Raoul: Um, Gabby?

Me: *Sleeping* Mmmmm?

Raoul: Um, well we're in a bit of trouble?

Me: *Murmuring* What kind of trouble?

Raoul: Well you know your fancy electric lighting?

Me: Mmmmmm?

Raoul: Yea, it's not lighting no more

Me: *Opens eyes and looks at the clock, it's black* Oh... Well I suppose the hurricane is here

*Suddenly there's a loud scream from downstairs. Me and Raoul go downstairs to the livingroom to investigate*

Me: What's going on?

Christine: THE WIND IS GONNA BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN!

Erik: What the hell is this?

Me: This is what is called a hurricane

Erik: But you live in upstate New York!

Me: Yes, well this is a special hurricane

Enjolras: Well I think it's going to destroy your town

Me: Ya think so? Ha, I doubt it. Look, the wind is hardly blowing that much and it's just raining a bit

Erik: What are you doing?

Me: Going out to feed my ponies

Raoul: In a hurricane?

Christine: *Starts crying* Don't go outside please!

Me: Guys, chill. We're on the backside of the hurricane now. All the big wind that you saw earlier knock out the power was the front half. It'll be over in no time *Starts heading out the door*

Christine: *Sobbing* GABBY!

Me: Christine...

Erik: I'll go with her, how does that sound?

Christine: *Cries but nods*

Erik: Good? Good then *Puts on his cloak* Let's go!

*Me and Erk head outside and down towards the horse barn*

Erik: Wow, we're walking through a lake practically

Me: I'm not worried

Erik: But you should be shouldn't you?

Me: *Gets to the horsebarn and starts kissing her ponies noses* Nah...

*We feed the ponies and head back to the house*

Christine: *Sobbing into Raoul's chest* Are... Are... Are they back?

Raoul: Yes they're back

Christine: *Looks up and sees us* IT'S A MIRACLE!

Me: Miracle?

Enjolras: Hey, have you seen this creek next to your house?

Me: Oh yea, it's not bad. I've seen it bigger before

Enjolras: Where are you going now?

Me: To sleep. No sense staying up, nothing's going on *Goes upstairs to go back to bed*

Erik: What do we do?

Enjolras: I don't know...

Raoul: *Trying to calm Christine down* We could... um... Sing?

Erik: But Gabby just went to sleep

Enjolras: I'll get her *Runs upstairs, suddenly there's a lot of screaming and he runs back, me chasing him with a cane*

Me: DAMN YOU! HOW DARE YOU WAKE ME!

Enjolras: *Dives behind Erik* SORRY!

Erik: HEY! We wanted to sing, do you wanna sing?

Me: Uh, sure I guess

*We go into the other room to where the piano is. Erik sits down and runs his fingers over the keys*

Erik: Oh dear, you might want this tuned soon

Me: What? It was tuned not that long ago!

Enjolras: Oh it doesn't matter, just play something

Erik: Well lord knows we have enough musical piano books to chose from

Christine: Well which one should we pick?

Erik: I don't want to pick any of these. This is stupid music!

Me: Love Never Dies is there...

Christine: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE NEEEEEEEEEEVER DIIIIIIIIES! EXCEPT WHEN IT'S IN LONDON!

Me: Ok not. Well there's Phantom of the Opera

Enjolras: I think we should sing Les Miserables

Me: Of course you do...

Erik: *Starts playing randomly* Well it shouldn't matter what I play. Hey you know what I learned to play recently?

Christine: What?

Erik: Lullaby of Bells from the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera. And I want Christine to sing it!

Raoul: Aw, that's such a pretty song

Erik: *Starts playing it* Ok Christine, whenever you feel like it

Christine: But what are the words?

Erik: There are none

Christine: *Starts singing along* Da, da da da daaaaaaaaaaa da. La da da daa daaaa daaaaaaaaa da da daaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa la daaaaaaa daaaaaaaaa da da

Me: OK THIS IS ENOUGH!

Raoul: *Sniffling* That was beautiful

Gustave: *Appears out of nowhere* So very BEAUUUUUUUUUUTIFUL!

Everybody: GET OUT OF HERE GUSTAVE!

Gustave: *Leaves*

Erik: Authoress's turn

Me: Ok fine

Erik: *Plays a scale*

Me: *Sings and sounds really bad*

Erik: *Gasps* AH! What happened to your beautiful voice?

Me: I haven't used it in a while...

Erik: This won't do. Here, I'll fix it. *Starts singing* Do re mi fa so fa re fa mi, do re mi fa so, fa re mi do. Now you

Me: *Singing* Do re mi fa so, fa re fa mi, do re mi fa so, fa re mi do

Erik: Move the do *Starts singing in a different key* Do re mi fa sol, fa re fa mi, do re mi fa sol, fa re mi do

Me: *Singing* Do re mi fa sol, fa re fa mi, do re mi fa sol

Me and Erik: *Singing* fa re mi do

Erik: *Singing* oooooooooo Oh, you are music, beautiful music, and you are light to me.

