Second Preview

   This second preview is just for you, Madison! I know how much you hate to wait for things!

   Carl turned back around and decided that his sister was probably right. He continued to tell himself this until he noticed that his feet suddenly felt icy cold and wet. Carl looked down to see about an inch of water covering the entire submarine floor.

        “KATIE! THERE’S WATER EVERYWHERE!” Carl screamed at the top of his lungs.

        “Calm down, Carl. I’m sure someone just spilled water or something.”

        “The water is rising! We didn’t even have this much water left! There’s a leak in the submarine somewhere! We have to find it! Hurry! Drop everything that you’re doing and help me find this leak! Grab some duct tape! Get some bandages! We have to fix this submarine before it implodes!” Carl was hyperventilating, and Katie just looked at him.

        “Well don’t just stand there! Help me find this leak!” Carl rocketed out of his chair and started splashing along the perimeter of the submarine.

        “You’re the older brother, so aren’t you supposed to be the calm and collected one?” Katie sat back in her chair.

        “You make me sick,” Carl gave Katie a sour look. “This is no time to be making jokes!” Carl bent over and gasped, “I found the leak.”

        In the side of the submarine closest to where Carl was sitting a few moments before, was a hole about the size of a dime. Water was being squirted through, and the hole was growing in size by the second. Soon it would be the size of a tennis ball.

        Carl ran over to the closet full of supplies they might need and snatched out two astronaut looking suits with air tanks strapped onto the back of them. Carl threw the smaller one at Katie, and quickly shoved himself into the larger one. He made sure not to turn the air tanks on while they were still in the submarine.

        Carl splashed over to where Katie was fumbling around with her suit and started typing frantically on the keyboard.

        “What are you doing?”

        “I’m contacting the control room. I’m telling them that there’s a breech in out sub. I’m telling them our coordinates and that they need to send a backup submarine as soon as possible. Why don’t you have your emergency suit on yet?” Words were tumbling out of Carl’s mouth like commands but his tone was too scared for them to be taken like real orders.

        “I’m trying to get it on but it’s just so bulky.”

        “Remember not to activate your air tanks until we get out of the submarine.”

        “We’re leaving the submarine?”

        “We have to. If we don’t leave soon the hole submarine will collapse in on us.”

        “Won’t the pressure of the water crush us out there?”

        “Not if you put of your suit right.”

        “You’re not being serious are you?”

        Carl looked straight at Katie with the most serious and terrified look that he’d ever wore on his face. “I wish I wasn’t.”

        Carl grabbed Katie’s hand splashed over to the pressure door. Katie squeezed his hand. Carl took a thick metal bar from the side of his suit and attached it to Katie’s. Carl turned the wheel on the door three times before the door was knocked open by highly pressured ocean water.