A seed from a giant Palm

Even miracles take a little time

"Zoey!" Mom yells

"What mom!?!" I yell back

"Get down here!!" She replies

"Oh no." I whisper.

I stand in front of her.

"You left a oxygen tank on!" She yells
"We need that air! That's about the only good air left!"

"I'm sorry." I say

"Sorry is not going to get that air back!" "Air is getting so expensive! We can't afford it anymore!" She yells

"But I can find a way to not use them and go outside!" I say

"Don't be ridiculous." Mom whispers "we need a miracle and that's not gonna happen anytime soon."

"But I can!" I say "and I'm gonna prove you wrong!"

I run up to my room. I sit on my chair and look at a sample of grass through my microscope.

*sigh*

I get up to look out my window. The sky is grey/ blue. No one is outside. I walk away. I'm gonna find a way to change to the world.

"Hey sis" my brother says.

"Hey Charlie." I say

"Found anything interesting yet?" He asks

"No, it same old." I mutter.

"I found something." He says

He then holds up a seed.

"Where did you get that?" I ask.

"It's from a plant, but in gonna look at it." He says

"Okay tell me as soon as you get results." I say

Charlie and I are kinda nerds. We both have the same dream, to find a way.

I go downstairs. Mom is in her room. I look outside. There's a flower! I run outside. I pull the flower out of the Earth. I breathe and immediately regret it. I start to cough and run back inside.

I pull the door close and sit. My eyes and lungs are burning. I look at the flower. It's still alive.

"Hmmmm." I murmur

The flower under the microscope looks odd, like nothing I have ever seen.

"Charlie!" I yell

A few moments later he enters my room.

"Look at this." I get up from my chair.

He peeks through the lens.

"Hmmmm this is weird." He says

"I know the cells look weird." I say

"We need dad to look at it." He says. "Something is definitely wrong."

Dad is the head of a company who is dedicated to finding a way to live.

-3 hours later-

"This looks as if it's in the process of breaking down its own cells." Dad says

"So it's destroying itself." Charlie mutters

"Yes." Dad says worriedly "we need another sample."

"I'll go look for one." I say

"Okay but not where you found this one." Dad says.

I run downstairs, getting all of my gear for outside. I turn the oxygen tank on and go outside. I look around my yard for another flower. I find one. I know dad said not to get it from the same place, but I just want to see the relationship.

I walk for what seems like forever, but I eventually find the same kind of flower 5 miles away.

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"There's something wrong." My dad says

"What is it?" I ask

"It seems the cells have mutated." Dad murmurs

"What does this mean?" Caleb blurts

"I don't know, but this isn't good."

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Im going to be trying to update all my stories on Sunday's now!! So that is when you guys should be expecting your favorite stories to be updated!!