Maribel Versus the Volcano by Sarah Hannah Gómez

Author:Sarah Hannah Gómez [Gomez, Sarah Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Capstone; Stone Arch Books; Girls Survive; Sarah Hanna Gomez; Mount St. Helens; Action & Adventure/Survival Stories; Historical Fiction; 9781496596925; 9781496599124; 9781496597632
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2020-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Isn’t there anyone else out here? I thought, looking around. Someone who went to take a look at the mountain? Someone who might have a car? Someone who might help me?

I coughed and coughed as I walked. The bandana over my mouth was still there, but it felt heavy, like it was weighing me down. I lifted up the flap at my chin to check the air. My lips were immediately coated with dust.

However uncomfortable the bandana was, it would be worse without it. I did my best to shake it out without untying it.

I just wished I was safe in bed at the Johnsons’ house. I wished I had never woken up early. I wished I hadn’t stolen Marcus’s bike and left it behind. I knew he would never see it again… although right now that was the least of my worries.

How long have I been walking? I wondered. What street am I on?

I looked up, trying to find a building or street sign to orient me, but even more ash got in my eyes. I had to shut them. The last thing I had recognized was that stop sign, and that felt like ages ago.

Am I still on the right street? What if I got turned around somehow? I worried. What if I’m actually walking back where I came from, straight into the mountain?

I told myself that couldn’t possibly be the case. That all I had been doing was walking straight ahead. Even if I wasn’t on the right street, I was at least going in the right direction.

I needed to do something to keep my mind off my fear of the volcano. The landslide and lava were headed my way, but thinking about that wouldn’t make me feel better. I needed to focus on knowing that I would survive.

Survive.

The song!

Everyone at school loved “I Will Survive.” We’d all been calling radio stations to request it for the past year. Our teachers and parents were tired of disco and begged us kids to turn it down, but it was so much fun! We couldn’t get enough of the music or the dancing.

Gloria Gaynor might have been singing about a person, but I was facing a volcano. I wouldn’t let it get me.

My voice cracked as I started singing. I knew every word of the song by heart. I coughed over and over again, but I kept singing. It felt like the song was making me walk a little faster.

Just a few more steps and I would be out of harm’s way. Just a few more steps and Mount St. Helens wouldn’t be able to get me. Just a few more steps and I’d see my family.

“I will survive!”

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