"Wait. You knew her?"
"I knew all of them. Or at least I thought I did." She shook her head. "Once. A long time ago."
"What were they like?"
"Well," She pauses, a strange smile spreading along her face, "They were going to change the world."
We both leaned back against the wall as we watched the world burn.
"But instead they destroyed it." She laughs. "How funny."
I look at her from the corner of my eye. "Yeah. Funny."
"More whisky?" She offers me the bottle. I tilt my glass towards her.
"What else is there to live for?" I grin and she fills my glass. I raise the glass up and take a swig. It burns and makes my throat clench. My lungs seem to catch on fire and it splashes into my stomach, making it gurgle. "You know. I really would have wished to at least have had sex before dying. Now, I'm just sitting here. With a stranger I met half an hour ago, drinking for the first time in my life. What a mood."
"It's the end of the world. For all you know, we're the last ones alive already." She raises her own full glass and clicks it to mine. "To the inevitable, probably painful, death by radiation poisoning. If only our president wasn't a piece of shit."
"Here here." I take another swig. Grabbing at the wall, I pull myself up and look out at the distance. The mushroom cloud is only growing. The foul stench getting stronger. I raise out my thumb like I saw in fallout. The cloud is definitely getting bigger and it started bigger than my thumb. The heat wave will be here in about 10 minutes. The woman whose name I have yet to learn pulls me down to the ground.
"Why would you stand for the end of the world? Might as well be comfortable." I fall down next to her and we scoot close under the blanket.
"This'll be the last thing we'll ever feel before the pain of death." I sigh and lean my head onto her shoulder. "What a shame. We could have been friends if this had never happened. I wonder where our lives would have gone."
"No use in living in the non-existent future. Might as well live now." She rests her head on top of mine. "So get comfy."
"Thanks."
We fall silent and listen to the deafening sound of death. I'd never known what true silence was before today. Humans never know how to shut up. But it isn't just that. Electronics always buzz. Just buzzing constantly. And now? Nothing.
"What did you want to be when you grew up? Where did you actually end up?" I ask, my voice striking against the silence.
"I had always wanted to be a super hero. It was this big goal of mine, butt then I found out superhero don't exist so I settled for doctor. As for where I really am. Was. Where I really was was falling college. Wasting money. But I suppose none of that matters now. We're gonna die anyway." She sighs and slumps against me. "This sucks."
"Yeah. Yeah it does." I go silent again.
The air starts to get warmer and we both can tell it's about to end.
"Have you ever kissed a girl?" I look up in surprise at the woman.
"N-no. I haven't."
"Well you will now." She leans down and presses her lips to mine and I feel her relax as she pulls away. "I'd never kissed a girl until now either. It felt nice."
I kiss her again. "Might as well make use of the last few moments."
Her eyes arm to light on fire and she rolls on top of me.
We roll around on the ground, our mouths interlocked, waiting to die. At least the lat few seconds would be fun.
Then it wasn't.
The world seems to catch on fire and freeze at the same time.
I can hear screaming.
It doesn't sound human.
Something wet covers me.
The world goes black.
It's all over.
