The Sun Awaits [Short Story]

Chapter 1: Flashbacks

This is my Short Story :) This is the first chapter, and this is the only part that is in Past-Tense. It's already finished, so I'll publish 1 part a day. That's all. Thanks! 

"Noah, Mom said to stay together!" My older sister, Sophia said; sitting down on the beam, feet dangling over the edge, crossing her arms.

"I know, but don't you want to see the sun?!" I asked.

"Not really, I'm fine as long as I'm alive." She said.

"Fine, I'll be right back, its only two floors to the roof!"

"Noah!" She yelled, trying to protest, but when she turned her head, I was already gone. I entered the building, then climbed up a flight of stairs to the next floor. I stepped one foot out onto the floor, it didn't even take five seconds, and the ground below me collapsed. As I fell a piece of metal sliced my arm. I landed on the beam below. I ran towards Sophia, than got thrown over her shoulder. I'm a fairly light kid.

"Noah, what's happening?!" Sophia yelled.

"Building collapse!" I yelled back, while dodging falling sheets of metal and glass, still atop of her back. While she ran on the platform below, I felt the ground shake a second time, and I was thrown off her back by a falling piece of building. I plummeted downwards, than Sophia jumped after me, taking hold of my hand and a beam in her other.

"I'm going to pull you up, and then you help me!" She said. I just nodded back. She hauled me up over the edge of the beam, so I was standing and she was holding on the beam with two hands, dangling over the pitch black below. I grabbed her hand and started to pull, until the beam jolted; as if it were alive with energy. She let go of my hand and held onto the beam once more.

"It's collapsing Noah, go!" She yelled.

"No. I'm not leaving you here!" I said, clutching my arm, which I just realized was almost chopped in half! My hand was covered in a deep red liquid; I wiped it on my pant leg.

"Noah, just go! I'll be fine!" She yelled as she gripped the beam tighter when it jolted a third time. I obeyed her order and jumped to the platform next to me.

"C'mon Sophia!" I said as I gestured for her to hurry up. She slowly nodded and started to pull herself up and over the beam. It just had to jolt a fourth time. The blue floodlight overhead flickered. Sundown; they run on solar power.

"Sophia! Let's go, before the blackout!" I yell, as I rocked on my heels, my heart pounded in my chest. The beam jolted a fifth time, than lost connection with the building I stood on top of.

"Sophiaa!" I yelled, trying to grab her hand somehow as the beam tilted further downward, towards the blackness below. As the floodlight flickered, I saw her hands slipping. I tried to yell, but nothing escaped my mouth. It flickered again and she was dangling with one hand. Two more flickers and she was holding on with two fingers. I screamed again to her, but I was still lost for words. I saw her hand slip off the beam through a flicker, than the beam is empty. The last flicker goes and I saw nothing anywhere. I sank to my knees and buried my head in my good hand. The world around me was black and silent sobs filled the emptiness.

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I open my eyes with a start, sitting up from the buildings floor. I clutch the scar on my arm. It's been three years or something, without her. I look out the tinted glass windows, the floodlights are on. Time to keep heading up. The Sun Awaits.