John leant against the bare stone wall. He looked toward the sunlight shining down from the top of the ladder in hope of the war ending. "When can we go out?" "Why don't we just peep out the hole at the top of the ladder?" Daisy asks. Dead silence outside, nothing to be heard but the wind blowing the sand into the skies.
"Wake up mum!" Blurts billy at the top of his voice. "Wake up" Margaret props herself up on the pillow and looks around the underground vault.
"Do you think a nuke went off last night?" "I heard a loud booming noise, it seems like it has stopped the fighting" "it's been a year already since it started anyways"
John clambers up the ladder and stares at the amazing sight... "Come up! I think I know why it was so quiet outside, come and see!" Margaret and the kids rush up the steel ladder and stares in astonishment at the empty world around them, only to see dry dirt and crumbled remains of buildings in the distance.
They take their first step out since they hid in their underground hole at the start of the war. "What happened mummy?" Daisy says in a faint voice. "The end, I knew it was coming, I believe we are the only ones left"
"What?" Interrupts billy. "Should we look for people trapped inside the rubble?"
"I think it's worth looking" says John.
They walked slowly towards the rocky hole of a city and remained dazzled by their lifeless dump of a World. The city seems quiet, dead quiet. They go in a office building and search amongst the debris. Nothing to be seen but lifeless bodies scattered across the floor.
"What was that!?" Screamed Billy, as whistles of gunfire cut through the air.
"RUNNNNN!!!" "THEY'RE COMING!!!"
Margaret, first to run sprints hard to the closest building, a NASA Space station.
"Come quick!"
"They're not looking! Quickly!!!"
The family run while the men with guns are confused. "After them!!" The strange people yell.
They burst through the doors and to their surprise smoke flies everywhere as John, Margaret, and the kids are blasting off into space.
By Jorja S
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