apocalypse || daybreakers

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CHAPTER ONE:

— welcome to hell.

"it's another beautiful day. eighty two- degrees of opportunity. the japenese club's,  'say saynora to gluten' bake sale is going on to raise awareness for the whitewashing of asian roles, in hollywood. so let's all bite into some mochi and give the japenese club a special arigato for our friends with celiac disease." principal burr said over the intercome of glendale high school.

a place of misery and fake pep.

"homecoming tickets go on sale this weekend. this years theme, 'ring, ring. who's calling? bling, bling.' remember every day is a chance to be great. as jay-z says, 'don't go with the flow, be the flow" burr finally finishes.

he never stops talking.

in all the 4 years i've gone to this school he never stops talking and he was somehow everywhere.

i sighed and placed my head on my hands. rubbing my the sleep away from my eyes and looked up at ms. crumble who was speaking.

her name isn't actually ms. crumble, i have no idea what her real name is. no one does. i heard she cried one time in class and then had to legally change her name because everyone called her ms. crumble after that.

"thank you, principal burr, for those inspiring words." she hit her hand on her leg and smiled at the class.

i could see hoyles roll his eyes at the teacher dressed in all pink. this made me roll my eyes, hoyles was like 20 and still in high school. also a total fucking jackass.

hoyles thinks he is the shit too, he's not. he is a fucking pedophile.

i took my gaze off of hoyles and glanced at turbo.

turbo.

the one guy i had actually connected with. but it was all fake. i learned that the hard way. you know the saying, "curiosity killed the cat?" it not only kills it but it crushes it.

the time we spent together was perfect, but all good things come to an end.

we make eye contact and i look away, a small blush forming on my cheeks. i can't help it. we spent everyday together for almost 6 months. i was in love with the giant jock asshole.

but that's a story for another time.

"olivia berry? olivia?" ms.crumble called on her. she instantly snapped her head to crumble and gave her an embarrassed little wave.

ms.crumble just smiled at the young girl and brushed off that she wasn't paying attention. and that's why ms.crumble was one of the favorited teachers in this hellhole. she didn't publicly humiliate kids.

"josh wheeler? josh wheeler? wheeler?" ms.crumble asked. josh sat there then turned around.

"hey, that's me. josh, not jaden. there are like 20 jadens in this school" he said and i rolled my eyes.

"let's hurry it up, j. we don't have all day" i yelled from across the room.

breaking the fourth wall is something you are not supposed to do in TV. but that's exactly what me and joshie are doing. cool right?

josh rolled his yes, "anyways parents think they're being unique, but its an army of vanilla. not like im anything special. i'm a c student."

olivia huffed, "is that important?"

"shut it berry"

"make me asswipe"

"i should have left you for ghoulie dinner!"

"oh please, i saved your sorry ass! they don't call me purge queen for nothing bitch face!" olivia argued back, "back to the flashback!" she yelled after.

josh turned again to his position, "c as in 'crappy'. c as 'in cannot catch a break'. c as in 'lets just see how bad things are."

he got up and walked over to my desk and waited for me to stand up, but as i stood up i said, "climate change deniers are standing waist-deep in hurricane water."

i grabbed my satchel as josh grabbed his back pack, "corporations make billions off nerd culture, making outsiders like the new insiders, leaving the truly odd with... no way to self identify."

"and little dictators with big egos? well they can launch a nuke with a tweet! and then one day they did" josh told our audience following behind me as i walked out of the now old and dusty building. there was a giant hole that formed in the wall making it easy for me and josh to walk out while still breaking the fourth wall.

"so whatever your problems were, dad won't spring for a larger data plan? mom won't buy that adorbs top at urban outfitters? you can't get that brand new iphone xr with super good camera quality for selfies?" i stopped and chuckled, "it's all baby food now"

josh and i both stopped walking, we both remember the bright orange explosion that happened.

"now im an a. a as in 'awesome" josh said.

"or asswipe" i cut him off and patted his shoulder.

"no as in 'the apocalypse was the best thing that ever happened.' a as in 'all you people need to buckle up."

"cause we wanna show you just how sweet the end of the world actually is" i put my penny board down and josh put his skate board down. we skated away to our safe place. don't worry you'll know where that is soon enough.