Once upon a Tsunami

by 2.28.08

Brian Sheppard didn't expect much for his 14 year old birthday but when a Tsunami comes in and destroys everything, he'll have to keep himself alive with the help of an unexpected friend and only one goal in mind. To find his sister inbetween the waves.

2. Driving Lessons

A little struck with shock he dropped the remote.

But that lasted less than a second because all of sudden Brian was all action. "Courtney, come on!" he yelled running to grab his dad's SUV car keys.

"What are you planning now dufus?" she said slightly leaning into the wall with a smirk.

"Just for once in your life do what I say and go to the car." "Why, so you can kill me?" she asked "yeah right," and with that she walked to her room.

Yanking her by the arm he glared down at her for a few seconds until she finally said "Alright, alright, I'll go with your little circus act."

Forgetting his sister he ran to the kitchen and stuffed his hands on everything he could grab in the moment. "Beep, Beep" the car said opening the doors.

Brian threw everything in and ran to his backyard. In that moment strong gushes of air stung his eyes, and rain started to fall as lightning shot from every direction. "Stevie come on" he yelled over the thunder.

Jumping in, he turned on the car and then stared blankly at the wheel. Brian had only watched his dad drive once or twice so he didn't know exactly what to do, except push the pedal of course.

"How do you make this stupid thing go back" he yelled honking the horn in frustration. "You're supposed to press the R thingy" Courtney said crossing her arms.

Luckily Brian was tall for his age so he sat comfortably in the driver's seat but that didn't help much when he was so confused. Pressing hard on the pedal the car backed up and suddenly broke the mailbox.

"Oooooo" dad's gonna kill you" Courtney said in an annoying tone of voice. When he was finally on the road he started to get the hang of it and was moving inland rapidly.

Touching the radio buttons he tried to listen to the news but Courtney insisted on listening to her music. "Fine you win" he yelled exasperated. Courtney smiled bobbing her head to the song. Then out of no where she gasped. "Brian…Brian" she whispered weakly. "What, what do you want now you little brat" he yelled. "Look" she said pointing with a plae face to the rearview mirror.