Shipwreck-Personal Narrative

The day I knew that Alexis Smith was going to be one of my favorite people was the same day I saw her rip off her stockings. The sun was hung high on that summer day when I saw Alexis tearing at her stockings. We were both there for a mutual friend’s birthday party and even though the party was outside, most of the partygoers were found indoors trying to fan themselves with whatever they could. I remember that even before Alexis had arrived I had already begun to sweat through my shirt. The grime made me nervous, at that time I was trying to woo a girl I had been obsessing over all summer and body odor was not going to help my chances. I don’t remember watching Alexis getting out of any ones car but I did catch up with her within a few minutes …show more content…
After this I promise I will get into some more anecdotes and things like that but I feel her appearance is important to touch on. Her hair is relatively short, hanging only a few inches below her shoulders. Her hair is richer and thicker than pure fudge and has the color to match. She has these eyes, two of them, that change color with every shade of light their pupils take in. Sometimes they are a shade of blue so pale that I almost feel like I am a survivor of a shipwreck floating along as a wall of fog swallows me whole. Sometimes a faint shade of green slips into her head, which take me back to a time in my youth when the sky turned a bright green and poured rain nonstop until the roads were flooded. Other times they morph into a greyish hue with the strength of steel beams. But no matter how vibrant or dull her eyes appear to be, there has always been a thin black ring surrounding those chameleon irises. No matter what shade her eyes take, that ring is always there to contrast them. Her skin is fair but it is a different kind of fair. Usually people with fair skin fit into two categories, some are so fair that their skin turns pink, and some are just borderline albino. Alexis does not fit into either of these categories. Her skin is light, but it does not have the intensity of that of an albino. Her skin also has not even the slightest bit of pink in it, not even a vague tint like most. Sometimes if you look closely on a hot summer day her face begins to breakout with a pale set of freckles. She is fair, but there is also a strange darkness to her. Adding all of this up into one person surely should not logically equal Alexis, but somehow it does. Her parents are Colombian, brown eyes and tan. And so still, with all the pieces put together, Alexis still fails to be easily confined to one set type for she may be a Colombian in blood but she is also something