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Friday
Finn watched in horror as parts of the roof fell in. Flames dropped to the ground, and a new volcano of fire erupted in the center of the building. He knew that the sane thing to do would be to wait for the volunteer firefighters to arrive.
But then he heard the screams. He couldn’t have come so close to the solution, only to let Mia Valdez die when he was standing only a few yards away.
He ran inside the burning barn, waving his arms in a useless attempt to clear away the dense smoke so that he could see. “Mia? Mia Valdez? Are you in here?”
Flames crawled along the rafters overhead, and as the far end of the barn fell, a gale of superheated air rushed through the building. The building groaned and shrieked like a live creature. Any second now, the whole structure would come down.
