Last wish on earth

Chapter two

My head hurts,
My head hurts really bad
Something clicks.
I quickly stand  up from my bed, checking my pulse.
I'm alive, thats good. Perfect even.
I take a few steps to my mirror, examining every part of my body- gosh I look horrible, what happend yesterday? Did I get into a fight with my dad again?
My head hurts.
Why does my head hurt and why cant I remember anything that happend yesterday?
I slowly walk to my door, opening it as quite as possible.
I dont know what time it is, what if its late at night? I dont want to wake anyone up.
But as I opend my door slowly the bright light from outside flooded my room, so its already morning?
I take some steps outside my room and look around. Everything looks normal. But it doesnt sound normal, my siblings arent arguing about their time to play with a certain toy, my dad isnt screaming at his computer because he lost a game of charades and my grandma isnt  knocking on the ceiling with her walking stick because of the chaos going on above her.
It was quite, not even my older sister was making noises. Confused I go to the kitchen. Everything looks neat and spotless, as If the youth welfare office would be visiting like they do every week  to check on me and my siblings.
Why does my head hurt? I drink a glass of water but it doesnt get better, so I decide to go on a walk around the block, maybe fresh air will help. I am still confused where everyone was.
Did something bad happend? I cannot remember anything. Maybe its good that they arent here? Probably.
I quickly check every room of our house, even the basement- but why would they be in the basement? Who knows. A voice inside my head told me to check, maybe because it knew my despiration to find them. But the voice was
the ringing that appeared. I still go and check.
The basement is scary, I dont like going there but I want to find my family.
No luck.

Where in the world are they??
Why did nobody tell me?
Do they hate me now? Well yeah, I know that they do but so much to not even tell me where they go?
Is it because of what happend yesterday??
Ugh, my head hurts so much trying to think about yesterday. Why cant I remember?
I go outside to get some fresh air.
I shouldnt bother to find my family, they are probably having fun somewhere without me, lets just relax and walk.
As I walk a few steps I turn around to look at my „home"- if you can even call it that way. the other houses next to ours just looks depressing. The old, grey color was peeling off everywhere and in some ereas mold was forming. Everything seems broken and ready to be replaced. But nobody does so. Nobody paints the walls in a fun color or repairs the old windows with new glass.
Nobody cares to do so. Even if we wanted to we couldnt. My dad doesnt cares for stuff like that- "be happy that you have a roof above your head and food everyday", he says.
So we quit asking. Nobody can change his mind.
My eyes widend as I looked at the scenery infront of me.
What the heck is going on?!
The streets of the big city I live in are empty.
The streets are empty, the cars were all neatly parked at the side of each road, as if it was the middle of the night. But even then there should've been at least someone outside but there wasnt. Not a single soul was there.
Not only in my home but also outside?
What the freak is going on?
What should I do?

I feel my heart beating faster as I stumble to my neighbors house.
Should I really be doing this?
Is today some festival Im not aware of?
Either way, prevention is better than cure as they say.
So I take all my courage and ring the modern bell with a noble inscription of the River family.
From what I know, the family is very rich due to the father being a well known sculptor. I dont know much about the children exept that they are really spoiled and behave bad.
I step away from the big, also modern looking door frame, waiting to finally see a silhouette forming in the milk-white glass.
But nothing.
I ring again and again, looking at their red, shiny car which is as well neatly parked in their parking lot.
I feel my heart beating faster, sweat forming on my hands as I run to the other houses on my street. I knock every door of the houses, I ring every bell with no awnser.
Suddenly I see my father infront of me, everything was blurry,  we stand in the kitchen as he screams at me. Instead of listening to his furious words I scream- "I hate all of you! I wish none of you ever exsisted! I wish all human on earth to disappear!". Before remembering anything else from the previous day, I blinked myself back into reality.
Now it makes sense.

Actually- it doesntmake sense at all.
Did my wish really made everyone disappear?
Thats not possible!
It was just a stupid wish I said out of anger, I didnt mean it. Or did I?
My head starts to hurt again.
More than before.
What do I do? This must be a dream, right?
But I never know if I dream, I only notice it whenever I wake up so this must be reality.
How strange.
So here I am, standing in the middle of the empty street. Not knowing what to do.
But then I realize- I close my eyes and take a deep breath listening to the surroundings.
Nothing.
Not a single sound besides my loud breathing and chirping of birds filled the streets.
No kid was screaming, no cars were running and nature could finally heal.
I smile as I take another breath.
Nature can finally heal from the impact humans had on it.
For centuries human used and burdened the earth, tough it gave us so much, nothing was given in return.
Finally.
Maybe it wasnt that bad.
Maybe this was my wish, not for human do disappear, but for nature to heal and maybe only by letting human disappear this wish could be fulfilled.
But so why am I still here?
Shouldnt I be gone aswell?
If not all humans are gone, then maybe nature can't fully heal.
Maybe not every human is gone yet.
And maybe it is my destiny to make sure the earth, nature, is able to heal fully.
I smile to myself, running back into my house.

shit.
The door is looked.
what do i do now.
Without any supplise I cannot travel away to make sure earth can heal.
I scold myself as I think of a way to get back into my „home".
It couldnt be that hard?
I take a few steps away from the old door and run, slamming my shoulder into the door multiple times, hoping the door will spring open.
And eventually, I make it.
With one final slam, I stumble into the entrance, holding onto the counter to not fall.
I storm up the stairs which are leading into the empty apartment.
„Okay, so what should I bring?", I ask myself as I gather as many bags as I can, to pick the biggest one.
I observe every bag and finally I choose a big, dark blue bagpack my dad used to use for work. It was old and it clearly didnt look old but it was the biggest one I could find, so that will do.
„I should probably bring food...Money?No, I wont need that if no ones around.Lets take some spare clothes and uhhh oh yeah a torch and a knife, just in case.."
I finally packed everything I might need and take a final look trough my room, my eyes landing on a small wood box with a glass lid. Inside of the casket lays a necklace with a golden heart pendant, the one from my mother. She died when I was born so I have no memories of her, just old photos and this jewelry. I quickly run towards it and put the necklace in my pocket, I can't believe I nearly forgot an Item with so much value to me.
„Okay, l think I got everything I need now" I say to myself as I close the front door-
The journey now begins

A/N: Because of school I will probably not update that much but I still hope you enjoyed the first two chapters :)
Since I my first language is not english I may have some spelling mistakes- If you do find some please correct me! I would appreciate it🫶