Character Take Over #3

I was there when the world ended and let me tell you it wasn’t at all like I expected it would be. There was no warning, no indication that something was going to happen that day. I woke up, got my kids all off to school and day care, day dreamed while stuck in the morning rush. You know, the basic everyday bump and grind. But then I got a call from my oldest son.

“Mom, something freaky is going on at school. The army is here, taking everyone onto buses. Anna is with me, we’re in the woods. What should I do?”

Of course my first thought was let them do their jobs and I’ll be there as soon as I can. But as I slung my purse over my shoulder, my gut twitched. “Get the hell out of there! Take your sister and run!”

“Where? Mom, I’m scared.”

“I know Seth, baby, just do as I say. I’ll get your sister and brother and meet you at that place we did that thing that one year with the honey. I love you so much.”

No matter what I tried, I was stuck. They had shut down every road leading out of the city. Every last one, and I knew I had to get to my babies before something horrible happened to them. But how in the world was I going to do that when men with gun mounted tanks blocked my way? When men and women were being gunned down in the streets when they tried to push through?

Character Take Over #2

Sup? Name’s Diana and I’ve decided it’s time to tell my story before it’s too late. You see, my dad and his brothers put together this family outing thing at this big children’s science center. Kinda cool, but mostly lame, I mean, come on, I’m 16, hello. At least I talked him into letting me bring Joe, my BF and Sam, my sister, her BF Mark. Any way, as I said, kinda cool but mostly lame. Plus, no bars on the cell. Totally cut off from the outside world, talk about so not cool. We didn’t get stuck with babysitting duty and that’s something.

  

Then the whole place went on shut down for an Amber Alert. Talk about scary. So totally freaked Sam and I ‘cuz the cousins are annoying 5-year-olds but hey, we’re not heartless. So, we made our way to the café, you know, the meet up point in case of a 911. At first, I thought dad was being paranoid when he set up the plan. I mean, what’s the likelihood of a 911? Then when the power cut out and a huge earthquake hit, killed the phones and web, blocked all exits, changed my mind. And the after shock knocked a display into Joe, broke his arm, slashed his face.

And that’s not the worst that happened. More kids started to disappear and we couldn’t find dad, couldn’t get to the café. Then--and here’s where things started to get out-of-this-world freaky--we were attacked by some of the workers and turns out they were, like, majorly not human. They looked human, until their cloths came off. Made me lose my lunch ‘cuz you could see their insides. So gross, so scary.

Now, people are dying, kids are disappearing and we’re cut off from our family, the outside world. No idea if we’ll make it, if we’ll live but we have to try, have to fight, have to figure out WTF is going on and why.