Avia looked around the room petrified. She was stuck. The sewing room was lit up in yellow, orange, and red ribbons of flame. Many women were able to escape the flames. Women like emily: avia's sweet dear sister. But few were trapped in the process just like avia.
Suddenly, avia heard the soft sound of a window gliding open. It was her best friend mary who was opening a window. Gracefully, mary stepped onto the windowsill and jumped. Seconds later you could hear the cracking of bones against the pavement as mary's limp body fell to the ground.
Soon after, the sound of many windows opening can be heard over the flickering sound of fire and one by one, people began to fall down to the pavement. Some even going in groups of twos and threes. Avia, stricken with grief for her friend, did not know what to think of it sobbing and hacking as she saw people fall.
It was then, she heard her name. "Avia". Avia looked at the crowd to see none other than her boyfriend max. Avia yelled in reply as the two lovers ran towards each other. She looked at his ash-covered face and cried out in pain as she saw all of the burn marks on his arms and hands. "Come on!" Max yelled over the flames as they almost covered the entire room.
Quickly, max ran to a window with avia on his heels. He opened it, and helped avia step onto the windowsill. Filled with fear and grief as well as love, she whispered "I love you." As she gave what would be her last kiss to her lover. Suddenly, with sadness evident in her eyes, max let avia go.
The last thing avia witnessed before she went unconscious was the sight of max jumping off the ledge falling and she heard the cries of her dear sister emily yelling her name.
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So this was based on a real event called the triangle factory fire which was a huge fire that killed many people. Our assignment in class was to write a chapter about it and adding one new character (since we read a book on it with a few characters). Everything I wrote was created by me (except the situation and setting) besides the parenthesis I also didn't come up with the idea of the couple kissing and falling together. That actually happened. Yeah.😐😞😣😭
So anyways this was my first creative writing assignment where the teacher discover my writing potential.
So yeah bye!
~Krystal
