Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Before I knew it, we were at the evacuation centre. Well, it was 6 days later. We all had hypothermia, and were as sick as anything and there was only 5 of us left in our little group. Hazel, Todd and Lucas had done the same as Elsie, which meant there were only 13 of us left. We were all housed up in the 3rd story of the hospital with another 5 families that had survived, the town was only small, but only 12 other families survived. There was originally 47. We finally got transferred to the 4th story, when the water had nearly covered more than half of the 2nd story. It was more that 15 meters high and still rising. We got messages telling us we would be recused, but it never happened. 1 week later, the rain stopped, but only for an hour. I was bored out of my brain and still couldn’t cope because of the confined space. We were lucky, in amongst the group of survivors, there was a man who claimed to be a councillor. Every second day we would have fifteen minutes to tell him about how we were feeling. My answer was always hungry, scared, mad or confused. Each day we got a bowl of cereal for breakfast, a cheese and ham sandwich for lunch with an energy bar and for dinner, packet soups. Chicken noodle.

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It was nearly 12:00 and no one could sleep. Another cyclone came through. The wind was going more than 100 miles. The rain kept bucketing down. I knew it was time to talk. We hadn’t even talked to each other for more than 3 days. The last Jeremy held me and kept me safe was 5 days ago. We’d been gone for more than 2 weeks. 

“Guys, come on, it’s been forever since any of us have talked. Its really hard for me, I didn’t realize this was going to happen. So, don’t blame me. It’s killing me, being here, having nothing to do. I try to think about what we could be doing now, instead of being here, but I can’t because I’m not like I was before. I’m weak, shy, troubled. This has ruined me, forever” I stopped to look at then all “We need to do something about this. Make something happen. I Thi-” I was cut of by all our phones beeping. Dana started to shed tears. 

“Dana.. What’s wrong?” Then I opened my phone

It said “ Today is Dana’s Birthday!” I sighed. Then I remembered the card and present that I had in my bag. Which was at the camping sight. 

“I’m sorry Dana. I am so sorry” I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her and all the others could do was watch. I went over and picked 3 of the flowers growing on the windowsill. I took the ribbon from Elsie’s sleeping bag and tied it around them. 

“Here, Happy Birthday” I said as I handed her the flowers. She lifted her head from her hands and smiled.