Finding My Heaven Novel – Isabella’s pov. The car came to a screeching halt. I looked up to see one of my worst nightmares. FIRE. The house was in flames, black smoke billowed out of it and the only light sores was coming from the red roaring flames engulfing the house. Dereck jumped out of the car the same time I did, we both ran towards it. Dereck ran in first with me tailing behind, soon enough I couldn’t see a foot in front of me and the smoke was suffocating my lungs, but I had to keep pushing, I needed to find mum or Annie. The fire was everywhere, doors, beds, walls and roof, it looked and felt like I was in the blazing depths. “ANNIE” my voice screeched. Soon I was outside looking up into the night sky laying on my back when a sweating Dereck pops into my view. “ISABELLA STAY HERE” His voice screamed in my face before he turned around and started running back into the flames. Am I going to listen to him? Nope, not at all.
And with that one thought I pulled myself up off the ground with the help of our mailbox and looked towards the horrific fire, siren’s started to get louder as the fire trucks started to near but they weren’t coming fast enough. I need to do something, And i need to do it fast. “ISABELLA” I heard Annie’s voice scream from inside, Fear is what consumed me for a second then i realised Annie’s still in there, that’s all it took for me to start running towards the burning building. Before I could reach the house the roof collapsed and brought the whole building down with it. A big explosion of fire flashed before my eyes. My legs gave up from underneath me as a pain filled sob escaped my mouth. My hands gripped onto my hair as i let out a bloodcurdling scream, a scream filled with pain, sorrow, guilt and loss. “NO NO NO NO” tears were streaming from my eyes as firefighters ran past in a blur trying to put out the fire, i couldn’t move its like i was stuck in concert and my eyes were glued the the remains of the house, i could feel someone shake me and a blurred voice was trying to talk to me but i was stuck in my trance.
I felt myself being lifted up and I was snapped out of my trans by a calming voice repeating my name. I looked up to see my neighbor, who was a police woman. “Isabella i know this is a lot to take in right now but i need to bring you down to the station” I nodded my head and she gently closed my door and got in the drivers side. Every minute she would look back to see if I was still alright. After a while we made it to the police station and I was ushered inside. It had been 6 hours, I was questioned and then they left me alone in the staff room on the couch. My neighbor would come in every half an hour to check up on me. I look down at the half drunken water that sat on the coffee table next to mars bar wrapper. Soon enough I was mentally and physically drained so I fell asleep on the couch with some officers’ coats draped over my shoulders to keep me warm.
Sadly my sleep didn’t last long because I was awoken by another lady, her hair was gray and she wore a bland expression on her face. “Isabella get up” I sat up alerted as soon as I heard her say my name. “Hi I’m the social worker at this police station, I have been searching for someplace for you to go and thankfully your older brother said he would become your guardian” Hold up did she just say older brother, I thought my mum only had me. Can this day get any more confusing? “Are you sure that you have the right Isabella because I’m pretty sure I don’t have a brother?” I questioned. “Your Isabella Accardi, am I correct?” I nodded my head. “Well then Isabella you have an older brother that is willing to take you in to live with your other brothers” the woman explained “Did you just say brothers” i blurted out “Yes, I said brothers ” she replied confidently trying not to leave room for any questions. “Wait so i have more then one brother” “Yes you do” “So like two” “No you have-” “Wait is it three” “No Isabella-” “Four” “Isabella please-” “Five, oh god that’s a lot” I cut into her mid sentence again “ISABELLA STOP” She lost her cool and shouted in my face, but she tried to calm down again and said.
“You have six brothers okay. Now stop interrupting me!” I just sat there totally shocked from her sudden outburst, i mean i can be annoying sometimes but she doesn’t have to be that rude and yell in my face, like come on man I just lost my family and you’re now telling me I have SIX fracking brothers. Yes i get it i said fracking, I don’t swear ok and if i do I’m really mad or emotional. “So now that you know who your guardian is going to be I will now inform you that you have a fight in an hour to Italy ” She smiled knowing that she won’t have to deal with me in an hour. Rude. Hold up a second she never even said the name of my guardian and now she’s saying I have to move to freaking Italy. Nope no way, I must have died in that fire. “W-what” was all I managed to mutter out of my mouth that wouldn’t shut up two seconds ago. “You heard me, now get up we have to get to the airport” She snapped at me. I followed Miss Sassy aka my social worker out of the police station but before I did I said goodbye to my neighbour and thanked her. I got in the back of Miss sassies car which smelt really bad, like rotten fish. I had to stop myself from gagging the whole trip to the airport.
Finally we were at the airport, personally I never thought I would love the smell of air that much but here I am. Sassy got my plane ticket and walked me to where I should be boarding my plane. “Now once you get there, wait at the entrance on a seat to the left and one of your brothers will come and pick you up, you should arrive there around one in the afternoon” She explained to me and I just nodded in response and boarded the plane. I looked down to see where I’m seated on my ticket and it said first class. Nice I guess they have some money then. I sat down in my seat and decide to fall asleep because I have nothing else to do for 11 hours.
I made my way off the plane and out to where my social worker said I needed to wait, so I sat there and waited. And waited. And waited. And you guessed it, I waited a bit more. I got bored so I started to people watch and man some people are just weird. I saw a man walking in a fairy costume screaming at people to “watch out for the other fairies.” He almost got hit by three different cars and one bus. I mean you do you bro! After what seemed like forever i looked down to my crappy Iphone 5 and realised it was currently 6pm, my plane got here at 1pm i have been waiting for five hours, like sometimes I forget things but not anything as big as picking up your sister from an airport, a sister that has never met you before. What if they don’t want me.
They don’t want me. They already hate me. They can’t be bothered with me. Maybe they were forced to take me in when really they never wanted me. They never wanted me. Who would want me? Those words just repeated in my mind and I started to really think that they would never come. Suddenly a hand grips onto my shoulder and I’m snapped out of my thoughts. I look up to see an extremely guilty looking face. The dude looks around 18 years old. “I’m so sorry Isabella, it just completely slipped my mind” I just blinked at him confused. How can you forget to pick up your sister!!! “Oh god i even forgot to introduce myself. I’m Antonio the third youngest”