The assignment of this particular part of the narrative unit was basically to write a story based on some form of symbol. This short story was different that the other three that I wrote because this one had more describing features to it and used more detail about the setting than about the dialog. The symbol that I chose in this case, was not an object but rather a place that was significant to me. I once said that I made comics from my dreams for fun. What I did was take a seascape setting from the comic and applied it to the story as the symbol. My best friend is the person that helped me come up with the image. We have always talked about going to the seascape for a vacation, bt we never really did. So it eventually became a dream that was formed in my head and then spat back out onto paper, which you now see below. The story is the same as the animatic in terms of the mood and visuals. I changed the dialog and a bit of the ending in order to finish the Animation in time. But the setting, which is the most important part of the story, remained and still signifies something great and peaceful in the animation.

                                                                             The Seaside Cliff

             It has been two years now since it all started. Being at this one cliff reminded me of my first day. It was a very bright, lustrious day that would have beaten another day. It was so warm that you could almost wear no clothes and still be sweating. The sky was clear with cotton like clouds sailing overhead. But this did not mind to me for I was late and I had to hurry.
            “Wait, don’t forget your lunch!” The hag yelled as I stepped out the door. She stayed in this old house by the seaside and only spoke one language. The language was so infected with her accent that I couldn’t tell if she was talking or blabbering. Anyway. I just gave her a slight nod and left her. Wow, it was hot. I couldn’t believe the weatherman we right.
            Causally, I put on my emergency suit number 7 and took off for school. It was much more faster than a car you could say. Actually, I was practically flying higher than the birds in the sky. Suddenly, while flying over the beach, my rear boosters failed and I had to make an immediate course of action. I felt like one of those scientists in the situation rooms, and it did not feel good. Luckily, this was not the first time this had happened. Like a seagull and water, I gently grazed the surface of this cliff that was over looking the water. When I sat down to fix the back sphere, I couldn’t help but feel like there was a mysterious force working on the place. The wind whistled past my ear, making sound as it went by. The sound of the ocean hitting the rocks below was soothing. I felt as if I was in a trans and that I wouldn’t wake up.
            “Do you like the ocean?” Startled, I leapt fifteen feet in the air and spun around to see a girl smiling at me. I noticed that she was wearing the same sky blue colored uniform as I was. As I continued to stare at her with wide, petrifying eyes, she turned her gaze to the green grass that rested below us. She bent down and started to feel the grass, very smooth and steady, as if she was stroking a cat.
            “What’s your name?” I asked her after a long pose.
She then stood up and smiled, her brown wavy hair flowing like the wave of the sea.
“My name is Catie. But that isn’t important, I wont be here long.”
            Confused was the best word to describe my mind at the time. But I felt sorry for her, a deep part of my heart needed to hug her and so I did. She hugged me back and we soon became best friends. At school we talked, we laughed, and we worked together as if we were one single person. Everyday, we would come back to the cliff over looking the ocean and watch the yellow sphere sink into the cool horizon.
            It was at this place that we thought. We thought of everything from how life started to how the wind blows. We thought more than Isaac Newton himself. Staring at the ocean and sky gave us ideas.
            Catie slowly looked down at the grass, no longer carrying a smile. I looked at her for a while, which seemed like an eternity for me. I placed my hand on her shoulder, carefully as to not disturb the wind glancing off her body.
            “I’ll always be your friend, Forever.” I told her with a smile. She smiled back.
That day was the most precious day of my life. Whenever I remembered it, I felt warm and happy on the inside. I would still walk up to that cliff and look to the sky. I would start to imagine Catie and the good times that we had. I put my hand on a large rock lying on the cliff. I slowly shut my eyes and started to cry.