Run! Now!

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I wake up on wet table in the school playground, completely soaked through. Where is my necklace? I panic wildly before realising in is already around my neck. I look around and everyone is crowded around me, looking worried. I sit up and look around. Knee deep water is spread everywhere.
"Luna, you're alive!" Ruby says, hugging me. "you scared me! bother of you did..." she says, looking at both me and Lucy.
"You saved all of us, Luna! We would have all drowned if it weren't for you, we didn't think of the window at all!!" Darcey exlaims.
"Thank you, Luna!" Kitty says, gratefully.
"That's ok." I say standing up. "Come on, let's take Lucy to hospital."

After a long, tiring walk, we reach Sydney, it was... destroyed... water everywhere, buildings flattened, massive cracks dividing it up into sectors... Wow! When we reach the hospital, it's completely flattened.
"Luna! Ruby! What are you doing here?" I hear someone say behind us. I swing around and see my dad.
"Dad! You've got to help Lucy!" Ruby exclaims. He walks over to a pale, faint looking Lucy.
"You'll need stiches." he said, looking carefully at the wound. "but until then you should be fine, it's not too major."
"Are you sure? Because she was hit badly in the tornado which we only just survived by a chance and has lost a lot of blood and feels dizzy!" Ruby exclaims.
"Ruby, I think I know better than you, I am older and your mother is a doctor so I have seen her working and therefore know what I am talking about!" He says calmy.
"Sorry..." Ruby appologizes.
"I think I can wait abit longer..." Lucy says weakly, cutting the tension.
"Alright. If we walk back to ours then you can have stitches because there is a first aid box and Jasmine's mum is in. But it depends on if the damage has reached there." Dad says, taking Lucy's shaking hand. She really doesn't look good. At all. Jasmine takes her other hand an they support her as she starts to walk. I look at her and the gash is bleeding severely again.
"Come on" I say, and we follow the road, if it can be called that, the a safer area, luckily, the way back to our home. We walk down the long, countryside lane which leads to our house. YET ANOTHER LONG TIRING WALK. THANKS, STUPID NATURAL DISASTERS!!! We aren't even nearly there yet! Ugh, so tired...
Jolt!!!
Another jolt comes and lava spits out. Ugh. Another ugh. Ugh a million times.
"RUN! NOW! Quick, and don't look back!" Dad yells, scooping up Lucy and sprinting down the road, and we follow. Without hesitation. Run, come on! I say to myself in my head. Run. Don't turn around. Just keep going! But, something inside me wants to turn around and see that lava. I have always been so fascinated with that stuff, I am just so tempted to see it again! No, I can't, I'll die if I do that! Keep running, don't stop! Just one look won't hurt, will it? One little peek at that glorious killer? I'm sure it would be ok! One small look? No! You can't! YOU WILL DIE IF YOU DO! Just one little peek.... NO! DO YOU WANT TO DIE??? One little look can't hurt? Can it? Yes! It can, this us a matter of life and death, pick life! You don't need to die! But despite my instincts, I decide to turn around and look, just a few seconds will not hurt! I turn and see the gooey reddish yellowy orange liquid quickly advancing on me...
"LUNA!!! What are you doing?!?" Yells Lucy, peering over my dad's shoulder.
I step backwards but I trip over in uneven paving, and I see lava advancing, closer, closer, I close my eyes and wait for the hot liquid to melt my body into ashes... But some one pulls me up by the back of the collar to my school shirt. As I open my eyes I see it was Ruby.
"Thanks!" I say, as I grip her hand and pull her to run.
"Luna... NEVER... do... that... again!" My dad says, rather loudly, in between his his breaths.
"Ok, I will be happy to!" I say back.

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