The silence was finally broken. Even from 10 miles away from the shoreline, the barely audible sounds of waves crashing onto the beach was heard. I quickly got into my capacious car and made one quick out the window to see the sky was no longer azure, but a deep gray. I drove as fast as possible to avoid any oncoming disaster, but alas, I was to late. I was quickly preceded by two cars when I began to decelerate when out of the blue, it started raining. It felt as if we were going to be deluged in it. On my way to home, I felt a sudden pang when I realized we lived close to shore. As I raced through Fukushima, I noticed that the tree next to me was shaking, at first confused, I quickly realized my worst nightmare is coming true-we were experiencing a earthquake.
I quickly got out of the car and ran as fast as the wind to the fish market nearby and hid underneath the table. The room was filled with copious amounts of fish which caused it to have a horrid, revolting smell. Realizing how crucial this time was, I grabbed some fish and stuffed them into my coat. I then took off my shirt and grabbed some more fish to put into it just incase we needed more rations. As the shaking stopped, I walked outside to see a junkyard in what used to be the park.
Being a fastidious person, I looked around slowly and carefully for anything that will help me carry the fish but found nothing. I also noticed a black sedan underneath a fridge and couch. Knowing that my family made a plan incase of disasters just like this, I figured that I should make my way to the hill a few blocks away from the house as it was the highest area for miles. Being adept to noticing small details, I managed to find the hill following buried signs that were once available for eyes to see.
Our neighbors were also on the top of the hill along with a few other families from the cul-de-sac. We knew we were going to be up here for a while, so we decided to banter around for a while. I tried to facilitate the time we were up here by passing around the board games that my wife brought for the kids but it did no good.
As the sky cleared, we all decided it would be best if we stayed up here for a while and as soon as we agreed, came the sounds of water crashing from everywhere. Just as I had seen in movies, it was a tsunami, I thought Japan would never see one but I was wrong. As cars and boats collided in the water, trees were ripped out of the ground, people were screaming for their lives. But we knew better, we could do nothing. we were trapped up here like sitting goose and were going to stay up here. As the waters ravaged our rooms and killed our people, we were watching in horror and disgust.
I quickly got out of the car and ran as fast as the wind to the fish market nearby and hid underneath the table. The room was filled with copious amounts of fish which caused it to have a horrid, revolting smell. Realizing how crucial this time was, I grabbed some fish and stuffed them into my coat. I then took off my shirt and grabbed some more fish to put into it just incase we needed more rations. As the shaking stopped, I walked outside to see a junkyard in what used to be the park.
Being a fastidious person, I looked around slowly and carefully for anything that will help me carry the fish but found nothing. I also noticed a black sedan underneath a fridge and couch. Knowing that my family made a plan incase of disasters just like this, I figured that I should make my way to the hill a few blocks away from the house as it was the highest area for miles. Being adept to noticing small details, I managed to find the hill following buried signs that were once available for eyes to see.
Our neighbors were also on the top of the hill along with a few other families from the cul-de-sac. We knew we were going to be up here for a while, so we decided to banter around for a while. I tried to facilitate the time we were up here by passing around the board games that my wife brought for the kids but it did no good.
As the sky cleared, we all decided it would be best if we stayed up here for a while and as soon as we agreed, came the sounds of water crashing from everywhere. Just as I had seen in movies, it was a tsunami, I thought Japan would never see one but I was wrong. As cars and boats collided in the water, trees were ripped out of the ground, people were screaming for their lives. But we knew better, we could do nothing. we were trapped up here like sitting goose and were going to stay up here. As the waters ravaged our rooms and killed our people, we were watching in horror and disgust.
Nice story. It really made me feel like I was there. You do have on or two grammatical mistakes, ¨leaved¨instead of lived, and some words had no spaces between them. Good job, you improved a lot on the story.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you wrote it as someone who was actually there good story.
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