We Lost Everything
It had blown through our small town destroying everything in sight. The part down the street had been thrown into the lake across the street. We huddled in our tiny, protective basement hoping it would find us. Winds were blowing seventy- five miles per hour my father had told me. At night when we all went to sleep I slept in the top bunk. I knew it was late when I was reading my magazine. Every so often I’d hear a tree branch fall onto a house or a power line or I’d hear the blaring sirens. I just couldn’t go to sleep, what if something broke through the metal doors, it might fall on me. I climbed out of my bed with my sleeping bag and a pillow, quickly, but quietly shuffled over to my golden retriever, Larry. He was curled up in his bed in a corner. I put my pill near his warm belly, set up my sleeping bag, crawled back into my sleeping bag and fell asleep. “Wake up, the house it’s gone,” I heard my older brother, Tim whisper shout to my parents. When my parents sat up my brother took my dad up the ladder and outside. My mom put her slippers on and walked over to me. She shook my side a little bit and asked me to help her make breakfast, which was only cereal, so I’m not sure why she need my help. When my dad and Tim came back in told my mom he needed to talk to her outside. “What’s going on,” I asked my brother curiously. “Nothing,” he lied. Everyone always lies to me because they think I can’t handle the truth. When in reality I was twelve years old and knew way more then they thought. When mom came back in she was in tears. I handed her cereal to her, but instead of eating it she gave it to Larry. My dad told me to take Larry outside when I was done. I knew what was going to happen, they were going to talk about whatever was going on without me. When I finished my cereal I grabbed Larry’s leash and took him outside. That’s when I knew was going on, our house had been destroyed. Once Larry was done I took him back in the basement. “The house is gone and none of you decided to tell me,” I shouted at everyone. “Sweetie-“ my mom started, but I cut her off. “Don’t sweetie me, you guys always keep things from me, but I know way more then you think,” I continued to shout. “Audrey-,” my dad started to explain, but I cut him off too. “Just leave me alone,” I demanded. I climbed up into my bunk and lay there staring at the wall, I stayed that way for a couple hours until my mom came up and started to talk to me. “Sweetie, please come down we want to talk to you,” my mom asked. “Oh, so now you want to include me,” I mumbled and climbed down. When I got down I sat next to my brother even though I was still mad at him along with my mom and dad.
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