Safe Zone
Adonis:
Alone, afraid, timorous, glassy-eyed, sums up how things are now. Things weren’t always this way but I guess this is all my sister and I know. Avigail only has me. I have to be her rock. Our parents are gone. We’re lost without a place to look forward to. Last month our parents were headed to the mall for Christmas shopping. I was going to stay home with Avigail because I wasn’t ever much of a fan for the mall. Going to the mall just sounds like a normal trip, yea? That’s what we thought. too. The mall is about a 30 min trek from our house if there isn’t any traffic. It was a busy weekend in San Bernardino, California so we expected our parents to be gone longer than normal. I had an inkling as to where something bad would happen. Now guess what, our parents are dead. Well, it’s now over a month later and we’re still without parents. No big deal
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though, right? Think again… our parents moved up from Mexico so we have no family here. For us… this is just the beginning. Avigail: I haven’t healed. I won’t heal. I CAN’T heal because it’s too much. The inevitable fact that our parents are dead haunts me now and forever. I’m hurt, i’m slow, i’m confused, i’m lonely, i’m sad, and i’m lost. My brother is my family and my friend. He’s my one and only now. Adonis: We no longer live in San Bernardino, California. We can’t live there anymore. It’s a total nihilism. We’re blessed we got out alive. I guess you’re wondering what happened so i’ll tell you. I’m 15 and my sister Avigail is 7. I was playing World of War Craft in the living room with the TV on. Avigail was jamming to her gross music in her room. It was like 7 p.m. and the power randomly shuts down. I yelled at Avigail telling her to stop playing games and turn the power back on. I still have my computer because it has a battery but it was almost dead anyway. Avigail went to the breaker box and said nothing is working. It’s December and gets dark at like 6:00 so it’s pretty black out. I remember that I have a flashlight in my bedroom so with the remaining battery I have left on my laptop I use it as a light in room while I look for the flashlight. Sure I found it but of course it’s out of batteries! That’s when Avigail comes out of her room with this weird doll toy thing. It’s really bright and it’s the only thing we have at the moment because I can’t think of anything else. When I head to the front door to make sure it’s locked are where things get real. A noise loud enough to be Godzilla itself comes from no particular direction combined with the force of 20 stampedes hit me like a wave of confusion and destruction. Avigail: I saw Adonis fall to the floor.
I had no idea what was going on and I don’t think he knew either. I could feel myself loosing balance but I fought to stay up right as I covered my ears screaming because I couldn’t stand the pain of never-ending noise pulsing through my head!
Adonis:
The moment that the torment ended and I had time to configure my senses I ran to my still screaming sister. I moved her to the couch and gave her a pillow that she clenched onto as if it was her own child. I then VERY SLOWLY crept over to the door. I had no idea what had just happened or where it even came from. I reach the door and crack it open the slightest. It’s pitch black out. Not a single noise hits my ears. The fact that there’s a black out in San Bernardino, CA and not a single person is trying to take advantage of it scares me. What in the world is going on?
After I locked the door and calmed down Avigail I took her to my room. We just sat there in dark silence. Waiting for something to happen. Anything at all to make a sound, yet nothing did. I lost track of time because it was so dark and
noiseless.
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all go away, but I knew it could not. His whole body was shaking. I
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