The Basement

"Come on!" mom said

Something exploded near, and I knew they had come. I knew there was nothing I could do now. I had to get to that ship now.

"Quick!" mom said histerically "Come with Chili! Quickly!"

I called  Chili and with his tiny dog paws he came. He had been barking. I ran to the basement, with Chili following. There was mom and Maryanne at her side.

"Quickly!" she shouted "Come in!"

I took Chili in my arms and entered the basement. Dad had made shure it was the safest basement  in the whole town. Everyone had a basement, that was practically a refuge for the family. In other words, it was practically a panic room. Dad told us he wanted us to be safe. He was a soldier, so he isn´t with us, but in a card said he would come. He had to.

Mom closed the doors and activated the security system.

Welcome said the security voice. You have entered the basement. Processing security.

We all sat down, hopefully waiting to the response. We felt a vibration, and it was obviously another bomb. Maryanne started to cry.

Security system charged succesfully said the voice enjoy your basement!

Mom started breathing again, and Maryanne stopped crying.

"How can we enjoy staying in here?" I said "It´s horrible"

"We can change the background" mom said "What would you like? A forest? A desert? The ocean? whatever you like"

" How about the butt of an elephant" Maryanne said, giggling

"But i don´t want to wake up and see the butt of an elephant!" I said laughing "What if it poops?"

"We can put the movie of an elephant pooping in the background" Maryanne laughed

"Girls, really, a pooping elephant in motion is disgusting" Mom said

Maryanne and me bursted in laughs. Mom didn´t understand why we were laughing. She sometimes said funny stuff which she didn´t notice that they were funny.

The communication screen ( sort of a TV but it just turns on for emergency stuff) turned on. Me and Maryanne stopped laughing. This thing just turned on for serious stuff, that were normally really bad news. Like when North Korea destroyed the Phillipines years ago, before the struggle started.

A man appeared in the small CS (communication screen) and started speaking.

"The Death Slayers have taken over Manhattan. The government is rescuring small towns, by now, if they can defeat the Death Slayers in your town. If not, sorry, you´re on your own. Whatever happens, your town destroyed or not, keep on your basements, what ever happens don´t ever leave them. Wait for the ship."

And that was it.

Poor people in Manhattan. They would not come from them. Left to die I thought. But what happens if they come where i live and take over the place? Would we would be left to starve? Because if we don´t leave the basement in 5 months, we would start to starve.

Stop I told myself. Don´t be negative that won´t happen, right? Dad would come.

And this reminds me to the ship. It is kind of a militar airplane that its supposed to go to every town and rescue the people its next stop was here, but it never arrived.

"Mom" I asked nerviously. I was afraid of what the answer could be. "Why didn´t the ship came?"

"Maybe it´s on its way" Mom said, a bit shaking. She was nervous. "It would come, and get them out of here" I looked at her. Now that I saw her clearly I could tell she wasn´t nervous. She was afraid. Afraid that they wouldn´t come. That they would leave us here to die. That the monsters would come and kill us. And that blew my hopes away.

Mom was aware of the oportunities we had to survive. 90% of them were that one way or another they would come to rescue us. And then the other 10%. It meant the monsters take over the town. And we die.

Don´t think about that I ordered myself It would make nothing but worse.

The Death Slayers are on this village but they haven´t conquered it. The government would kick their asses out of here. Their six big yellow eyes would burst in tears, and we would see their enormous hundred-teethed scream in dispair and they would throw their weapons and their little legs would run as far as they could. I smiled at the though.

Don´t get so excited I told myself they would rescue us but it won´t be like that. But if they don´t? a annoying voice say in my head.

OMG. Why am i so bipolar?

"Want something to eat?" asked my mom.

"Oh no" Maryanne said sarcastically "You won´t prepare it, right?" Mom rolled her eyes.

Mom was many things, but not a chef, and less a housekeeper. She was a succeding lawyer who had never been in a kitchen. And yeah, sometimes she prepared milk. Let me tell you that juice and lemon doesn't have a good flavour. She didn´t even put the milk recipe (the one that comes in a can).  Dad at least knows how to prepare milk.

"My food isn´t that bad" She said. Chili started to bark.

"Because you haven´t tried it"  I said. Mom frowned.

"Of course girls, i don´t want to try how really bad my food is, so we´ll use the instant chef app."

Mom turned on the tablet and connected it to the Basement and in some seconds there was pizza in the instant chef oven. Chili was barking even lowder.

But before I could get a piece I heard a boom and the CS turned on.