The rain had been hitting the roof of Oliver's house for about 2 hours, and it was continuously hitting harder and harder. Rose's stomach had contained a knot in it since she'd gotten out of bed this morning. She'd occasionally get these feelings or thoughts, but usually it wasn't this bad. She felt as if she'd start hyperventilating at any second. The rain had calmed Rose for a while until the thunder started, then she had jumped causing Olli and Natalie to laugh at her expense.
"What's wrong, Rose?" Natalie laughed, her big blue eyes shining. Nat's long, chestnut brown hair was hanging over her shoulders. Her hair carried more weight in her hair then her body, something that most girls in there school would tease her about. They had accuse the innocent girl of eating disorders and looking ugly. The truth was, Nat was one of the most beautiful girls at school. That, and she ate like a cow.
"Eh. I just have a weird feeling…" Rose admitted looking back and forth between Natalie and Oliver.
"So do I." Nat and Olli said at the same time, something they did often. A unfortunate aspect of their trio, Rose had discovered. Rose just nodded, staring back out the window as Olli and Nat went back to watch some sappy movie. She could hardly see across the street and it was causing her extreme anxiety.
She looked over to Olli, trying to distract herself from the near war of what was going on across the street. Oliver, who was commonly mistaken for a boy until there junior year as result for her boyish style, was probably one of the most natural beauties at Hayward High. Her hair was a deep cherry brown color, her skin was flawless, and her eyes were an deep chocolate brown. Although Olli had grown out of the baggy denim and DC shoes, her naturally loud voice and idiotic fairytale dreams had transferred over to there next grade. One thing was for certain, even though Olli was gorgeous and possessed a body most woman would die for, her mouth drove off most prospects. She was never mean, but she was overly obnoxious very often.
Rose was on the other side of the spectrum compared to her friends. She wasn't tall or skinny. She had more curves than a road in the backwoods and her grandma was almost taller than her. She was cute though, that much she had afforded her pride. Her light copper hair had made her stand out since kindergarten and her green eyes were as deep as the Atlantic ocean. Everyone knew her for her confidence, because that's how she had to be. If she backed down from anything, she knew the eviler of the girls at Hayward would jump at the chance. Natalie and Oliver had always wanted to be just like her, something she dismissed because she thought nothing good came out of being her. Sure, she was kind of cute but why in the world would her friends, as beautiful as they were, want to be her? Rose was one of the most outspoken girls anyone in Hayward, Ohio had ever witnessed. Most people supposed she was like that because a loss in "parental guidance". Hayward was so small, every citizen knew that her mother had been died of cancer when she was two and three years later her dad had left her, falling off the face of the planet.
Rose's gaze had slipped to back to the street just in time to see a power line get struck by lightning. The flash of light not only resulted in the tall piece of timber falling but the lights and TV went out.
"Shit!" Olli yelled, jumping out of her burgundy recliner to grab some candles, Rose threw her lighter to Oliver and sighed. Although the bad part had happened, the feeling in her stomach had yet subsided. In fact, it had gotten worse. Then Rose understood why. The sirens blared outside making her stomach churn. It meant a tornado was coming.
Oliver quickly through some candles at Nat and refilled her arm's with candles. The two other girls looked the way the Rose felt. The quickly ran down stares and lit the candles.
"Oh my god….oh my god." Natalie whispered as she curled up into a ball in the confined pace of the bar in Oliver's basement. Rose quickly lit all the candles and joined in next to Nat, not daring to speak. Olli grabbed a bottle of Coke and threw it at Nat, hoping it would calm down the poor girl.
"Ugh, I need some hard alcohol right now." Rose said staring at the floor. Rose had meant what she said, but didn't think her friend would really give her some. Rose just sat down the bottle when Olli passed it to her without judgement.
Then the trio's fears were confirmed. First the hear a rip, like something be torn apart. They could see part of the sky above them, it was obvious the tornado torn off the whole top part of the house. Before they knew it, part of the floor crashed down on them. It slowly went dark for them.
"Fuck, I'm so gonna die. Just what I needed." Rose thought.
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