Beyond The Story

Click! Click! I lock my car ready for another boring day at work and catch the elevator up to floor 95. I email my clients and then. I hear this roar of a jumbo jet. I hear a huge smashing coming towards me. I see the nose of a huge plane charging at me. Everyone is screaming. I fall through the floor and land on the floor below. The room is starting to catch fire so I decide to go to the stairs but the door is locked. I punch it open with my bare fists. I race down the stairwell and find a gaping hole in the floor. I jump as far as I can and grab onto the floor. I just make it and struggle up to my feet.

I look out the window and see a another plane accelerating towards the South Tower. SMASH! Some debris breaks through the window and just misses my head. I keep running down the stairs to find a raging fire burning at the floor beneath me. I see a couple of burnt bodies on the ground and don’t know what to do. This is really bad! Smoke on top of me; fire beneath me. What should I do? I decide to just wait there. I slowly fall asleep.

I awaken to the crackling of fire. Ohh! I decide to climb out of the building and cling on to the window for my life. I climb down and look at all the destruction below me. Hmm... I need to get down safely. I look above me and see dozens of people jumping off the building, one almost knocks me down. I guess I would rather jump and die instantly then get burnt or die of suffocation. I continue climbing down the building carefully. Then I hear a firefighter yelling through a speaker saying, “Be careful don’t fall.”

“Ok!!” I yell back.  I'm not giving up yet but my feet start slipping and I FALL!!! I grab onto the ledge of the window. That was a close one. Another wave of jumpers come by, this time none came close. I'm about halfway down now and I can see lots of black dots on the ground. Some aren't moving; I guess they are dead. My feet are getting really tired now and I'm starting to think about jumping. Just as I think that I see a jumper land on a firefighter and they both die.

I break through the window I am clinging onto and jump in and see live people panicking. They are screaming. I should be too.  Some of them jump! I look at the door to the stairwell and its locked. I smash it open to find another roaring fire beneath me. I’m not going that way for sure. Now theres only one choice. I fly like I've never flown before. The wind makes me feel the best I’ve felt in years. This is the end.