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THEN.
THE BLARING OF MUSIC AND video game sounds echoed throughout the living room in the Bennett household. The sounds a of children playing outside and a dog barking in the distance mixed into the current noise, coming through the open windows of the home.
"Oh man, oh man," Nyvia's slightly younger brother, Adrian, panicked as he aggressively played his game. Nyvia and her brother were like best friends. He was nine years younger than her, although the age difference the two didn't affect their brother-sister relationship dramatically.
Nyvia shook her head and laughed to herself at the sight until she heard her cellphone vibrating on the counter beside her. She unlocked it to see a new message in the groupchat she shared with some of her college friends.
"Did you guys see the video that was taken in LA of that guy eating someone alive?" Her friend, Kiara, texted to the group.
Nyvia typed a response back. "Definitely another one of those fake pranks."
Another one of her friends, Cameron, instantly sent in a response. "I don't know guys, I'm seeing on actual news it's happening other places too."
Nyvia set down her phone on the counter once again. She walked over to her brother and watched him play his game for a couple moments more until she tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey, turn on the news." She asked once he finally paused his game.
"Since when do you ever wanna watch the news?" He asked with a chuckle and she rolled her eyes at him.
"C'mon, it might be serious. Just put it on quick, please." She pushed and he finally did.
The two were met with seeing nothing but the local news, some weather updates and something pertaining to a local police chase happening just outside of Atlanta.
Relief washed over her thoughts and she took a breath. As if people would really start eating people alive.
A couple days later, Nyvia was stuck watching over Adrian at home again. Not that she minded, because she actually enjoyed spending time with her younger brother. Their parents were at work like usual, Nyvia's mom being a paramedic and her father being an engineer.
She hasn't checked the news, local or global, since two days ago when her friends mentioned people going cannibal. She assumed the news had been fake, since no one had discussed it since.
Nyvia and her brother contributed to cooking dinner together, and were currently in the kitchen preparing the ingredients they would need.
On cue, her phone vibrated in her sweater pocket. Before she could check it, the house phone began to ring from the entrance of the living room.
