Can You Take Me Higher?

Shelby Reicher
Eng 101/ Narrative
MWF 10
Can You Take Me Higher?
“When dreaming, I’m guided to another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
‘Cause I don’t want to leave the comfort of this place”
There comes a moment in one’s childhood when they are truly happy, and they know it. When that moment is over, it immediately becomes a blessed memory for the rest of that person’s life….
It is the summer of the last year of the last millennium, 1999. I have recently turned eight years old. It is a beautiful sunny day in the valley of southern California. On Saturday, everyone is driving with their boats, RVs, and outdoor toys attached to their trucks. They are all heading to the beach, the mountains, and the desert. However, my mom and I are headed elsewhere. Stater Bros., our local grocery store, is calling our names. We have arrived at a stoplight, stuck behind a great big Coca-Cola semi-truck. I am sure the driver does not even know that we are behind him, considering the fact that our small black Camaro with his truck is like a rollie-pollie on a sidewalk as he walks by as a human. The other vehicles are in the same boat as us, only to find themselves lost in a family of rolli-pollies. We are all headed in different directions on Temecula Parkway coming from and going towards Redhawk Circle. I turn on our radio as we sit in the heat without humidity. The perfect set of breezes are flowing through our windows, blowing our hair all around. I let mom choose the winning station as we wait in this traffic.
“103.3 The ROCK it is, Shelby!” exclaimed her sweet happy voice. The dj’s had just put on her favorite song by Creed, “Can You Take Me Higher?”
“Oh yeah! This is my song! Listen carefully to Stapp and myself, now, Shelby,” she states and then smirks with confidence that I will love this song just as much as she does.
She began to let her voice carry with Scott Stapp’s to form the song into one of those heart pounding duo’s that...