Infestation

Final show down

I had the reoccurring nightmare again that night. It starts off with me leaving school early because it's a half day. I leave the school campus thru the gymnasium exit. While the hallways have a decent amount of students in them, as I get closer and closer to the gymnasium the numbers of students in the hallway drop until I'm the only one walking thru the huge gymnasium by myself. The lights flicker on and off the whole time Im walking in the school and by the time I make it outside it looks like the worst storm is about to take place. No matter how fast I walk outside towards the parking lot, I feel like there is something or someone behind me following my every step very closely. I turn multiple times around to see who's there and I'm confronted with nothing. I can feel it looking at me staring at the back of my head...I start to pick up the pace and run inside my dream car, a chrysteller thunder bolt. Teal green. There's a sense of panic in the air. I hate this part the most. I fumble with the keys for about 30 mins even tho it's the only key on the chain what the hell...I hate those dreams where your running and staying in place, trying to scream but can't manage to make a squeak those dreams are the worst because they give you a glimpse into what feeling truly powerless feels like. As I get the keys in I can see more students outside now but the weather is definitely worst. The sky is a horrendous gray and the trees are being switched back and fourth. The light rain now a torrential downpour. I can see the expression of the kids faces go from enjoying a light rain to screaming in fear as the lighting flashes were getting more intense and closer and the trees were starting to lose big whole branches. As I manage to get the car turned on I can see in the rear view mirror the banana shaped disk in the skies behind me. Looming and hovering above, silently and calmly as everyone else was frantic and running around chaotically.  I thought about my home and how I hoped my family was safe. I started to drive off the school campus and this disk starts to follow me. I tried to lose it by taking sharp turns and speeding up and slamming on breaks a couple of times but it kept a good enough distance that allowed it to keep up the speed and direction perfectly...almost like it knew what I was going to do before I even did it. I remember being on the main road that takes me to my house and seeing the traffic go from non existent to bumper to bumper gridlock. This ominous disk still hovering above all the traffic just watching us. It stopped raining for the moment being. The commuters in the car didn't seem to take notice at all in the disk, that is until one person parked in front of me decided to step out their vehicle to get a better look at what was stopping the traffic. They open their door, lean against the inside and squinted their eyes to see further out. As they turn around to give me an "I don't know" shrug they see the disk. Their  dreadful blank stare, their mouth pulled to one side gapping wider than their eyes...his scream was so high pitched so loud so piercing it got everyone else out their car too. And eventually that's when all hell broke loose...people were pushing people, trampling over bodies to get away from the disk. People stood on top of cars to lift member out and over the flood of people. Woman screaming children screaming grown man fainting. Cars honking, glass breaking, tires screeching. People starting to pray on the sidewalks others were literally pulling their hair out. The disk than started to move. It started to shake from side to side violently faster and faster. It didn't make a single sound. I could see people  are starting to slow down and look to see what would happen next. I didn't want to see and I tried to open my door but the car next to me was pinning me in and their were bodies outside the passenger door blocking that side in aswell. The canvas that was my roofs convertible was starting to rip. It couldn't keep the weight of the deluge of people running on top. It ripped and a boy and his girlfriend feel into the back seat. They both went to my school...they didn't even look at me they just hoped right back up the way they came, slid down the windshield off the hood and ran. I wish I has someone to run with. I wish right now I had someone holding my hand tightly. I wish I had someone to hide with and make an escape plan with, someone to hold and comfort me right now...in this moment. The flapping canvas broke my thought process and I was brought back to the reality of my "shit" uation...I was alone and I needed to get home. I can't drive my car I'm going to have to run. I poked my head out the canvas hole...not so many  people were running on car roofs anymore, now they were running along the sides and between the cars,some stopped completely and stared at the disk. I looked at the disk like everyone else, my head the only thing popping out of the hole. It shook a little longer and stopped...and a single red laser light appeared. It extended out of the disk and ran the red light over every object in the street. The light scanned over the cars, the bodies on the floor, light post...everything. We all looked in fear and curiosity no more screams everyone is silently holding their breath waiting for what's next...It retracted its light...and that's where I wake up. I never see the ending. I'm awaken by my own shortness of breath and my sweaty ass pillow that needs to be flipped to the cool side. Heart pounding in my throat. I sit up no way in hell can I go back to sleep after that. I can see it was still very dark.  