Story's I wrote for class

The power outage

My city was a big one. Never quite, and once it is quite something wrong. You gotta love big cities.The sky is gray from the clouds like usual. The city is so bright you can't see the stars at night. It's brighter than my future. I was walking to my work. I like having the night shifts because most people are too busy to notice me. I work out of sight of people too so it works in my favor that people don't see me. I don't like being in the public eye. I feel like they are watching every move I make and that if I do something
wrong they know. Even if I don't know them. That's called having anxiety for you. It sucks. When I got there I went to the back of the store. I work as someone who keeps track of what we have in storage. I was counting how much strawberry we have at the store. The power went out. "Again?" I mumbled while I walked to the breaker box. I opened it up and flipped a few switches. Nothing. I walk to the front of the store to see what's going on. Nothing is working. The person at the cash register was trying to open it. I looked outside, and all the lights were off. Then it clicked on me, there was a city power outage. "That's not good" I thought to myself. I walk to the back of the store where we keep the drinks. I open the door and put my hand in there. nothing. I felt nothing with the temperature. it's not cooled. the power is out for real. "this is really not good" i mumbled out loud. If nothing is working then we can't have fresh food, and it would most likely expire. I need to stop thinking about that. it's just going to make me stressed out. I walk out of the store. people are looking around to see what happens to the lights. I walked home. There are more people out on the streets now. still trying to find out what's happened. When I got to my apartment I saw a group of people at the front guess yelling at the poor person working that day. I walked up the stairs. it was kinda hard to see with the lights out but I made it. I can make out some silhouettes walking out of their rooms wondering what's going on. Someone out there must think it's like the zombie apocalypse. That poor person. I walked into my room. It was pitch black because I kept the curtains closed. Even with them open it still be dark in here. I pull out a lighter. So I can see around and light some candles. Then I heard my pocket radio go off. "There is a world wide power outage. Please be worn. We do not know when this will be fixed. We will inform you when we find a way to fix this. We do not know how this was caused or how long this will last. Now back to the brain rot to the young Audience!" I turned off the radio. This is going to be a long week. Then I realized,I can't go on my phone too much. Without power I can't charge my phone. So I won't be able to know most of the news updates. Why did this have to happen this week? I go and lay down on my bed to sleep. It's not like my job will know I'm missing. I close my eyes. This week will be a long week. I woke up and most of the candles were out. I open the curtains so light can come in. There was already a crowd of people on the street doing stuff. They are probably heading to work or something. I never really noticed it before but the city is kinda pretty. I mean the noise kinda sucks. It's never really quiet. But the clouds are gone. Or smoke is gone. I could never tell the difference between the two. They kinda blended together in my eyes. I just hope today will be different. I walked out of my apartment. There was no one in the halls today unlike last night. I walk down the stairs. The person working today that look like the same as last night was not surrounded by people like last night. Good for them I guess. I walk out of the building. The city isn't as bright as it was the other day. You know now that all the lights are off. The air kinda smells cleaner. I mainly only came out to take a walk. The fact that there are no generators in this city just makes this so much worse. I need to stop thinking about this. I'm going to have a panic attack. I came out here to get fresh air and not think about this. I just hope this ends soon. I know I can live without power but people have adapted to living on it. At least the clouds are starting to clear or is that smoke. I don't really know and I don't really care. I think they're clouds at least. I can't really tell from how much smoke the city has. The crowd of people is getting bigger. It's like rush hour at a fastfood place but it's the streets. I don't like big groups of people. Too many people for my liking. By the time I made it back to my apartment the sun was setting. I decided I would go to the roof before going back to my apartment. It's not like I'll be gone for a while. I am still in the same building. I walk up the stairs to go to the roof. The building I'm in is weird. You have to climb a ladder at the top floor to get to the roof. There was surprisingly no one up here. I would have expended someone else to be up here. I look up to the sky. The sky was once too bright to see the start. The sky that was covered in clouds or smoke. It was gone. The stars are the only thing in the sky. The stars look like I could reach out and grab them. Maybe I should be living in the moment. Take a break from working and friends, And just think about me. I lay down looking up at the stars in this city for the first time. And just think about life.