(Just a reminder, when I switch character POVs, all but Sam's will be in 1st person)

I held on to the table and waited for the earthquake to stop. I started counting the seconds. Just as I lost track, everything stopped shaking. I saw some people crying. As last time, nobody seen had died. What was happening here? I knew I had to talk to somebody, and the most informed person I could think of was Sam. I walked out into the hall to find her, and I ran into Aaron. "Hey Esmeralda. You okay?" he asked me. "I'm fine," I said shortly. "Where are you going?" he asked. If he knew I was going to talk to Sam... "Uh.. the library. I need to find some more information on these earthquakes," I said.

And that's where I went instead. I texted Sam to meet me here. She came and sat in one of the chairs next to me. "What did you want to talk to me about?" she asked. "I was wondering if you knew anything about these earthquakes," I said nervously. And then

I saw the nasty side of her.

"How am I supposed to know? Is it because I'm from Jupiter? Is it because you know this is what happened? How do you know it wasn't a coincidence?" she whisper-yelled, trying to keep her voice quiet, as we were in a library. "Well, I-uh, it's just- uh, kinda? I just wanted to know more about this..." I said sheepishly. "You want to know what I know? Fine. I know that you're trying to be nosy and poke around in stuff that most likely has nothing to do with you. And I know that if you don't want to get yourself in trouble, then next time you'll mind your own stinkin' business," she growled. She left me alone in the library.

The Next Day

I walked down to a store to buy some candy. I had checked out books about other planets. Sam may have been rude, but she gave me some information. She told me that the same thing had happened to Jupiter, and that the same thing might be happening to Earth. As I walked out, I got a call. "Hello?"

"Hi, Esmeralda..."

"Oh! Hi, Thomas."

"Uh, are you okay from that earthquake yesterday?"

"Yeah. I'm fine."

"Okay."

"Thomas?"

"Yes?"

"Is there anything that's been upsetting Sam lately?"

"Well I read that people from Jupiter can randomly get heated. But it never happens to Sam, or at least,not that I know of..."

"Hm. Okay."

"WAIT! Esmeralda..."

"Yeah?"

"Um, you know what, never mind!"

"Uh.... okay? I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah, you too. Bye."

(third person for a paragraph) Esmeralda hung up the phone. She liked Thomas, but whenever he talked to her, he could never speak clearly. She began humming "La Da Dee".  She needed to know what was going on with these earthquakes. She needed help from Sam and Thomas. Aaron didn't like talking about natural disasters, Rae never talked to Esmeralda unless it was to get her hair our of her eyes, and she didn't have any other friends.

(back to 1st person)I sighed. Thomas can't talk to me without having a verbal seizure, and Sam started hissing the moment i brought up that subject. How the heck am I going to get help like this?