The blast surprises all of us at work and many on break. We have five seconds to acknowledge the attack before the warehouse is filled completely with smoke.
The smell of burning flesh engulfs my senses and clogs my nose. I put a cloth to my mouth to be able to breath. My eyes sting and begin to water. I hear the dying moaning of pain and screaming for the loved ones they will never see again. The explosion happened not a minute ago and hundreds of bodies are already strewn around.
I make a attempt to close my eyes to prevent images being imprinted with my mind but I find I can not. Pain shoots through my arm at the speed of light. I search frantically for a water source to cleanse my arm. I see a water fountain twenty feet away. I slowly move my legs to test for injury. Other than a few cuts and bruises, I seem to have missed injuries to me legs. I walk over to the fountain and wash my wound. It isn't to deep; I won't need stitches but my arm will take a considerable amount of healing time. I tear off part of my shirt and use it to bind my arm.
I stand up slowly trying to keep what little food I have eaten down. My long blond hair is scorched at the tips and is stained with blood. It's been about three minutes since the blast. Out of the hundreds that were working, about fifty are still surviving. And even those numbers will decrease sufficiently very quickly.
I see my parents bodies, even after death they still cling to each other in hope to become one in the after life. I suddenly remember Annabelle, my eleven-year old sister. My heart beats like an untamed drum.
"Annabelle!" I scream. I bellow out her name over and over again.
My friend Melinda Comes up to me. She looks fairly healthy with hardly any wounds. Her eyes tell a different story. Their filled with sorrow and pain. I follow her and find Annabelle gently rocking Terry, Melinda's little sister and Anna's best friend. Hardly a minutes passes before Terry's soul leaves her. Her sister dies soon after.
I take a grief stricken Annabelle and walk out the door. In the hopes our life begins to look up.
