"ELIZABETH!" Elizabeth's mother screamed "YOUR GOING TO BE LATE!"
Elizabeth rushed through brushing her hair, getting dressed, and brushing her teeth. She ran down the stairs, three at a time, startling her mother when Elizabeth hit the floor and started scrambling to grab her bag.
"Grab the toast from the toaster and run! If you don't, you'll miss the bus", her mother stated.
"Okay ma!" Elizabeth replied as she ran to the kitchen. She grabbed a piece of toast and ran out the door.
"Bye ma!" Elizabeth said "I'll see you later"!
*Bye pa* Elizabeth thought.
She rushed to her bus stop which was just a few houses away, 3 to be exact. The crisp air rushing through her lungs, biting at her face. Just as she reached the stop a bus rolled to a halt. The bus smelt of gasoline and tar. The dark asphalt looking opposite of the sunny yellow bus. She rushed onto the bus in a manic sort of way, losing her footing and dropping her toast to the ground with a smack. Elizabeth decided that the toast was now inedible, and continued on to boarding the bus.
She got on the bus and sat down with her best friend, Jasmine. "Hi Liz!" Jasmine said happily. "Hey Jaz." Elizabeth replied sulkily.
"What's wrong?" Jaz questioned.
"I dropped my toast when I was getting on the bus."
"Yikes, that's sucks"
"Yeah, R.I.P Toast" Liz laughed.
As Jaz laughed Liz noticed something out the window and looked past Jaz. There was something in the sky.
"Jaz look!" Liz shouted "its a Pegasus!"
"Oh my god! I haven't seen one in ages!" Jaz said excitedly.
The rest of the Pegasi's herd followed the first closely, everyone of them with different coloured wings, coats, manes, and tails. Teals, yellows, violets, reds, the wings every colour under the sun. Dark and light, bright and dull, endless colours seeping from each flying horses wings. Manes of gold and manes of black, coats of grey and coats of white. No colour left in the pot, all of them thrown on display in a symphony of beautiful creatures.
The bus bumped along the road and then up the hill leading to Elizabeth and Jasmine's school. The bus slowly rolled to a halt, leaving clouds of dust to drift peacefully away in the light breeze. The grey pebbles outside of the school giving what dust they had to the wind in the wake of the bus.
The school made of old bricks and ancient wood looming in front of the two girls. The massive, and intricate wooden doors wide open to welcome the students to their school, or as Jaz would say, their doom. The pair of girls startled as sirens started wailing, the ground almost shaking with the frightful noise. Just like any other time Elizabeth made her way to homeroom, to hide, to survive, to assure her mom wouldn't be alone.
The sirens were still blaring almost an hour later and all Liz could think about was her mom.
Is she okay? Did she hear the sirens? Is it affecting her neighbourhood? Did she find somewhere to hide if she wasn't home?
"Liz?" Jaz whispered, "are you okay?"
Elizabeth hadn't realized until now that she was crying. The last time the sirens blared like this, her father had died.
"I'm okay Jaz" Elizabeth replied shakily, "I just hope my mom is safe".
"Me too", Jaz said calmly, "but I'm sure she is, your mom is very, very smart".
Just then they heard a scream.
YOU ARE READING
The Fall Of Her
FantasyA girl tries to cover things in a world over run by monsters. Where people will turn in a second. Her job, is to save humanity, or what is left of it.
