What It Would Be Like If It Were Us

Eleanor screams in the distance.  She is standing on the beach, eyes wide open gaping at the disaster before her. Cody, Bailey S., Nicole, and Devin stumble out of the forest their clothes burned and pulled at by the trees. The sound of a small explosion booms from the plane, the engines still roaring back to life every minute or so. Madison, John, and Sienna are already standing behind me. John is running in circles panicking sputtering a million words a minute at 100% volume. Smoke is billowing up from the forest, meaning the trees have caught fire. The obvious doubt in everyone’s face says that everybody probably didn’t make it. But just as the last engine explodes sending the fires reaching up towards the night sky, the rest of our class trudges out of the trees. Bailey L., Emelia, Alex, Sophie, AC, Jacob, and Harper, all carrying or dragging each other to the safety of the beach. They gather together in a chaotic cluster by the waves.

 “What are we gonna do?” shrieked several people in desperate voices.

Sienna says with a grave voice, “Did you see anyone else? Are we the only ones?”

Out of breath, Jacob and Baily are only able to nod their heads.

John stops his screaming long enough to say, “How is it possible that everyone on the plane died, except for our English class?”