Who We Really are

Chapter 1

*A.N. So here is the first chapter. I love quotes cause I'm a nerd like that. Anyways ill have a quote for each chapter. So here's the first chapter quote and first chapter. "

Change your thoughts, and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale

Chapter 1

I feel like I don't know who I am anymore. When I was little girl I used to ask if I could have everything I would see. "Daddy I want a pony, mommy I want a doggy, grandma I want the barbie cruise ship." I would throw a fit if I didn't get it, not realizing how much I already had. I would embarrass my parents in the middle of a store. But now, now I live in a frozen tundra that was once known as America. I have been on the run for five years with my companion Kennan. We have no idea where we are. All we know is that we are never safe and we can never be found by the Cloud.

The Cloud is run by humans, but I'm not even sure that's what we should call them. They are the definition of evil. They kill for fun, they are trying to kill off all of the Unsightly's like Kennan and Me. That's why we are on the run. When and if the Cloud ever found us we would be hung in front of everyone for public humiliation. Like they did in medieval times.

We never get the appropriate amount of sleep because every time we close are eyes we know that, that could be the last time we ever close our eyes for sleep. And when we go to bed we sleep on the cold ice floor that was once America. That was once a world. That was once a united, or somewhat united, country. I don't know how or why we survived against the apocalypse. It's almost like we were chosen. "I think I'm going crazy." I said to myself. Kennan was asleep, or I thought.

"Rehyn go to sleep." Kennan said in his deep voice that had changed over time. Just cause the world stopped doesn't mean that puberty did.

"How can I sleep when I'm going completly mad."

"Just try." And so I did. I cleared my mind and before I knew it my eyes were shut and I was floating in a sea I call my dreams.

***

I was in my house. Before everything changed. I was ten and asleep "Katy, Katy wake up we have to go." My father was yelling, which work me up.

"Daddy what's wrong."

"Kat I need you to go to the safe house."

"Daddy what's happening."

"Kat, baby I need you to stay strong for Rehyn."

"Ok, da-" I was cut off from a blood- curdling scream. I looked out my window. Red. Was all I saw, except for the bullet-sized hole in my window. I was cut and bleeding a little bit from the glass shards that flew onto my bed when the bullet escaped from the gun and shot - Shot something, someone, my father. Someone shot my father. And for the rest of my life I will never forget the sound of the bullet hitting my father and that bloodcurdling scream. The last noise that will ever come out of him.

My mother heard and came running into my room. She was pregnant but you couldn't tell. That was my baby brother or sister Rehyn -for a girl- or Ryan - for a boy.

"Hey, Katy, come here."

"Mommy what's wrong?" I said getting up, and being careful not to injure my fathers lifeless body. Then my mom crouched down and grabbed me by my shoulders and told me...

"Sweetie, we need to get to the safe house. Colton is there with his family. We will all be okay." She took me by the hand and we ran. Out the house and down into the cellar. Or what we call it ,The Safe House. When I saw Colton, I gave him a bear hug and let go. I guess you could say he is my best friend. We stayed there for about thrity minutes in complete silence. We listened to all the screams and what sounded like many, many bombs going off, but then complete silence. No more bombs or screams. Except a small beeping noise. "Mommy what's that." She gave Colton's parents a look and told me.