AND NOT TO COMPLAIN WHEN SOMEONE GIVES YOU A JOB TO DO!” CLAE SHOUTED.HER
         
         HEARTBEAT WILDLY.A COLD BREEZE SWEPT ONTO THE BEACH AND SHE SHIVERED IN
         
         SPITE OF HER SWEATER.THINKING ABOUT CLOTHES,CLAE GLANCED ACROSS THE
         
         SEA OF FACES AND BODIES THAT LOOKED AT HER.MOST HAD ON JEANS AND T-SHIRTS.
         
         SOME HAD ON SHORTS,SOME HAD ON THEIR CHOIR SUITS.CLAE LOOKED AT TRACI.
         
         SHE WOULD LIVE.TRACI’S LONG AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR SWEPT OUT BEHIND HER AND SHE
         
         LOOKED AT CLAE.SHE HAD ON WHAT CLAE DID.A SIMPLE TANKTOP UNDER A SWEATER
         
         WITH TIGHT JEANS ON.BUT CLAE HAD RIPPED HER JEANS WHEN SHE HAD GOT THEM,SO
         
         NOW THEY WERE SO RIPPED THEY WERE MID-THIGH SHORTS WITH STRIPS OF JEANS
         
         HANGING DOWN.
         
           OH STOP BEING SO CONSCIOUS.NOBODY HERE CARES.LAURI CARED THOUGH.SHE

         SHOOK THE WATER OUT OF HER RED MANE AND HER CAT-GREEN EYES FLASHED.
         
           “SERIOUSLY CLAE,YOU DON’T REALLY EXPECT ALL OF US TO WORK?” SHE QUESTIONED

         ANGRILY.CLAE LOOKED AT HER DISBELIEVINGLY.
         
           “LAUREN MARIE SANDERS!” CLAE SNAPPED VEHEMENTLY.LAURI LOOKED TAKEN ABACK.
         
         “EVERYONE IS EXPECTED TO WORK! THERE ARE SHELTERS TO BE MADE,FISH TO BE
         
         CAUGHT,WATER TO BE FOUND!” TRACI STOOD UP AND MADE HER WAY OVER TO HER
         
         BEST FREIND.SHE CARRIED THE LITTLE BOY.DRAKE LOOKED AT THE LITTLE BOY
         
         AND SUDDENLY HIS EYES WHIPPED ACROSS THE FACES.
         
           “I DON’T SEE TOOD!” HE SCREAMED.CLAE JUMPED.DRAKE RAN THROUGH THE CROWD.

         “TODDDDDDD?!” HE SCREAMED.TRACI LOOKED AT CLAE AND RAISED HER EYEBROW.

                  
           “IT’S HIS LITTLE BROTHER.” CLAE SAID.SUDDENLY A SMALL FACE APPEARED

         BEHIND CLAE.
         
           “DRAKE?” TODD CALLED.DRAKE RUSHED OVER AND PICKED THE TEN YEAR OLD UP.