Rapture

Chapter 3

I ran to the door and fiddled with the locks. I constantly turned back to where Elizabeth was stood statue like and distant. the final lock clicked open and just in time, the Angel was within touching distance of her. "Run!" I screamed but Lizzie wasn't listening she slowly raised her hand. My heart started pounding, Mum was gone I wasn't about to loose my twin sister too, I ran faster than I had ever ran before, everything was a blur but I knew where I was going. I crashed into Lizzy and sent us both flying into the couch.

The Angel stood confused staring at me. "Come with me" She said her voice was like a melody.

"Leave... Please!" I cried out in horror. The Angel smiled at me.

"Your salvation will come, and I will be here." She raised her head and stretched out her arms at took flight to the heavens.

I ran for the door again clutching my sisters arm in a tight grip though she managed to pull her arm free. "What is your problem!" She screamed at me, disappointment panted on her face she almost looked scared of me.

"She was going to take us away"

"To heaven!" She said cutting me off mid speech. "What the hell is wrong with you! Are you hoping to suffer in hell? If so then don't drag me down there with you." She stared at me blankly waiting for an answer. I had nothing to reply with. My hands were shaking my lungs were on fire and my heart was beating so hard I didn't think my rips could take much more.

I knew my reason for staying, I refused to take a gamble on whether I would live eternity in happiness or eternity with my Uncle. I wasn't ready for that risk yet. Elizabeth was right, she shouldn't be here. Nick was nice to her, she wouldn't care. To me ... Hell would be more welcoming if that was the option that meant he wasn't with me.

I contemplated my options until Dad made himself recognised. he grabbed Lizzy and started beating her while yelling swear words and threats. I wasn't in the mood to take anymore of this nonsense. Without thinking I ripped Elizabeth from his clutches and punched him in the neck, I heard it crack as he fell to the floor. Blood slat out of his mouth, he twitched for about a minute then stopped.

I turned to face Lizzy; she satred at me horror stuck, I was too. I knew what she was goin to do next. i closed my eyes and bowed my head waiting for the one person I cared for to run out the door and never see me again, and I deserved it.

"Thank you" She whispered and grasped me in a firm hug. I stood there frozen. she backed off and just smiled at me. I was baffled as to why she was still standing there and why she thanked me for killing our father in cold blood.

"but -b-b" I stammered to find words to say. She smirked.

"Have you seen out of the doorway?" I walked out of the door to the outside corridor all the flats where we live were still intact but that wasn't what she was talking bout.

The streets had blood everywhere; people were running indoors; screams could be heard from two blocks away and strange beings were running amok. They looked human but deformed as if the had been burned, whipped, beaten and much worse. more of them started digging out of the ground. it was like something from a Zombie Horror Film. One woman was running straight for one of the ground floor flats in the building we lived in, she looked quite formal but her clothes were ripped and i soon knew why, hands started reaching from the ground and full beings stared chasing her all of the clawing at her dress making fresh bloody rips, until Finlay a being only half out of the ground got it's hand firmly around her ankle. She collapsed onto the floor and the being stared pulling her into the ground she screamed louder than I thought was possible and she slowly sank into the earth below. When she had Finlay disappeared the hole that had been made started to bubble with lava and eventually was back to it's original sate.

It didn't take me long to put the two and two together. That was my second option ... Hell