Where'd Everybody Go?

Dalton woke up in his room after having taken a nap in the middle of the day,thinking everything was okay. . .but it wasn't.The sky looked exactly like it did about five minutes after the sun sets on a regular day, dark with just enough light to see in front of you and a few feet in every direction, but not enough to see to the horizon. Dalton sat up slowly and stretched, thinking it was morning. . .but he was wrong. The clock beside his bedread ten o'clock in the morning; Dalton wasn't convinced. He thought it was just another joke his brothers were playing on him and thought nothing of it as he stood up and got dressed for school. Dolton pulled on a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt along with his black DC shoes. He walked to the bathroom, fixing his hair and brushing his teeth before walking downstairs and grabbing something to eat, not even noticing the turned over chair in the living room where his mother usually sat reading her book.

"I'm going to school," Dalton said, his voice slightly echoing through the house as he picked up his back pack, throwing it over his shoulder and walking outside his house and to the sidewalk. It felt a little cool outside to him which was a little odd since it was the middle of August. Wasn't it suppose to be hot? Dalton walked down the sidewalk with his head towards the goround and counting the steps he took before hearing a slightly loud ROAR echo through the eintire neighborhood. Dalton jumped from it and looking back and forth down the street a moment before seeing trash being pushed around by the cool breeze almost ever ten seconds.

"What the..." Dalton jumped when he heard the roar again, almost like the roar of a fire. He stood therea moment, trying to figure out where it came from before he realized it came from behind him; no. . . above him. Dalton looked over his shoulder slowly, his body slowly turning with him. He looked up at the half dark, half light sky and saw a giant meteor close to Earth. So close close he thought if he reached up, he could touch it. Wait a minute. Where was the sun? How was that giant meteor giving off head and light? Then it hit him. The decaying ball of fire in the dark sky was the sun, not just a meteor. Dalton's jaw dropped and he ran back to his house, getting in and closing the door.

"Mom! Dad! What's going on!?!" He shouted, waiting for an answer as he quickly closed the door tight. "Mom? Dad?" he repeated, slowler, getting off the door and looking behind him to see a dark shadow. "Gah!!" Dalton shouted from the figure and turned around, covering his eyes a moment before slowly looking back behind him. The dark figure was gone and Dalton quickly ran over to the television and turned it to the news channel. It played the audio for the channel and sometimes the picture but it was staticy. He tried to listen but the static was hard to hear over. Dalton caught a few words and that was all he needed to hear. Sun dying, dark shadow creatures taking over, people disappearing mysteriously, man kind coming to an end. Dalton's eyes were wide with shock as he turned the television off slowly and backed away from it.

"Am I the only one left? It can't be," he said, running over to the kitchen and unpacking his back pack before stuffing all the food and water into it that he could, running around the house for anything else he might need. If he was the last human alive, he needed to be prepared for anything that that came after him. He stuffed a thing of matches in his pocket and took the '45 pistol from his dad's drawer in his room along with a thing of bullets his mother kept in her underwear drawer before stuffing the bullets in his bag and the gun in the back of his pants. Dalton had watched enough crime and spy movie to know where to put a gun to conseal it and he hoped he was correct. The teen kept a flashlight in his hand before stuffing it into his back pocket and walking out of the house, down the street. "I need to find other people," he said as he walked, trying to convince himself he wasn't the last alive.

Salton walked for a while before getting to the school. The place looked completely deserted, no lights were on, a few of the windows were broken out and part of the roof was caving in. How long was I asleep? he asked himself, leaning on the fence that separated the school and himself. Dalton looked at the place where he used to play jump rope as a kid and sighed some before a small hullucination appeared. It was two little girls in white dress holding a rope and Dalton in the middle, jumping as the girls sang a familiar song before fading away. It's ending... the littler him whispered, his voice a little raspy. Earth is going to be no more...the little him added before giving off a dark little laugh and fading away.

"Oh, this is creepy," Dalton said before he started down the side walk again.

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