Hide & Seek (On Hold)

Chapter 1

My name is Annabelle Wattor. I live in the now ravaged, destroyed Detroit. When the first nuke hit New York we felt it 5 minutes later. It started with the power. My mom, Alex looked outside.

"Honey come here now," she said and opened the curtains. I looked outside to downtown and noticed all the lights out. My mom walked over to the front door and looked at me. "I'll be right back, I'm going to get some food we might be in here for awhile"

I nodded and fixed my dark brown hair. I suddenly heard a shout and a gunshot. I ran outside to see what was going on outside and screamed as I witnessed our next door neighbor holding a gun to a young teen's head. The boy looked like he was 16, around my age. He had auburn hair and tan skin. He was being held by my neighbor in a chokehold.

"Stop!" I screamed and ran over to my them. The neighbor pointed the gun at me and smiled. "Can't you tell? The world I finally ending."

I backed up. He was probably on drugs. Suddenly the boy elbowed him in the stomach, making the man fall on the ground. "Get inside!" the boy shouted and took Annabelle's hand and ran inside the house.

"What the hell?" Annabelle said and opened the knife drawer, running into the kitchen. The boy followed her.

"Wait! I'm not going to hurt you!" he said and followed her.

"How do I know that I can trust you? After what I just saw?" she asked and walked around to the other side of the marble island. Suddenly she heard a slam on the door. And then another. Someone was trying to break in. Annabelle ran over to the window in the kitchen to open the curtain, but the boy pulled Annabelle back.

"Stop! He's going to see you!" Suddenly a bullet shot through the wood door, making splinters fly down the hallway. The boy grabbed Annabelle's hand and pulled quickly pulled her up the stairs. He pulled her into Annabelle's mom's room and shoved her in the closet. He went in after her and got in the closet, shutting it behind them. He looked at Annabelle and put a finger to his lips. Annabelle listened for a moment and heard the man walking up their wood stairs. Annabelle could tell he was checking the other rooms and was now in the room they were in. She heard the footsteps walking closer and closer to the closet until they were right in front of the closet door. The boy looked at Annabelle for a second and then suddenly hit the sliding door with such a force, making it fall on the man. The man shot through the door but missed the boy each time. The man pushed up on the doors making the boy shoot back and fall back into the closet. The boy rolled and slammed the man's face in the wall. Annabelle watched in horror and hid in the back of the closet. The man took the boy's neck and choked him, throwing him into the hallway. He stood at the top of the stairs with the gun aimed at the boy, just as Annabelle shot out of the closet and pushed the man down the stairs with all her force. The man flew down the stairs and into the door, making a vase fall on him. The boy ran down the stairs and took the gun from the man pointing it at his head. He looked at Annbelle for a moment.

"Now do you trust me?"