•Destruction•HS•

•Prologue•

~Lola's POV. ~

The world was still. Still and silent. My steady heartbeat the only sound for miles around; that's how it felt anyway.

Gunshots surrounded me but all I could hear was the sound of me and my heart nothing else, I knew they were there my brain just couldn't catch up.

War.

It was inevitable really, a hundred years had passed since the last world war and everyone had been expecting another even though nobody wanted it. A corrupted world always lead to it and everyone knew it but couldn't quite believe it. We had no escape.

Maybe it could've been different. Maybe it could've changed. Maybe peace could have finally come around. It didn't. Stubborn leaders would never lead to a change like that and anyone with a brain could see it.

Our new and improved technology had come to bite us back as it now worked to destroy us all. Death hovered in the air as more and more bodies fell carelessly to the ground. How could one more make a difference if so many were already gone?

All through this I stayed up in the tree where no one would suspect a person to be, too focused on their job of killing. I wasn't going to kill; I'm not a killer. They are though.

I was terrified of death if anything that was what scared me the most. Not spiders or being alone. Death. It was inevitable I would die one day but not now, not in this way, this was wrong.

I was adamant to stay alive. If it really came down to it I would have to kill someone. That was a last resort though. I'm not going to just join a fight I will never agree in. I'm 18 I shouldn't be here holding a gun much less watching people die.

I am staying alive.

I am determined.