Hey guys sorry it took so long, but these last two weeks have been the week of my school's big play and we did Eugene O'Neil's "Beyond The Horizon". It went pretty good. Now I have no more shows for the rest of the year so I'll be able to write a lot more.

Cassie walked over cautiously and picked up the weapon. It felt so cold in her hands. She didn't really know how to use one, but she had to learn fast. She didn't hear any noise form outside so she just figured he wasn't getting up any time soon.

Her eyes wandered back down to her brother's body. She couldn't just leave him there. She walked over to the living room and picked up a blanket. She laid it over him gently. She stuffed the gun down her pants and peeked out the window. The rain picked up again and she shifted her gaze to where her father had been laying. He was gone.

She looked again and then blinked a couple of times. She had checked him and he was passed out. He can't just get up and walk away from a fall like that. But then again, she did. That was because she was younger, she tried to comfort herself. It wasn't working. She never even checked the gun for bullets, but she had faith in her brother. He wouldn't leave her unprotected. She raced to the back of the house. She was on her way to the back stair when she heard a gunshot. It came straight through the window and nearly missed her. She fell to the ground. She picked her head up and started to army crawl her way toward the steps when she heard thumping on the back porch. She looked up at the door only a few feet in front of her and saw him coming up. She was frozen in terror. She saw the doorknob turn and then it opened. She just laid there dumb. He walked in and looked down smiling. His yellow teeth disgusted her and he raised the gun only inches from her face. He pulled the trigger.

Click

Click

Nothing happened. He didn't have any bullets. She started to smile at her good fortune.

He looked down at her, "Do you think this is all over?"

She jumped up and turned as he was busy digging more shells out of his pockets.

"HEY!" he hollered.

She kept running she couldn't go past Steve's body or she'd puke so she ran for the basement. She slipped on the steps and plunged straight into knee deep water. The basement had flooded. She waded through it and into a corner behind some shelves. She watched for him and sure enough he came.

She looked up to the window and saw that it had flooded bad outside. She trembled as she saw that she could only see water out of the window. The old ponds must have flooded. That's what she gets for going to house that sits at the bottom of a hill. All the ponds above it are letting loose the water.

He waded closer and closer. All of a sudden the window cracked. A spider web of cracks spread over it. The pressure was too much. She looked at her father and he was busy looking at the window. She took her gun out of her jeans and raised it she shot without aim. She hit his right leg.

"Dammit!" he yelled thrashing about in the water.

She smiled to herself.

He suddenly got up and screamed into the dark basement, "WE'LL SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT DOWN HERE, YOU…YOU…YOU DAMN WHELP!" he ran upstairs and slammed the door.

She stood up and waded back to the steps.

crack!

The window busted and water gushed in. she thrashed through the water trying to get to the top of the steps. She went to open the door, but it was locked.

I know it's kinda like Titanic only in a house. I guess if a couple of big ponds overflowed and water came down on a house the basement would flood and then the house would probably wash away soon after. Isn't that a big hint at something in future chapters.