My Mum is Broken

Chapter 1

~~ 1 year ago ~~

Burning. I could hear it. I could smell it. I could see smoke coming under my bedroom door. I started backing up away from the smoke, wiling the fire service to come quicker.

I had seen the flames and rushed up to my bedroom to get away. I then realised I didn't have anything to contact the fire brigade, so I opened my window and screamed for help. Luckily someone heard my cries and saw the flames and we're quick to call the fire brigade.

The smoke crept closer and closer to me. I kept on walking backwards away from the smoke until I was backed up against the window sill. I'd left the window open and nearly fell out backwards through the gap. It was a long drop so I didn't want to fall. Soon the smoke engulfed me and I took shallow breaths, not wanting to inhale too much smoke.

When the fire brigade finally arrived and rescued me, I was coughing and spluttering and when I got to the ground I felt extremely dizzy. Then I remembered; my mum!
"I have to go back in!" I sobbed between coughs
"Are you mad!? You can't go back in there, it's too dangerous." Said one of the firemen.
"But," I coughed violently "My mum - she's still - in there. I have to - rescue her."
"We'll be doing the saving, you need to stay here, where you're safe." The fireman said firmly "Don't worry, we'll get your mum out of there." He reassured me, giving me a pat on the shoulder. "Come on men!" He said addressing the other firefighters "there's one more person still in there. Lets go! Now you stay with Anna, the paramedic, they need to check you over, make sure you haven't inhaled too much smoke." He said to me before rushing inside the burning building to save my mum.

A woman with a blond bob and hazelnut brown eyes came over to me. She introduced herself as Anna the paramedic. She put a blanket round me and led me over to the ambulance. I was still sobbing and wheezing from the smoke but Anna comforted me and I felt a little better.
"Don't worry," she said "they'll save your mum. But first lets worry about you! You look like you inhaled a lot of smoke."
She checked me over and that's all I remember because I must have lost conciousness. The last thing I saw was our burning house before it faded into darkness.