Thursday, April 19, 2012

More from Calbert the Cowboy - Facing the Bully

      The room shook with the sound of an explosion. “Wow, did you feel that?”

     “Yes, and I heard it too,” Ernie replied. He was speaking faster than before.

“What is happening?”

     “I don’t know!” I answered.

     “We better forget the box of props and get out of here,” Ernie suggested. But

when Ernie grabs the doorknob, it came off in his hand.


     “What are we going to do?” I shout. No answer came from Ernie.

     “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS?” Ernie and I screamed at the same

time.


     “I can’t see a thing. I think things are getting bad out there!”

     Ernie shouts back, “Me too!”

     “The lights keep flickering off and on. We have to get out of here and fast.”


      “My heart is beating so hard. I think my heart might pop out of my chest,” I add.

      
      At that moment, a blasting, ear-piercing sound starts ringing through the air. It

feels that my ears are bleeding, and even covering them doesn’t seem to help. I look at

Ernie, and he is trying to plug his ears too. I yell, “What is that?” Ernie cannot hear me

over the loud ringing.

            I look at Ernie again between flashes of lights, and I see that his face is red but

not the mad kind of red. He looks like he is going to cry. “Come on, we have to think

now,” I yell as I shake Ernie by the shoulders.

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