Author's notes:
This is all just for fictitious reasons you know that, and why should I do this, it makes a good ep, and I also get to do this…
"December 21, 2012, and we're still going. Can we please put that GOBBLY GOOP TO REST?!"
INTRO
It was one day in late December, less than a week before the holidays. The mall was all decorated, Christmas sales were booming, and shoppers were going crazy with next to last minute Christmas shopping.
It was almost closing time and Caitlin was just coming back on her date with a guy named Jake. They were talking about a movie they had seen about people surviving the end of the world. "You know what the best part was?" Jake asked.
"Tell me…" Caitlin said.
"I got to go to it with you."
"Aw…" cooed Caitlin and they shared a kiss before letting each other go for the night.
"So, how long is this one going to last for?" I had to tease.
"Forever, I hope." Caitlin said.
"A-huh, I give it about until tomorrow." Nikki said
"I'm serious guys." Caitlin protested "Jake and I have gone on three dates so far, and we show no signs of breaking up."
"We know the story…" Jen said.
"You're going to say he's "The One" and then BOOM, you get dumped, you get weepy eyes, we have to suffer, you find a new guy and it starts all over again." Jonesy said.
"Just ignore them, Caitlin." Wyatt said. Caitlin thanked him for being supportive, but really she knew Wyatt was feeling the same.
"Hey, where's Jude?" I asked "Should he be here with us?"
None of us had seen Jude all day, and we called Starr and she said she was at Jude's place and she was with Jude under his bed. "He's been a little paranoid lately." she said "He's still thinking about… you know what!"
"Dude, it's, like, gonna happen!" her husband squealed and went right back to quivering.
That told us enough, and Starr said she'd stay with Jude and talk with us in the morning, which was expected to come.
"He's still clinging to that garbage?" Wyatt asked in dismay.
Jude had read about an article saying that people claimed that at exactly Eight pm on December twenty-first of this year, the world was going to end, and he wasn't the only one to believe this, many others around the mall were treating it real too. The nerdy guys even wore signs saying "The end is near" and ran in cowering whenever anyone so much as even said "Hi" to them.
The rest of us of course, and others felt that story was nothing but a bunch of baloney. It was December Twenty-first, and six pm, and the world was just fine. By the morning we all believed that everyone was going to be back to normal and life would go on.
In the meantime we all decided to head off. The mall was ready to close, and I had a date to keep with Amelie. Jonesy was excited about the next day too, he had scored an interview for what he felt like was the greatest job he could have, but even he didn't know what it was yet and would find out the next day.
"And then we get to find out how long it'll take for you to get fired." Nikki teased.
The rest of us chuckled, but Jonesy wasn't amused.
By the time I had finished my date with Amelie and dropped her off at home, I headed home myself, and it was almost eight pm. "Looks like you lose, Jude." I said as I counted down the last remaining seconds before heading into my home building "Five, four, three, two, one, and the world is…" before I could say another thing the ground began to rumble and quake "… shaking?"
The streetlights began to burst, and the grounds split up. Airplanes dropped down from the skies, and cars crashed into one another. "Whoa! Hey!" I shouted. Then the buildings everywhere started to break up and collapse, even my home building was starting toppling over right down on top of me…
"AAAAH… QUICK, QUE THE INTRO…!"
Intro Theme
Author's notes:
I still find it outraging that people actually thought the world was going to end. "Ridiculous" just like the Y2K thing!
And for those who are curious, The Mayan calendar actually ran out of numbers August 3, 2011. Boy, some people have some nerve!