I woke up and brushed my teeth. After my shower I then got ready and head out into the kitchen. I realized I still haven't gone grocery shop. Ugh. Just as I get to my door to leave, it a out locks and the intercom system of the ship goes on.
"Pasengers we will be taking off In 10 minutes. Your doors have been locked and will unlock when it is safe for you to leave. Please sit in your bed or any sitting area you have in your flat. You will See that the seat belts have been unlocked and you can now buckle up. Once you have put on your seat belts you will not be able to unlock them, until we are in the air, and stable. Be ready for lift off in 10 minutes."
Really? It's been a day and we still haven't taken off. Wow.
I wonder were Apollo is.
I strap myself into the seat belts of the sofa and turn on the tv. It is on the news chanel.
Mayham, In mars!
The caption reads.
A message comes across the screen.
Civilians of mars:
Stay inside your homes, and do not panic. This is NOT a test and your life is in serious danger. You will all die, and there is nothing you can do to save yourself. If you are on one of the spaceships to gliese, you are the only people who are safe and you following all of our orders is how you will repay us for sparing your life. If your not down in the city being burned to death right now, there is a reason. You may not understandwhy we are doing this now, but you soon will.
Say goodbye
- Your president & government.
Panic begins to settle in my stomach. What about my mum? My sister? My family?
"No!" I cry.
"This can't be happening!" I stomp my feet on the ground trying to get out of the seat belt. I punch the belt and throw everything in my reach against the wall in hopes someone can hear me.
"Apollo!" I screams he soon replies.
"Is what they are saying true!" He screams. I assume he is already buckled up. I have no response to his question. But as the plane starts to take off I look out of the window, and they indeed weren't lying. My hometown, the town I grew up in. Burning to the ground. And the few seconds that I could see everything going on below me, we over just like that.
Tears roll down my face and I scream. Why? I will never be able to go back to my home, or to my father's grave to drop off flowers, or to my friends house, everything is gone. All my memories, my childhood, my school. They left nothing. We're do we go if gliese dosent have the conditions for humans to live in? So many questions blur my mind, so many thoughts. But I just can't put my finger on any of them.
You know how people say that some people are there whole world, and if they lost them they wouldn't know what to do? I just literally lost my whole world. What can I do?
My seat unbuckles. I'm not hungry anymore. I just want to sleep and never wakeup. Pretend like the last 48 hours never happpened. Never in a million years would I have thought things would go down like this, but reality soon settles into my mind. I realize something.
We are the last human beings in this galaxy. The few hundred ships carrying us, contain the only human beings remaning. And the biggest question of all,
Why did they let me live? Why didn't they just burn me with my family? At least I wouldn't die a lonely death.
But what if the mission that I'm on is a death sentence?
