Chapter 13

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Chapter 13 I am wearing my Hello Kitty dress. It is new and clean and I love it. George wants to go look for his bicycle. The road is wet and covered with dirt. We are alone in the house, mommy had to go to the hairdresser’s and left me to take care of my little brother. Daddy is at work. The flood is intense. Mommy called twenty times, I told her we are OK. She says she can’t drive back, says she’ll be late. It’s alright, I say, we’ll wait here. George is kicking and screaming. He is at the balcony, watching the brown waters rushing down the street. It stopped raining but it’s still cloudy and a little dark. I look at my new dress in the mirror and I love it. George comes to me and tells me he wants to go look for his bicycle. The water took it away. He could see it around the corner but now he can’t see it anymore. He is sure because it’s bright green and you can see it clearly so it’s safe. He is pulling my sleeve, I yell at him because he is going to ruin my dress. He leaves me alone and goes back to the balcony to look for his bicycle. I wear my shoes. They fit the dress well. They make me a lady. I look at them in the mirror and I love them. George is not yelling now. I hear the door closing, it is big and heavy and makes a snap when it shuts. I get to the balcony, George is not there. I get out of the house and walk down the marble stairs. I hear the condo’s main door close and I run downstairs. Water has come inside the lobby. Some parts are muddy. I stand at the last step and look at the water. I don’t want to get muddy water on my shoes. I love my shoes. I take them off and leave them on the last step. I walk in the water and open the main door. George is outside on the pavement. The water is lower now but it was very high before. I can see that from the brown mark on the walls. The rain took a lot of the dirt away. I yell at George to come back and pull my dress up. I step into the water and walk outside. George tells me he saw his bicycle across the street, around the corner. He saw the water push it there. I walk down on the pavement, the street still has a lot of water, it looks like a river. A dark green garbage can is flowing down like a boat. George crosses the road after it and goes to the corner. He is all wet now, and dirty from the mud. He doesn’t care. I walk to the corner, still on my pavement. I yell at George to come back. I tell him mommy will be very angry and that she is coming in five seconds. George says that his bike is just over there and that it will only take a second. The street around the corner is lower, so the water is deeper. More water is coming from other places and ends up there, so it makes swirly shapes. A branch from a pine tree is coming towards George fast and I yell at him to stay away. He looks around and holds on to a car. The branch hits the car and it makes a bang, but it floats away. George yells that he sees the bicycle and runs to it. I can’t see where he is going and I can’t see the bicycle. I wait at the corner and I am holding my dress up so it doesn’t get dirty. I call out to George but he doesn’t say anything. I yell louder but he still doesn’t hear me. I wait there because I don’t want to get my dress dirty. It’s new and I love it. I yell again and I step into the muddy water. My dress gets ruined. I am angry and am going to tell everything to mommy so she takes care of George when she comes. I hold on to a car and go where George saw his bicycle. It is a place from a condo that has cars below. There is a hole and the water is going inside very fast. George is at the hole and is pulling the green bicycle. The water is fast and he can’t pull the bicycle. He tells me to help him. I tell him no, he made me walk into the water and now my new dress is ruined. It is wet and muddy and I’ll never forgive him and I’ll tell mommy and he will never play videogames again. George is all wet and dirty, and his face is red. He is pulling on the bicycle. It gets unsnagged and George falls under it in the water. I yell at him from far away. He gets up from the water and carries the bicycle against the fast water. He puts his arm in the triangle under the seat and puts it on his back. He tells me that it’s OK and he can get it home. He slips and falls and the water pulls the bicycle into the hole. The bicycle gets stuck in the hole and his arm is pinned under the water. His face is red and brown and under the water. I scream and run to George and pull him up but he is stuck and the water is coming fast. A man hears me and comes towards me and tells me to get back but I pull George up but he is stuck. I pull and pull and I slip and I stand up over the water and I breathe. The man comes next to me and pulls George over the water. George turns blue. I love him but he is now blue.
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