War, War Never Changes

Chapter 1: The falling

Alexander looked across the classroom, today the teacher was talking about name meanings. He already knew his name's meaning; to defend, help in Greek. Alexander was almost 6 foot and about 165 lbs. He had black hair and blue eyes. He just zoned out pretending to listen. He started thinking about the new girl at his work. Sure other girls at work were good looking and he didn't mind helping them out when they got behind at work, but for her he would have done anything. They had talked somewhat but he knew he didn't have a chance. She not only was good looking but she was actually someone he enjoyed talking to which was a nice change from the others at work. He liked to think of himself as decent looking but he knew he wasn't great looking and from what he knew about her she only went for big badass types. A sudden blaring snapped him out of his thinking as him and his classmates looked around for the source of the sound. "It's the bomb alarm!" someone screamed from behind him. The teacher yelled above everyone "Don't be alarmed it is just a drill now everyone we have done this before, just file to the safety bunkers beneath the school until the drill is over."

They all stood up talking as they slowly walked around wandering towards the bunkers. Nobody took the drills seriously except Alexander. His father had always taught him to be prepared so he paid attention to things like this so when the real thing came he would be ready. Next thing he knew they were already inside the bunkers "Dang" he thought "It's crazy how our minds take over and know what to do." They had had many false alarms before but he knew to take them seriously because you never knew if one day it'd be the real deal.

"Alexander…..Alex…..hello?" Alexander snapped out of his thoughts to look up and see he was one of the few people still in the bunker, everyone else was leaving. His teacher looked at him "The drill is over I suggest you return to your class." Alexander got up and decided not to bother and just started to walk home. He only lived a mile away from school and his sisters school was about half way between the two. He had two sisters; Zoe, who was 16 she was around 5' 2" and Pandora who had just turned 18 (Alexander's parents had always liked Greek names) was like 5' 7". They were both fairly skinny and both had red hair but Zoe had blue eyes like Alexander yet Pandora had green eyes. He figured he would go pull them out of class early with him on his way home. He got to their school and saw a group of guys who looked about 19 and they were all in a circle talking so he just walked past them into the school. By the time he got the girls out of class it was almost time for the school to be out anyways "but oh well" he thought. When they walked out of school the guys were still standing there. "Those guys are always causing problems" Zoe said as they turned to the group.

The guy who seemed in charge started walking towards them looking at Zoe. "Hey I've seen you around school haven't I?" he asked Zoe. "Back off dumbass" she retorted "Otherwise my brother is going to beat your ass" Alexander looked over at her as the guy said "Oh really now?" "Thanks Zoe" Alexander sighed go walk home I'll be home in a while. The girls both looked at him wondering what was going to happen but they decided to walk home and listen to Alexander. Alexander looked at the group asking "Why do you guys have to be jackasses all the time?" The leader of the group backed up as the others walked forward. "What you can't fight your own fights?" Alexander taunted. Alexander was in no way going to win this fight but at the same time he couldn't exactly walk away so he might as well give it his all. He swung for the guy closest to him, hitting him square in the jaw surprising everyone as they expected him to back down. He heard a car behind him and saw the group start running. He confusedly turned around and saw the cops pulling up. "This isn't over" the leader yelled "I'm Bruce and I never forget a face."

As he walked in the front door of his house his parents and sisters were in the living room waiting for him. His mom came up to him looking for any bruises asking if they hurt him. His dad laughed and asked "more importantly did you win?" "No" he said "the cops showed up and scared them off" His mom looked at him "Good you can't be getting in fights like your father used to" Alexander smiled and walked into the kitchen grabbing some food asking "what's for dinner?" His parent said "whatever you guys want, we have to catch a plane in the morning so were going to bed" Alexander got his sisters some pizza and soda and then went to his room to relax. He looked forward to tomorrow. Not school of course but tomorrow was Friday and he worked so he was going to ask Brooke if she wanted to go out tomorrow night.

As he walked in the school doors the next morning all he could think about was tonight he was finally going to ask her and he had a good feeling about it. He sat through history, science, and as he sat in math he began to do as he always did. Start going ever what he and his family called their "Zombie plan" him and his family enjoyed zombie movies and things like that and had plans for what they would do. As he thought about it he jumped when he heard the same siren from the day before. They all looked up at the teacher only to see the teacher running to the bunker screaming "This is not a drill!" everyone started to panic except him. This is why he paid attention to these things. He stood up on his desk and yelled across the room "Hey you guys need to get to the bunker go! Now!" they all surprisingly listened and ran to it. He walked up the bunker and started to close the bunker. One of his classmates looked at him and said "Dude what are you doing? You've got to come in with us" Alexander slid the doors shut saying I can't hide while my family is out here.

Alexander began to run as fast as he could towards his sisters school and say mass chaos. Everyone was running all over and he saw one of the teachers had been trampled over by a bunch of students. "Sorry" he apologized as he ran past without helping but he needed to find his sisters. He saw Zoe and Pandora running across the hall and took a step toward them when he fell over in pain as he felt something hard smash him in the back of the head and as he fell he heard "Told you it wasn't over." He opened his eyes not knowing how long he had been out and he saw both of his sisters above him trying to drag him towards one of the bunkers. Just as they got there a kid shouted "Were all full" and slammed and locked the door leaving them outside. As Alexander looked around he hoped that since it had been this long and nothing had happened that the sirens were wrong. He still needed to get the girls to safety just to be safe. He knew of one of the old bunkers from the cold war era that some students had found a few years back but he didn't know how safe it would be but it had to be better than standing out here in the middle of the school.

As they reached the old bunker they saw that nobody was here hiding (not a comforting sign) and they walked inside and sealed the door. "Let's look around" Alexander said "Just to make sure nobody is hiding in here that we don't know about" as they slowly searched each room they found a room full of dehydrated food which would come in handy if they got stuck a while. They all sat down to rest and Alexander thought to himself "So much for today! I went from my biggest worry being Brooke saying no to my whole family dying" A few hours passed and they still hadn't heard anything when they heard the bomb shelter door creaking open even though it was bolted shut. "This can't be good" Pandora said. "Obviously" Zoe remarked "Hey look another room back here! And it's got an elevator" Alexander looked back "What? How did we miss that?" As they ran toward Zoe, Pandora laughed saying "Does it really matter? We need to get down there. It can't be worse then up here" They all crammed in the elevator which was obviously not meant for this many people. Alexander hit the switch and it slowly started climbing down the shaft. As they went down they heard metal shifting above them and looked up and saw as they went down, about each 10 feet a metal ceiling would close above them making them plenty secure "As long as they have an air supply in here" Alexander commented.