It was a dreary Tuesday, March 14, 1951; the flight was going fine. I was 12 years old and I was crying my eyes out. I hated planes for some reason, I don’t know why. We got turbulence and I was trying to go to sleep but there was so much turbulence I couldn’t sleep.
Then it happened…both engines blew up and I was screaming as everyone else was. The plane decreased altitude very quickly and I was very sure the pilots couldn’t fix this one. As we decreased altitude another explosion happened, blowing a hole in the side of the plane.
People were flying out of the aircraft, then my mother’s seat detached from the plane, and she was gone. I could see endless ocean but then I saw an island. When my dad saw it he put his body around me to protect me from the impact.
His plan worked perfectly, but in the end I saw my dad dead in front of me and saw my mom flying through the plane into the endless abyss of the ocean. Still in my seat, not knowing what to do, I sat there for hours thinking if this was just a bad dream or reality.
I was hungry, thirsty, and bleeding, and I looked through the plane for food and clean clothes to wrap up my wound. I took all the food and water but it was all in a purple suitcase just in case I had to leave quickly.
I was pretty smart for the age of 12; I was waiting for the smell of gasoline or gas because I didn’t want to get blown up today or any day. So I just shut my eyes and slept.
It was morning; I didn’t want to stay near the plane anymore. Too many bad memories. I scavenged for more food and dry clothing. I put all of the supplies I needed in four suitcases, all of them holding food and water and clothing, just in case I lost one of the suitcases.
I headed out to find fresh water and shelter. I had been walking for hours, carefully drinking, making sure not to drink too much or it would be gone in one week.
I walked near the water to keep myself cool, and it felt like it was just getting hotter and hotter. I didn’t think about going into the forest because of all the poisonous animals and diseases that lay before the tree line.
As I kept walking I found a spot where I could camp out for the night under a dead tree. I didn’t know how cold it got here so I cocooned myself in clean clothing, and I shut my eyes.
When I woke up I felt the water crashing against me. I jumped up and got my stuff quickly before it went out to the open sea. I was lucky I woke up right then because I could have drowned.
I have decided to go in the forest, I can’t stay in the beach I will run out of food and water. I made sure I had pants and a long sleeve shirt and gloves so a bug couldn’t bit me.
I was scared, I was shivering, And I wasn’t if my pants were even dry anymore. I stepped slowly, one by one, and when I finally got to the tree line I closed my eyes and took a big step into the unknown land.
Immediately I fell into a dark hole of death and I just kept falling and falling and falling. I finally saw the ground and in terror I scream not knowing whats going on, and when I finally was about to hit the ground I woke up sweating and shivering. It was just a dream.