Look Alive, Sunshine(a MCR fanfic)

Just the beginning

"Okay everyone, I want you to turn to the t.v. please, and take notes on the video today. You will be graded on participation, so no slacking!" Mrs. Jaklin warned. With a sigh, I turned my desk and took out a piece of paper along with my pen. The opening credits were loud, hurting my ears till I heard Mrs. J cuss under her breath and turn it down. The class lights went out as soon as the actual movie/ documentary started. It opened with a scene of a field of flowers and a womens voice saying that that image was taken only a few months ago, though everyone knew it had to either be fake or at least 2 years old.

"And this can all be saved, along with lives, if you do what we ask you. We here at Better Living Industries are here to protect you, to shelter you, and to be your friends. We have already saved millions, and we want to save you too." came the voice from every video. It was always a lady with a calming voice that always put me on edge. Like she was lying. I zoned out after that, all the stupid propaganda shit flowing to one ear and straight out the other. I did catch a few things and wrote them down, but never really payed attention to what I wrote. It could have been gibberish(my favorite language) for all I knew. At the end of class, I turned in the paper, and walked out, immediatly looking around for Gee and Kat. Instead, I was pushed by the croud of people to my locker before I found them. No matter I thought.

"Yea, I heard their coming, for real this time. I mean, I really wanna fight, so they better be coming. They haven't met sexy and strong in the kind of magnitude that I got." I over heard Jake Spoots say as he passed my locker. I turned and tried to tell what in the hell he was talking about, but of course, as soon as I wanted to know he walked away. I slammed my locker and turned, almost running into Gee. She had a huge grin on her face, wearing another band tee and black skinny jeans, Kat behind her with a purple shirt and regular blue jeans on.

"Sup you losers!" I said, hugging Gee. She pulled back to give me a face.

"Fine, never mind. I just won't talk to you all day you meany." She said, walking away. Immediatly I felt terrible, and desperation took over. I needed her to talk to me, she and Kat's conversations with me were the only thing that I went to school for.

"No! I'm sorry Gee! Really! Please talk to me, I'll die if you don't!" I practically yelled at her. Then I knew what to do. I ran in front of her, then turned and made the stupidest face I could come up with, including squishing my nose and squinting my eyes. She and Kat burst out laughing, causing everyone to witness my newest sexy face, but I didn't care, cause Gee hugged me and said all was forgiven. We walked to our next class together laughing so hard Kat was crying. The class was exactly like the one before, except no quiz. So naturally, Gee, Kat and I said screw it and started talking in the back.

"So what exactly am I supposed to do with my newest crush? I mean, I don't want to go up to him and seem wierd and geeky, but I'm tired of admiring from a distance. I want him to like me to." said Kat. She was always stressing over male problems.

"I really don't care Kat, I'm sorry." said Gee, though she was smiling, so she was obviously joking. Kat lightly slapped her arm, making Gee pretend to be hurt. I started chuckling at their strangness before I realized I would have done the exact same thing.

"Well, I have no idea. I really don't worry about these things Kat. Maybe ask Frosting?" I asked, talking about our friend Faustine. She'd helped her with those problems before.....great story.

"Yea, maybe." she said before turning to check if the teacher was watching us.

"So, do you really think BL/Ind. are coming? or not?" asked Gee.

"Probably not Gee. I mean, they keep telling us they will, but we're too unimportant to worry about. If they do get here, then we're probably the last place they stopped at." I said, watching Gee as she started drawing the outline of yet another wolf drawing. That chick had mad drawing skills! Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kat nod her head, watching Gee too. Gee looked up and flipped out, hiding the picture in a folder while accusing us of extreme creepiness. Kat and I just laughed at her face till the bell rang, signaling for lunch.

"Finally, this kid is STARVING!" I yelled through the hals, getting more stares and glares. We laughed till we noticed lunch was this discusting mix of potatoes, corn, gravy, and popcorn chicken that was never cooked right. We all grabbed pb&j's before grabbing a table for ourselves. Then, we went to the library just to sit and chat with less people to talk over. After two more terrible hours of neither of them in my class, I walked hame, after telling the girls I couldn't hang out again today. I gained two puppy dog sad faces, giving one myself, before I turned to leave.

Home was the same. Nothing to do except for sit outside in the sunshine, though all the videos had said to stay out of sunlight after 30 minutes, as we could get radioactive poisoning. At the though, I snickered and in my head cussed out all the damn people that thought they were better and put all us little people beneath them. Then, in my slight bad mood, took my shower and went to bed early, not eating dinner.

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The smoke was killing me, and so were the flames. I heard screaming, and what I thought were airplanes above me, but even surrounded by blazing flames, I couldn't see anything except for random shadows. Even those were slightly out of focus, like I couldn't quite see as well as I could. I tried blinking, only to start coughing from not moving. I tried standing only to find my legs on fire. I tried rolling, like they teach you at school when you're little, but I just ended up rolling into flames, catching more of myself in fire. I couldn't feel the pain, but a shadow of it, and it scared the shit out of me. Before everything went black, I heard the cruelest, but girliest laugh in my entire life. Then it changed. I couldn't breath cause I was drowning. I saw the red again, it was trying to get to me, but it couldn't get past white objects. They seemed to throw lightning bolts at each other.....but that made absoluetly no sense...did it? At the last second, I was saved, only to hear shouting and get splattered with blood. Looking around, I was appauled at what I knew my mind had conjured up. Everything was covered in blood, even the perfect white...people? They looked like people in halloween masks, and it was kinda confusing. There were bodies of dead people on the floor, and the feeling that I knew these people crashed into me, causing me to feel immense loss and pain.

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I woke up crying softly into my pillow. I sniffed and sat up, rubbing my sore eyes. Looking around, I realized I had yet another nightmare. With a sigh, I checked my clock, then groaned and lay back down. It was Saturday, so I could sleep in. I curled up, but it was like my mind was afraid to fall asleep, like I might see the last nightmare all over again. WIth an involintary shiver, I pulled on more covers and closed my eyes, ignoring the feeling of fear I felt. I was back out in a few minutes, with no dreams at all this time.