The city burned, the fire lighting up the dark starry night, giving the allusion of an endless red sky. The buildings began to crumble, businesses destroyed, the entire city was in ruins, and families living on the streets with nothing to keep warm and to think this is all because of me. It first began a couple days ago; I was with my friend Freddy preparing for the upcoming annual Flashing Stars Parade for the Fourth of July. Freddy and I were preparing by buying sparkles and of course Flashing Stars. We took them home and hide them from our parents because they didn’t want us to be the cause of a fire. So we hide them under a basket in my basement.

But before we hide them Freddy somehow took some Flashing Stars without me noticing. When we get outside of the house he told me to follow him. I followed him for about 10 minutes when we came to an empty lot, when he pulls out three Flashing Stars. He quickly lights two and put the other one in his back in his pocket. They both pop at the same time and throw sparkling lights that look like stars flashing in the night sky. They both went home and agreed to meet up together in the morning.

The following morning Freddy said to follow him again. He was going to light the last firework, but this time they went into the woods instead of the empty lot. He light the last one, it went straight up in to the air but for some reason it didn’t go up very high and it popped near a tree. It suddenly caught on fire, they started to panic so they raced home to get water and see if they can put it out. But when they got back they realized that they were going to need more than just two buckets of water. The fire quickly spread into the city where firemen try to put it out but do not succeed. Fire ends up destroying the city and it was all because Freddy lit a firework.




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