TRACI HEAVED AND COUGHED,THE LIGHTENING BRIGHTENING THE SKY,THE RAIN
         
         POUNDING ON HER BACK.CLAE WAS HITTING HER HARD ON THE BACK AND TRACT
         
         WANTED TO TELL HER FRIEND WHERE TO GO.MOST KIDS WERE IN THE SHELTERS,
         
         NOT WILLING TO BRAVE THE WIND AND RAIN.CLAE LOOKED IN TRACT’S FACE
         
         AND TRACI NOTICED THE TEARS.CLAE HAD BEEN CRYING.TRACI FELT SOALONE
         
         AND SO TIRED RIGHT THEN,SHE FELT NOTHING BUT PITY FOR HER FRIEND.SHE
         
         HAD BEEN TOSSED ABOUT IN AN ANGERED OCEAN FOR NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES.
         
         AND TO THINK THAT WAS HOW CLAE ALWAYS FELT.EDDIE KNELT BESIDE HER
         
         AND OFFERED HER SOME FRESH WATER.SHE SHOOK HER HEAD AND SAT BACK ON
         
         HER HEELS.DRAKE CAME UP TO HER.THE LIGHTENING FLASHED BEHIND HIM AND
         
         HIS FURY WAS EVIDENT.
         
           “WHAT WERE YOU DOING?” HE SCREECHED.TRACI WIPED HER MOUTH.

           “ZACHERY. .2’ SHE CHOKED.DRAKE LOOKED AT HER.
         
            “YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO SWIM OUT THERE!” HE SHOUTED.CLAE DIDN’T MEET

         HIS EYES.
         
            “B—BACK OFF.” TRACT RETORTED WEAKLY.
         
         “YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ONE OF THE MEN GO?” HE SCREECHED.CLAE LOOKED

         UP TO HIM,AND DRAKE’S HEART HARDENED.HER VIOLET EYES FLASHED.
         
           “MEN?!” TRACI CHOKED.SHE FOUGHT TO STAND UP. “ALL I SEE ARE HEAD-
         STRONG AND IMMATURE BOYS!” TRACT LEANED ON CLAE FOR SUPPORT.DRAKE
         LOOKED AT TRACT AND STALKED AWAY.THEY WOBBLED INTO THE SHELTER.
         
         
         
         
         
            MORNING ARRIVED,BRIGHT AND CLOUD—LESS,IT WAS HARD TO BELIVE SUCH


         





         ASTORM HAD HAPPENED.BUT AS THEY ALL GATHERED ONTO THE BEACH,THERE
         
         
         WERE SOME MISSING.THREE TO BE EXACT.ZACH,TO]JT) AND LAURI.DRAKE WENT