The New World Order (repost)

So I suppose I should start at the beginning, yes I know who would've thought. It was a normal Tuesday, the kind that has you wishing it was Friday. So you could be at the end of a week that was turning out like every other week and every month.

The day began as normal I woke up at 6 and started my routine, that was like you guessed it....boring. I made my way from home to work, I worked at a little retail store around the corner to my house. Despite my unwillingness to move into management the store owners felt that my lack of interest in slacking and socialising/scrolling on my phone, meant that I was the perfect candidate to run the store in their absence. This meant that I had to open and it didn't conflict with my life at the moment, I didn't have a great deal on and it helped me fill up the time.

Dan had organised the job for me, the owners were family friends and were more than happy to give me a chance knowing my close relationship with him. They were nice and despite being in contact due to Dan it felt like they knew me. The off handed comments and references to my parents had me a bit confused and curious just how they knew these things. Though I wasn't really in the right head space to question or investigate it wanting to just keep you myself.

My parents has passed away when I was part way through university in a car accident. Through my childhood and growing up it was only the three of us, they didn't talk about their family apart from the odd hint every now and then. They weren't anything major, just the casual reference to how "the old man" would think or feel about something. This showed that I had some other relatives but trying to get answers was like trying to grasp at straws.

Everyone else talked about their aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents, when I thought to bring it up to my parents they always came up with excuses and changed the topic. I never got any answer from them and just thought they were only children as well, with their parents not in the picture any longer for whatever reason. It always frustrated me and I was intending to bring it up when I was at university giving them some time before I asked yet again. Though I wasn't going to be able to do that any more...

Being an only child meant that I had to deal with all the paperwork and responsibilities that came with organising a funeral and the will. It wasn't too bad just another thing to do, it distracted me from the loss and kept me focused on things to do, after all no one was going to be able to do it for me and apart from the emotional support my two close friends gave me. Though there was still the sense of isolation despite this; they weren't going through the end of their family, and apart from their parents not being around too much they still had other relatives they could speak to.

I didn't really have many friends through my childhood being quiet and very insular during school and with the passing of my parents happening a year into uni it meant I didn't have a chance to meet other people age. I had 2 close friends from families my parents had dinner parties with and they were only real contact with the outside world. Through the process of organising the post death procedures they helped me out as much as they could, from bringing home cooked meals to getting me out of the house. I think if I didn't have them in my life it would have been a very different story.

Daniel was similar to me and that was probably the only reason we got along so well, he enjoyed keeping to himself though he was a bit more fitness inclined compared to my studying and gaming self. Throughout school I had to make sure that he maintained a passing grade as he got distracted easily and was off with the fairies quite alot. That's not to say he didn't excell in anything, he was freakishly talented in any sport related. You name it and he could play it as good as if not better than anyone else at our school. I think the only reason Daniel didn't end up with a scholarship to attend any university he wanted came down to his lack of focus. He could play anything incredibly well but that made him bored too quickly, nothing was a challenge and he gave up too quickly cause no one could play on his level.

Then Sarah was really the reason we came together to begin with, without her Daniel and I would have just kept to ourselves and not even paid attention to each other. She was a bright ray of sunshine in our lives and no matter who they were she had them under her spell. When we first met she came bounding into the room, looked around and spotted both of us off in our own world's. Within about 10 minutes we had come together and it felt that we had known each other for years, with how easy the conversation came especially with two incredibly introverted individuals. Sarah was the same at school she made fast friends with everyone, no matter who you were she included you in anything she thought you should be interested about. Yes should be, not would be, Sarah had a habit of making decisions for you. Though no one ever got annoyed or angry with her for it, it was virtually impossible to be upset or angry around her, all she had to say was sorry if you brought it up and everything was all good. I have no idea how that happened but she just had that joyful disposition that made everything ok.

The two of them really brought me through the death of my parents, if not for them then I would probably ended up in a never-ending circle of depression and self hate. They got me to focus on one thing at a time and gradually brought me out of my shell and ensured I was able to function as a human being again. We became closer after that and even though all three of us ended up at separate universities , we made time each week to meet up for a games night and the odd dinner out and some drinks. We were inseparable and they became like brother and sister to me, if any of us got into trouble or had issues we would drop everything. Both Daniel and Sarah's family worked alot and were regularly out of town, this meant that we fell back on each other to help out.

On this particular Tuesday which was like any other I made my way to work, i came within eye sight of the store when my eyes started playing up on me. This was proven wrong as everyone else around me had stopped as well, and we were surrounded by a deep blood red light that shone down on everyone and everything. Looking up made me question my very existence as the sky was inundated by a sea of flaming meteors. Then all hell broke loose, and everyone went crazy running for any cover they could find, I sprinted for the store and fumbled my keys as I tried to get it into the slot to unlock the doors. The meteors were coming closer and closer and I finally got the key into the door and wrenched the door open, running straight for the back room to try to protect myself from the inevitable burning destruction that was imminent. I jumped behind the nearest stack of boxes and waited for the end....and waited....and waited.

There was nothing, just silence.....