Collision: A Short Story

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"However long it takes, save us."
Can't get this out of my head.
It's been what, 3 weeks? Hard to say with the way things are, honestly.

A little over a year ago, the announcement that a collision with another planet is predicted to happen in 13 to 15 months was made, the consequences of which weren't so known then.
Officials said it'll have a minuscule effect, barely hitting Earth & affecting only a couple of countries, but it showed.. deep down they were just as scared as everyone else.

No one knew what to expect, at first people ran to find relief in whatever little things they did. Some sought it in God, some in their families, but some found the very fact of an upcoming collision to be peace inducing, that it would all end soon..

Fact? Well no one knew for …show more content…

I woke up.
At first I noticed nothing special, thought I got up early, and attempted to go back to sleep, but I couldn't.
I had this frustrating itch on my arm, so I got up to open the lights and looked at it, only to find written on my arm
"However long it takes, save us."

I didn't know what to think, I just stood there for what seemed like ages.
Perhaps it was a long time, after all, I really can't tell.

I went outside my room, and saw my parents next to each other, they were probably going to their bedroom.
But they were.. frozen?

No, they weren't cold, but they just.. stood there? Not so much stood as stuck in a walking frame I guess..
I looked for my brothers, same thing.

I figured I was dreaming, or maybe this is some form of afterlife?
So I just stayed there.. Surprisingly I felt nothing, no hunger, no tiredness, bordem, nothing.

It has been a while.
I've gone out of my house, saw the streets, the very few people who were outside their houses were very much frozen like my family.

That damned planet was very much visible in the night sky, a little larger than the moon.
Did time have to stop at night? The sun.. what once was my biggest annoyance upon waking up, was something I now

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