Radioactive

TEOTWAWKI

"And they all lived happily ever after, the end." Molly closed the storybook and smiled at the 2nd graders. A little girl raised her hand "Yes Hannah?" Molly asked "Are all of us going to live happily ever after?" Hannah asked "Of course sweetie." Molly smiled. The bell rang, and classes let out. Molly gathered her coat, purse, keys and made sure she had everything she needed. She got into her SUV and started to drive towards Lilac Middle School, where her son Henry was, waiting to be picked up.

Molly stopped at a sign on an empty road, she usually takes the long route as there is no traffic. Suddenly there was a thump on top of her vehicle. "Either the pidgeons are having massive shits or I've lost my mind..." Molly mumbled. She exited the vehicle and grabbed the parcel that had landed on it. "Hello?" She said to herself and brought it in. She began to watch the video on the way and was in tears by the time she arrived at Henry's school. Then someone knocked on her window. It was Marilla Torres, one of her best friends.

Molly rolled down her window. "Oh hi." She wiped her eyes. "Sometimes I forget you live around here." She said. Marilla noticed the parcel. "You and I got the same thing." She said. "But Molly, listen to me. Your son got in a fight. I saw him. He was hurt but you should've seen the other kid." Marilla continued. Molly glared at her friend and got out of her vehicle and said "Dammit he went and did it again." She began to walk onto the campus. "Again?" Marilla followed, holding her son Timothy's hand.

Henry stood, looking around for his mother at the playground bench. Molly approached him and said "What do you have to say for yourself?" Henry looked up at her and responded quickly "He asked for it. He had a knife mom and I wanted to protect Tyler." Molly looked up and nodded a little "Okay... wait, not okay why did he have a knife?!" She asked frantically. Her son shrugged. "Next time tell an adult please Henry instead of putting your life and your friend Tyler's life in danger. Okay?" Molly said. Henry nodded.

"Okay I'm going to go talk to your principal about that psychopathic child." Molly began to walk off but then four small rockets fired into the sky. A screen appeared in between them. Molly got on her phone and quickly called Magna. "Hey Magna, its Molly, I need you to come to Lilac middle school now." She said slowly. "Will do, be there in 15." Magna replied. "You might not have 15 min-" Molly began but her friend hung up. "Dammit!" She said to herself.

Ilian Lawrence appeared on the screen and began to speak. "Hello people of the universe. As some of you may know I, Eon, run the ANE company. We stand for A New Era. All we wanted is to cleanse our dirty world of its sin and awful people who pollute it. Having access to the worldwide nuclear weapons they will be launched in 48 hours, giving you 50 hours to live. Goodbye to the human race. This is TEOTWAWKI, The End Of The World As We Know It." Eon said and a clock with 50 hours to countdown began. Many people panicked. "Dear lord..." Molly said, looking at the countdown in the sky.

Magna drove down a busy road and had only caught glimpses of the screen in the sky. It worried her. She stopped at an intersection and saw a semi truck take out a bunch of cars. She gasped. Someone outside yelled "Whatever the hell we want!!!" And the man threw a Molotov. "Oh my god!" Magna said. Everyone was getting out of their cars, she did as well, then a truck crashed into her car. "What the hell is going on..." she mumbled to herself.