A Breath Away

Anything could happen in a snap of a finger. Everything can just disappear in a beat. That is what I believe since the 19th of the month when everything seems to be so usual, at first. Well, it was just at first.

Well, it was a quiet night. My brothers and Mom were on bed. They were about to sleep as I stay up doing my school work. I was enjoying the night back then when all of a sudden, the lights turned off. All the power shuts down leaving the laptop on (it has batteries) and I said to myself, "Oh, no! I'm not yet done with my assignments! Why does it have to be brown out?!?" After a few seconds, I heard a sound from the window beside me. It sounds like something was exploding. I looked at it and saw sparks. It was the post near our house. It was like fireworks beside me trying to get nearer. My mother comes out her room and woke my brothers. She was panicking in the darkness as she shouts "Faster, faster! Let's go out the house!" And so, we ran down and go a few meters away while my heart beats so fast and pounding so hard that I cannot chase it anymore. On the way was our neighbors disturbed as well by what happened. They were saying that one house in our place had so much use of their electricity for their business that the post overloaded.

I glanced again at the post and cut wires and it was burning. I was so scared! My mom got the car and let us stay there. After that, she called Dad and called for Meralco. A few minutes later, a police car came. I don't know. Later on, everyone in the neighborhood come back to their houses and us as well. They lie down the bed and continued to sleep while me trying to finish my work with a flashlight with me. Well, I finished it that easy but to sleep was hard. All the sparking was still in my mind and my heart does not stop beating so fast. I tried to lie down the sofa waiting for me to sleep as I say " it's alright, it's alright."

I looked at the window again and saw a vehicle with stairs on it. It was the Meralco! At last, they were trying to fix the post. And then, I don't know how but I slept.

The morning I woke up, I was still sleepy from last night. But then, I was so happy and so thankful that in a breath away, everything was back to normal. We have our electricity back and no one got hurt.