Polugy

C1: The Grand Escape to Space

Dear Diary,

Today is the 56th day here at the WNY19 Space Station, the food and drink supply is still quite good, but I have a feeling they'll have to put us in cryosleep soon. There are many of us and not enough nutrients for the next 100 years or so. I'm lucky though, I get to stay with my family, they help me go through the hard times. They want what's best for me and hired an okay therapist up here, mainly because not many good ones got the opportunity to board a space station. She'll never help me get over the pain of losing all my friends+ my sister due to the Polugy. I miss her, just the thought of leaving her on Earth to rot terrifies me, I feel guilty even if we tried EVERYTHING to help her.

Here's what I think will happen in the near future, I've never admitted this because I'm scared it's the truth but here it goes: they will put all of us in cryosleep while they work trying to find a new planet for us to move into. We will wake up after many, many years (I think over 100) in a new planet where we will get another shot at surviving. I truly hope that we don't destroy that new planet as we did to Earth. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Many people call me crazy for thinking this, but deep down I know they feel the same way.

I'm signing off for now, Bella Williams <3

January 16th, 2064

"Mom! Ii-ii-t's A-aa..nnah, Anna! She's coughing blood!!" I screamed on top of my lungs, I was really frightened but trying to hide it in order not to scare my sister.

My mom rushes to our room to see what's wrong, she finds Anna lying on the floor, pale white and coughing up blood, I was right next to her but not too close to not get contaminated. She gets quite close to give a checkup, she's no expert but it's her daughter; she has to do everything she can to help. She's very confused, she guesses it's a disease but not very sure. It just happened like that, one minute she was fine and the next... well... Before we get the chance to do anything we hear a very loud beep, almost making us deaf. My parents and I rush outside to see what's going on. There's a huge machine UFO/ space station looking, we were very confused until the speakers gave an announcement. Everyone came running close in despair with fear written all over their faces.

"Citizens of Georgeville, listen up we don't have much time. All of you who are left are lucky survivors. Earth is dying due to pollution and there's nothing we can do about it. We've foreseen this some time ago and prepared space stations. Earth will not be survivable by the end of the day; we humans are already getting affected so we must take action right now! Since there aren't many survivors in this area all of you can board, we will depart in 10 minutes so get everything you need. Anyone who is already affected with symptoms of coughing blood may not board, there is no cure and they can contaminate you. I advise you to say final goodbye and gather some belongings, you won't be given a lot of space in the WNY19SS, so pack wisely."

My mom went running to chief there, she was in despair and couldn't believe my sister had to be left here on Earth. She screamed and screamed and screamed, I felt like doing the same but I knew that by doing so fear will take over me. Her screaming had no effect because everyone was screaming on top of each other, it was chaos. I knew that I wouldn't have any effect on saving my sister so while everyone was outside I went to my house for a few seconds. I sat on the couch and closed my eyes, took a deep breath in and a deep breath out. I forgot about what was happening outside, it really helped me. When I got snapped back to reality I went to the door to my room, my sister was lying down on the floor next to a big pile of blood. She wasn't dead yet; she was quite out of breath, pale white, half-closed eyes and her hands playing with a strand of hair (it's what she does when she's nervous). I still couldn't believe what was going on, my heartbeat was irregular, my face was pale white, I had cold sweat all over my body and I wouldn't blink nor speak. I didn't want to scare my sister, so I stopped everything and gave a small smile, half nervous grin half smirk.

She turned to me and tried opening her mouth to say something, she was in difficulty too.

"Bel, amm I-ii going to be--" she took a deep breath "alright?"

It was written all over her face that she was scared and had a million other questions. I couldn't tell her the truth; I don't want to put her in misery during her last few minutes.

"It's going to be alright Anna—soon enough you'll be in paradise. Let me just tell you something, I love you so so much with all my heart; I know that this morning I said otherwise but I was just caught up in the vibe. Don't worry, that loud beep you heard was just an ambulance, you're not the only one coughing blood."

I sang her a lullaby and closed my eyes to not see her die right in front of me. By the end of the lullaby, she was dead and I had tears running down my cheeks, I was breathless. I took some things and I left my house without looking back. My parents were hugging right at the doorway, they were frozen and couldn't go in to see Anna's dead body, I knew they wanted to though. We held hands and embarked the space station, it looked so futuristic and it had really relaxing music which helped soothe my nerves. There was a long line with many people trying to see what was in the space station. My feet were getting tired so I sat down and leaned against the wall. But then my parents pulled me back up, it was finally our turn to go in...