A Child of Unknown Origins

everyone is gone

It wasnt until about three hours later that she woke up. I was scrolling through the television to see if anything has changed since this morning. "Find anything of interest?" matt asked while he plopped down next to me in his chair. "Nope, just a few reports of some odd creatures being sighted around the world. But that happens often anyways." I said, sighing as I turned off the t.v. I heard Hope start to stir, so i walked over to her. "Hey, don't freak out, it's me, Aduo. Now I know you hate me and all, but you're not going to believe this..but..uhm..the world is kinda ending, and I just needed to make sure you're okay and what not..."I started to say to her. "What..?".. She said, weakly lifting her head to look around, "why are you in my house? Where are my parents?...." she stopped suddenly and started to frantically look around " my parents! My brother and sister! I saw them! They just disappeared! What is going on Aduo?!" she pulled her legs up to herself and buried her head into her legs and started to sob. I looked over to matt for some help. He just gave me an apologetic look back. " Hope, As I was saying, its the end of the world...well pretty much, we still have seven years..." I started.
"Seven years?! What do you mean?" she interrupted me and started to cry even harder. I sighed and continued." look, God is coming back. Every christian has left already. Its just the non believers and the troubled ones left..so on that note, who do you know is left? There has to be someone." i stopped cause I noticed her looking at me with a look of pure disgust. Maybe I'm going at this wrong, I needed a different approach.."wheres your boyfriend, James? " matt chimed in, saving my ass. I looked at him with a look of thanks, he returned the look and winked. " you must be worried sick about him, where do you think he would be in a time like this. Has anyone tried to see if the phones work?" matt asked her, sitting down next to her and rubbing her back. I hadn't even thought of trying my phone, the last time I looked at it was this morning to see if Hope messaged me. I pulled it out of my pocket and started scrolling through my contacts to try and find someone to message or call. I settled with someone named Jim, who just so happens to be my boss, well used to, since I don't think too many people will be caring about their yard from now on. The phone rang then went to voice mail, I hung up before it started recording. I put it away without a second glance. "At least technology works." I said with a sigh of relief. "I almost thought I was going to be bored." I said with a chuckle. "What?" matt asked, looking st me confused. "Nothing man, nevermind" I said shaking my head. I got up and started messing with some ornaments on her entertainment center. "He's at his house." Hope suddenly pipped in. "Huh?" I said, I spun around to look at her." come again?" I asked.She got up and started collecting things from around her house. "He's at his house, we need to go there." she said without stopping, picking up what looked to be a bowl used for smoking pot. "Is that coming with us?" i asked. "Yeah, is that a problem?" she asked looking at me weirdly. "No, no not at all. Its actually quite the opposite really." I said shaking my head laughing. "Well we need a few items before we go." she said digging through some junk stuffed next to the couch. "What do you have in mind?" I asked looking around for what I thought might be needed." Food, of course. Weapons, a knife, water, blankets, pillows, and rope if we can find any." she said heading towards her room. "You head to the garage there's a few weapons in there." she said disappearing around the corner."where? i asked. "Check the save, the code is 272,matt! I need your help " she said. I headed towards the garage while matt scrambled out of his chair to go grab the necessities.