Living Nighmare

The Road Alex

Isabel and I were walking over to a palm tree. It normally would take about 5 to 10 minutes but with all the rubbish and debris lying about not to mention the amount of water there was it took us about half an hour, but we got there eventually. I looked at the tree, it wasn’t that tall. “Who’s going to climb it” I asked Isabel. She replied “well I’m a good climber so I’d be willing to go, unless you want to?” I shook my head and said “No, no it’s fine you can climb it” Just as I said that Isabel started climbing the tree. I watch her go up and I was quite surprised she was going up the tree fast. Soon after she had got to the top. I waited to see if she had seen anything. Then she shouted “Alex I see trucks driving somewhere. I’m coming down” and before I could say anything back she was down the tree and standing next to me. “I saw trucks over there I say that where we go” Isabel said to me. I said “yeah ok let’s go” we started walking over to where Isabel said she had seen the trucks.

 The walk took a while so we started talking. It made me feel better and not as upset. The conversation started when Isabel said “I don’t know what I’m going to do after I get to safety I mean I don’t have a family to find, no brothers or sisters. My grandparents are dead; my dad left when I was 2 and my mum had abandoned me as well. Don’t know any one else in my family” I looked at her in shock and said “Really you don’t have a mum or dad?” She nodded at me and said “yeah but I don’t mind I can do thing well myself and anyway I only got here by luck.” As the conversation continued we got closer to the road. I could start to hear cars going by. We climbed a small pile of junk and there it was a road. It wasn’t big like a highway and there wasn’t that many trucks but there were many people in the trucks. I couldn’t recognize any of them. “We should follow one of the trucks it might lead us to a hospital”