The Eye Of The Storm

Prologue

"Dad, when are we gonna get there?" Katherine whined. "I hate having to drive for this long. Eight hours is much too much."

"Quit complaining Katherine." Jacob, her older brother, snapped. Katherine stuck her tongue out at him and sighed loudly.

"Mommy, I have to pee." Their little brother Gavin squealed.

"Alright. John, dear, pull over at the next rest stop." Their mother, Margret, said. Their family was a generic one from a small town in New York State, Margret was a business woman, John worked as a police officer and Jacob was attending NYU. Katherine was the cheer captain at her private high-school. They were on their way to a family camping trip, if you could call it that, to their cabin, which had TV, WiFi and a boys' school down the beach. Katherine was obviously excited about the boys' school. They had been driving for three hours.

"Alright, darling." John said simply.

"So, Jacob. I hear from Symphony that you have had three girlfriends in this semester alone."

"Well, Symphony is a bi-"

"Jacob." Margret warned.

"Ahem. She is a horrible gossip. I haven't even thought of dating since I got into NYU. I want to graduate before I turn twenty five, unlike you, who won't graduate high-school until you are at least thirty."

"Har har, Jake. Anyways, why do we have to go visit grandma, and ruin a perfectly good vacation."

"Because, she won't last forever, Katherine." John spoke roughly. Katherine tossed her long curly chestnut brown hair over her shoulder and pulled out her mind mirror.

"Ugh." She scoffed. "My makeup is a disaster. Daddy, can we please make a pitstop soon?"

"We will stop at the next one, Katherine!" Margret sighed exhaustedly. They sat in silence for the next three miles.

"Okay, this is ridiculous." Jacob sighed. "How isn't there a pitstop? It's been five miles since the last one! Dammit, Pennsylvania, get it together." Katherine and John laughed.

"Well, it isn't the state's fault." Margret said, defending her home state. Jacob and John shared a laugh. "Jesus, watch where you're going, John!" She cried as he swerved to avoid an animal, almost too late.

"It isn't my fault!" John imitated. "It's Pennsylvanian animal life's!" The whole car erupted into playful laughter. Unfortunately for the Constante family, John wasn't watching the road.

SMASH

Their car rammed into another car, and sent both flying. The car hit the ground in a crunching sound, and Katherine thought her life was over. She couldn't move any part of her body, and she was wet; blood. She looked over at Jacob, and half his body was out the shattered window. She knew he was dead. Gavin lay limp in his car seat. Margret and John's hands were intertwined and bloody. Margret's neck was clearly broken, and John's head was cut badly and a piece of the windshield protruded from his stomach. Katherine was alone. The last thing she heard that day was the sound of police sirens ringing into the warm air.