"Can't be day already." I pushed away the blankets with a groan, before sitting up. then I turned off the alarm clock that would have gone forever, if not. 6 am in the morning. The Earth still hadn't completed its revolution, that explained the shy sun that started to wake London up. After rubbing the sleep off my eyes, I grabbed my phone and started checking my boring Facebook time list out. Seeing what bothers my pals at 6 am already, quite amuses me. I giggled a little at John's post, then put the phone away. I stretched and walked next to the window. It didn't look anything but an ordinary day. I breathed in the smell of flowers mixed to the smell of hot, newly added tar. The neighbours had already started fighting before I could yawn, the cats living under my window already started meowing, the girl living in the flat above mine, had turned on her radio and the paperboy had yet started his work. Regular day in regular London. "Good morning Londoners. Today, 21st of June..", I overheard coming from Anne's radio. "June 21st… no, no, no!" The last day of my finals. Blimey. Unknowingly, I had forgotten it. I dressed up as quick as I could. I ran to the kitchen just to grab a biscuit. The bus would have come any minute now. Earpieces in my hears and backpack on: I was ready to face the day which would have led me to freedom. Or maybe not?
Chapter 1: I don't want to fight this war.
After half of an hour spent on that smelly bus, we gathered at school. The scenery was as ordinary as ever. People revising on a side, people clung to their girlfriends, on another. And then there was me. A random eighteen year old girl, short too, hair and eyes of the same colour: light brown. A girl among the others who was about to step through that door for the last time in her life time. After too much time her sacrifices, would have paid off. "Think about it. The school gets attacked by aliens on Exams Day, huh Dan?" It was Mag who spoke, one of the few things that made going to school every day, more pleasant. She was still smoking her cigarette, waiting for my reply. I frowned at her sentence "Oh come on, Mag! Aliens might also be out there but they're not going to come just right here. I mean, a little blue ball lost who-knows-where in the immensity of the Universe. Highly improbable, don't you reckon?", I shrugged. Science. Hell if I loved Science, back in school days. The days spent with my father watching the sci-fi channel all day long, made me believe aliens were real but they were not going to descend on Earth. It would have been pointless. They always said human race was inferior. They could have used us only to learn how to cook eggs, perhaps.
I got in the school hall and walked straight to the class I was waited in. The teachers were supposed to be there already with the paperwork in their hands and a warming smile. I took a breath and walked through the classroom door. "Good morning, Clearwater!" said the tutor, as soon as I got in. "Please, take a seat, get only a blue or black pen from your bag and when all of your classmates are here, we'll give you the sheet to work on. Oh and take off your earpieces as well." I nodded dismissively at whatever he had said and I sat not to far from Luke Williams. One I really fancied in that school. "Morning.", he said. "Hey.", was all I said. "Seriously, Danielle? Just 'hey'? C'mon. You could've done better than that. And you know it." I shook my head, as if I were answering to the voice arguing inside of me. The sheet eventually was given and after having a moment in which I thought I had forgotten even my first name, I started writing the answers.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" a metallic voice yelled from the hall. "That's surely someone who's trying to avoid their job, huh!", I said, trying to keep my head focused. One of the teachers, left the room never to return. "Exterminate!", the voice came closer. "Find the Doctor!". "The Doctor? We don't have doctors here, do we?", I frowned at myself. "Exterminate!" the voice yelled again. It was now so close it was almost deafening us. A tank-like, robotic thing with something like a telescope emanating blue light at its top, got in the room. Anyone started running around, but me. All the people who dared to move, were shot dead by one of the mechanic arm-gun this thing had. I stayed put in my place. I didn't want to die, not this young. "What are you?", I asked. "Where is the Doctor?" , the thing replied. "I said, what are you?" , I said raising my voice an octave up. "We are Dalek. You are Human. Confirm?" I widened my eyes. Were aliens really on Earth? "I confirm. I am human… you, Dalek, am I right?" "Affirmative. I am Dalek Caan. Have you seen the Doctor?". I shook my head slightly. "No. I don't know who's this Doctor. What do you want from him?" "He's an enemy. He must be destroyed. The female has been brave. She will be spared." The thing activated his motor skills and moved off, while I was left there, surrounded by corps. I started sobbing properly. A man stood on the door, wearing a blue suit and a light brown overcoat. He held what looked like a screwdriver in his left hand. I had never seen him around at school. I wiped my eyes quickly. "I'm sorry.. you are?" I asked, approaching. "It doesn't matter now. Basically. We gotta run." He grabbed my hand and started running towards the canteen.