Never Forget
By Callie Knight
Chapter One
The Pentagon
“Amina, I thought I made this perfectly clear, I need that interview on my desk by Friday OR YOU ARE FIRED!” I couldn’t help but flinch at the tone my boss was using with me. “Yes sir I understand I am on the metro as we speak. I will be there in about half an hour.” I told him as I looked up at the blue skies. I don’t know why but I felt as though something was going to happen today. “Call me when you get there.” He demanded with his deep voice, then hanged up. I sighed placing the phone into my wallet looked back out the window of the metro “what is going on?” I murmured to myself, as my pulse started to quicken. I decided that I should calm myself by looking out the window. Needless to say it didn’t work. I decided that I would just try to let time pass by.
A half an hour later I got up as the metro neared my stop. I watched as people were nervously talking on their cell phones. Once I was off I went upstairs and I looked at the clock, it was nine o’clock. My appointment was at nine forty, I had time. I decided to go get some food from McDonalds. When I walked in what I saw shocked me. People were staring at the television wish shock as an airplane went into world trade center. Gasps filled the room and some woman started crying harder. I took a seat next to this woman clutching her infant.
“Are you okay?” I ask looking at the woman as tears fell from her eyes.
“My husband, my husband... works in that building!” She sobbed as she grabbed my hand and started sobbing even harder. “Today’s our anniversary, and he was just going to get some paperwork. He promised he would be back soon. He promised!
I looked at the woman and just stared at her this poor woman, who looked like she was not a day over twenty five, who by the looks of if just had a baby a few months ago was now afraid that she lost her husband.
I was going to stay with that woman as long as I could, as I watched the horrors of what was happening with the rest of the world. When I remembered my meeting I glanced at my watch. My pulse quickened it was 9: 30. I ran outside and hailed a taxi. “Hurry, to the pentagon!” I rushed, handing the driver a twenty. “Just go.” I said once I caught my breath seeing how the taxi wasn’t going anywhere.
The driver just looked at me and for a moment but the turned around and started driving, I took a breath and filled my lungs with oxygen. It was then that I heard it. The sound of jets! I looked behind me and saw a plane off into the distance. Everyone in the streets had panic and fear written all over her faces. I watched as it slowly started to descend, it’s flying to low! I thought to myself as it was coming towards me. The day flashing through my eyes realizing just how truly horrifying I thought the plane crash was, but now that I was experiencing it first-hand I know that the fear is about a hundred times worse than what I thought.
Fear started pulsing through my body as numbness took over my body as the plane started to get lower and suddenly it was over me and was hitting a light post that was over me and it suddenly started to fall so I hopped out of the taxi as quickly as possible, but I never let my eyes wander away from that plane.
After what felt like forever the plane crashed into what always felt as one of the safest places in America. I heard commotion all around me but I couldn’t concentrate on anything but the pentagon going up in smoke and flames. Tears started falling from my eyes as I saw kids and parents cry around me for the destruction of that nation. I went to go sit on a bench and I felt my phone ring in my pocket.
“Amina, are you okay?” It was my boss “Are… are you in the pentagon?” He asked when I didn’t respond. When I was finally able to respond my tears started to fall harder. “Oh Gayle, it’s horrible, fire… fire everywhere! It’s horrible, people are crying for their loved ones who were in that building! Who could do such a thing?
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(Authors Note)
I wrote this as an essay I did for school not to offend ANYONE! I just put this on wattpad to see what people think. Again I do not mean to offend anyone!
