Our Eyes Open

This is Vs survival guide.

Decmember 21, 2012

6:05 A.M.

 

 I woke with a sudden jolt from my dream. You know when you feel like your falling in a dream and Right before you hit the ground your body automatically wakes you up from your sleep? Yep, just like that. I took a minute to compose myself and tried to remember my dream. I havent been dreaming about falling at all. In my dream there was a strange noise and when it became unbearable loud is when I was jolted awake. I looked around our cozy living room, big enough couch, good sized TV, view of a lake, just the right size. The TV was mumbling softly in the background while Adam was snoring quietly beside me. It seemed like a good idea to snuggle back into the plush cozy couch next to him. I was making my move back under the covers when I heard the same strange noise from my dream. Had I already fallen back asleep? I sat up against the back of the couch pulling my knees up to my chest. Nope, I was awake now. I sat an listened until my brian shrugged off some of the sleep foginess. I knew that sound but.... No way. Its the middle of Decmember.... It couldnt be That!!

 

 I sat for a few minutes listening to the whining sound grow louder then slink back away growing almost silent for just a few seconds only to repeat, over and over an over. I had no idea Why the tornado siren was going off at 6AM in the middle of Decmember.

 

 I leaned over and shook Adam awake. He mumbled a few choise words and pulled the blanket up and over his face. I shook again to no prevail. I hopped down from the couch and gave the blankets a nice firm pull from the bottom revealing messy dark brown almost black hair, short but still shaggy enough to pull the "just rolled out of bed look". Skin whose tan had just now started to fade, just a hint of the sun-kissed glow on shoulders and arms. His hair had just started its journey to recede leaving a strong forehead, a straight if not a little pointed nose, thin lips which were not pulled into a mock frown and a strong "manly" chin. 

 

 With his "invisible cloak" blanket removed he slowly open one honey colored brown eye to me. He opened both eyes to wink at me and send me a wickedly sexy grin saying

             "'Mornin Beautiful! Whats with the early wake-up?? Lookin for alil   l               wake n shake?"

 Ending with a deep belly deep laugh. He leaned up grabbed the blanket back from me and covered himself back up. I gave him my best In Your Dreams look and tried to show that I was alittle more then freaked out at the moment.

             "Dont you hear the sirens? The Tornado Sirens?? In the middle              Decmember??? You dont think thats weird?" I think my voiced raised an octive. I didnt really know why I was so freaked. I sat back down on the couch grabbing Adams shirt from last night and throwing it on. I started looking for the TV remote and asked him to help. He sat an listened to the sirens whine grow loud then quiet, loud then quiet and repeat for several minutes before he joined me in the hunt for the remote. 

             "So........ What do you think? I mean today of ALL days and this        happens?" I stared straight at him, willing him to know the answer to this. He didnt but he had an idea, better then what I came up with atleast.

             "Eh, someone that works on those things probably set it off as a joke. T            Theres so many people that Swore that today the world was done .      over with. And look were still here!" He flashed me his biggest cheesiest grin.

             "Look before you know it the siren will stop, the cops will come turn it o             off or whatever and we can get down to morning business.... of You     .   cooking us breakfast. I request pancakes and bacon and eggs and a bagel!" Another big teeth flashing smile.

 

 He laughed and patted the couch next to him. He wasnt worried, so why was I? He took this moment to sit up and let the blanket slide down to his lap giving me the pleasure of viewing half of his 6'0 tall body. I looked over his broad muscular shoulders and chest down to his fiercly toned stomach. He had always been sort of a gym nut/health freak so even when he turned 34 a few months back he still had a better body then most 20-some year olds now. He caught me checking out the small patch of black fuzz leading from his belly botton to where the blanket had stopped its desent. I got another one of the sexy as hell devilish grins that showed off this straight white teeth. He raised on of his nicely arched eyebrows over those honey colored eyes, they seemed liked they glowed sometimes in the light, and asked my if I was coming?

 

 Now I may not be very big or very intimadating but Adam sure knew the look I was about to give him..... the "Are you serious right now, Im trying to be serious and You just want to mess around" look. It has a long title but most everyone knows it when they are caught in the cross hairs of it.

 

 Dressed in only his T-shirt my full 5'4 height, with my hands on my hips to make my small stature appear alittle bit larger, my dark red shoulder length hair a mess in every which way. I furrowed my brows together looking at him with glacier grey eyes that had their own intensity. He knew it was not the time to be messing around and to push the subject.

