As he finally got to where I was, he attached his spare hook to my belt, and let me grab onto the cable so that I didn’t have to be awkwardly on top of him.  He jumped away from the wall, I followed quickly in suit.  I finally made it to the bottom, and was given a new belt and a refund for the trouble.  As I left the building, I looked up and it started raining.  Then I remembered.  It was a year ago now that it happened.  When I felt like I lost everything, and this place somewhat brought a part of me back.

Author's Note

Please be critical. Can you guess the lie and the secret?