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-How-

Wasteland. A giant desert. How? Less than 12 hours ago I was in my bed going to sleep.
"Why me?", I ask Mr. Charles.
"What'd you mean?"
"Why did you save me?"
"Oh.", he answered annoyingly, "I was in your town when I saw a house on fire. A woman came out screaming.
"Save my daughter,please." So I ran inside and grabbed you. When I can out of the house, the woman was gone. And that's how you ended up here."
"So what happened?", I asked, " How did the world, you know, end?"
"According to the radios before it happened, a nuclear war.", he answered strongly.
A nuclear war. So like the bombs. That means there's radiation in the air . So he did save me. He saved my life. I still don't understand why. Or how.
      That night, us three girls go to bed in the same room. I go back behind the curtains, Adrian behind other curtains, and same with the other girl. She out of all of us, seems the most fearful. Of what I don't understand. We're safe.
      I have a dream of what the world is like outside. It's more of a nightmare. My lungs burning from the poison air. I see my mother burning away in the fire. It's horrible. All of a sudden I hear a boom. I look up to see a giant rocket coming towards the ground. Right to where I'm standing.
     I close my eyes and wait for it to hit me. But it never does. I open my eyes to the real world. Or so I thought.