.....675...dead....119 bodies not yet found.......
my mind was drifting as i searched through the rubble of my old house. i was left...but they were gone...all of them gone. my brothers body was the first to be found. then my moms then my dads. My younger sisters body hasn't been found yet. There were only a few survivors in my small town. most of them had already left leaving there crushed houses to rot in the ever lasting debree that stretched for miles along the flat land. i heard a radio buzzing so i stopped rummbling through my house to listen to what it was saying. I could only understand a few words.
"no wheres safe.................the end of the world."
The people that surrounded the radio all looked up into the swirling gray clouds, looking for some form of hope. but they all new that nothing was to come. in there eyes this really was the end.
i remember the first disaster that happened no one thought anything of it, just another earth quake, another thing that would soon be forgotten. japan was hit hard destroying most of the land and killing many people, then the tsunami hit, the mass amount of water engulfing the land and the people. destroying cities and families. the world lay in shock that day, i only remember little bits of the event. i remember hearing the news man intensely tell everyone that the worst part was soon to come, scientists predicted that the nuclear power plants that surrounded japan would not be able to with stand the shock of the earth quake, they predicted right., radiation leaked throughout japan, many people became sick and died. japan was wiped out.
"i don't wanna die." a little girl looked around at the people holding the small radio, her dress was ripped and coated in dirt and her blond pig tails were dirty and messy, her checks were stained with tears, and in her right arm she held onto a small brown teddy bear.
one of the men looked up at the little girl. he seemed hopeless, his eyes were faded, his mouth was pressed down into a frown. "do you really think i can just tell you every things going to be okay? do you really think that every things just going to be fine, look around, there's nothing left, there's know where to go. were all dead!"
the little girls right arm tightened around the teddy bears neck, making its head look ten times bigger than it normally should be. she began to cry, large tears rolled down her face, falling gingerly onto the Teddy bear she held.
another man from the group stood up and walked over to the little girl. he looked like he was about as old as me, maybe older, his eyes were a deep blue they were clear, his face was calm. He gently took the girls hand and walked her away from the crowd of people. my toes inched me forward to the young man and the little girl, i tried to approach quietly but my flip flops would stop smacking up against my feet, my stealthy approach failed, the young man realized i was coming from the first step i took in those damn flip flops.
He said nothing when i approached, his eyes were locked on the little girl crying in front of him. he wasn't talking to her or comforting her, he was just standing there, like he thought he did the best he could to make the girl feel better. i walked over to the little girl and squatted down to her level. i gently placed my hand on her shoulder.
" i don't need you miss." she said as she gasped for breath in between sobs. she pushed my hand off her shoulder and quietly began to walk away, she walked right passed the young man, and he did nothing to stop her, he let her pass him, without even saying a word.
"whats your problem."
"what do you mean." he looked confused, and shocked, like he didn't understand why i was even talking to him.
"you just let her walk away. she doesn't have anywhere to go." my voice was flat and angry.
"she didn't want to talk, and you don't know if she has a place to go or not. do you?"
"well...um."
"exactly." he flicked his black hair out of his deep blue eyes and looked at me like i was stupid.
There was an a awkward silence.,.....
"why haven't i seen you before, this isn't a very big town?" i whispered.
" I'm not from here, i travel from place to place. i mean why not were all gonna die anyway."
the word death seemed harsh as he spoke it, he pretended like that word meant nothing to him like he was brave enough to face the fact that were all gonna die. he looked down at the dirt around his feet. his black hair falling back into his eyes.
"i mean i have no where ells to go, my family was killed in the hurricane over in Florida." he whispered
i looked back at my destroyed house, the memories it held, all those precious moments, they were all gone destroyed . i turned and faced him.
"i don't have anywhere to go either." My family was killed in the tornado here. He was looking at me differently now, like we were equals. he walked back to the radio, but he didn't sit down he grabbed his bag and began to walk, he looked up at me as he walked by. and i began to follow him.
The sun disappeared behind stormy clouds as we walked over the mounds of house remains......we remained quiet....the only sound was the dirt scuffling under our feet. my legs were numb from walking. my mind was drifting as i looked into the clouds that were tumbling over the sky, i could barley hear the young man ask me a question, it was like a sound that invades your dreams, except he invaded my "zone out."
"what,i couldnt hear you."
"i asked what your name is..." he rolled his eyes and looked away.
"sorry." i mumbled
it grew quiet...
"its Carmen Rowe." i mumbled. "whats yours?"
"its Ryan sherm." he seemed to laugh after he said his name.
his eyes were playful and foolish as he watched me, his eyes locked into my eyes, the world seemed to drift away for that moment, i was lost in his blue eyes, they were deep like an ocean, the farther you looked the darker they got. he flicked his black hair into his eyes, and the world seemed to smash back to me.
"how old are you.?" he whispered
"I'm 18. you?
"last i new i was 19."
i giggled escaped me, and he looked at me like i was stupid.
"you thought that was funny?" he said smirking.
i didn't answer. the wind was picking up, and it grew colder. i looked back and i could no longer see any destroyed houses. the sky grew dark, and we stopped for a moment to rest. suddenly the air turned icy. you could see my breth escape from my mouth.......
"but summer just started." i whisperd.
he glanced back at me, fear hung around him like fog, as much as he tryed to look brave the thicker the fog became.
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alright this is my first story and it is far from done but i dont really like it sooo not sure if im gonna keep going with it?
