The Dark Of The Sky || l.s.

Life wasn't always this way. Life used to be full of light and happiness and peace. A world that had status and had order. A world that was functional. Green grass amd beautiful flowers, buildings towering and shining within the sunlight. Solar energy. No one knows what good they have until something thats so common gets taken.

For the human race, that was the sun. Well, sunlight, to specify. A solar ray from the sun blew up, leaving the earth in a giant bubble so to speak of dark cloud mass and a never ending fog. Most people would have thought that this would be the end of the world or the start of an apocalypse. No.. The sun still brings heat and there was still time and there was still work and business. They just had to use resources for their light whereas the sun and the moon just couldn't supply that anymore.

The world was in shambles for the first twenty years. Everyone had a widespread panic across the globe and no one knew what to do. Death rates went up within those years. People either going on a rampage or literally killing themselves because they didnt want to witness the worlds end and wanted to go out their own way in their own accord.

Thankfully the human race was designed and grown to learn to adapt to certain circumstances and be able to handle themselves in a way that would keep civilizations going and keeping humanity under control and not go extint because of this major change.

This lasted fifty six years. Its normal now. There's lights everywhere to illuminate the streets and the towns and they are timer based. Once it hits eight thirty at night in time zones around the world, their lights shut down. Its as if there's a curfew.

Louis never really liked the change. He was born in darkness and he wanted to know what light looked like. Not the light from the streets or the lights in their house or the spark of light that flows from the tip of a candle or the fire ignited in the fireplace for light and warmth. He wanted to see natural light. Sunlight. There weren't even pictures that he could see. They're all in a museum and seeing as he was in a family of seven, being the only boy, money was hard to come by and he couldn't waste fifty pounds on something that he won't have proper use for.

People have to pay money for the good things in life while the rest are left sad with an empty feeling in their hearts and soul.

Louis tried getting a job but it didn't work too well. People who were impaired even a little bit had trouble finding work. Louis needed glasses to focus and if he wanted to work, he couldn't have the disability of not being able to see properly. The lighting seems to play tricks on the eyes as is for people with normal vision and no one wants to hire him. He's visionally impaired and inexperienced. He's screwed.

Its the time of day, or should he say night because that's how it always is, when Louis has to go out for food. They don't buy groceries for the whole month like most do. Jay gives Louis a hundred and fifty pounds every three days to go to the store for food and a case of water for the next three days. A hundred and fifty pounds doesn't get much food so Louis tries to buy the large family meals for them and nothing that they don't need. Three dinner meals, eggs and toast and a pancake mix for breakfast, a case of water, maybe milk and orange juice if they're out already, and if he has enough money he'll buy things they could eat for lunch and snacks. Sometimes that's unlikely. Two meals a day and leftovers are what they try to eat. If they have leftovers. It sucks but they get by and the girls are in school, Louis is in school, when Lottie is old enough to work and go to school at the same time she will. The extra money will be nice. They're doing alright. Dan, his step father, had a job he worked 'night' shifts on but that was shit pay, below minimum pay as was his mothers.

Louis walked into the store, the lights illuminating every aisle and its the only thing normal about the whole town. Apparently the store didnt change at all from when the outburst happened all those decades ago. Looking around, Louis saw familiar faces and just gave a small wave whenever someone would make eye contact with him or when they would initiate a hello first. He went straight to the frozen section to count the meals and use his calculator to add up the totals of everything.