There was a storm with winds of 50 mph. When I went out to pick up Harriet, three trucks were removing the remains of a tree that had fallen. I was surprised at how quickly they were getting to it, until I was told that when it fell, it fell onto the power lines- not knocking them down, but weighing them down as it hung there- so the electric company had made it a priority removal.
Some large branches were lying against Harriet’s roof, but her home was basically unscathed, as was mine. Since the tornado sirens had gone off twice, this morning, I figured we were very lucky.
At the high school, when the tornado alert went off and the sirens stayed on a while, the students were all crowded into the lower level hallways, away from any place that had windows. Sarah looked hard to find a place, and ended up sitting next to the soda machine, which vibrated against her, the entire time.
Across from her sat a boy she had never seen before and he looked at her and signed, “I…” In a moment of telepathic clarity, Sarah knew what he was going to say.
And then the lights went off.
A few minutes later, the lights came back on and this unknown boy again started to sign to her, and in the strange way that disasters make people grow closer, this boy suddenly decided to declare his love for her.
He signed, roughly, “I love (heart) you” with what may or may not have been great sincerity.
Sarah was able to control herself and not flee back to an area with windows by reminding herself that these were probably three of the only 4 signs he knew, the other one being “Bye-bye”.
I just want to know how she knew what he was going to say……
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HAHHAHAHAHA!
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