The transit trap

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It went dark, everyone was in shock and still as a statue. I looked out the window, all I could see was the city lights and cars zipping down the road. No one knew what was happing, or when it would end and I knew no one was coming to help.

“My kid is still in there. I have to go back and get her,” screamed a lady. “Don’t worry mam I’ll get her,” I exclaimed. I raced back in there and was trying to find the little girl. There! Spotted her right under a seat. “Come on,” I told her. She scurried into my arms and I ran as fast as I could. I spotted the next sky train coming in. I just made it out of there before the next train came and crashed. Luckily know one was on the other sky train so no one got hurt. We all walked across the track until we got to the station. I got reception again and called 911. They came really fast and got the trains that crashed under control, everyone was thanking me and Jack for saving them. They all went home and so did I. I said good by to Jack though and he was not so miserable after all.

I came into the doors of my house and my mom rushed towards me. She gave me the biggest hug. “I saw you on the news! I was so scared and worried,” babbled my mom. Wait I was on the news? That’s weird. I didn’t even see any reporters there. “Mom can I see the video of me on the news?” I asked. Mom responded, “Of course.” It was me, and Jack! It was pretty cool to see me on the news. But it wasn’t just me and Jack who saved everyone it was a team effort and without any of these people we wouldn’t survived. I said good night to my mom and headed up to my room.

“What if we all grabbed onto the sides of the doors and try to pull it open” asked Jack. That could work actually. Jack informed everyone what we were doing and they were in. They all grabbed the sides and I grabbed on from the outside of the doors. I clenched my fingers and got ready to pull. Here we go… everyone on here was pushing tho doors apart. “We got this!” A man shouted. I think he was just trying to get some words of encouragement. I heard a little noise from the door. Almost like a mouse was squeaking, it was the door! It was moving.

“We’re almost there,” exclaimed Jack. We just need one more pull. I heard the noise and the sound of the door open. We did it! But there’s not time to celebrate, we still have to get all these people out. I looked at my watch again eight minutes to get everyone out of there. Why did the sky train have to have so many people today. I was telling everyone to get out and go on the little side walk we’re the trains don’t go. It was a stampede of people coming through the doors. Five minutes… everyone was off.

I was looking around at all the worried faces among me. I got up from my seat and was walking around, I pulled out my phone and turned on my flash light. I was trying to look at the end of the tunnel to see if anyone was there to help. No one in sight. Then I got shivers done my spine by remembering something. The next train will be coming in one hour. If we don’t get out of here then all these people and me are going to crash into the next up coming train. I got to get all these people out of here. I have to figure out a way to get these doors open first. I was looking around to see if there was anything I could use to open the doors. I need something thin that could fit through the little crack in the door. I asked a bunch of people but they didn’t want to help. It’s like they didn’t care.

Then a voice from behind me muttered,”I have this pocket knife in my bag that you could use.” It was a guy about my age, tall and dressed in black. He looked like he was going to rob a bank. I didn’t really trust him but I didn’t have any other option right now. “Oh, ok. I’ll try it,” I responded. I took the pocket knife and opened it up I tried the knife and put it through the door and tried to push it open. Didn’t work. I used the other tools. Didn’t work. “Let me trie,” advised that guy who was staring at me. He also tried to push it open, didn’t work. I thought those doors were going to fall apart in seconds, I was wrong. These doors are very sturdy. “So you have anything else in that bag of yours?” I asked. “I might,” he responded. Honestly he seemed like a stubborn awkward guy. I was going to ask his name but I didn’t want to bother him. He was a little creepy in my opinion, he seems like a guy who holds a big grudge about something.

43 minutes left till the next train comes…

“Hey, is that a vent?” asked a little girl? It was! Relief filled my body. I will have to ask a bunch of people to help me up because the vent was on the roof. I shouted in a loud voice, “listen, if we’re all going to get out of here on time we need to work as a team.” Everyone listened and a bunch of people volunteered to get me into the vent. I told them on my count, then lift.

They all lifted me up and I pushed through the vent. I crawled out and I could finally breathe fresh air again. I was on top of the sky train, I was scared of heights so this was very hard for me to do. I felt a little dizzy but I remembered that I am doing this for all the people down there. I looked at my watch… twenty four minutes left. I got this, I told myself. I slipped down the side of the train and landed on the tracks. I came to the door way of sky train and saw everyone in there. I realized I had no idea how to open the doors, I was just thinking about getting out of there. I told them I couldn’t open the doors, but then Jack had a idea. 

We have already waisted 17 minutes opening a door with a bunch of tools that didn’t work. We need a more effective way to get out of here. As long as we at least get out of the train we can survive. Maybe if there’s a vent I can crawl out and open the doors from the outside. I pitched the idea to the mystery guy “It’s worth a shot,” exclaimed the guy. Also he said his name was Jack so I finally know his name. Instead of calling him the mystery guy. I asked a few more of the citizens on the train to help me find a vent anywhere. We have looked every single inch of the sky train. Nothing anywhere.

I woke up blind. I couldn’t see, I touched my eye lids. They were stiff and I couldn’t open them. I walked to the bathroom and pressed a warm towel on my face to awaken me. I put on my makeup, got dressed and made myself some toast with strawberry marmalade. I left a note for my mom saying I was going to school. I go to a special arts school all the way in the city, downtown. So I have to take the sky train everyday. I road a bus to the train. My phone vibrated in my left pocket, it was my friends they asked, “where are you Ginny?” I told them I will be there soon, there very impatient people.

I got off the bus and waited for the sky train. Then I saw it flying right towards the station. It stoped and the doors opened wide. The doors were very rustic and there was spilt soda stains everywhere. I stepped on the train and looked for a seat and sat down. I was doing my homework and so close to my stop when we went through a tunnel. It was very dark, they had lights on the sky train though. But the lights were very dim like out of a horror movie. I could see a little fly buzzing around in them. We were almost out of the tunnel, when I had heard blissful screeching on the tracks and we weren’t moving. A older man called out, “did we stop?” “We’re not at our stop though. We’re still in the tunnel,” replied a business woman. I was very confused and so were the others on the sky train. How could we just have stoped?

The next day I did my usually routine in the morning and left to go to the sky train. But with my friends this time.

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