WAILUKU, Hawaii - A 15-year-old Maui girl who was bitten on her right calf by an 8-foot gray shark recalled the pain of the attack Tuesday.

"I really didn't think that I was going to survive this, because there was so much pain," Nicolette "Nikky" Raleigh of Kihei said at Maui Memorial Medical Center, where she continued to undergo treatment in the wake of Monday's attack.

"I'm feeling better but still in a lot of pain," she said.

Raleigh was at Big Beach near Makena celebrating the 17th birthday of her boyfriend, Shane Wilds, along with friend Jessy Larson, 15, when the attack occurred. The shark knocked Wilds down before biting Raleigh.

"I just started screaming," she said. "I was like 'Get him off me.' And then I kicked him with my (left) foot, and Jessy pulled me out of the foot of water that we were in."

Raleigh received immediate care from a doctor, two nurses and two firefighters who happened to be at the park.

"I thought it was a dream. It was real scary," Raleigh said.

Raleigh's mother and stepfather, Cathy and Ken Johnson, said the ninth-grader at Kihei Charter High School may have to undergo a nerve graft.

Raleigh said she, Wilds and Larson were aware that they had been along the coast where the body of Anthony Moore, 45, of San Jose, Calif., was found Friday. Moore had been bitten by a shark after going snorkeling Thursday, but preliminary autopsy results found he was likely dead before the attack.

The beach remained closed Tuesday. State officials were to decide if it would reopen Wednesday.