Flawed
“Do you want me to get you some help? You fell pretty hard.”
“Uh no, I’m okay, you’re just really hard.” The words fell out of my mouth before I could take them back.
“Hard, huh?” He grinned
“No, I mean, yes, I mean, your body was hard.”
He laughed, a whole hearted full belly laugh.
“The names Parker, and you are?” He offered me a hand to help me up, which I accepted.
“Charlee, sorry about that, I must have dozed off and had a bad dream.” I looked back at the water thinking that was the only explanation for it. Surely if I were going to sprout scales Laura would have told me.