Me and Erik: *Singing* Oh, you are music, beautiful music, and you are light to me

Erik: *Singing* Do re mi fa so fa re fa mi, take a breath on 1 and after 3

Me: *Singing* Do re mi fa so, fa re fa mi, breathing first on 1 and after 3

Erik: *Singing* Breathing in the air from down below, breathing taking care, fa re mi do

Me: *Singing* Breathing in the air from deep below

Me and Erik: *Singing* Ready for the run from do to dooooooooooooooo oh, you are music, beautiful music, and you are light to me. Oh you are music, sun bless the music, and you are light to me

Raoul: *Starts sobbing* THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!

Christine: SHUSH! You might bring that rotten kid back here again

Me: I can't believe you randomly broke into 'You are Music' from Phantom

Erik: I love that song...

Enjolras: *Walking in from the other room* Uh, we have a situation

Me: What's the matter?

Enjolras: *Points to the window*

Me: Hmmmm the water's rising pretty high now.

Christine: I think they said something about a dam on the radio earlier

Me: *Freezes* Dam? Oh no *Runs upstairs*

Raoul: I have a bad feeling...

Me: *Runs back downstairs* Grab whatever you can't bare to lose and get in the car! NOW!

Enjolras: What are we doing?

Me: *Stuffing a backpack* LEAVING!

*Everyone gets thrown into a panic and they all run to get their stuff*

Erik: I GOT ERIK JR.!

Enjolras: I GOT SQUISHY!

Raoul: Christine darling, you can't take all your dresses with you

Christine: *Sobbing on the bed hugging all her dresses* BUT I LOVE THEM!

Raoul: *Looks over at the closet with his many tailcoats, suits, and other foppy clothing* I know... we'll come back. They're on the second floor so they stand a better chance right?

Christine: *Picks her favorite dress before nodding and sniffling*

Raoul: *Grabs a pocketwatch off the night table and leads Christine down to where we're waiting*

Me: My parents already left. We wouldn't all fit in the van this time, so we're taking my car

Erik: Your car?

Me: Well, my mom's car. But it'll be MY car soon

*We all pile in, Erik's driving, I'm sitting shotgun, Raoul, Christine, and Enjolras are in the backseat*

Erik: Where am I driving?

Me: Town's closed, we'll have to head up the mountain

*We start driving*

Enjolras: Turn on the radio!

Radio: Blah blah blah a million roads, bridges, and towns are closed/flooded

Christine: *Starts crying again* Erik be careful! It's raining!

Erik: Gee Christine I had no idea!

Raoul: It'll be alright

Me: *Suddenly gasps* WAIT! MY HORSES! We have to go back

Erik: No we can't!

Me: *Starts sobbing hystarrically* ERIK! TURN THIS CAR AROUND RIGHT NOW!

*We turn around, I run into the house and start making phone calls desperately trying to find a place to bring my horses, with no luck*

Me: I can't leave them here

Raoul: We need to leave now, the water's getting higher

Me: *Runs out to the horse barn, the gang following close behind*

Enjolras: We're gonna get killed!

Me: *Goes into the barn and begins kissing my pony's nose* Rocky I love you!

Rocky: *Stands there and swishes his tail*

Me: *Starts feeding him handfuls of treats* Please stay inside Rocky, and be safe my baby boy alright?

Rocky: *Eats the treats*

Me: You too Squirty *Gives treats to my other pony*

Squirty: *Starts nibbling on my arm as I hug Rocky goodbye*

Me: Goodbye my beautiful boys, I love you!

*We all get in the car again and start driving*

Erik: Gabby don't cry

Me: What if the water reaches their barn. If the dam breaks they'll be gonners *Tries not to cry*

Enjolras: Hey listen to the radio!

Radio: The dam is not going to break, it has already crested has been secured

Erik: What should we do?

Me: Go back!

*We go back to the house, and sit in my living room watching the water rise*

Me: I'm going to go take a nap since I didn't earlier *Goes to bed*

*2 hours later*

Christine: *Practically jumps on me* GABBY WE GOTTA GO! NOW PLEASE!

Me: *Rubbing my eyes and putting my glasses on* What's the matter?

Christine: The bridge! The water's over the bridge! It's in the town oh god please can we leave now?

Me: What do you mean the water's over the bridge?

*We go out onto my parents balcony, the water is rushing over the bridge next to my house and the street and town across the bridge is completely underwater*

Me: I've never seen this happen before, I could never imagine the water would get into town...

Enjolras: What do we do?

Me: I'm going to check my horses

*We go outside, the water has made my riding arena vanish*

Erik: I'm sorry Gabby

Me: My horse jump...

Raoul: WAIT! What's that right there?

*There's a large piece of wood floating*

Me: THAT'S ONE OF MY JUMP STANDARDS! GET IT!

