Chap. 1 Catastrophe Strikes! "I love my parents" That's some thing everyone could say, and not have to mean it. That is what I said to my friend, Erin. "Do you love yours?" "Yeah, I guess so" she replied. We said goodbye to each other as we got into our cars. As Mum drove me home, I started wondering if I really did love my parents. I wondered if they really loved me. I thought things like "What if I'm adopted?" "What if I was exchanged, or mixed up?" "What if I had a twin sister?" "What if I'm a fish in a soup bowl being stared at by monsters from galaxies way out of our league?" "What if I was a living dummy being controlled by giant mutant vegetables with hairy eyeballs" "What if they don't have eyeballs?" I was ripped away form my thoughts by Mum. "Out you get Nieka" she said. "Okay" I replied. I got out of the car and noticed a large bright light headed toward earth. "Weird" I thought to my self. I went inside and got into bed and went to sleep. But the power was off and it wasn't all that easy at getting to sleep. I tossed and turned and eventually fell into a restless sleep. I had loads of dreams, and the last one I had that night was a nightmare and I woke up. I got up and went into the bathroom to wash my face to cool down. As I was leaving the bathroom, the ground started shaking and a storm struck its first bolt of lightning. I went outside to see what was happening, and a small rock streamed down form the sky. "Ahhhhhhhh!!!!" I screamed. I run inside to get my family. "WAKE UP!!!" I yelled. In 5 minutes, my whole family was outside and boulders were falling everywhere. A huge comet, probably the light I saw earlier, was headed for earth!!! "What are we gonna do, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!" I screamed. A boulder fell down on the veranda where we are standing, and we all run out the gate. We get separated and I fall headfirst into the lagoon out the front of our house, across the road. For some strange reason, there is no rain in here. Suddenly, I feel weak, and I fall down in a wet, sticky heap.