This Is Reality

Chapter 17

~Dodger's dream~

"Enid!" I laugh as a threw a pillow back at my little sister, who is 5 years younger than me

"What?" She laughs, her hair a mess

"You invite your boyfriend to our slumber party?" I teased her

"Dodger! I don't have a boyfriend!" She crosses her arms in disapproval

I roll my eyes and smile, "You always say that, then I catch you kissin' the kid"

"That was one time...." She looks down at our pillow quilt

"One time ya say?" I ask standing up

She looks up at me and nods. I pick her up and throw her over my shoulder.

"Dodger!" She laughs, smacking me from my shoulder down to my ass

I laugh and spin around in a circle a few times, making us both dizzy. I playfully tossed her on the couch and sat on top of her.

"Get off Double D!" Laughing, she shoves me off. She knows I hate being called that

We playfully wrestled for awhile before we grew tired. We made our bed, shut out the lights and turned on Netflix. Enid took the remote and put on some kind of zombie show I've never seen before. These things don't scare me, nothing in horror/drama shows or movies do. By the time she fell asleep it was 12:30 AM. I shut off Netflix, tucked her in and fell asleep next to her.

I awoke the next morning before Enid did. She was out like a light, peacefully in her dreams. I went upstairs into the kitchen and made our favorite breakfast, chocolate chip waffles. It wasn't too long before she came upstairs probably from the smell of the waffles.

"Well good morning sleepy head" I smile to her, putting a plate full of waffles on the table

"Dodger it's 11 in the morning, why are we up?" Enid asks, rubbing her eyes

"It's almost time for lunch E..."

"But I'm tired..." She yawns, eating a waffle

I sit across from her, "You overslept, that's why you're still tired"

She shrugs and continues to eat her waffles. I take my plate over to the counter and turn on the news. Panic, urgent messages are flashing on the screen, people running around frantically. I quickly shut it off, Enid doesn't need to know what's going on yet, I don't even know.

"What was that all about?" She asks

"Eh who knows, probably somethin' goin' on elsewhere. No need to worry" I flash her a reassuring smile and check my phone to see what it was all about.

Nodding, Enid goes back to eating her waffles. I sit on the counter and go onto the local news website. All I read is about some outbreak and that everyone in the city is being evacuated. Me and Enid are quite a few miles from the city, we live on a ranch with no neighbors. I continued on reading other news websites and all they kept saying was 'major, deadly outbreak.' None of them said what kind though.

"Enid, stay here I'll be right back" I hop off the counter and throw on my boots

"What's wrong?" She asks tilting her head

"Nothin', I just gotta make a phone call. I'll be walkin' up and down the drive if ya need me" I quickly go out the front door and call up the news station

"Can someone please tell me what is goin' on!?" I ask

On the other side, all I could hear was screams and objects being thrown. I hang up and call another station.