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I OWN NOTHING of Zoey 101

Chapter One: The Miracle

Harry and Monica Wolfgang are two average kids from a not so average town. Shamokin, Pennsylvania has only one purpose, to mine out the tons of anthracite coal. However, there hasen't been coal since 1979. Their father, Johann Wolfgang, was the mine superintendent. He tried his best to find the coal down there, but so far, they've been only finding nothing but rock slabs. In some sections of the mine, the slopes go downward, getting narrower each yard. Sometimes, the miners had to get down on all fours to get to their area in a section. That was theirway of life in Shamokin, Pennylvania until July of 2006. Until that time,the citizenswere downright poor, and the schoolthe childrenwent to had to rely on the government for support.They hated to be living in the poorest city of the coal region. Their father kept saying to stay hopeful, but hopeful of what, hoping that someone would buy rock slabs?

The Wolfgang family came here from Germany before the Nazis rise to power. They were the experts of coal mining, so Shamokin hired them to run the coal mine.Johann was born in 1956.Their motherwas born in 1958. They had three children, the oldest, Michael Wolfgang born in 1978. Follow by the twin in 1991.

The other families of Shamokin had much worse than the Wolfgang family. The Wolfgang family had goverment support to get through. Others did not want the government to help them, even though my father urged them to. They felt that they would rather get paid only three cents a month rather than taking the government's offering.

One day, Harry ask his father, "Dad, why are we poor?"

Johann look at him. "What are you talking about?"

"I mean, is why we poor that mom run out on us?" Harry ask.

He shook his head. "No. Your mother ran off because she loved another man, more poorer than us, and they hopped a train bound for the declining steel mills in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio," Johann said. "It is not your fault, mine, or even the hold full of nothing but rock slabs. Okay?"

Harry nod his head, then went back upstairs.

When Monica heard about the story, she went ballistic about it. For about three months, she was a wild girl running around the town shouting, "Why did you did that mom?"

After three months, Johann fall in love with a poor Polish girl, Anna Issac. Monica became happy again now that a woman was back in the house.

"Monica, do you really like Anna?" Johann ask her on the first night Anna lived in their house.

Monica shook her head wild. Johann smile, then left the room.

Anna was very nice to the family, although, she wanted Johann to simply shut down the mine because it is over now. One time, when he brought his pay home, and slams it onto the kitchen table, she said, "Whatever you make down there, it is not enought."

In the summer of 2006, Michael manage to hustle for a device that would measure how much coal was in the mine when they find a new seam. People thought it would be worthless, but they would be proven wrong.

By July, Harry was extreamly bored. There was hardly anything to do in the poorest town of the coal region. Usually, he would always go to the library supported by rich people, the only place with the latest things. One time, he was just surfing when he typed the letters, PCA. It came back with one search, Pacific Coast Academy. Quickly, he printed it out and showed it to dad, who said, "We are too poor to afford you to go to a boarding schoool." Then he went to his office at the mine.

Harry was so disappointed after that. He really wanted to get out of Shamokin and get a better education. He wish that a miracle would happen soon. He didn't expect that his wish would come true.

Near the end of the third week of July, the evening shift was just cleaning out the coal mine when they decided to play around with the old dyamite in there. When the dyamite blew up, at all the sections of the mine, they had found coal. They had it measure to be thirteen thousand miles long, thirteen yards wide, and still the usual five feet deep. Quickly, all the miners there was called back to the mines by six o' clock. My father was constantly shouting "WE FOUND COAL. LETS MINE IT OUT!"

Quickly, the miners grab their lunch boxes, helments, and clothing, and ran down to the tipple. However, there was only one elevator that goes down, and carries only forty people. There were two set of steps next to the shaft and they used them to get workers down faster. It took about fifty minutes to use the steps though. All the sections began to use the machines that hadn't been used for a while. In one of the sections, the machines broke down.

"Okay, someone, get help to get these machines fixed," the foreman said. They didn't know that Johann was there. "There will be no waiting around. Grab your shovels, pick axes, and dyamite, and start digging out the coal!" he shouted. Quickly, the men in that section, even the foreman, starts shoveling the coal into the cars.

A disel enging arrives with about forty coal boxes. When the top of the tipple got full of coal, the operator push the button to open the doors to dump the coal into the cars. Unfortunatley, they weren't working.

"Johann, the slot in the tipple isn't opening!" he shouted into the phone.

"Get some men out to the tipple. There's some rope near the forest that was use to open and close the slot doors," Johann said. "And quickly, quickly.

Quickly he did, for there were about ten men at the rope. They grab it and the tipple operator shouts "PULL!" They tug on the rope, but the slot doors won't bardge. They tried it again, but still the slot doors aren't giving up.

"Man, those doors are dead jammed," one of the miner said.

The pit in the tipple was starting to get full of coal, but the doors aren't giving up. They tug ont the rope for hours and hours. Finally, at one o' clock, with thirty men and twenty women on the rope, the doors finally gave in and the coal fell into the car. After it got full, they let go of the rope and the doors close tight shut again. After the train move, they pull on it again, and more coal fell into the car. After doing this for about fifty minutes, the train left the tipple and went on it's way for the steel mills in Pittsburgh.

At the end of the day, they felt like they were rich once more. For the first time in their lives since 1979, they felt that they were important people of America.

Near the end of August, the three cents the miners only get finally turned into pay checks, of about $439.93 for each miner. Rich at last, they bought a lot of new things they could never buy. The old way of Shamokin was finally over. They were back to the way Shamokin was before 1979, a booming coal mining town, shipping the coal not only to the steel mills in Pittsburgh, but to local homes still on coal furnaces, even oversea to the steel mills in the world.

Just when the school year was about to begin, Harry and Monica got their things for tenth grade.Theygot to the front doorwhen their father blocked their way.

"Dad, we need to go to school," Monica said. "Why are you blocking us?"

"Yeah dad, Anna doesn't block you when you go to work," Harry said.

Johann stood there for about a moment, then he said, "That's because you are nolonger students at the high school."

Harry and Monica got angry. "You aren't going to let up go back to school?" they shouted.

"No," dad said. "Because you new school now...is Pacific...Coast...Academy in California."

I know this doesn't seem like a Zoey 101 fan fic, but this is only the beginning. I hope you read this story, and I hope you like the beginning.