Fate

I was getting breakfast in the kitchen getting ready to go to school. “Mary!” “thomas!” my mother called, “it’s back!” I looked out the window and there was a huge black cloud. I was scared though this was the third one this year, each one was worse than the last. My big brother grabbed me and I asked him to get all the cloths wet. I ran to put each one under a door or window. My mother was chasing the dog into the basement.  I grabbed the picture of my father and Thomas grabbed the last four wet clothes. We all ran to the basement and put the clothes on our faces after putting one on our dog. 

I hugged the picture of my dad and waited. A few seconds later I heard the glass shatter. I started crying. That brought back memories of my father, he was helping our neighbor when the windows shattered so he suffocated and was cut by glass. Thomas put his arm around me. My mother was crying too, but then she stopped. I called for her, no answer. My brother started calling for her, no answer. Then I called for our dog princess and she layed on my lap to show she was still here. 

The storm ended, my brother started crying once he took off his cloth. I took mine off and saw why. Mom had suffocated. I hugged Tomas. Then I started crying. “What are we supposed to do now?” I asked Tomas. “I… I don’t know.” he said. A few days later our house was torn down. Now we have to sleep in a tent. With no parents to keep us safe and we have  to find food for all of us. One day two people who were on vacation saw us. They later adopted us and now we live where there are no dust bulls. But every time a glass cup broke I started crying. I have gotten better about it now. But I am always very grateful because you never know what can happen. Now I am telling my great grand kids the story. There are still bad storms and tornadoes every now and then but the dust bulls will always be known as the worst storm of all time. It is almost like I needed to lose everything to meet my husband and be adopted into a loving family. Almost like it was my fate.