A Place in the Sun

Chapter 14

What seems like for-ever later, the room is finally quiet. I lift my hands from my head and look around. White dust covers everything. There’s rubble everywhere. It’s like a volcano’s erupted. Marco is sitting in the kitchen, his dark curly hair covered with white dust.

‘What the hell happened?’ I rasp. Then, as the dust settles, the storm inside me begins to rage. ‘Marco! What the hell is going on?’

But he doesn’t answer.