When We Lost The World

Chapter 10~ Danielle

Chapter 10~ Danielle

Instead of heading straight to Quantico, Mr.Halinski wanted us to find a good place in DC to spend the night in. He said after today we all need some time to regenerate and get ready for what has yet to come. None of us bothered to argue as we piled into the Jeep which had taken up the job of being the replacement for our bus. That's probably for the better anyways, we don't want to drive all the way to Quantico with a big school bus that is bound to draw some extraterrestrial attention. But being in a vehicle that was much smaller then the bus meant that we eventually had to split into two mini-groups once Cara and Jensen officially decided to be a part of our group.

So now, as we drove deeper into DC, it was Joy, Jensen, Cara, and I in a Jeep as Mr.Halinski and AJ drove in a Ford truck just in front of us. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't an awkward silence hanging in the air right now but apparently none of us felt the need to break it. For all we know things could just get even more awkward and that's really not what I need right now.

What I need is Ryder.

It is ridiculous how much he had grow on me but I couldn't help but miss him with all my heart. If this apocalypse didn't happen I probably never would've talked to him. He wasn't really my type of person, at least I hadn't thought he was. Truthfully, I wasn't really planning on getting friends at all this school year. After I moved I was just kind of done. I wanted to finish up school and go to college or something. I didn't really have it planned out but I just knew that I was ready to get my senior year over with already.

I guess I got what I wished for; My senior year ended at the price of a alien apocalypse. And I had also gotten somethings I hadn't been expecting; three best friends and a teacher that I didn't exactly know how to categorize. For now I will just give him the title of my guardian because he's done one hell of a job protecting me and the others so far.

Well, except for Ryder but I definitely didn't blame that on the science teacher. He didn't sign up for this, none of this did. Ryder's death wasn't planned, it was just collateral damage in the eyes of the aliens.

My eyes couldn't resist flickering over to Jenson as I thought of Ryder's death. I couldn't help but partially blame the guy for helping end Ryder's death. Blaming it on someone just made it a tiny bit less painful for me. Of course I blamed the aliens for it too but Jenson was right here right now so it was just easier. I knew I was being cruel and even selfish but I'm a teenager and that's almost all we know how to do. We don't know how to survive an alien apocalypse and we honestly shouldn't have too, nobody should have to go through this.

None of us really had a say in this though so now all we could do was fight back. From the beginning that had just been my instinct to kill these things and not let them take my planet but now with Ryder's death I was seeing a new side to things. What was the point of fighting if we are going to have our lives end like Ryder's? I'm just not really seeing a point to all of this anymore.

Thankfully my pessimism was brought to a halt as Jensen slowed the Jeep until it came to a stop. In front of us AJ and Mr.Halinski came to a stop also which told me that we were somewhere that Mr.Halinski thought to be a good place to rest for the night. It was perfect timing too, the sun had set and we really didn't want to stay out and draw attention to ourselves.

"Alright, here we are." Cara informed us though I'm pretty sure we all already had figured that out. She was just trying to break the increasingly awkward silence which I guess I can understand.

Nobody said anything else as we climbed out of the car. I'm honestly not sure that I can talk yet without breaking down in tears again. I just hate feeling so weak and broken.