The year was 2021. I was watching the news.

"The Yellowstone Super volcano will possibly erupt in the next few hours, scientists are guessing it will cover the USA and parts of Canada and Mexico-" I turned off the TV in panic. My country is going to be covered in ash. I thought to myself.

"ALFRED! ALLEN!" I call out to my brothers.

"What is it Amelia?" Allen asked plainly as he stopped half way down the stairs.

"Grab Americat and Tell Matthew too." I told him.

"About what?" Alfred asked as he appeared next to Allen on the stair case.

"The Yellowstone super volcano... It's going to erupt soon, like in the next few hours soon. We need to warn Matthew and Juan..." I said.

"Then we need to get out of here!" Allen exclaims as he grabs the cat who decided to listen in on us by Alfred's feet. "Go grab your bags, Pack what you need, carry on only. Amelia, tell the Kirkland's that we will be staying with them and get the plane tickets out of here." He added being the responsible older brother he is. He and Alfred run back up the stairs.

"Hopefully the planes aren't all booked..." I told myself. I typed away and printed the tickets and texted our cousins. I took off up the stairs and to the hall. I stopped in between their bedrooms and gave them the news. "Our flight is at 18:00." I look at my phone. "We have 3 hours, pack quickly."

"Yeah." Allen agreed.

"On it!" Alfred said.

I headed to my room and packed my sketchbook. It was large and red. I put that in my backpack along with a change of clothes, art supplies, a blanket, and a pillow. I then throw more clothing in my suitcase and another one of my sketchbooks. I zipped up the suit case and opened my piggy bank where I kept most of my money and put it in my wallet.

"I'm ready!" I called out as I zipped the back-pack up. I ran down the hall to the space between the 2 rooms.

"Who is taking Americat as part of their carry on?" Alfred asked.

"I will. You guys make space in your bags for my backpack items." Allen responded as he finally got Americat into his carrier. I brought in my back pack and opened Allen's and Grabbed his extra change of clothing, Alfred grabbed the rest of the stuff from Allen's backpack. The 3 of us then packed the stuff in the car and drove off to the international airport. The sky got darker...it must have erupted. The ash started to fall.

"Allen, put the air conditioning on recirculation." I told him as soon as it looked as if it were snowing. Allen did as he was told. Once we arrived the roads were covered. We stepped out of the car and grabbed the luggage and cat. The 3 of us started to cough so we headed inside.

***

Once we passed through security, we went to get some food. After that we headed to the gate. We meet up with Matthew and Maddie his sister. They are flying into England with us but then changing flights to France where their cousin, Francis lives. After we boarded, we decided to switch seats a bit. I sat next to Maddie, and Alfred next to Matthew, leaving Allen to sit next to a stranger. Maddie and I, being the history geeks we are, talked about The world wars and made paper dolls of countries and acted out the world wars simply. It was about midnight in our time when we arrived, but all the clocks said 05:30 in London, the country being 5 hours ahead due to time zones. The 3 of us waved good bye as the Williams family headed to their next flight and we left to find Arthur, our cousin, who came to pick us up.

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