Chapter Three: Fully packed
"is the situation that bad?" Asked Lloyd wife, she was anxious for the future to come, what would happen to her and her children, her beloved husband, she did not want to loose any of them.
"Dunno" his first answer startled both Luther and the woman, what did he mean by 'dunno?', seeing their confusion, Lloyd tried to clarify the misunderstanding, what I mean is, the situation has gone out if control to the understanding of the local police like me, my superiors are not ready to disclose the situation and were our kept on the blind side of the story, but even with that, leaks can't be stopped, information have been filtered out and spoken to all"
Lloyd breathed in and out and continued, "tomorrow, they news shall surely be announced, the leaders, and boared if directors of At.com have vanished.
"What?" Asked Luther, "vanish how?" He needed details on the situation, even the young boy started getting anxious, the situation in school was going out of control and certain of his classmates have suddenly stopped coming some even reported missing.
"Nobody knows, but all we collected shows that, the anomaly affecting earth is directly related with the fall of Atlanta 1, the giant space satellite, a search and a wanted notice have been placed to located all the individuals related to the affair, for the moment, none have been found, and I have a feeling that, we are running out of time" said Lloyd.
The living room remain went silent for a moment, and soon the woman sigh deeply, "in that case, we need to prepare for the worst situation, tomorrow I would head to the nearest convenient store and gather all the can food available" she said, the husband nodded in approval, Luther joint in and proposed he should go to another, they needed the maximum amount of resources as possible before people start going mad and anxious, after discoursing how to gather resources, Lloyd discourse about their security and what was primordial, their safety first, in case of fight over food, abandon the food.
The next day, Lloyd left for the station, and a soon Luther carried a big bag and left also, after preparing for an hour, Grace, Lloyd's wife brought Ethan to her neighbour, after knocking on the door and old lady open it.
"Oh... Mrs Grace, what brings you this early" asked the aged woman.
"Sorry for the disturbance Auntie Betty, I would love if Ethan could stay at your place the moment I go purchase some stuffs?" Asked Grace politely, the old woman nodded with a smile, she look at the boy looking around curiously.
"Hi Ethan, you look healthy and curious as usual" said Betty.
"Hi grandma Betty, where is Rebecca?" Asked Ethan.
"She most be reading a book in her room, go check on her" she kindly said and suggested, Ethan nodded and walk to the steps heading up, seeing the small boy going, Grace bowed at Betty and promised to come back fast as possible, she waved at Ethan who wave back enthusiastically with his hand and ran up the stairs.
Opening the door, Ethan saw a girl sitting near the window admiring the white snow falling down from the sky, she had a book on her laps her face stoic, she stared nonchalantly at the outside world, her black hair and black pupil made a huge contrast to the white background showed outside the window.
"Aren't you fed up with the view?" Asked Ethan, he walk and sat on the bed.
"What age are you?" She asked without even looking at Ethan.
Ethan was slightly confused, "hmm... Seven years" he answered.
"I am Eight" she said.
"And?" He asked again
"We might not survive this world..." She said something quite confusing, what did she mean by not surviving this world.
Sure, this two kids where quite special, the vaguely remembered their past lives, as if reborn, leaving a moment they thought was a dream, Rebecca was certain those where her other life spend, but Ethan ignored them and even told his parents, the laughed and told him he had a wide imagination, while Luther told him, around the world, they are situation like his own, and he just have to grow either ignoring them or studying them, no matter what, when he becomes an adult, it would all become history, so Ethan had stopped asking questions about this.
"Again with that?" Ethan looked at her disturb.
"You've decided to ignored your past, how do you expect to move further?" She said.
"Those are nightmares to me, I would love to forget about them" he shook his head childishly, he came down and turn on the TV and plug in the game, "stop contemplating on complicated things and come have a game" said Ethan, Rebecca stared at the idiot and shook her head, tired of his behaviour, "don't cry if I end up winning" she warn him as she left her seat and joint him to play.
Betty who stood near the door was slightly confused, children this days have a vast imagination, she smiled and left for the kitchen thinking of serving them cookies and fruit juice.
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She drove to the nearest convenient store and packed her car, entering the store, she did not waste time and started purchasing can food as fast as she could, and left the store, entering her car, she thought of heading back home, but when she imagine the quantity of food, we need more! She thought, and drove to town, where the mall was.
Lloyd reached his station, and was greeted by a mobilisation of all units, and emergency has emerged.
"What is going on Ron?" Asked Lloyd
"I don't know much, we need to gather in the main hall to hear on the briefing" Ron, Lloyd's partner spoke as he carried his cup of coffee and followed behind the others, Lloyd looked briefly at his phone and pocket it following behind.