My life in the hunger games

The explosion

See in District 12 you have to work in mines. My dad and Josh's dad have to work in them. The baker got lucky. Anyway, me and Rose go to school. We tell our mom and dad we love them then mom kisses dad and we all go our separate ways. It was a normal school day. We were eating lunch when everyone hears a loud boom. We all thought it was thunder until we see the black smoke rising up from the mines. Our mom runs to the mines. Since our lunch is outside we saw everything. I find Rose and we looked at each other and we knew what happened. We ran to the mines after our mother. As soon as rose sees mom crying she breaks down and cries. I try and hold back my tears but can't. I hug rose and we both cry in each others arms. I see josh and his siblings. They're all crying too. It's so quite. Other than all the crying. We now there has been a mine explosion. I guess it's good in one aspect. You know, them dying. It puts them out of their misery. They knew and we knew that if an explosion didn't kill them then lung cancer would. It's getting dark. Rose is still sitting in my lap crying. I pick her up and carry her over to my mother and grab her hand and walk home. While we were walking home some girl runs into us. She apologizes and keeps running. A few minutes later a young boy runs by. He asked us if we saw a girl run by. I nodded and tried to point in the direction she went but with rose in my arms and my mother in y other hand I just kinda threw my head in her direction. He nodded and smiled and ran off. We kept walking and we finally made it home. Home. It seems like I haven't been here in ages. I take rose to her bed and lay her down. She asks me to stay but I shake my head and say, "I'll be back in a minute rose. Try and sleep." I find mom sitting on the floor staring at one of my dads pictures. I coax her up and get her into roses bed and she curls up with the picture. I go over to rose and pull up and chair and just hold her hand. She starts crying and asks," why stacey?" I say, " I don't know rose. I really don't know."