Author's Note: This is a historical fiction story. If you would like to read the true story of the ark and what happened please read Genesis 6-9. Thanks!

"Mara!" Japheth yelled. "It's done!"I turned around and saw Japheth, my husband, running towards me. One hundred and twenty years ago, God had told my father-in-law to build an ark. The thing was massive, with room for two kinds of every unclean animal and seven of every clean animal. I looked up over the horizon to where I could see pairs of animals starting to amble slowly towards the ark. Japheth eyed me oddly as I stood there holding my toe. A few minutes ago I had kicked a rock in frustration, because all Japheth ever did was work on this stupid boat. The rock had been bigger than I thought, and now my big toe was starting to swell and bruise.

"One hundred and twenty years and now it's done!"

I let go of my foot and we just looked at each other. "Well, you certainly took your time," I said somewhat rude. I said it with two meanings. One being that it had taken so long to build the ark, and two, the main reason, that he had finally taken time to talk to me besides at supper. The ark had taken up all of his time. "When will the water come?" I asked. "I don't know," He replied.

Sapphira and Amaris walked over smiling. "Can you believe it? It's done finally! " They both were talking over top of each other. With Japheth always busy, I had sought out the company of my sister in-laws, which made our relationship, which was at first just a few words here and there, blossom, into a friendship that would last forever. We all started walking to the ark were Noah, his wife Lauren, and Shem and Ham stood. Sapphira went over to Shem and laid her head on his shoulder while Amaris walked over to Ham and slid her small hand that was just starting to wrinkle into his. Japheth and I were the only ones that showed no emotion.

Since Japheth had started building the ark, our relationship got somewhat cold. He never had time to talk with me except at supper, and all he talked about then was the boat. All of the animals were now starting to slowly board the ark.

"Well, looks like back to work I go," Japheth said and walked to where the animals were just starting to go into the boat. Shem and Ham followed him and Noah stayed by the door to make sure that the animals went on slow enough for Shem, Ham, and Japheth to get them into their corresponding pens.