My alarm beeped loudly waking me up from a deep sleep. I slowly turned my head and looked at the time.
"3am" I grunted.
I felt like going back to sleep when my mum suddenly called from downstairs.
"John are you up yet?" she shouted.
"Coming mum" I shouted back in a tired gravelly voice.
"Well hurry up we don't want to miss our flight" she shouted back.
I slowly sat up and turned my lamp on rubbing my eyes in the process. I yawned and slowly dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. In just five minutes I was downstairs with my suitcase waiting to leave the house. But of course my parents were still wasting time checking they hadn't forgotten anything.
"Have you got everything John?" my dad questioned.
"Yes" I answered.
"Are you sure?"
"YES" I said loudly.
"Ok John, but there was no reason to raise your voice" he said sternly.
"Sorry" I said.
(Skip to the airport)
It was just reaching 6am and me and my parents were sitting in the terminal waiting for our plane gate to be called.
"So mum what exactly are we doing in Tanzania?" I asked.
"Admiring the safari mainly" she said.
"Ok" I said.
"Is there anything else to do there?" I asked.
"We'll have to see when we get there" she said cheerfully.
After waiting about half an hour our gate was called and we made our way to plane. I never liked cheap air travel because economy was always loud with screaming kids and had small seat space.
When we boarded the plane we had to push our way to the back to find our seats. My parents had booked seats at the back because they knew I had a slight fear of flying.
As soon as we sat down I began shaking as I knew it was take off I hated most. My parents began to try and reassure me, but this didn't work and I was shaking worse and worse. I became more unnerved through the safety demonstration and when the pilot made an announcement. I would openly admit I was not looking forward to this 11 hour flight.
The plane began to slowly taxi to the runway and turned ready to head down the runway. I closed my eyes and gripped my seat.
The plane suddenly jerked forward and began to thunder down the runway at a horrendous speed. I kept my eyes shut until the force of take off wore away and I could relax a bit.
After the plane was airborne I watched Heathrow slowly sink below the clouds. I wanted to pass the time so I got my Walkman out my pocket and put my headphones in and began playing Nirvana's Nevermind album.
After about 3 hours into the flight I dozed off and was woken up a while later by the flight steward asking if me or my parents wanted a drink or something to eat. I only had a pound so I bought I Sprite as I felt thirsty.
Once I finished my drink I listened to my Walkman for about an hour. I decided to then make a video diary with the video camera in my rucksack. I got my camera and faced it towards me.
"Hi it's John here, the date is the 20th of April 1998, I wanted to say after surviving an agonising flight we are slowly making our way back to the ground, I look forward to seeing the safari, but anyway I'll keep you posted so be safe and stay wild"
I put my camera away and slept for mostly the remainder of the journey until I was woken by my mum shaking me awake.
"Hey John the pilot just told us we are landing in 45 minutes" she said excitedly.
I felt a sense of relief to being able to get off the plane.
"I look forward to being able to walk again" I said.
"Tell me about it" my dad said.
We waited for the plane to slowly descend feeling excited.
But suddenly the plane jerking sharply to the left and began to head into a dive. I could hear screaming and see people being shoved around in their seats by the violet shaking of the plane.
Suddenly the oxygen masks dropped in front of us and I quickly put mine on. I turned and saw my parents were clinging to their seats for dear life. I could feel the pilots were fighting with the controls to keep the plane in the air. They managed to get the plane out of a straight dive, but I could see we were still going to hit the ground.
Suddenly the pilot shouted, "BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
I went into brace position, but was suddenly knocked unconscious when the plane hit the ground.
From that minute on all I saw was darkness.
Hey guys,
Sorry if this isn't very good but I felt I'd do a different story line,
For those who read my other stories I don't know why those disappeared because my documents went haywire,
And yes I've changed my name,
But anyway go easy on the criticisms I know there will probably be a few mistakes,
I'll update soon,
Bye,