My room didn't have a light fixture there were only 2 working light switches in the whole cabin. One in the kitchen and one in my aunts bedroom. The only light source  that would come thru was thru a small window above my bed. It's edges were smooth and it was a big enough sill to fold your arms and look at the sky. Tho I missed simple luxuries in the cities like hot water for baths and electricity, nothing could compare to seeing billions of stars twinkling in the night sky. Dimming their lights off and on as if putting on a show to showcase their brilliance. Millions of clusters of diamond like stars reminded me of rock candy. And I wanted to chew them up. After my morning routine, I went to my room for a change. Usually  I would be outside in the garden but my room needed a desperate sense of identity. So I restarted the process of unpacking my luggage. It seemed every time I tried to before I would just get to depressed to finish. Photos of my family and friends. Memorabilia that marked my childhood as being normal and giving it credence as being a good one was now just an object I possessed. I wished I grabbed more pictures and less toys. I emptied out the contents onto my bed. Who needs 3 combs. I pushed my clothes to the side and grabbed a pack of gum...fuck yes...I never smoked before but I bet this is probably as close to a nicotine rush as I would ever experience. The gum tasted like Heaven. Like spearmint Heaven...you have no idea how good it felt to enjoy sometimes as simple as gum. I peeled the clear wrapper encasing the box slowly...I lifted the tab and was greeted with the intense smell of mint...this was my fucking christmas...I grabbed a stick... " you sexy bitch" I mumbled and ate it...shoved it right in my mouth and chewed angrily until I was subdued by the intense euphoria of delectableness. I smelled the box of gum as I looked thru one of my comic books I brought... Geo-man and Dino-dude...an educational comic teaching young children geology and earth science can be cool...oh fuck...it the apocalypse and the last thing I'm going to read is this...thanks a lot Melvin. Melvin Combs was my best friend in school and he wasn't just a nerd he was a genius. He would make teachers retract their statement and apologize for wasting the class time...without being an asshole just using his brain...like a super power. No teacher would call him up to do equations on the board, on account he would get so exciting about teaching and the subject the students would actually listen to him. The teachers hated that. I missed him. When they started the "mind break" program they also separated us by race and age. We're in the same grade the same class but Melvin was African American. He got sent to an entirely different portable. It was the same metal material but he said the videos they made him watch were different. They were showing them images of war, diseases, and crimes just bad things. I noticed he changed a lot sooner than I did. He started to get into trouble. His grade starting to get worst. Eventually he stopped going to school altogether just a few months before they mandated we be homeschooled. I remember the last time seeing him. I had asked my mom if I could go to his house he lived on the same street literally 10 houses down from me. I ran to his house usually his little sister answered but this time he did. "Hey man what's up wanna go to the park?" I asked catching my breath... "I can't" he replied coldly barely peering from behind the door only giving my half of this right side to look at... "what's wrong" I asked I thought maybe he was sick or worst mad at me for not visiting him earlier. "Nothing man just go home leave me alone." He said I could sense he wanted to talk but was hesitant. "Hey what's wrong, you know me, you know you can tell me anything man we're best friends."...he looked behind him and open his door wider. His skin was changing colors. His skin around his left eye and face all the way down to his arm was blistered and covered in rough scaly patches... "fuck man what happened?" I asked he started to cry as he told me. The program gave them repeated vaccines but never told them what it was or what it was for. It wasn't after the 3rd weeks he started to see the changes. His arm half the size of his other arm shriveled up and bent his fingers looked like burnt twigs. I could see the pain and anger in his eyes. We sat on the floor in the foyer and he cried I sat silently next to him and patted his shoulder and let him. Eventually we went up to his room. It was clean as usual but his comic collection was stacked neatly on his bed. "What are you doing with these?" I asked as I started to flip thru the pages of some of them... " throw them away...what you want them?" He asked his back turned to me as he was ferociously cleaning under his bed... " whaaat your throwing these away why?" I asked almost choking with laughter " you've had some of these comics since 1st grade"... " I can't read anymore." He said serious as shit. He stopped cleaning and looked into nothing a complete blank stare. " I can't read anymore I don't remember how to, the words don't make sense anymore. I see the word,  but I can't read it." I could see he wanted to explain further but the pain was cutting him up inside with a hot searing knife. He wiped his eyes again... " ok man yeah no problem" instantly feeling like shit because I laughed at first. " pick one out for me then."