the day the world stood still

part 1

What if the world stopped turning and for a second you knew what it felt like for the whole world to stand still….  
                   

    

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 Well that happened to me, I lived through it, It sounds awesome right?

Wrong it was the worst thing that ever happened,
or so I thought, little did I know what was coming next,
I woke up the next morning and realised just how very wrong I was,
I walked out of my house to find a crimson sky unlike anything I had ever seen. It was beautiful, but in the very same way horrifying, (I found out later that the crimson color might have been caused by a solar event kind of like a magnetic storm or something) but anyways back to the story, 
I couldn't believe my eyes I thought I must have been seeing things. So I rushed over to my friend  Alister’s house,
see Alister had been my bestfriend since day one of second grade,

I was out on the playground during recess when some of the bigger boys decided to pick on me.
well that there was their mistake,
because as soon as they did,
Up came this boy who couldn't have been a day older than me,
with curly hair the color of blonde strawberries, a cute little nose
and just a splash of freckles,

he didn’t look like much, but when he walked up with a homemade sling and started pelting all the boys with animal crackers they did the smart thing and they ran,
then the little boy with the sling sat down beside me and told me as long as he was around he would make sure no one would ever try to hurt me again.

And to this day, seven and a half years later he’s kept that promise, and says he'll continue to keep it everyday until he dies,
after that day in second grade he wouldn’t hardly leave my side,
and even walked me home each and every day.
During those walks we became fast friends and learned things about each other that no one else in the entire world knew,
and still to this day i'm so grateful to the boy with that homemade sling.

So anyway, I rushed over to Alister’s house and just walked right inside (he had given me a key years ago) and headed straight back to his room.
(three doors down the hall, last door on the right) and barged right in,
I didn’t even bother to knock anymore,
I walked in to find him at his little desk he had beside his bed on his laptop, saying
“why-why? aren’t any of you awake?"

he hadn’t noticed me yet,
so when I walked up behind him and taped him on the shoulder,
you can imagine he was surprised to say the least.
he jumped two feet straight up in the air and let lose a scream that shouldn’t ever come from the mouth of a fifteen year old boy,
when he turned around you could see recognition and relief come across his face then it was replaced with something else almost like fear and suspicion,
which didn’t make sense to me because those emotions didn’t belong on his face,
At least,
not when he was looking at me anyways,

instantly I knew something was wrong so I simply asked if the reason he was acting like this had anything to do with the sky
Then he says
“oh thank god! You're awake?”
I asked him what he meant by awake?

“I’m standing up? I'm not still in my bed so yeah i would say so, what's going on with you? why are you acting so weird al? ”

“Why am I acting weird?!” he shouted indignantly
"have you even talked to the rest of the world?!
you're the only other person it seems  in the entire world besides me that notices there's something wrong with the freaking sky!”  

“Seriously? What? is everyone else acting like it's fine or something?”

“Worse. There acting like it’s normal, everyone seems to believe its always been like this, or at least that's what they're letting on anyways".
                                     
“ do you know what's going on Alister? Do you know why the sky look like that?”     
               
    "well I’m not sure what it is, but the entire world is acting like its normal for the sky to be that color, the're acting like it always has been blood red, and so far we seem to be the only ones awake, the only ones who notice anything is wrong, and i’m kinda freaking out right now Mckenna because I have no idea what’s going on and it’s kinda scaring me”

That worried me because like nothing ever made Alister scared so if this did then I should be terrified, because if Ali is anything, he's fearless.
We walked out of Ali's room to find his family  acting like a bunch of -of zombies I guess I don’t know how else to describe it they were almost like dolls or something atleast that is until they noticed us,
then they turned more  zombie like and started trying to attack us,
Ali stood there trying to reason with them, trying to talk to them and get them to snap out of it, but it wasn't doing any good,
they just kept coming after us,
let's just say i gave up on trying to reason before they killed us, and yanked his butt back into his room locking the door.
They banged on the door so hard I could swear it was gonna break,

so my brain took over without me even thinking I  grabbed a bag from his closet and started shoving stuff in clothes, blankets, a pillow, flashlights, his laptop, a pair of sneakers (hey I didn’t know what I was doing) slung it on my back and shoved him out his bedroom window.
We ran in the direction of my house, my mom and me lived alone and she had gone to works night shift and shouldn’t be back until this afternoon, at least she shouldn’t if it was a normal day and if she wasn’t a brainwashed zombie like Alisters family,
I hoped not but honestly I had no idea whatsoever what was happening with the world.
or anything for that matter.
I was running on pure instinct and gut feeling.
the truth was,
I had no idea what I was doing,
I was just, well, doing.
and hoping to make it out of this alive and in one piece.
About five minutes later we made it to my house and snuck in my bedroom window, ya know just in case my mom was home for some reason and happened to be a mindless drone zombie like thing, like some of the rest of the world,
Everything was fine the house was dark and quiet just like I had left it this morning but I got this feeling we still weren't safe, at least not completely anyways.
  We went and raided the kitchen because we were both starving which was no surprise Alister and me seemed to be hungry like 24-7 pretty much,
we’re like basically hobbits at least that’s what my mom always said.
She claimed that when we used to go “glamping” (which is like camping but with style and basic 21st century upgrades)
every summer with my family I would get breakfast from just about every one of my aunt and uncles campers every day and she’s called me a hobbit for just about as long as I can remember, and she always said me and Alister were fast friends because i finally found a being that was the same species as me, (haha mom) maybe she was right who knows,
but we’re friends end of story whatever the reason for it may be i’m glad it happened i’m even thankful to those bullies from all those years ago if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have met my best friend in the world so yeah i’m even thankful for them.