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This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whi down the back door

When the lights first went out, filling the forht much of it With almost constant blackouts, ere lucky to have power at all

Then the eh it ell after ht, I laid wide awake on e s Aruards and barbed wire lined the periht, I couldn’t see any soldiers Bright flashes lit up the darkness as guns fired, but I couldn’t hear anything over the sirens

Chaos enveloped the rooo, this had been an ordinary high school Now the government kept the uninfected stashed here, quarantined off froirls, ranging in age from ten to twenty To prepare us for the possibility of an attack, so with arbitrary safeguards Now the girls did as they had been taught, propping the arulation cots on their sides to block the s and doors

A girl pushed me out of the way and shoved her cot towards the nearest , as if it would protect us any better than the glass It’d do about as ainst a nuclear bo

A loud crash echoed over the sirens, and the building actually trembled

“They’re inside!” Someone shrieked, and my heart skipped a beat

My little brother was in another part of the building, set up in a et to hiht be with hiht of Beck, my heart wanted to panic further, but he could take care of hirabbedthe few earthly possessions I still had, and ran towards the door

“What are you doing?” Soh she barely stood five feet tall, she had been chosen to guard the door

“Getting out of here” I pulled the cot away froine what it would do against intruders

“Where? Why?” Her voice quivered, and her eyes darted around the rooirls without any real way to protect the theh I couldn’t do much for them Part of me wanted to stay, to help if I could, but et my brother,” I said simply “Just stay here Lock the door behind me, and don’t let anyone in”

When I opened the door, there were a few protests, as if Iwith the draft Nobody tried to stopthe room I didn’t blame them