The day we fell.

chapter 01: the fall

Lucy's POV:

I'll never forget that day. The day when everything fell apart. The day prophets and priests preached about for decades. I never believed them until it happened. The fall. Most of the 8 billion people on Earth didn't survive, nobody knows how many perished that day, but all I know is that I had one goal. Survive. I will never forget the chaos that emerged that day. I remember the fall like it was yesterday. The chaos, The destruction. The panic. The screams. Nobody ever thought it was going to happen, nobody was even expecting it, yet it suddenly came to be. I just remember how fast things changed. It was nearing the end of the second break, and there were art exams going on so Jace stayed with me and Tom for that time. It was honestly quite peaceful until I heard it. A faint blare of an air horn. I instantly react and turn my head to the two taller people beside me. "You heard that too, right?" I ask a slight tremble in my voice. The two turn to look at each other and then at me. "No? "Jace said first, giving me a weird look, Tom followed suit "You good? What did you hear?". I could tell he was mildly concerned for me; it wasn't out of the ordinary for me to hear things that never happened. "Uh... I- I heard an-" I was cut off shortly by the teacher in the room before us blaring an air horn. We all looked at each other, panicking on our faces. "I heard that," I spoke as we ran to a near classroom. I could feel panic making tears well up in my eyes which were wiped as soon as noticed by Tom. There was always an aura about that boy, he was sweet, kind, caring. He always put me and Jace above himself, despite our attempts to tell him not to, but he still did. I never knew what was going on between me and him, but something was. Every single time I saw him my heart skipped beats, I would flush red, get heated up, I never knew what it was, but even throughout all this hell, he was always a priority to me. Hours moved like my heartbeat. One, Two, One, Two. I felt sick, dizzy, and warm, but even then, we couldn't leave. I heard shouting and I slowly turn to Jace, whose clinging onto me slightly now. "This isn't a drill, is it Jay?" I whisper, trembling. Jace pauses to listen to the outside world, the world beyond that door, the just nods. "Let's hope it is, yeah?". After what felt like an eternity, we heard the radio buzz...

It wasn't a teacher's voice, well, it was, but it wasn't speaking. 

It was a scream.

A scream of agony. 

I swing around to Jay and Tom, even though they look scared now, we're all clinging onto each other as if this was our last day alive. 

Another buzz. Static. Broken voices.

"Get. Students. Out. School"

Static again. This wasn't some weird and stupid drill, this was real. We were under attack. And this hellhole wants us to leave this place. Smart move, really smart.