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614 When I had told it for the fourth time, Señor Garcia, the colmado owner, began to laugh. “You must have fallen asleep in the tree and had a bad dream, cariño,” he said. “No,” I replied, shaking my head. “I saw it.” But his words had relieved everyone’s fears of a sea monster. “Yes,” they agreed. “You must have imagined it.” “No, you idiots,” I wanted to shout. “I didn’t imagine anything.” But I kept quiet because Mami and Papi would not like it if I shouted at the neighbors and called them idiots. That was for sure. As everyone sat down on the porch to share a drink and talk about my sea monster, I slipped away and ran to my gri gri tree. I heard Mami calling me, but I pretended I didn’t hear and climbed up the tree fast. I needed to find out if what I had seen would come back again. I sat down on my usual branch and tucked a few leaves away from my eyes. Then I stared at the sea. I looked so hard and for so long that its blueness filled up my eyeballs and I had to blink a lot so I wouldn’t go blind. The afternoon faded into evening and the sea’s blueness turned gray. I watched and waited. My stomach made grumbling noises but I covered them with my hand. Then, just as I began to think that maybe I had imagined it after all, I saw a splash of white water. The splash of water rose up, up until it was high in the air like a magic fountain. “It’s a volcano,” I whispered. I remembered that my teacher had told us how many of the Caribbean islands had been formed by volcanoes that rose out of the sea. I gasped. Maybe I was seeing the beginning of a brand-new island right next to the República Dominicana. As I kept on looking, a black shape emerged out of the fountain of water. It rose and turned, as if doing a dance, and that’s when I saw the gleaming white throat of the sea monster. It hovered in between heaven and ocean for a few seconds and then fell back into the water with a splash that sprayed salt drops as high as the pearl-pink clouds.
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A Reading/Language Arts Program
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