Adoni's Safe Zone-Personal Narrative

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Safe Zone
Adonis:
Alone, afraid, timorous, glassy-eyed, sums up how things are now. Things weren’t always this way but I guess this is all my sister and I know. Avigail only has me. I have to be her rock. Our parents are gone. We’re lost without a place to look forward to. Last month our parents were headed to the mall for Christmas shopping. I was going to stay home with Avigail because I wasn’t ever much of a fan for the mall. Going to the mall just sounds like a normal trip, yea? That’s what we thought. too. The mall is about a 30 min trek from our house if there isn’t any traffic. It was a busy weekend in San Bernardino, California so we expected our parents to be gone longer than normal. I had an inkling as to where something bad would happen. Now guess what, our parents are dead. Well, it’s now over a month later and we’re still without parents. No big deal …show more content…

I had no idea what was going on and I don’t think he knew either. I could feel myself loosing balance but I fought to stay up right as I covered my ears screaming because I couldn’t stand the pain of never-ending noise pulsing through my head!

Adonis:
The moment that the torment ended and I had time to configure my senses I ran to my still screaming sister. I moved her to the couch and gave her a pillow that she clenched onto as if it was her own child. I then VERY SLOWLY crept over to the door. I had no idea what had just happened or where it even came from. I reach the door and crack it open the slightest. It’s pitch black out. Not a single noise hits my ears. The fact that there’s a black out in San Bernardino, CA and not a single person is trying to take advantage of it scares me. What in the world is going on?
After I locked the door and calmed down Avigail I took her to my room. We just sat there in dark silence. Waiting for something to happen. Anything at all to make a sound, yet nothing did. I lost track of time because it was so dark and

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