Apocalypse
...I'm heading off for something professional, actually, it was challenge on ice (race cars on ice and snow tracks), but it still felt like something professional. I kissed my boyfriend and baby goodbye, got in my car and drove of.
After a while, i noticed my gas is getting low, so i stop in one of the malls, you know, where there's 4 or 5 stores connected to each other, you get in by the outdoors. I went in one to get something to eat, but it was empty. Well, almost. There were about 5 people in there, staff of some sorts. They all stared at me, like they knew something i didnt, a shared knowledge, a shared pity. The room was almost bare but a few boxes strewn about, and flat screens on the wall. The windows were covered in semi clear plastic, just taped there. It kinda made me think of voting ballots for some reason.
I start feeling a bit anxious, and i even get halfway out the door to check if im in the right store. I am, they just moved everything out. When i step out to go to the seven eleven connected to the thing, the whole environment seemed changed. Anxiety is high, and people are being horded in a baren mall or similar building. Horded is a strong word, when i got out of the building, i was alone... but somehow led there, like everybody else. It had the boxes, the taped plastic that created makeshift rooms and halls, and the flatscreens...
Everyone knew, as i knew, that we were moments away from dying. In a day, a week? not sure. But the dying part wasent even a question. That was the whole reason we were in there. The flatscreens were there to show us our last living moments. A nearby star was going supernova, destroying us in the way. A camera was fixed on the star, ans we saw it live. Might as well see that before we went, it was an extroardinary sight. We had to stay in so we dont burn from the radiation.
I nevertheless felt.... suspicious. They were things that just didnt make sense to me. So i started going down the makeshift hall. We were supposed to stay in the 'rooms', but i needed to get out somehow. Going down the hall, you could see the silhouets of people thru the plastic, and a few people here and there crossing my path, looking as suspiscious, and as suspiciously at me. I keep going down until i reach a cargo area. A family, with husband, wife and two kids are glued to one of those flatscreens, staring at the star. They were like hypnotised by it, almost happy to be able to witness their imminent last moments. I try to snap them out of it, but its of no use.
Then i just continu my way... somehow i got to get to my boyfriend and kid.. something is not right. Why go to all this trouble? why the plastic... why empty the place first.... where was security, or authority? I enventually found the cargo exit.. the door was swaying, not even latched. I open it and im in a city... Im scared... im afraid of being shot, or restrained, or something... I think i see a patrol, and go back in... when i get back out again... no one... just empty... the air is smoggy, yellowish and thick... but no radiation.. no burn... nothing.
I start running out of the city thru grassland next to the highway, wich was pretty dry and brittle, to head home.... I have no hopes of reaching it... but i need to get to my family before its too late...
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