novel in a month.. well what i have typed!

CHAPTER 1 - THE CENTURIES TURN
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The wind was rushing all around us, our fingers had frozen into icicles and we couldn't feel our feet anymore. Maryann had been complaining for at least an hour “where are we it doesn’t take this long to get home!” We were walking home from school in the biggest snow storm of the year. None of our parents could pick us up and they told us all to go to Julie’s house because it is the closest to school. We would usually get to her house in about ten minutes, but all the street signs were covered in snow and the snow was so thick on the ground that we couldn't tell if we were on grass, street, or sidewalk. Nobody would admit that we had gotten lost even though we all knew that everyone knew. I was attempting to lead our group of five girls, Maryann, Julie, Abigail, Gingy, and Natalie. We had tried our cell phones about every five minutes but none of could get a signal, Gingy’s cell phone wouldn’t even turn on because it had frozen. Maryann was complaining again this time about because she was hungry and she wanted to talk to her boyfriend, Miguel. While Maryann was sobbing about her problems, Abigail guess had decided that she had, had enough and started yelling at Maryann. “What the hell is wrong with you? You are not the only one who is lost and cold in the middle of the fucking snow storm so if you do not mind shut up!” Maryann stopped in her tracks at the sound of Abi yelling at her, when the yelling was over Maryann simply said fine. But that is not all Maryann did, after she said fine she turned her back to all of us and walked off into the snow. That is when I snapped, “What the hell Abi? Go get her, if we get split up then we will never get home!” I couldn’t hold anything in anymore. I started screaming and flinging snow everywhere. Then the other girls flipped to, they all turned their backs to me, they didn’t walk away they just turned and wouldn’t talk to me when I tried to apologize. Because they wouldn’t talk to me I ran off to find Maryann. After five minutes of running I finally found her curled up on the dry ground under a weeping willow that looked a snow mound with all the snow over it. I told Maryann to stay there while I went to get the other girls. I had it set in my mind to get them under that tree and into some warmth weather they wanted to or not. When I got back to the four silent girls they still hadn’t moved, it looked like they had frozen in their places. I told the girls about the tree and the warm leaves and they followed me back. We were all back together as a group then, no one was talking to each other but at least no one was screaming.


CHAPTER 2 – A HORRIBLE TRUTH
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It was ten pm the next time we checked our phones, Gingy’s had thawed out by now but when ice melts it turns into water so then her phone wouldn’t work because it was soaking wet. We all found this very funny; except for Gingy she thought it was very aggravating to have a broken cell phone. We decided to stay under the tree over night and hope that the storm will have ended by the next morning. It was hard to fall asleep on the ground though, even though it wasn’t snowy it was still hard and cold. The best thing we could do to warm ourselves up was to get covered in the dried leaves from the tree, it did not work very well. After a night of rolling and shaking we woke up and to our great surprise the snow had stopped falling. Everything was still covered and it was impossible to read street signs but none of us cared because we knew that with the storm over we would be able to get home eventually. Natalie and Julie, the two tallest girls in our group, had figured it out that if one of them got on the others shoulders then they could reach the street signs and could clean them off. After they got one clean we knew exactly where we were. We were on Mulberry St. the long deserted road that leads back to our houses. We were right on track, we just had to walk straight about half a mile and then we would be greeted with blankets and hugs from Julie’s parents. Right when we read the sign and our frozen brains registered where we were we all ran down the long road and then we saw it. It was Julie’s street, or so we thought. All the houses were wrecked; it looked like a tornado had gone down her street. We ran to the ruble as if it were someone we had never seen before, minus the happy. When we got to the remains of Julies three story Victorian house we all began to cry, it was the most horrible thing any of us had ever seen. All that was left from her house was the main floor and a little bit of the walls. Every house on the street looked this way. We stepped through what would have been the doorway but was now just a vast opening and started looking around. All we found was ruined furniture and wood, everything of importance had been washed away with the snow. After about ten more minutes of searching and sobbing Natalie found a safe under a few boards of wood that Julie claimed she had never seen before. Abi, who was incredible at breaking locks, gave it a look and tried to get in but she didn’t make any progress. The safe was extremely heavy and not one of alone could even make it budge, but together we rolled it over onto its back. On the bottom writing with paint we found what we assumed had to be the combination to get in. The combination was Julie’s birth date 10:22:92 so we thought it belonged to her parents. “It must have fallen from their bedroom, “I am not allowed to go in there unless one of them is already there.” Julie said with another frozen tear on her cheek. Abi came back over to the safe and tried to combination, it worked and the latch opened. We were all shocked to see the safe open when we had all thought it would have been frozen. When it opened we found three envelopes; the first one had one thousand dollars, the second had a letter to Julie, and the third had Julie’s parents will. Julie took the letter out of the envelope and read it allowed so everyone could hear.
“Julie, when you find this hopefully the storm will be over. As you can see everyone’s homes have been destroyed during this disaster, and nobody is sure of what to do. With fear of entering into the horrid storm your father and I have decided to try and stay here. We hope to survive this or at least that you will survive. Your father and I have left you a few things you will need if we do not make it, they are in safe with this letter. We left you a great deal of money, and our final will and testament. If you find this then I want you to go to the address at the bottom of he letter, it is your Aunt and Uncle, you never met them but they have agreed to take if needed. Also if we are not here then we are either in the basement waiting for you or have not survived this endeavor. We love with all our hearts and will greatly miss you if we do not see you again.
Love, Mother and Father”
After Julie read the letter she ran off. We all had thought she was going to leave but instead she went to where the door to the basement would have been and yelled down it “Mom, Dad! I’m here! Come out!” Then Julie just stood there for about ten minutes, when nothing happened Julie just jumped onto the snowy floor of her basement. Most of the stairs had been ripped out of the stair way from the storm. When Julie got her footing and was standing again she began walking around the small room hoping to see her parents hiding behind a box waiting for her. As Julie was walking around the basement we all just watched her from the main floor of the house. Then it happened, Julie had walked into something buried under the snow. When she felt the object she fell on her knees and frantically started throwing all the snow to the side. What Julie found scared her into sobs of frozen tears. Julie had found her parents, cold, hard, and dead. Julie uncovered both of her parents completely and hugged them. Julie’s parents were frozen hugging each other and covered in blood. They had a look of shock and fear in their eyes, we all felt like Julie had just lost the most important thing in her life and none of could say anything. We all just on the main floor watching Julie hug and attempt to clean off her parents.