*We get a stick and fish it out of the water*

Enjolras: I think the water swept the other standard away, along with your jump poles

Me: It's alright... I might even have a spare jump standard anyway

Christine: Another few feet the water will be to the bottom of your horse's pasture!

Me: We can't do anything about it, come on let's go

*We feed my ponies and bid them a final goodbye before going to the house again, it's pitch black now*

Erik: CANDLE TIME!

Christine: Oh yay! It'll be just like our time!

Enjolras: I found the candles!

Raoul: *Starts lighting them*

*Soon my house has a bunch of candles placed throughout it*

Me: Hey guys, dinner's ready

Christine: You were able to cook without electricity?

Me: Well, we had to manually light the stove. But yea, we got soup

*We eat, suddenly we hear something outside*

Raoul: Uh, what is that?

*We run out onto the porch, across the bridge sparks are flying from an electic pole and something BIG is smashing*

Erik: That sounds like a house!

Me: I think it is a house...

Christine: But I can't see anything

Raoul: Here I got a flashlight *He flashes it towards the water, it's risen about halfway up my lawn and is coming closer to my house*

Me: I can't... We can't stay here anymore! Let's go!

Christine: We're not coming back tonight are we?

Enjolras: I don't think so

*We start packing and blowing out candles. Suddenly there's a scream*

Erik: What?

Me: *Laughing* Haha, I blew the candle too hard and a bunch of wax just flew up and hit me in the face *Goes into the bathroom holding up a lantern and examining my face in the mirror*

Raoul: Well?

Me: Haha, I look just like the Phantom. Wax all over the right side of my face. *Starts clawing my face trying to get it off*

Christine: *Starting to cry again* Please can we go now!

Me: Yea, everybody get your stuff, let's go

*We get in the car, my parents, siblings, grandma, and dog pile into the van*

Me: Just follow them!

Erik: *Starts driving*

Enjolras: WOAH!

*There's a line of cars in front of us*

Me: The highway's closed that way, we'll have to head the other way.

*We get in the line of cars and start heading to the highway going west*

Me: We won't be going back now...

Raoul: I'm admittedly a little scared now

Enjolras: Well it's not raining anymore

Erik: No kidding, look! You can see the stars!

Me: What a cruel joke from mother nature. A starry sky on the night my town is destroyed

Christine: We're sorry...

Me: I can't believe this is happening

*After driving about 2 hours we end up in an inn*

Erik: *Opens the door to the room and stares at it*

Raoul: Ew, this place is gross

Me: It'll do. Raoul and Christine will get that bed, Me and Erik will get that one

Enjolras: What about me?

Me: You'll have to sleep on the floor.

Enjolras: *Sighs* It's alright. Get me some blankets and a pillow and I'll be set

*After settling into our respective places, we turn out all the lights*

Erik: Are you scared?

Me: Yea

Christine: I've heard of towns getting wiped away by floods, I never thought I'd ever see it happen

*Everybody murmurs in agreement*

Raoul: Do you think that bridge will still be there in the morning?

Me: I have no idea. But thinking about this, nothing in my town will ever be the same again

Enjolras: What do you mean?

Me: Since the 7th grade I've walked down that road, going home from school. Now when I walk down there, houses will be missing, the bridge might have to be replaced...

Christine: You live in such a lovely town too

Me: It's gone now Christine...

Erik: Let's just go to sleep, I'm sure we'll feel better if we do

*Everyone falls asleep, except for me and Erik*

Me: *Whispering* Erik

Erik: Hmmm?

Me: *Whispering* I can't sleep

Erik: *Whispering* Why?

Me: *Whispering* I'm cold...

Erik: *Whispering* Well you shouldn't have picked such a cheap little inn!

Me: *Whispering* It was all there was...

Erik: *Wraps his arms around me* Better?

Me: *Snuggling into him* Yea, but I still want my own bed

Erik: I know

Me: You know this is gonna make fanfiction difficult

Erik: They'll have to be patient and understand we're under a crisis

Me: I hope they do...

Alright everybody, here's the deal. Remember that lovely hurricane Irene that was sweeping up through New York? Yea, it hit us, MAJORLY! Seriously, everything that I wrote about happening in this chapter really happened. It just got to the point where we couldn't sit in our house and wait to be swept away anymore. My town is destroyed, there's a house blocking the highway, and we're all just devastated.

Currently I have no power, no internet. I'm posting this in a hospital waiting room. So just keep that in mind. New chapters for ANYTHING of mine will not be coming for a LONG time! I will try to keep updating whenever I can, but it's going to be tough for a while. PLEASE REVIEW, and I'm sorry if I don't review anybody's stories. No internet means no posting fanfiction, or reading it. So I'm terribly sorry. I'm trying!

If you're curious as to what I'm doing, I am able to tweet on my cell phone! So follow me on twitter, my username is 'gabby33384'! And you'll be updated on the latest of my town's destruction! Thanks for Reading! And please pray for my town, because we're in a LOT of trouble =(