... he looked at the pile long and hard and finally picked one. " this one!" He said excitedly... I looked at it, looked at him and said "yeah why this one?"... "it was my first comic I ever got and the only one I remember by heart. I can't read it anymore but I'll never forget what it says or what it's meant to me. So I want you to have it because really man I don't know what gonna happen to us but I hope to God I never forget you, because you are my best friend, and you do mean a lot." Damn remembering him now I just might cry. Geo-man and Dino-dude...stupid comic, one hell of a friend. I left it out on my pillow because I wanted to read it before bed. The only clothes I had left in the luggage was a couple of underwear and socks, the rest of my clothes were hanging out to dry again after the other days fiasco. Next to my bed was a small night stand. It only had 2 tiny drawers. I put my clothes in the top drawer and scooted them to the side and put my combs, pack of gum, student ID card, old retainer container that was full of marbles and my wallet in the corner. My photos I tucked in between the slats of the cabins wall above the nightstand, they stayed in placed. I closed the luggage and placed it under my bed. My aunt got up early and made breakfast instead grits and eggs and damn delicious too. Today was sweeping day so I started out in the back of the cabin to sweep everything out the front door. I started in my aunts bedroom, making sure to get in her closet and under her bed in the corners of the ceilings and wall. She would watch me as I cleaned to make sure "I was doing it right" when I would finish her room, she would come in after me, inspect it and than she would sit down once approved. Next was my room. I didn't have a closet so I swept under the bed dusted some cob webs out of the corner of my windows and proceeded to sweep the bathroom. The hallway bathroom we shared was very small very simple just a toilet and a small tub, and a tiny window for your light. Backing out I swept the living room where my aunt was sitting watching her t.v. Usually whenever she's watching t.v and I'm sweeping I stand right in front to block her view on purpose to see how long it'll take her to start getting mad and cussing at me. But not today. Today I was going to spend my day outside to try to find any left over mercury. Maybe Mr. Johnson had some left? I needed to conduct some experiments. As I finished sweeping everything out the front door, I realize I haven't seen Humberto all morning. I go outside and sweep the concrete steps off when I hear barking coming from the back pasture. I put the broom down and slip my boots on. I jogged to the back to see Humberto a speck in the distant running around in circles chasing his own tail barking. I laughed at him for a bit. I've never seen that dog run...ever. As I'm about to head inside I look at the skies right above him and there floating ever so quietly was the silver disk from my dreams. 20 yards behind Robertos pastures. The sky had concealed it with its super blue clearness and intense morning sun. Reflecting everything so perfectly around it I had no way of seeing it at first. I tried breathing but I couldn't get any air in. I am immediately transported back to my nightmare. It floated there still like. Never moving or making a sound. I didn't dare run I knew it had seen me now I was just waiting for it to make its next move. It moved side to side just like in my dream. It moved faster and faster and than the red laser appeared. Humberto who up until than was still frantically barking now stopped, and ran in my direction with his tail between his leg he laid on my feet I glanced down at him quickly and glanced right back up at the shiny object. It was starting to scan. It scanned the pastures, the animals the well, this red light extended, expanded and investigated every inch of our property. The hens and Ricky started to crow, cackle and flap their wings, Roberto started to buck around, full body thrashing he was nervous. I tried to move my feet to go inside with my aunt but Humberto refused to move. I didn't know weather to call out for her or shut up and wait like I did at the boarder...I felt the anxiety build up in my chest right in my sternum...the laser light went from a full light to a blinking light. It blinked for a minute...one whole minute...I know because I counted...a blink for every second...that was the longest minute in my life...than it stopped no more light no more blinking...it stopped...was it over? What was this? A bomb? A new government army air craft? And slowly behind the silver disk, as if emerging behind an invisible cloak white orbs appeared...transluceny at first than they took on a whitish bluish color...hundreds upon hundreds...thousands upon thousands of these orbs filled the sky...looking like perfectly round clouds each one a short distance from the other...they looked like points on an invisible grid sitting were the lines would be intersecting...perfectly positioned... "oh no" I said "it's an infestation."