Storm Part 1 by Amy Zhang and Wendy Xu

“Two

of us. We were the only ones left, the only ones to make it to the island. We were still on our boat, a quite big one for just 2 tweens, and a non-caring driver. We came with many people, including our, well our parents. There was a terrible disease that spread

through the boat, we don’t know why, but we didn’t catch it. But anyways      we’re almost there now. Just… 2 more days, at least that’s what we think.”

“*Yawn*, wake up Eleanor,” I woke up my twin sister.

“I’m already awake,” Eleanor replied.

“”Oh, what have you been doing then?” I asked.

“I’ve been somersaulting back and forth!” Eleanor screamed with laughter.

I giggled at the thought of my usually quiet sister playing around.

“Um, anyway now that I’m awake what do you want to do?” I asked.

Eleanor ignored my question and started to walk to the storage room. I followed her in and we got a game board to play with.

The day flew past as we entertained ourselves and soon it was night. We went to the closet and got our pajamas on. We both went to sleep and we woke up to the sound of rumbling thunder.

“Elisa, Elisa, Elisa, wake up, look outside,” Eleanor grabbed my arm and pulled me to our window, outside I saw pouring rain, lightning , a hole in our boat and we saw our boat driver floating on a tube in the water.  We grabbed lots of wood and ran outside to control the wheel, it was too late, our journey was about to end.

“Quick, Eleanor, grab some tape,” I shouted. But Eleanor wasn’t there.

She reappeared a second later with the biggest roll of tape I had ever seen.

“Elisa, spread the wood out and connect it with tape,” Eleanor ordered.

We got to work, we spread out the wood and quickly taped the wood together.

“Get into the water and bring the plank!” I yelled.

“Will do!” Eleanor shouted back.

We both worked together, we jumped into the ocean and put down the plank. All of a sudden, we saw a huge wave coming towards us.