9/11: A Short Story

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It was September 9, 2001. My family was living in New York when 9/11 happened. Me and my siblings were at home. Jewel and Chris is there name. Jewel and Chris were watching fairly odd parents and my father was at work. I was making breakfast for my siblings and my grandma was asleep.My grandma slept through everything and even my father thought she was dead. I was in the kitchen when I heard the phone. “Ring,Ring” I ran to the phone hoping it was my mother.“Hello” I said. “Hello”. The woman sounded sad but also angry. “Who is this” I asked. “It's the Lincoln Medical Center. Do you known anyone named Molly Ali” she asked. “Yea, she my mother” I nervously said. “Please hurry to the hospital your mother as been severely injured…” “Thump” I dropped the phone and grabbed my 9 year old sister and I yelled to get my 14 year old brother …show more content…

We got into my new silver Mercedes and drove off so fast I thought I broke the sound barrier. “Sorry, it's mom she's hurt. She got caught up in damn the terrorist attack earlier” “Is she okay” he said shaking. I didn't answer him. The car ride was silent all the way their. When we got there we see my mother bloody and barely alive getting rushed to a emergency room. I saw my pops screaming and yelling “She's my wife, she's my wife”. He got quieter and quieter and then started to whisper to himself. “Why her...why her…” I took my siblings to the waiting room to sit down and my sister Jewel started crying and my brother was hugging her and quietly said “It's going to be okay” and just repeated those words then Jewel looked up at me with her eyes shining like the sun. When she did I didn't know how to explain this to her. The reason why it was so goddamn hard to explain it was because she has autism. So I punched the living $#%& out of the wall. I kept on punching and punching until I could not feel my hands. My dad yells my name and I turned laughing for some reason. I thought I lost

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