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Prologue: Part I
A drunken man sauntered over to the gas station. The only car there was a blue van. He lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, inhaling the smoke. Leaning against the gas machine, he took out the pump and opened the car's gas tank. Suddenly, he felt dizzy and fell onto the ground, spilling gasoline on the pavement and on the tire of the car.
Awwww man. He thought. Hearing the man's fall, one of the gas station's attendants ran outside and saw the man and the mess. Angry, the attendant asked, " Did you do this mess? If you did, you need to pay for it." Not wanting to pay for the mess, the man got up, dropping the cigarette and the pump as he did this, and ran off.
"HEY!" yelled the attendant, running after the man. He didn't notice the dropped, lit cigarette roll over to the spilled gasoline . . .
Inside the car . . .
"It's my birthday! Finally, I'm going to be eight years old!" shouted a very happy Zaire Stratham. Today was the girl's birthday and her whole family was going to Six Flags. On the way, the family stopped for gas.
"I'm going to Six Flags!" gushed the little girl.
Outside the car . . .
As the lit cigarette touched the gasoline, flames burst out. The flames started to spread across the spilled gasoline and toward the open gas tank of the van . . .
"I'm going to Six Fla . . ." Zaire suddenly smelled something weird.
"Smoke?" Alarmed she turned around and looked out of the back window. Horrified of the sight, she screamed, "FIRE!" Frightened, Zaire tried to unfasten her seatbelt. Unfortunately, she was so spooked out by the flames that her fingers were clumsy and couldn't unbuckle the seatbelt! \
"PAPI! MAMI! AYUDAME! HELP ME! ANYBODY!" she howled for help.
At that moment, her family walked out of the store. As they approached the car, they saw the flames consuming the van. Realizing that Zaire was in the back seat and in danger, her father and her older brother, Carlos, ran the remaining distance between them and the van.
"Stay away from the van!" ordered Carlos to his mother and sister. Both women obeyed but Zaire's mother ran away to get help. Only Ami, Zaire's older sister watched the two men disappear into the burning van.
"Zaire?" her father and brother called for they couldn't see anything in the car.
"Papi! Carlos!"
"Get out of the car!"
"I can't! My seatbelt is holding me back!" Quickly moving toward Zaire's voice, her father found her, unbuckled her seatbelt, and yelled, "Get OUT! Both of you!" Zaire bolted out of the car after she was freed but after taking about a few steps out of the car KABOOM! The car exploded and the force of the explosion threw Zaire into the air, the tall gaseous flames burning Zaire's back, arms and legs. Then she fell onto the hard ground, facedown and the tiny pebbles that were on the floor scratched her face. Her body was still and she was unconscious when the paramedics found her.