It is just after 9/11 and your father was in one of the Twin Towers during the crash and was in critical state, verging on the edge of life and death. To you, a fifteen-year old who was very religious in the Catholic faith, it seemed like God and Satan were playing a game of tennis and your father was the ball; and the winner got to take him. Either to live with you, your little sister Carly who was now eight, but you still thought of her as a baby, and your mother; or he went with Satan.
Your house was only 10 blocks from where the Twin Towers stood. It was one of the only houses that hadn’t had any damage even come near it. You guessed that if one thing went good, that another thing would have to be sacrificed! Your friends a few blocks …show more content…
You check your watch and you have forty-five seconds to make it to the closet before your sister locks it concealing herself from the outside world. You bolt up the stairs as fast and as silently as you can and open the door to find your sister sitting in the far corner trying to hide herself amoungst the files. You quickly lock the door behind you and sit next to your sister. Just as you finish camouflaging yourself and sister in the various files and papers you hear the shattering of glass and a loud bang.
Footsteps rush up and down the stairs, they must be looking for you and your sister. By now they must have been in your family 's house for a solid twenty minuets. You just barely she your sister through the dim light that is seeping through the closet door. Then you hear the words of a prayer coming from your sister, she is speaking just
in tone where you cannot hear what she is saying but you just know she is praying. You being to do the same, but in your head. Trying to not show how terrified you really are. Without a mental effort you wrap your arms around your sister and whisper in her ear "Everything is going to be fine." You say it with so much confidence you almost convince yourself.
Soon hours went by you began to feel like your life was ending, your body was just giving up. Agony was creeping in making you feel useless and like a failure. The only thing that was keeping your will to live strong was, your
Your house was only 10 blocks from where the Twin Towers stood. It was one of the only houses that hadn’t had any damage even come near it. You guessed that if one thing went good, that another thing would have to be sacrificed! Your friends a few blocks …show more content…
You check your watch and you have forty-five seconds to make it to the closet before your sister locks it concealing herself from the outside world. You bolt up the stairs as fast and as silently as you can and open the door to find your sister sitting in the far corner trying to hide herself amoungst the files. You quickly lock the door behind you and sit next to your sister. Just as you finish camouflaging yourself and sister in the various files and papers you hear the shattering of glass and a loud bang.
Footsteps rush up and down the stairs, they must be looking for you and your sister. By now they must have been in your family 's house for a solid twenty minuets. You just barely she your sister through the dim light that is seeping through the closet door. Then you hear the words of a prayer coming from your sister, she is speaking just
in tone where you cannot hear what she is saying but you just know she is praying. You being to do the same, but in your head. Trying to not show how terrified you really are. Without a mental effort you wrap your arms around your sister and whisper in her ear "Everything is going to be fine." You say it with so much confidence you almost convince yourself.
Soon hours went by you began to feel like your life was ending, your body was just giving up. Agony was creeping in making you feel useless and like a failure. The only thing that was keeping your will to live strong was, your