My Fault

Prologue

       

I remember when they first came. It was a day like every other day, a moment like every other moment.

Luke, Sarah, Casey, Lulu, Sam and I were sitting where we always sit, eating a regular lunch. I was sitting next to the gate out of school; the same spot I had eaten at since year seven. I'm in year nine.

We were talking about how annoying it was that our English teacher kept us in late when they came in.

They just marched through the gate. Just like that. If the school wasn't a mass of rubble I would definitely complain about the security. Anyway.

Without a word one of the things just grabbed me by the back of the dress, I suppose because I was closest to the gate.

No one said anything, a few people scampered away, running to who knows where. Cold fear was rushing through me when I looked at it. There was nothing earthly about it. I'd read every alien book, every apocalyptic scenario, every sci-fi move. Nothing prepared me for this. It had skin so dark that it was like I was staring into the void. It had smooth sockets where there should be eyes and a smooth bald head. It's lips were the colour of dark blood, the only thing making any similarity to a person. It looked at me without expression, it just looked at me. Stared. I heard this ringing voice in my head. Raspy. Angry.

"What will it be human?" I say nothing, but I can already see the stupid look of fear on my face. It repeats itself, but louder, angrier, as if I should have known the answer without the question "Will you sacrifice yourself, to save your earth? We can take you and leave your planet undamaged, or you can chose to live and we will destroy this world?" I didn't know what to do. I like to think I panicked but deep down I know that it was just me. I am a selfish person.

"Spare me." It felt dramatic and strange coming from my mouth. I didn't even know I'd made the decision. The creature dropped me and looked at the others of it's kind. It nodded. A began to hear destruction. I felt destruction. Buildings crashed and people screamed. I don't know how or when or why but people around me began to fall, blood streaming from their chests. I felt as though everything were happening in slow motion, I turned to see Lulu, Casey and Luke look at me in terror before becoming another corpse among many. I know it's cruel, but all I could hear was Another One Bites the Dust, and for a moment I was amused. Until I felt a had close around my arm and haul me to my feet and out of the gate. Sam. She sprinted, half dragging me up the hill outside our school. I heard distantly an explosion before seeing, as if watching a movie. Sam fall to the ground, and me falling with her.

A/N Short chapters in this book (for now)! Sorry I've been offline for so long (even though I keep promising updates...). This is an original story and my first apocalyptic style book so I would love if you could give me any and all feedback. Have a nice day! - Faerie