Silence

"What do you think you were doing!" Meg's father raged from the drivers seat in the front of their cramped car.

"Yes!". Her mother agreed in the passengers seat. You could've been hurt." It was nice that they cared, but I was nearly 14 and I think I could take care of myself. This morning before school meg had packed an extra pair of clothes in her back pack, which she changed into, in the girls locker room before ditching. She didn't what anyone getting suspicious, after all a girl in a school uniform on a Wednesday kind of gives it away.
   
Meg went to the subway station and bought her ticket. She had chosen a spot at the end. Bad idea. With people cramming in and hurrying to sit down, she was pushed off and forced to stand.

When she arrived at her destination, she hurried out and to the town square. "So, I'm here and the museum is here." Meg said talking out loud. She walked down Crimson Avenue.
What a strange name. She thought.


At the museum she went to the exhibit on insects. In the exhibit she looked for unusual insects.
   "No, no, no, and no. Were is it". Meg murmured as peeked through the glass cases with different bugs in each case.
 "There it is." She shouted suddenly, making many heads turn. That was about the point when her fathers firm hand gripped her shoulder. Meg swiveled around.
    "H..How did you find me" she stammered in shock.
"Your teacher called asking why you never showed up at school. Plus we found this." He held up a piece of paper. The brochure. It must have fallen out when she packing her spare clothes.

Meg stared out the window of the car at the traffic passing by. She was so close to finding out what that bug had been! Her obsession with that started a few weeks ago. Meg was watching Thomas, her little brother, when she saw a huge bug, that actually looked a little like a fairy. She had shooed it away, but couldn't stop thinking about it. Thus her obsession.

She turned and looked at Thomas. His baby face soft and smooth. his gentle eyes closed.

"I'm sorry." Meg said quietly to her parents. Her mother was about to speak, when a truck smashed through the border between the freeway roads and right into their car.

Sure it was all scary but the most frightening part was the silence that echoed from the front half of the car.