The knock at the door startled Dana. She set the Bible she was reading aside, stood, and approached the door. “Mrs. Destiny?” A mans voice sounded. The woman opened the door. An aged man stood before her, with an envelop in his hands. “I’m afraid...” he sighs “We are... truly sorry for your loss. Mr. Bryan was a good solider, always there when you needed him.” He placed his hand on her shoulder, and handed Destiny the envelope. She stood there, the morning sun beating down on her. The wife’s hands shook as she struggled to open the letter. It had been hours after the anonymous man had given her her husbands death notification. She would now be a widow. Destiny wept for many hours, and realized her children were still sleeping. She would have to tell them. She kneeled to the ground, her hands gripping the carpet viciously, as she wept and turned to the Lord for answers. The day following, the unexpected happed yet again. In an mostly uninhabited area of land in the scorching Arizona temperatures lay two houses. One, belonged to a wed couple- Destiny and Bryan. The other, A young couple with an infant. They lived countless miles from any city. Disaster struck in the form of a sandstorm. After digging their way from the basement ruins, the family looked upon what was left of their house. Dana, what Bryan used to call his wife, made sure her children were okay. “Nick, Haley,” Destiny said studying her neighbors house remains, “stay here and check the car.” Dana walked over to Joyce and Bobs house. She saw they were all okay, and walked a short distance back to her own children. Nick steps towards her, “The car won’t start, the engines ruined from the storm.” She looked back over to her neighbors as they approached. “Our vehicles are useless. We can’t stay here, not with Grey.” Grey began to cry as Joyce cradled him. Dana quietly asked the Lord for aid as she marched to what was once her house. She scummed the remains for anything useful. A similar book, her Bible caught her eye. She picked it up amazed, and thanked her savior. Hours later, they found themselves heading towards a city. Haley tap her mother on the shoulder. “I have this bottle of water with me.” Without thinking he took it, and gave
She was very careful not to inconvenience her father and always put other people before herself. "I grabbed ahold of his wrist and pulled him off his balance. This allowed Jonas to break free. He sprinted for the open door and disappeared down the hall. Then Brandon came for me." Haley helped kids from bullies and helped her father get help from police and into the hospital, despite risking being taken away from her father by social services.
Once all the cleaning was done, Legend walked Jackie down to her door, she lived 3 doors down from legend, they wished each other goodnight. Legend made the short trip back to her apartment; making sure to lock the door behind her.
As she hastily made her way through the long-winded hallway, the realisation of her husband being away at war suddenly hit her. The delight evident on her face swiftly turned into an expression of extreme woe. Heartbroken by the fact that he was missing this major milestone, her eyes were a waterfall, dripped with salty tears down her
Her whole world was crashing down. It what seemed like only a split second, her best friend’s father had been condemned to death. Someone who she considered to be like a father was going to be taken away, ripped away from her.
Sam, Quinn and Astrid are trying to figure out what is going on. They go to Quinn’s house to find his parents, but they are gone. Next, they go to Astrid’s house. Her parents are also gone, along with her little brother. Finally, the go to Sam’s house. Sam’s mother is also gone, but he finds her diary in her computer that has some interesting things in it that could explain why people have disappeared.
Instead of ignoring the girl this time, she raced to the front door, no longer wondering if she was a rouse of some sort. Lauren threw open the door and looked down at the girl with a white face. “What happened to you?”
“Give it a rest.” The car rumbled forward, and Rosie turned right then hit the gas.
Charles stood up, and walked together with his mother for the first time in years. He felt as though a great weight was lifted from him, he finally had an end to his
The sound of ruffling of a keychain was made, twisting and turning the doorknob. It was Cason who entered, a little travel sick, calmly carrying his satchel and a water bottle. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not know there had been one. He stood amazed at Haley's piercing cry, at Jared's quick motion to screen him from the view of his daughter.
She began to scream into the phone, into the roaring. She cried out, she cried for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it were something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness. A noisy sorrowful wailing rose all about her and she was locked inside it the way she was locked inside this house. After a while she could hear again. She was sitting on the floor with her wet back against the wall. Here we finally realize that all her fears were coming true and he life was coming to an end and there was no way of her stopping it. In these moments Connie realized all that these were her last moment and the first thought was of her family and how she thought of all the time she wished. "My sweet little blue-eyed girl," he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was
LeRoy rolled down the car window. “Hi.” He started, leaning over the passenger seat. “I’m actually just here to pick up Rachel.”
Mary sat at the kitchen table staring out the window through the freezing rain at the old, rusty mailbox. It had been two weeks since her husband had left for Europe. The war was raging on and more men were needed, so her husband had joined the war effort. His final words to her were “I’ll see you again, my love.” She had read the paper that morning, and she was petrified.
I ran to Rhonda’s room first. It looked like a struggle had ended badly. Hannah and Seamus’ room didn’t look much different. A scream came from the kitchen.
I went to pick up my friends, Natalie, Trinity, and Kennice. We are all going to be riding bikes. First, I went to pick up Natalie. I swiftly swiped the doorbell, Natalie’s mom answers the door
“Sweetie? Where are you going?” I heard my mother’s faint voice call out from the kitchen. I was standing at the front door, halfway through opening it when I heard her voice. It was Oli’s, my best friend’s, birthday and her, Angelo, and Dante, were going to Las Vegas to spend her special weekend.