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This story begins in the springtime of Folly Beach, a fairly peaceful and beautiful town in South Carolina.
Thomas Fowl, your average seventeen year old teenager is at the bay watch alone with no one around to be seen. Suddenly, a tornado grows before his eyes could blink and becomes large enough to wipe the entire city and turn it into a dust-pile. As the lighthouse was about to fall on him he wakes up and realizes it was nothing but a nightmare, or was it. His teacher yells at him then asks “So Thomas, how many ships did Columbus have on his first journey to the Americas?” Thomas unsure but with conviction answers “Four!”. An awkward silence fills the classroom as the teacher stares at him and says “Come see me after class.” then resumed his lesson.
The bell rings the end of class, Thomas gets sermoned and each word came in through his left ear and left from the right. Lunch time, Thomas heads to the washroom where he usually hides when feeling down. While sitting on the bathroom stall he hears two people having a heated argument. Slowly, he opens up the door as quiet as possible and peeks out. He sees nothing but the jock’s back covering whomever he was bullying . To put things clear, he was massive but one detail caught Thomas’ attention.
He had a gun hidden in his back pocket, and as things escalated his hand was slowly
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He was surprised and was curious as to how he could possibly owe the jock money. When Thomas asks him what that was all about Adam says nothing, it was just him being a typical jock. Thomas not wanting to be nosy, does not ask him any further questions but mentions the fact that he had a gun. Which Adam then asks him to not to talk about what just happened to anyone. Hesitant but kind-hearted he agrees to keep that promise. On the same day a report from the United Nations Environment Program spread that there was a high risk of a tornado forming in the city during this

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