Just a few more weeks away until the release!
A car swerving erratically to
get away from the chaos nearly sideswiped Zach and me just moments before we
reached his vehicle. “Asshole!” Zach called out, beating his hands against the
trunk of the car as is sped past. Turning to me, he asked, “You okay?”
For a split second, the world
around us disappeared. Explosions quieted, the screaming ceased, and all of the
running bodies blended into the background. Zach’s worried eyes and focus only
on me took me by surprise. And my reaction to him twisted something deep
inside.
Snapping out of it, I said,
“Yeah. I’m fine. Let’s go.” I pushed past Zach, running into a few students in
the process. With elbows flying, I made my way to the passenger side and
climbed in just as Zach did. He started the Jeep and slammed it into gear. The
roar of his horn caught the attention of people scrambling by and thankfully
they moved out of our way.
Something crashed to the ground
behind us and I turned around in my seat to see the last remnants of the east
wing of our school crumble to the ground. “I hope everyone got out,” I
whispered to myself.
“What?” Zach focused on
zigzagging around people and debris and emergency vehicles trying to come in
the same way we were trying to get out. All around us the world had changed in
an instant. No longer could we hide in our little safe haven pretending that
what was happening in the rest of the world would never happen here. The gates
had only delayed the inevitable.
War had reached our doorstep.
What kind of war? What's going on? My interest has been piqued :)
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hee hee! You'll find out soon! :)
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