Just A Girl Thing

Chapter 6

I'm running. I'm searching. I'm scared. I need to wake up because this isn't real, this isn't happening. Jenna is really alive and Lizzy is standing next to me. I stop to catch my breath and look around. Death surrounds and creeps over this battle field the tornado just passed. I pinch myself. "Wake up!" I scream in aloud. I pinch harder. It doesn't work. I need something more. Something that'll have to wake me up. My vision searches the ground and lingers over a scrap of broken glass. No, I can't. Just thinking about truly cutting myself wakes me up enough, except everyone is still dead.

"Lizzy!" I call out to thin air. Complete and utter grief follows my voice. I almost start to cry but I stop myself. I need to hear if she-or anyone- responds. I need to be stronger. I need to grow up and keep living even after such terror. Then, I turn up my ear as the wind carries a message. Very faint, very small, "Brinna!" so soft but I have no doubt I heard it. It was Lizzy for sure. I ran faster than I ever had in my life, sprinting toward such a soft sound. What if it wasn't really Lizzy? What if I'd imagined it? It has to be, I thought.

I kept going. Going for Lizzy. I searched around again, scanning for any impossible movement beneath the debris. "Lizzy!" I call again. Now, a new found hope registering in my voice. Lizzy is out here and I'm going to find her. Once again I hear that small, little message of the wind, "Brinna!" it gasped. I look around from where it was from. I see a pile of lockers and I pray that they aren't as heavy as they look as I shove my arms under the first one. It's strange, it was super light. I have more strength then I usually do because I'm in such a crisis. Knock on wood, Brinna. Don't let karma get you! Just shut up! I tell my thoughts. I manage to lift up just about all the lockers before I come across a dead body. It has raven hair and obviously a male build. Okay, one down and hopefully no more to go. Dead bodies are not my thing. I pull up a couple more lockers and I hear a loud gush of wind. Lizzy! "Hang on Liz! I'm going to get you out. Let me lift the rest of these lockers up and I pull you out." I talk straight into her ear to ensure that she hears me. I want her to know I'm okay.