The Disease

Chapter 5

Grace drove us home at about 6 in the afternoon after all the heartbreaking phone calls and the mourning. We'd also found out what had happened. A little while after my mother got out of bed, he had a heart attack. We learned that if we had found him even minutes earlier, they could've saved him. That's where I was thinking. Since Grace and I decided to wake Kruze and dad up earlier, could we have saved him? If I told Grace that we should wake dad up first, would we be in his hospital room right now laughing? My thoughts were cut short as we approached the house. We went inside. It was pretty quiet. We all went to sleep early that night so we had time to realize what had happened only hours before. The next morning, Grace called the funeral home. She dialed the numbers and a few seconds later, she tried again."It's not working," She said quietly." We'll call tomorrow," Mom sighed. I sat down on the couch for a minute. Then I turned the tv on. The news was the channel that popped up. As I was about to change the channel, I heard the reporter say something about the phone lines."We've cut the phone lines all around the world. It seems a very powerful group of hackers and regular citizens have turned against their own people. They're recruiting millions everyday. These millions join because they have a new virus. Whoever has it will suffer for 24 hours until they meet their painful death."