NINETEEN FIFTY-NOW

Boom

"This is insane."

"Would you calm down?"

Bobby cleared his throat and lifted his phone up, "I am calm... I've got like 2 bars here. Where is this place anyway?"

Jessica blew her hair out of her face, "I told you, it's over this way." She pointed straight ahead then to the right, "Or maybe..."

The sun beat down on the group of teens as they pushed their way through brush and trees. It was still only May, but it felt like summer had been here for weeks already. Some of the group had been to the abandoned bomb-shelter before. It had been locked up for years but recently a few kids had been able to crank the door open using a tire iron they'd found.

"Wait... there it is!"

"Finally" Scott groaned as he readjusted his backpack and the bottles inside clinked.

The seven teens approached the huge lead door and worked together to pry it open. It creaked open slowly.

Scott peered into the dark black hallway, "Is there even any power in there?"

"Yeah, we found these generator things that you can turn on," replied Jessica.

"They still work?"

"Yeah, I guess..." Jessica was interrupted by Evelyn pushing past her.

"This is gonna be lit, muthas!" Evelyn announced to no one in particular as her tiny frame disappeared into the darkness inside.

Jessica had known Evelyn since kindergarten. Even though Evelyn's family were very strict, she was the wild one. Always getting her and Jessica into trouble. Jessica didn't mind though. When Evelyn was around, you knew good times were to be had.

"This is stupid," Safana said to Bobby.

"Yeah, like I don't want to survive all of high school and then die by misadventure," Bobby replied.

"Die by what?"

"Misadventure. I read it on a sign by a lighthouse once... well, a picture of a sign by a lighthouse that I saw on Reddit," he sheepishly admitted as they followed the group inside.

The bomb-shelter was built in 1959 as a backup command centre for the government during the Cold War. It was in the middle of the countryside, about a half hour drive from the city. If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't know it was there.

Even if it was well hidden, the inside was huge. A multi-story building that went down four levels. Full of common rooms, offices, kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. It was like a time-capsule from 1959. Nothing had been touched since the government abandoned it in the early 1960's. Old landline phones. Boxy old television sets and the kind of furniture the teens had only seen when their parents made them watch the first Back To The Future. It was kind of cool, but also kind of eerie.

~

The overhead lights crackled and suddenly illuminated.

"Let there be light!" Evelyn jumped on a couch in the huge lounge area they had discovered using their phones' flashlights.

"This places is IG gold, hey Adam?" Alissa leaned into Adam.

Adam was constantly teased about being Instagram Famous. He'd been posting pics and videos online since he was 13 and a few had went viral. People would stop him in malls and in restaurants and ask to have their picture taken. His friends didn't mind but they did enjoy making him feel uncomfortable about it with some jokes. Being tall, nice, good looking and pretty good at school meant they had to find SOMETHING to make fun of. It was their duty as his friends to mock him any way they could.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool," Adam replied as he popped open the camera on his phone and looked around for good lighting.

"I brought a bluetooth speaker. Who's got a decent playlist?" Jessica held the speaker in the air and looked at the others.

Bobby pulled out his phone, "I just made one for tonight."

"NO", Evelyn shot back and stood up from the couch.

"No, what?"

"I'm not listening to a playlist you made, Geekboy!"

"Fine. Play what you want."

"I will. I'll make a fire playlist right now"

Evelyn pulled out her phone, tapped the screen and looked at it confused, "Spotify isn't loading on my stupid phone."

"Yeah, I don't have any service at all in here," added Adam.

"OH MY GOD, ADAM! Will you actually NOT post a pic today??" Alissa teased.

"Shut up, A," Adam smiled back.

"It's probably because we're in, you know... a bomb-shelter?" said Bobby.

"Thanks, genius," Scott mocked him.

"Buuuuut... I already downloaded my playlist, so..." Bobby waved his phone in the air.

"Urgh! Fine. It better not suck"

Bobby walked over to the bluetooth speaker and connected his phone. Soon the room filled with music.

~

With no windows it was hard to tell what time it was. Empty beer cans and an almost empty bottle of vodka sat on the table. Alissa was curled up with Adam on one of the chairs. Scott and Jessica pretended to talk to each other on some old telephones on a nearby desk. Safana lay asleep on another couch using her hoodie as a blanket. Bobby flipped through the songs on his playlist.

"Holy crap, Bobby... pick a song!" Evelyn yelled from the middle of the room where she had been dancing alone.

"You know what? This night has turned out better than I thought it would," Bobby confessed without looking away from his phone.

"Ha! I told you, Bobby! Tonight is going down in histo..."

Suddenly the room shook. The bottle of vodka fell over and drained onto the carpet. The lights swayed and flickered.

Then everything went silent.

"What the hell was that?" Jessica spoked with a shaky voice.

Scott, pushed himself up and away from where he was slumped against the wall.

"I have no id..." Scott tried to reply but was cut off by a high-pitched whine.

Then came the boom.

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