A/N: Okay it's EXTREMELYshort! I'm sorry! I wrote it as an "essay" for school and I thought it was worth putting on here. Please read and review! (It may seem a little...er...sappy, but whatever).
Burning
I stepped outside and took a long deep, breath in. The early morning air smelled amazing. Behind the hotel there was this massive, wide open field of lush green grass. I sat down in the grass, my skirt billowing out around me, making me look like a gray circle with a green sweater. I opened up my notebook and was about to write when I heard the door behind me open. I looked over my shoulder and saw a tall boy with chestnut hair come running out of the hotel to sit down next to me. He straightened his glasses and I lay my head on his shoulder as he pointed out into the horizon. The sun was rising, only this morning it was no ordinary sunrise. The sun was a dazzling orange globe, rimmed with a thin yellow. The sky all around was a beautiful mixture of pink, orange, and blue, all shimmering together. The sun slowly rose and the boy next to me picked me a lovely little white flower and stuck it behind my ear. I laughed and watched as the sun made the final few steps of its journey into the sky.
But then everything changed I heard a sudden shrill scream and whipped around. The hotel behind me was burning, sending cold gray smoking shooting into the sky, obscuring the beautiful sun that I had just seen rise. Two boys who looked exactly alike, and exactly like me (my triplet brothers) emerged from the building. One of them was dragging the other, who appeared unconscious. I screamed their names and ran to them, helping my conscious brother revive the other one. There was another scream and a crash as a girl came running out ofthe burning building, holding her baby sister. She set the baby down by my brother, who was still out cold,and attempted to tie her hair up in a ribbon but was shaking too hard with sobs.
I looked around me once more. Everything seemed so different from when I had come out that morning. The grass didn't seem lush and green anymore. Now it looked brown, crusty, and revolting. The flower the boy with glasses had given me earlier had wilted and the dazzling sun I had watched climb into the sky a few minutes ago was now lost from sight. I looked around at the girl still shaking with sobs, her confused baby sister, and my two brothers. How did this all suddenly change? Then a figure dashed past me. It was the boy I was sitting with earlier, darting into the smoldering hotel. The girl and the baby both cried outto their sibling, but he didn't listen. I cried out to him too, but I was too late. He ran into the hotel and didn't come out. Fire and smoke fatigued my vision, and I fell to my knees and cried.