THE RISING
Chapter 1: The Awakening
Mathew’s heavy eyelids opened, his limp arms stretched and he got out of bed to look out of his window. A short,sudden, gasp of air left his rosy red lips. Everything he knew and loved was gone,gone under 20 feet of inky black water. The pub, gone, his beloved garden, gone,his Mercedes, gone. In a state of panic Mathew rushed back to bed to awake his slumbering husband,
“THOMAS! WAKE UP!”, Thomas rolled out of bed, slipped on his slippers,took a sip of water,smacked his lips then said drowsily,
“Why the rush babe?”
“For crying out loud! There's been a flood and we ‘ave to evacuate now!”
Mathew announced this with a sort of gusto, holding his hands on his hips.
After Thomas got to terms with their perilous situation the couple forced open their heavy, mahogany door to a world of unruly chaos:
women chucking children down the stairwell, men barging past each other and children laying on the floor bawling for their parents,
“Holy mother of god…” was heard coming from Thomas’ in whispered tones. As Thomas picked up his husband a man jumped over the railings trying to escape the madness, realising this opportunity at Floor 3 Thomas dragged his husband to the edge,
“Jump.”
“What?”
“JUMP!”, and saying that Thomas dragged Mathew over the edge saving both of them from being drowned, mere seconds after a wave of icy cold water swept down the stairs killing everyone,instantly.
As they splashed into the freezing water both mens legs began paddling desperately and their breath became faster as they wondered if they would survive the icy water,
“T-T-T-Thomas we’ve got to reach high ground to stay warm”
“Y-Y-Y-Yeah Mathew, lets go to the abandoned bus garage.”
“G-G-Good call”,and with that, without words, they started the long and treacherous journey towards Colliers Wood bus garage leaving their home, The Phipps Bridge Estate.
Arriving at the garage, the two men saw a fin,
A moving fin,a sharks moving fin,
“Shark! Twelve o’clock!”, Thomas drew his gun, checked his aim then… BAM, he stopped the shark dead in its tracks. It turned belly up, let out a moan then… BAM another shot, but by who? It was MAthew. Mathew was sitting on the garage roof with a sniper on his shoulder, breathing steadily,
“I-I-I-I killed that shark.” Mathew whispered as he broke down into floods of uncontrollable tears,
“Its ok Mathew,you had to do it. For our survival.”Thomas told Mathew all the while assuring him that it was ok.
Once Mathew hauled up Thomas both men re gained their breath and collapsed,collapsed onto the soggy,mossy roof of the garage, crying,crying about how they lost all of their possesenions: their high heels,Mathew’s purple sequin dress and Thomas’ make up drawer, all things that affected their jobs.
Chapter 2: My Dream
12th April 2017
Dear Diary,
Its my 18th Birthday! My parents asked me what i wanna do with my life. ME AN 18 YEAR OLD! About that, today the school counselloer was saying cause of my low grades the only only job i can doo is an office worker but leaving the room i saw another boy enter, Mathew, he was so perfect and i felt, attracted to him! It was then I realised… im gay.
I loved Mathew, I followed him everywhere! I booked the same classes as him,ate next to him,walked next to him and finally… kissed him. I kissed him in the stairwell, he looked a bit dazed then after a few seconds of anxious silence returned the kiss.
Soon it was time too go home so we joined hands and started walkin down them road when the head of the gay-straight alliance walked up and tried to interview us,
“How does it feel being gay? Are you worried about bullying? Is this official?” were bombs in the raid of questions blurted out by his entourage of people all wanting too know things about us,it was like we were freaks, they had no respect for us, so…
Mathew turned round, stared at one guy,swung his body round, then, THWACK! He really socked him, leaving him a bleeding clump on the floor.