I didn't mention this before, but I'm basing this off of Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. There may be seens that are very close to scenes in the book. Enjoy the story and please review once you're done reading this and the other chapters. It'd be nice to have suggestions. I'm new here, so I could use some. ~fhluver
The whole town was flooded with water. It was hard to get around by car so we had to walk down to the grocery store.
It was time to start piling up food. John, Jean, I, and dad went to the grocery store with full cash. They were selling buckets for 50 dollars here. We filled as many buckets as we could with food and other supplies. We also filled buckets with baby stuff.
We looked at the roads and wondered how we'd carry all this stuff.
Jean and I volunteered to watch our stuff as John and Dad went to drop of each bucket at a time.
It took a while to get all the buckets into the house, but we did it.
Jean and I put all the food into the pantry and the other stuff into a closet. Then we changed into clean clothes.
Dad was in his room with Jesse talking to her.
I haven't spoken to him in days. I couldn't bring myself to do so after that conversation with him. Jesse became suspicious but never said anything. I sighed and sat on the couch in the living room.
Just then my phone rang. It was Mom, "Hi mom."
"Meghan, this is Johnny," Johnny said.
"Johnny? Hey buddy how are you?" I said.
"Meghan, it's chaos here. I don't know what to do. Mom went out a while ago and hasn't come back. She also forgot her phone here. There's floods and rain and destruction of trees," Johnny said.
"Stay in the house no matter what ok?" I said, " Mom will be back, don't worry."
Dad walked in and looked at me. "Here, do you want to talk to dad?" I asked.
"Oh, yea," Johnny said.
I handed the phone to him.
"Hey bud, how are you?" Dad asked him. He listened intentively, "Don't worry. Your mom will come home soon ok?" After a few moments, he hung up and gave me the phone back.
I took it and started to walk away.
"Meghan?" Dad said, "I"m sorry."
I shook my head, "No it's my fault. I'm sorry."
"Why have you been avoiding me?" He asked.
I looked at him and hugged him, "I just couldn't, not after I hurt you."
"Hey, you didn't," He said holding me in the embrace.
I didn't say anything. I just held him. I needed the hug.
"Dan!" Jesse called. "Oh here she goes again," Dad said laughing and let go of me. He went over to Jesse to help her with the baby stuff.
I laughed and went outside to see the condition. The wind was harsh so I came back in. John and Jean were in a corner of the guest room having some quiet time so I went into my room and took a nap.
A while later, Jean woke me up, "Hey you need to get up now."
I looked at her and got off the bed, "What's wrong?"
"Something's going on at your other home," She said.
"What?" I jumped up and ran down the stairs, "What's going on? Is mom and Johnny ok?"
Dad looked at me alarmed, "What?"
Jean laughed, "I said that to get you to wake up. I tried to get up up a million times and you wouldn't."
I looked at her, "You scared me."
"Sorry," Jean said.
I laughed, "But you did give me a good scare."
Dad looked at us and chuckled and muttered, "Girls."
I stuck my tongue at him.
Jean seemed in a playful mood. She came around me and scared me again.
"Oh, you're on," I said battling her. We jumped on each other and did what we wished to each other. Soon John came in and pushed us making us fall. We both grabbed him and made him fall to. Then we three laughed hysterically.
I looked up at dad to find him looking at us if we were lunatics.
Suddenly the ground shook.
"What's going on?" Jesse said.
"Uh oh, I think it's an earthquake," Dad said.
I looked out the window and dust wirled around the woods destroying the trees, "Or not. IT'S A TORNADO!"
"Everyone, down to the basement," Dad said. Jean, John, and I scrambled down there and Dad and Jesse were right behind us.
Jesse and Dad huddled together. John and Jean huddled together. I huddled with myself in the corner. The shaking and sound stayed for a couple of minutes. Then everything went silent.
Dad went up slowly to see if it had stopped. Then he called to us, "It's safe to come up here now."
So we went back upstairs and went on with the day not looking out the window to see what the tornado did.
