My Saving Grace

From: J. Ram (jra196@yahoo.com)
Story type: Angel
Location: Bronx, NY
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Thu Mar 20 09:22:47 2008

It was 1989, and I was walking with my best friend and another girl to my friends house after school. As we were walking down the block, I was slightly ahead of the 2 girls, when I heard a man's voice loudly call out my name. The voice was very clear. I stopped to see who had called me, and the girl who I was walking with walked ahead of me. Though I looked for the man, there was no one in sight. As i started to walk again, a brick fell from the building and slammed into the girls head. The brick split her head open, and she had a concussion. She needed multiple stitches to close the large wound.

Had I not stopped, that brick would have fallen on my head. I asked my friends later if they had heard someone call my name, and they both looked at me as if I were crazy. There was no one else around.