 

 He had his hands up as if warding off an attack he quickly said "Ok, Ok come s            sit down we'll check out the TV and see whats up. I dont know if a             anything but informercials are on though....."

He held out the remote for me to take, and I did, turn onto the normal morning news channel. I was instantly filled with some sort of nervous uneasy energy. There was nothing but static on the TV screen. I filled through a few more channel all displaying the same snow. After about 20 channels I didnt want to see it anymore, I got up and headed for our kitchen. The moving around was helping with the nervous energy. I made a pot of coffee for Adam and I opened up a Redbull for me. -I know it wouldnt help but I Love redbull-

 

 While waiting for the coffee to finishing and pouring a cup I asked Adam what he thought all this meant, first the siren now the static. He kept quiet for a moment still flipping through more channels. I brought over his mug and he took a few sips before answering.

             "Im not really sure. Im tempted to chalk it up to a joke again but          these 2 particular things actually being a joke I doubt it. I dont r            really have any ideas yet babe"

We sat in silence both deciding what the best answer to our questins were when I realized the siren had stopped. Maybe he was right I thought! Someones idea of a sick joke. Well, Ha Ha, Not! I now calling my uneasy feelings "Foreshadowing".

 

 We continued to sit in silence other then the quiet sounds of the TV snow. Adam finished 2 cups of coffee and was starting to wake up. I finished a redbull and was ready for bed again. I was about the cuddle back up with him when then TV screen flashed to an all black then white screen followed closely by an American flag hung up behind a wood podium. No one was in the screen, there were no chairs set up along side the mic area. The only thing moving was a smaller timer that was counting down. The caption read "5 Minutes until President Hills Announcement" 

 

 Now I didnt stay up to date on current policies in politics but I was pretty confident that announcements were not made at 7 - 7:30am. Something Was going on and it had to be big for this to be happening. I looked over at Adam who just shrugged in return. The timer was down to "4 Minutes and 30 Seconds" I figured I had enough time to get into todays clothes, brush my teeth and hair.

 

 I briskly walked to the back side of our apartment where our 2 bedrooms and our 1 bathroom were held. I went into the first door on my right and was greeted with a darken light green colored room with office furniture, this was our "Den/Work are/My clothes storage" I gor out plain black pants, black socks and a red T-shirt showing the logo to my favorite bands. I gathered up my clothes headed out of the room and father down into the gloomy hallway flipping the light on in the bathroom before I walked in. We had themed our bathroom in a "Beach n Driftwood" scene. I felt at ease in this room. I quickly got out of my night shirt and into my days clothes. I took care of personal business, put my hair up in a pony-tail and brushed my teeth. I skipped putting on any make-up right now, I just wasnt the type of girl that HAD to have on make-up to leave. I felt better with out it.

 

 I knew I had little time left until the big annoucement but I spared a few moments to peek outside the bathroom window. I hopped up onto the sink counter and opened up the window. The cold morning air rushing in with that pure clean smell the cold gives off, knocking off any morning foginess that was left. It was still kind of dark outside, light enough to see what I needed to though. Looking down from our 3rd story apartment I could see that it had snowed a few inches since yesterday afternoon. The snow should be fresh still but it wasnt. It looked like a stampede had come the the parking lot last night. I also noticed over half of the normal cars parked in our lot were missing. I put that in the back of my mind to think about later. Other then that I didnt have to many other crazy thoughts.

 

 I jumped back down to the floor and headed out towards our living room, eager to hear what this important announcement was about. Adam was back being completly relaxed and sprawled across more then half the couch, his hands behind his head. He opened his eyes when he felt me push his legs over a few inches. He sent a quick wink my way and flexed his chest muscles at me. I had to laugh, it felt good to relax alittle bit. Before that feeling could take over the made a "ticking" sound. 10-9-8-7..... I sat in front of Adam forcing him to sit behind me legs and arms wrapped around me. For the minute I felt safe. That was going to change in the next five minutes. Everything would be changed.

Author's Note

Hey Everyone! This is my first attempt at writing a full story. I would like to be able to construct a more realistic response to a zombie apocalypse and I hope that is what I am accomplishing. Being new to this I would love to get Pos/Neg feedback about the characters are they defined enough? Can you relate to their reactions? Does the storyline seems more realistic then other zombie stories??
Now I am not done writing the whole story yet so I will keep on posting as I finish!!
Thanks everyone! Have a great read!!