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Amara’s Pages (continued) Amara’s Pages (continued)

The Lighthouse Keeper (cont.) The Lighthouse Keeper (cont.)

CHAPTER 2: REGRET fear in his voice. Everyone around me started to scream and run, CHAPTER 3: RESCUED I tried to open the door, but it wouldn’t move. “Oh my gosh, oh my,
and I did the same. I ran up the stairs to the top floor. When I got oh no.” I tried opening it again and it still wouldn’t move. I don’t
there, the same man whose voice had appeared on the speaker said
I started to cry, and I felt my stomach drop. I came on the ship with- that there were only three lifeboats, and each one could only hold “Hello? “Are you okay?” I open my eyes to see a man standing over want to be stuck in here all night. Then all of a sudden the door
out anything, only my wallet, which now only had $5 left! I had no 10 people. And there are about 700 people on this ship! “Where are top of me. “Ahh, where am I?” “You were on the beach laying there, knob turned and the door swung open. “Oh thank you,” I said. The
extra clothes and I don’t even think $5 would get me any food at all the lifeboats then?” said a woman with a baby. “Um,” said the man, so I brought you here,” said the man. Now I could clearly see his man who saved me from the shore was standing there. “You’re wel-
on this expensive ship! “I’m going to starve to death! I have to get off “they’re all gone. People are already in them.” I felt my heart drop. I face, and all my memories were coming back into place. “Ahhhhh, come,” he said. “I thought I would come check on you because that
this ship!” I ran to my window, but we had already left the harbour. I ran to the edge of the boat and looked over, and sure enough there I wa…was on a…a sh…ship and it sa…sa…sa…sank!” The words door gets stuck sometimes.” He looked even more sick than before.
lay in my bed and I could not stop crying. I woke the next morning were the three lifeboats. I heard everyone around me screaming barely came out of my mouth. The man put his face in his hands.
and my stomach was growling. I tried to ignore it, but it was no use. even louder than before. I didn’t know what to do, so I decided to “It’s all my fault,” he said. “The ship sank because I forgot to attend We walked back to the cabin, when we got inside the man collapsed
I decided to look around the ship. Maybe there would be some taste jump off the ship. to the lighthouse. It must have hit one of those big rocks and sank on to the couch. “Where can I sleep?” He stood up. “You can sleep
testers or, if I’m lucky, food for $5. I went down the staircase and because I had no light to guide it. It’s all my fault!” here, and I’ll sleep in my room. Oh and you’ll have to go attend to
turned left to the buffet. There was a lady at the stand outside the “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” I screamed. Splash, I hit the water. “Ahhhhh, ah- the lighthouse every 3 hours.” He walked into his room and left me
buffet. “Um, how much for admission for the buffet?” I asked her. hhhh, ahhhhh.” The ice cold water felt like a knife, my whole body I looked up at the man. He was very ill. “Why are you so sick?” I standing there. I didn’t sleep at all that night because I had to go up
“Oh ha ha, it’s free. Everything on this ship is free, it’s all inclusive.” felt like it was burning. I thought that my only chance of surviving asked him. “Well that’s one reason why I couldn’t go to the light- to the lighthouse every 3 hours. I slept until 10:00 the next morning
“Oh, I had no idea,” I told her, “thank you.” Oh my gosh I should was swimming to shore. It was about a hundred meters away and I house, and shine the light for the boat!” He started to cry. “I will and had made breakfast and now it was 1:00 and the man was still
have gone down and tried to get food yesterday I thought, it was all swam as fast as I could. I couldn’t feel my toes or fingers anymore. help,” I said. “Wait, that job is too hard!” But what he said was no sleeping, so I decided to go wake him up. I walked into his room
inclusive! The lady seated me at a table. I grabbed my plate and hur- All of a sudden, it started to rain. I was halfway across and I looked use, because I had already gone outside. I ran to the lighthouse, my and sat down by his bed. “Wakey wakey!” I said. I shook him, but
ried off to get some food. There was a line for pancakes and waffles a behind me. The boat was straight up in the air, with people on top clothes were still wet and I had no shoes on. I opened the door to he didn’t move. “Time to wake up,” I said. I shook him again but he
man was making. I went back to my table and ate them. screaming! The windows that were still above the surface were all the lighthouse and climbed up the spiral stairs to the top. “How am didn’t move. “WAKE UP,” I yelled. I kept shaking him but he still

The rest of the day went by fine. For lunch I had some sushi and I shattered and water was pouring out of them and people were jump- I supposed to do this?” I asked myself. I walked over to the light. It didn’t move. I slapped him against the face. Still he didn’t move. I
was sitting in some sort of liquid. I looked around and there was a
ing off the ship just like I had. Then, just like that, the boat was un-
enjoyed all the fun there was, but then at night, before dinner, things der water, and the current was so strong people were getting pulled rope. “I wonder if I’m supposed to pull that,” I thought. I went to the put my hand on his chest, but he wasn’t breathing.
started to all go wrong! I was walking to Ribs and More, that’s where under water. Then it all went quiet. I looked around, but no one rope. “I guess I’ll just pull it,” I thought. I pulled down on the rope,
I was going to have dinner. It was really late at night, and the sky was there. I knew what had happened and I didn’t want to believe but it didn’t budge. I tried it again and then it started to move. I kept
was pitch black. “Beep, beep, beep, beep.” The alarm started to go it. “Uhhhhh,” I cried. The pain from the ice cold water was getting pulling on the rope until I couldn’t do it anymore. “Okay,” I said, “I To be continued……..
off. A man’s voice appeared on the speakers, “Everyone report to the worse, but I was almost there. “Just a little longer,” I told myself, hope that’s what I was supposed to do.”
top of the ship. This is an order. The boat is sinking…I repeat, the “just a little longer.” Soon, I was a meter away, I walked up onto the
boat is sinking!” You could tell this wasn’t a joke because there was beach and fell over onto my back and closed my eyes. I climbed back down the spiral staircase all the way to the bottom.

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