Chapter 2: A Storm That Will Not Be Forgotten
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That same night, the storm reached the town of Ignacia, by the lake a house was located there, and in one of those houses was the residence of the Smith family, which was registered in their mailbox. Inside the house, in one of the rooms was the 18-year-old named Kai Smith, who was investigating some things at school on his computer. It was summer, but they were just days away from going back to high school. As a teenager, he found himself listening to the music of his favorite band from his tape recorder. His hair was brown and combed in the form of tousled spikes combed up and to the side, for now he had on his pajamas, which consisted of black cloth pants and his red short sleeve shirt.
But outside his house the storm caused a tree to fall on the light pole that gave power to all the houses causing a huge blackout over the entire area making the whole place go dark. Including the Smith house.
As soon as the blackout hit his house, Kai was suddenly completely dark inside his room, causing him to let out a disappointing snort.
- Dad! - Mom! - Children's screams were heard throughout the house.
Those screams belonged to Kai's two younger brothers, and he knew it very well. Their names were Nya and Lloyd.
Nya was the middle one, she's 8 years old, and Lloyd was the youngest of the three, she's 6 years old.
Thanks to the dim lighting of the bolts and lightning, Kai was able to see his room a little better in the darkness. He got up and searched his drawers for a flashlight, which he found immediately, when he turned it on he left his room in search of his family.
- Mom? Pope? - Calls when leaving his room with the flashlight in hand while walking the corridors of his house.
- We're here, honey - answered her mother's voice, called Maya from the living room.
He went down the stairs and saw his parents hugging his two younger brothers. Ray, her father held Nya, while her father held Lloyd.
- Kai, could you take some pillows and blankets from the room, please? - asked his father as he took another flashlight from the room.
- Yes, of course - he said and then went back up the stairs.
Thunder was heard throughout the sky, while from the windows Maya saw how several lightning bolts fell from the sky falling from the mountain.
- God, what a storm - Maya exclaims when she sees the storm from the mountain.
- Yes, it's very strange. Let's go to the basement soon, we'll be safe there - Ray said as he went to the basement.
Ray and Maya Smith are good parents, but the strange thing about their children is that Kai and Lloyd were born with different hair, Kai with brown hair and Lloyd with blonde hair. Ray and Maya have black hair, and the only one who inherited it was Nya, and her style is a short Bob cut to the neck, Maya had it lake until it reached her back and shoulders, Ray almost had the same style of her Son Kai, only little spikes up, and Lloyd had it short.
After that the family under the basement, they all stayed overnight sleeping in the basement while the storm still continued.
As soon as the family took refuge in the basement, they did not think that from outside their house a huge tree flew off and crashed into the Smith house causing a huge hole in one of Ray's work studios.
The next day, the storm had finally left, leaving an almost clear day, as there were still clouds left behind by the storm.
Kai and his family emerged from the basement and gazed at all the mess the storm had left. Trees, debris, and lots of trash were everywhere. The family was surprised to see all the mess outside their home.
- Whoa! - Lloyd exclaimed as he started to run outside his house.
- Lloyd, take it easy. I don't want you to run with all this mess - Maya replied as she walked beside her husband.
- Mother Nature itself was not friendly last night - said Kai to the see the whole place almost made a mess.
- Mmm-hmm - affirms Ray when seeing the damage in his house - It was fortunate that it did not destroy most of the house -
- Ray, without light the food can spoil - Maya said as she saw the damage.
- Well, make a list for Kai to go to the warehouse later. Okay, Kai? - He asked as he turned to see his son.
- If you're not careful, I'll take care of it -
- Papa! Mom! You have to see this! - scream Nya while running toward them.
- Nya, dear, beware - Maya said.
- What's up, love? - Ray asked.
- It's the lake house, it's a mess - he said, pointing to the place with his finger.
- What? - Ray exclaimed somewhat impressed - Are you serious? - about it all began to go towards the house of the lake, which saw was totally destroyed and ap the Tada by another tree - Oh rays! - He exclaims as he puts his hands behind his head.
- Well - Maya begins - This is a disaster -
- And I had just repaired it a week ago -
- Well, dad. You'll have to make the list longer for me now - Kai mentioned as he looked at the destroyed houseboat.
- Do you think it can be fixed, daddy? - Lloyd asks looking at his father.
- I hope so, champion -
- Dad, what is that coming out of the mountain? - Nya pointed towards what seemed to be a dense fog coming down from the mountain.
