September 11
A/N: Sorry about the short chapters, it was meant to be an oneshot but I really wanted to publish this one on this day and as I don't have English as my native language and will have to translate it first I just didn't had time. The clock is 22:22 already…
Chapter 1.
(Perth – Australia September. 11th 22:14)
Tom had decided to go to bed early that night, it had been a trying day and he was tired. But when he had tucked himself to bed and closed his eyes… his father called from downstairs…
Tom moaned and walked down to his parents.
"Tom… watch this!" He pointed at the TV; an aeroplane flew right into the World Trade Centre. Tom groaned again.
"Did you wake me up to show me some stupid movie at this time?"
"No Tom…" His father answered without taking his eyes from the TV"… It's no movie… it's real…"
Tom just stared at him, and then on the TV and then on his mother. Both of them seemed very shocked, but still what happened on the TV was so unreal. He left the room and was on his way back to his room again when the entire truth suddenly hit him. Someone had bombed New York, the city were his friend Mitch lived.
Tom wasn't tired anymore, he ran the last steps and in to his room and sat down behind his computer. He did need to sleep, but first he had to know that Mitch was all right…
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(Portsmouth – England September. 11th 14:14)
Tamsyn came in to Josh, when he was sitting in the computer lab playing computer games. Her face seemed very empty, almost dead.
"One minute please" Josh interrupted before she had even said one word, like he used to do. Tamsyn didn't say anything, she didn't turn the electricity off like she used to.
Josh got so worried about that fact that he couldn't concentrate on the game anymore; this wasn't the Tamsyn he knew.
"Is anything wrong?"
Tamsyn nodded and turned the computer next to her friend on, and then she, still without a word, opened a news site. Josh stared at the picture some seconds, and then he made a weak sound with his mouth. Then they looked at each other… without a word.
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While Tamsyn and Josh sat in the computer lab watching the news, Rob was with hisphysiotherapist, he didn't have any clue about what happened in the rest of the city, and definitely not in New York on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean…
(Toronto – Canada September. 11th 9:14)
Suddenly the loudspeaker began to sound and the students in the entire school could hear their principal's voice. He told them that all classes were closed and that something had happened in New York.
Lauren left her classroom, happy for the unexpected brake, until she walked by a TV screen. There was absolutely no chance that it was a movie, it had the real news's logotype. But that wasn't what troubled her most. She got bad suspicions from this, like if there was something she had forgot. She had heard something about World Trade Centre and this day.
