After a Wreck

"We sat there together for most of the day without speaking, and then, finally, it was like a damn had burst, and I began to cry. Deep, wrenching sobs wracked my body, as I mourned for all that we had lost. Our parents, our former lives, our dreams about the future, and worst of all, our sense of security, because now we were really and truly alone. We were a wreck adrift on an angry sea."