by
Lauren Stecklow
t all happend when I waved good bye forever. Never knowing what would happen. I was aboard the Ship Titanic. The ship of dreams. And it was most wonderful ship in the world. It was big. I never imagined such a ship in my life. I was part of sterege. So my family and i got our own room becaus consisted of 9 people. Everyone had to share a bed with everyone. My younger siblings had to have 2 at 1 side of the bed and 2 on the other side. My family is: 15 year old James, 3 year old Linda, 7 year old Hunter, 4 year old Maria, 2 year old Emily, 11 year old Julia, and me (13 year old Pamela).
We got to go out out of the room and go on deck. I liked to stare at the things that followed the ship. It was very inserting though I didn't know what it was. but at night after Supper it was nice jsut to sleep. I did t longest time. But that all changed on the day of April 12, 1912. We hit iceburg. We put on our life jackets. And we went with our Night clothes to the front gate to get! out. But a man locked it. He said ' You'll not be able to go out! The life boats aren't ready yet. But I heard father mumble that was a lie. he knew that there wasn't a enough life boats for everyone. I was so afraid and not knowing what was going to happen. Finally father and some other men shook at the gate so much it broke off. We stormed out. We stood on deck.
The Capatain siad " WOMAN AND CHILDREN FIRST! WOMAN AND CHILDREN FIRST!".I said," Mother what about father and James?"
she said," Don't worry about it."
She grabbed 1 of my carfs and wrapped around James and made him look like a lady. We put a blanket around him. And we did the same thing to father. But we didn't need to do that. Than we realized that the ships was going down. We climbed to the top of the ship. There was no more life boats. I grabbed on to something. i listened to the Catholic priest give a last few words from the bible.. I Screamed. the Ship mbroke into 2. and I was on the 2nd part hanging on f!or dear life. Emily lost grip on something she was holdinhg! onto. She fell down the ship. But I grabbed her hand. We were hanging down for dear life. It was slippery. I was crying. But it went down.
The water sucked us in along with ship. It felt like peircing niddles. But I came up soon. I grabbed Emily, and Linda. They couldn't swim. Mother grabbed Maria. A lot of the Life Boats weren't filled up. so I told them that we were going to swim to the life boats. We swam ansd swam. We became so tired. I kept them talking so they wouldn't die. We kept moving so our blood wouldn' t stop pumping. A life boat came to us. I told them to pick up linda and Emily. And they did. And I asked for a hand up. And I inthe boats with blankets around us. I was so happy.
I told them, " God Bless you."
I had to figure out how to tell Our realtives about the loss of my parents. And when we docked Auntie Caroline and Uncle Edwin was at the cock. but when only the little ones and I got off the were stunned. I said," S.O.S Titanic sank and so did the rest of the family. I saved Linda and Emily. Finally I was wram in a bed in Connecticut. But I still pray everynight that All my family didn't have to suffer.
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