I can't hold my breath any longer. I breathe in only to get a mouth full of water. My vision blurs I blackout my last thoughts how could this happen.

Five hours earlier in the best western hotel 15^th floor: “smack!” I topple off the bed with a face full of pillow and land face first on the carpet. “ha-ha! Got you right in the kisser!” yells Jake “o ya!” I growl. I get up from the floor and him a punch right in the stomach. “OWW!!! Hey what was that for!” he says with a scowl. “For the rug burn on my face!” I say. “Hey did it stop raining yet?” I ask Jake. He looks out the window and grimly replies “no”. “Darn! It's been raining for three days when will this let up!” I say sadly. “Well I'm just glad for the flood gates. lets watch some TV I'm bored” Jake says. “OK” I reply. I switch on the TV. A high pitch ringing filled my ears a flood warning is on the screen. I look at Jake and say “I'm sure the gates will stop it” I smile because I know Jake hates storms. After watching TV for a few hours we both went to sleep.

Smash! I wake with a start. The sound of grinding metal and smashing brick fills the air, I fall spinning water splashing everywhere I just have time to make out a wall two feet from my face. Crack! My head throbbing a voice lulls me out of my sleep. I try to ignore it and return to my sleep but something is shaking me by the shoulders I open my eye to see Jake shaking me “cut it out” I say to him and push him away wondering why hes so worried. Suddenly I remember everything I sit up and look around in alarm. And find I am laying on the wall, so is everything else in the room all covered in wet and the floor is filled about ankle high with water. Confused I stand up in the shallow water when some water gets in my eye. I wipe it off and find it red. Shocked I look at the at the water around me and find it bloody. A fresh wave of pain reminds me of my head. I rays my hand and touch my forehead. A jolt of pain surges through my body and I collapse my hand coverd in blood. Jake runs and catches me right before I hit to ground. He helps me up and I ask “how bad is my head?” he goes pail and says “not good. We better bandage it up or you might bleed to death. He sets me down against the upside-down bed. Still confused why everthings on the wall I look out the shaderd window by his feet and only see black. Curios I stick my hand out the window, only to hit a wall of black outside the window. I try to scape some of the black stuff off and get a small bit. I lift it above the water to find it looks formilar. Suddenly it click “it's asphalt. now it makes some scene somehow the hotel fell over and the flood water mush be leaking in! but shouldn’t the gates have stopped it?” I think to myself. Just then Jake reenters my view with a little fist aid kit from in the bathroom. He hurrys over and quickly bandages my head. Once hes finished he asks “can you walk now?” I stand pain fly's though me again but not quite as strong this time. I almost fall again but regain my balance and keep upright