Chapter 1-- The End

I am dying. I know it. She knows it. How easy it would be just to close my eyes and let my body grow still. Not having to suffer the pain anymore. Maybe there is a heaven. If there’s a hell, we’re in it.

“Don’t leave me,” Lorelei whispers. “You can’t leave me alone.”

I can’t leave her alone in that desert. I can’t. I open my lips to say that I won’t, but nothing comes out. Instead a mouthful of sand finds its way in. I cough on it and she takes out our remaining water. I try to tell her not to waste it on me. Why give water to a dying girl? As soon as I close my eyes…

“Drink, Brooke,” she orders. The irony isn’t lost on me. A girl named Brooke dying in a desert. The Universe has a whacky sense of humor.

Her only shot of survival is getting out of this desert. She can’t do that dragging her almost dead sister who had been lying on the sand since she collapsed three days ago. Lorelei was always the one with more endurance. Always was always will be. 

I open my mouth to tell her I’m scared. I’m scared of what comes after I close my eyes. But I close it soon after. I can’t tell her that. She is scared enough.

Instead I take her hand and make my voice as steady as I can. “Get out of the desert.” Tears slip down her face and I wipe them away. “I’ll see you when it’s your time.”

Then I let my eyes grow heavy until my top eyelashes meet the bottoms. I see a dark tunnel with just a speck of light at the end. I head towards it. “Help! Help!” My sister calls. But no one is there. No one can be there. No one has been there. So I know that the voice I hear is coming from the light not the world I am leaving behind. Finally the white light fills my vision.

            The younger sister�"

            The shy one�"

            The one with her nose always in a book�"

            The uglier one�"

            The blonde one�"

The one with nothing to show for her life�"

            Is dead.

Reviews

[Pencrafter]

Interesting story. It provokes thought about what we might do in a survival situation.

[Krista Weiss]

Really good so far!! Keep it coming!! :)

[Odayin]

Oh my God.
Lauri...I can't believe I just read what I did. Am I the only one who took it in the way you thought of it! Oh my god.
The shy one.
The one with her nose in a book.
You left her...

[Amanda]

Draama Bomb. I love the names, by the way.

[Brooklyn]

Thanks. this is based of of a dream I had where me and my sister, Laurelyn, survived the apocalypse so I just changed our names a bit

[Amanda]

haha well i hope you do survive in the real apocalypse:P

[Brooklyn]

thnx :)

[Becky]

Interesting start, full of suspense. I agree with your profile, though, a bit more "down time' would be nice. It seems like it was a lot of action, but not much description. It's intriguing, though, and that's what counts. Nice start!

[luv2dream]

WOW! LOVE IT! I want more!

[Dominique]

Wow. Suspense is filling up in me, how did this happen?