A tribute to the christchurch earthquake.
Shaken, but not stirred...
Chapter one
Let me tell you one thing. You think you've seen it all when you watched a shark attacking a lawn mower on youtube. trust me. you havnt. you haven't seen buildings disintegrating. you haven't seen giant cracks in your street. you haven't seen your house crashing on . this is real life. real life isn't spending your life on youtube. real life insnt 2 minutes long. it dosent pause. it doesn't replay. you cant fight it. you cant stop what happens. its reality. and theres nothing you can do about it.
it was a perfect saturday afternoon. sun shining, a slight breeze, the only noise was the birds musical harmony, and the rare car. the afternoon that made you want to lie down on a beach chair, with a cool glass of lemonade, and just read. so thats exactly what i did, reading my favorite book, james bond. ( well, on a garden chair, with a glass of coke. ) " ruunne!" ugh. that was my little brother, Zack. he had black, shaggy hair, green eyes and freckles like, well, freckles! today was his 5 birthday. ( not the party day, thank god. ) i had given him a stuffed bear. mum had given him ( can you believe it? ) a COMPUTER! haha. got you there. she really got him a leap pad. you know. the ones that cost 20 bucks and all. prim ( my 8 year-old little sister ) had given him a new star wars toy. prim is never sad. even when he said " huh" her green eyes sparkled, and her blond hair bobbed up and down, and her small, cute face smiled.
no one new what was going to happen.
chapter 2
anyway,back to the present: " RUUUUNNNE! " what? what is i? and anyway, my name is RUE! NOT RUNE! " look!" and guess what? he.. showed me... his stuffed teddy bear that i gave him. again. " you are such a brat, Zack! i got you that! iv'e seen it a million times!" i flipped my long, brown hair behind me and rolled my lime green eyes. " go away! I'm trying to read james bond! " as i was 13, it was just me, Prim and Zack in the house. mum was at work and dad was shopping. " come on, Zack! stop annoying rue!" my little sister has always been my favorite. you can tell why.
as i leaned back towards my book, my cellphone buzzed. it was hazel, my best freind.
' can u come over 2day? '
' sorry, no can do. u can come over if u want ;)
' k"
minutes later, hazel apeared with a beach towel, a copy of
thats life! magazine, and a radio. ' you read that stuff? " i asked, dumbfounded. " yeah, so?" she said, her brown looking at me, confused. " its just... never mind. anyway, want somthing to eat? " one thing about hazel. she is ALWAYS hungry. as we entered the house, i realised that the birds had stopped singing. but i brushed it aside. so what? it doesent matter.
you can never know how wrong you are.
chapter 3.
after lunch, we headed to my room to do girlie stuff. when zack started yelling for lunch, we had to go down stairs to make some. sundenly, the ground started trembling. then shaking. then ROARING! evrything that wasent attached to the wall- encluding us- shattered, fell, broke, or swang. it was a nightmare. zack was crying, prim was screaming, and hazel was frozen, paralyzed with , after what seemed like hours, it stoped. it was like the world was holding its breath. then...
" prim? zack? hazel? "
part two:
the broken.