I was finishing my shift at the hospital, and my Mom called and asked me to pick up milk on my way home. When I asked her if she wanted me to get dinner, she chuckled and asked, "Would you mind?"
I told her to go lie down after she placed the kids in front of the TV on the bed with her and rest. She said, "Thank you."
When I got into my car, I drove to the market and went inside. I loaded the cart with groceries and picked up frozen pizza for the kids to eat. They loved frozen pizza, and it would make them very happy. When I checked out, I headed to the car and popped the trunk on my car. I dropped my keys inside the car, and they bounced to the back of the trunk. I said, "Shit."
Leaning into the back of my car, I grabbed the keys, and when I stood back up, almost everyone was frozen in place. I saw everyone still and loaded everything up, driving home. There were cars crashed on the side of the road. People were frozen on the sidewalk. When I pulled up to my house, I opened and closed the garage door. I heard a loud pop and saw a flash of light under the garage door. I heard a thump upstairs and grabbed a blanket to block the window's light in case the flashes of light were what was freezing people.
When I came into the house, I kept the blanket over my head, and I started to shut the curtains in the house. Once I got all of the curtains hut I went into the downstairs linen closet and grabbed blankets to cover the windows with. I used small nails to get the blankets in place and went downstairs to the basement and my apartment to cover the windows there. After I covered the windows on the basement I went up to the second floor.
Climbing the stairs with a blanket over my head I Started covering the windows and went to open my mom's bedroom door. I opened it slowly and saw Mom and two of my siblings on the bed frozen. I said, "No."
I ran to cover the windows, and I heard, "Maddie, the light froze Mama, Sam, and Clara."
I realized that the sound was coming from the closet, and I when I opened the door, my sisters, June and Molly, were curled up inside with a blanket. I hugged them both and said, "Come here, guys, we are going to let them sleep."
Taking them out of the closet, I said, "We are going to stay in the basement in my apartment. Let me check your room and cover the windows so we can get your things."
I covered my head and went into the room. After I covered the windows, the girls came in and filled laundry baskets with their things. When I got them settled in my apartment I grabbed all the groceries bringing them down to my apartment.
Maddie- Main June, Molly
Mom, Sam, Clara
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