Joseph's story starter

Carter Adams woke as a blinding light hit him in the face. "C'mon sleepy head you're gonna be late for school".

Carter loved his mum, but sometimes she came in just when he was nearly back to sleep after his alarm clock had woken him up. He emerged into the kitchen to see his mum eating breakfast. Carter sat down next to his mum and started eating sugar coated corn flakes.

On the way to school Carter's mum pulled into a gas station.

"Just going in for gas, won't be long". So Carter waited in the car. Minutes ticked by. By ten minutes Carter got quite annoyed. On twenty minutes Carter stormed into the shop.

"Mum we're late"!!! But the sight he was looking at brought Carter to his knees. Lying in the shop were several bodies surrounded by a pool of blood, one of which was Carter's mum.

So here I was watching t.v. and eating cereal. "Maximus King" said my mum. "You can't sit there all day, We've got lessons at three". With a big sigh, I got up from the couch, chucked my bowl in the sink and was heading to my room when mum called "Oh, Max look at this". As I came into the lounge I saw mum looking at the t.v. I turned my head to look at the tele. On the screen I saw a picture of a boy about my age ,12,  his face streaked with tears. "His mum and everyone else in the petrol shop where they were, were killed'' explained mum. "Nobody knows how or who''. I really felt sorry for him. As I walked into my room I remembered the address of the kids house. I'd seen it on the bottom of the screen. I decided I would walk over there, after all it was just down the road.