"OMG, I'm so exited! Aren't you just exited? I'm really exited!" my annoying best friend, Amy says.
"Nah." I say. She stares at me with her 'are you kidding me' eyes.
"What? How can you not be exited this is the best day of my life and ho-" She gets cut off by the sound of Jake, Ben and me laughing at her.
"I'm just kidding, Amy. Of course I'm exited about work experience. How can I not be?"
"Good. Because if you weren't exited, I'd-"
"Give me chocolate! I thought so." I say.
"Actually I was going to sa- We're here!"
"Well that's not an insult."
"No. I mean we're here. 180 Elephant Street!" She says excitedly. The bus stops at a massive fifty story building and we get out.
"Okay. I'm pretty exited." I say
"I knew you were!" Says Amy. Weirdo.
"Okay. What is our work experience?" asks Jake. We all look at him in disbelief.
"You seriously don't know?" says Ben.
"Then why did you sign up for it?" asks Amy.
"Because it was this, or volunteering at the old peoples home. And I don't like old people. They scare me." He is such a loser.
I cough and say 'loser' under my breath. The others laugh but Jake. He looks confused.
We enter the building and one of the employees shows us around. Her name is Kaylee. She shows us where we will be working for the next week. I can't help my shyness though. Amy just looks so confident though. She will so make it in the magazine business. I sure won't. And for Ben and Jake, they are better off working at the grocery store when they grow up.
"Isn't this like...a perfect day?" asks Amy.
"Sure. I guess," says Jake. No one ever really cares about anything that Amy says. She talks too much for people to care.
We are told to print out some papers and watch people making some of the articles, then we are asked to write an article about our work experience here and they'll add it into Epic Magazine. We write about how amazing it is and that we've learned so much. Our...um...boss? really liked it. She said that it was unique and very good for rookies. I was very proud of myself.
I yawn. "Someone looks tired," says Ben.
"I was doing a lot of research last night and went to bed late," I reply.
"Hey, why don't you just go to sleep?" Jake suggests.
"Because I'm at work experience dummy."
"We'll cover for you. Just sleep under the desk," says Ben.
"Fine," I say and hide under the desk.
Boom! I hear an explosion. "What was that?" I ask.
"I don't know. It was probably nothing," says Jake.
"It didn't sound like nothing," I reply.
"Just chillax man," says Ben. I take a seat next to Amy and the chair breaks. I fall backwards into one of the employees. "Sorry," I say and she stares at me angrily. I turn around and walk away.
The ground starts shacking and I collapse to the ground. "Oh yeah. It was probably nothing my butt!" I shout. "Okay, fine. Maybe it is something," says Jake in a scared tone.
Suddenly the building collapses and we all fall slowly to the floor. I sit there, covered in blood. Stuck on the floor. I can't move. I can't talk. I just experienced my best friend in the whole world dying. I look around and see if I can find Jake or Ben. "Ben!" I try to scream but it comes out a whisper instead. He looks over to me and our eyes lock. Then a desk falls from the roof and crushes his head splattering blood everywhere. He's dead. What about Jake? Is he alive? Or is he dead just like everyone else? The roof cracks and a body falls out. And of course...it's Jakes. That's it. Everyone's dead. All my friends. Gone.
I try to get up but I can't. There's a piece of cement stuck on my leg. Then the second shake happens. And then, I go down further. And now I'm dead.
I wake up in a panic. "Wow, dudette. You k?" asks Jake.
"Yeah just a bad dr-" I am cut off by the sound of a boom. "What was that?!" I shout.
"I don't know. It was probably nothing," says Jake. I look at him with wide eyes. "I have to sit down," I say. I sit down on a chair next to Amy. And the chair breaks.