Stephanie Meyer owns The Host and all of its characters. Not me.
So I came up with this idea while I was writing my other story, What the Hell, People? And I just started thinking about what life was like before the aliens came and how they would have survived. Hope you like it :) Please review.
Prologue
I missed my family. I missed a lot of other things as well, but I could live without them. The luxuries like electricity, phones, computers, cars... beds. I could live without necessities like medicine and food. But I couldn't live without my family. I didn't know how.
One day I'm an immature college student living at home with my parents and the next day the whole world falls apart. How does something like that happen?
It was surreal. The end of the world was like a scene out of an old science fiction movie. People just began acting differently. No one died or disappeared, there weren't any explosions. People just became… nicer. That's how you could tell. We discovered later that their eyes would glow silver and reflect if you shined a light into them, but by then it was too late. We never saw it coming.
We're lucky we were able to escape, I know that. I would never want to be one of those damned parasites. But how do I continue my life without the people I loved? I don't know how. I didn't know how to survive on my own before the aliens showed up. How the hell was I supposed to survive now? Now that we have to sleep outside in the woods like animals. Now that we have to steal in order to feed ourselves. Now that we're being hunted by the same aliens that have taken over my parents bodies. How am I supposed to handle something like this without going insane, let alone survive it?
I missed my parents. They were always there and now they're dead. Gone, just like that. I have to stay strong, for my brother. He lost his parents too, and more. He lost his girlfriend. The love of his life, as he says. I didn't have anyone like that. But at least he had her memories. I never had that and now I never would. Everyone was dead. The whole world... gone. Just like that.