- It's fog - he affirms to his daughter.
- At the lake? - Kai questioned.
- We have already had this type of fog -
- But not like that, it's something strange - Maya argued now.
- Must be the debris from the storm. It was so strong that maybe it made it look like this -
- Do you think? -
- Maybe. Kai go get ready, I'll give you the list of what I'm going to ask you right away -
- Daddy, can I go with Kai to town? - Lloyd asked his father.
- Can I go too? - Now asked Nya.
- Amm, I don't know, what are you saying, dear? - Maya asked Ray.
- Sure, can you do it, son? -
- Yes, of course. Only if they rush to change. Let's see who's more... quick! - He said as he ran back into the house.
After a few minutes, Kai and his brothers went downstairs already changed their clothes into a more normal one. Kai was wearing dark red pants and jeans with soft, a white shirt and a red hoodie, (which was his favorite). Nya also had on her pants, white tennis shoes with some blue, and a navy blue shirt. Lloyd was almost the same as his brother, only his jeans were dark green, his pants were black, he had a dark green shirt and his normal green hooded sweater.
The two children came running down the stairs almost at the same time.
- I beat you! - announces Lloyd.
- Of course not! - Nya asks him.
- Yes! -
- No! -
- Yes! -
- Honey, look at this is the list and the money, here - says Maya as she approached Kai to give him the list and the money to buy everything he needed while he took the money and kept it along with his phone in his pocket his pants.
- Wow, this will take a long time -
- Also go to the hardware store with Mr. Gordon and tell him to come here to our house, yes? -
- Yes, I will, ma -
- With care, yes? I love you - she said affectionately as she gave each of her children a kiss on the cheek.
- Goodbye, mom - Nya says goodbye.
- Bye, mommy! - Lloyd also said goodbye as he ran out of the house.
When they left the house, they saw their father already with some tools to cut parts of the tree that was crashed in his house.
- We're leaving now, dad! - Kai announced to his father as they headed to the truck.
- Be careful children! - He said while saying goodbye to them.
Before getting in the car, his neighbor, Mr. Wu, from the house next door, approached Kai.
- How are you, Kai? - Greetings friendly. He was a man almost as the age of his father (probably a few years more young maybe), had blond hair cut something, and was wearing a dark yellow coat and a white shirt, also he had a pair of gray pants and black boots.
- Hello, Mr. Wu -
- Hello, Mr. Wu! - Lloyd greeted while Nya only waved him with a smile.
- How are you kids - I greet while showing the children a smile - Whoa - I exclaim when I see the crashed tree in the Smith house - I guess the storm was not very kind to your house last night -
- No, it wasn't. Now we will have to remodel -
- No one was hurt? - I ask something worried.
- Luckily not, we took refuge in the basement -
- Good to know. Hey, umm...are you by any chance going to town today? -
- Yes, indeed -
- Well I wanted to see if you could take me there. Is that a tree fell on top of my car -
- Seriously? - Kai exclaims, very surprised.
- Yes, I know. That is why I wanted to go so I could get help. And apart also to be able to meet my brother and my sister-in-law in the warehouse -
- I understand. Go ahead, enter -
After all go up to the truck, Kai drove down the road carrying more quickly towards the village of Ignacia.
- There is no signal - said Mr. Wu, checking the signal on his phone.
- That will be a problem - Kai says without taking his eyes off the road.
- Well, at least the road was not affected by the storm -
In that they could see how several trucks from the energy department passed by their side heading the opposite way.
- The ones from the energy department, I hope they fix the problem soon - Kai says as he sees the energy trucks passing by on the other side of the road.
- I hope so too. It seems that this storm problem will not be forgotten -
- Safe and go down in history -
But just at that moment, several trucks full of soldiers and soldiers also passed him and almost armed to the teeth, but they seemed to be in a great hurry as they were going very fast.
- Wow - Lloyd exclaims, very impressed to see the soldiers go by.
- I'm not surprised - replied Wu - I have heard some officials talk about a new project -
- Seriously? - Kai scoffs.
- What project, Mr. Wu? - Nya asked, clearly she was listening to their conversation.
- One called ... "Project X", I think -
- Project X? What, like "Planet X" or something like that? -
- I don't know, those things don't interest me. I am surprised that many military personnel have arrived this year for our military camp -
- Surely something happened there, that's why many soldiers go, surely the storm destroyed something there -
- Maybe -
The rest of the road was quiet, but sometimes they saw another truck passing by with soldiers inside.
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