It was Sunday lunch. We always had a big roast and this week my parents had invited my grandparents and my aunt Annie. We were all sitting in the dining room. Me, my brother, my sister, my dad, my aunt and my four grandparents. My mum was getting the roast beef from the oven in the kitchen.
Suddenly I heard a bang. I turned around and saw, through the open door, the roast beef lying on the kitchen floor. Had mum dropped it? I turned around to see if my family had heard it but only Luke and Ruby my sibling were sitting there, with stunned faces. My first thought was it's the Fayz! I had read the Gone books and had just finished them last week. I knew they were made up and so I shook myself to try and stop daydreaming... But no! I wasn't. Ruby, who is nearly nine, burst out into tears. This was quite common. She was a bit of a cry baby. Ruby hadn't read the Gone books and would have had no clue what was happing, like most people. This time was different though, I didn't blame her. I really wanted to cry to. I checked each place where my family had been sitting and none of them were there!
I started to imagine that my grandpa was sitting in the chair next to me, as he had been. I could see his few light grey hairs on the sides of his head. I could picture the jumper he was wearing.
"Jane," Luke shook me. "I know you don't believe it but the adults are gone!" Luke is a very sporty, fair haired, (unlike me and Ruby) intelligent boy with lots of self-confidence. I think he was probably going crazy inside because he usually is so sensible.
"Ok Luke," I mumbled, "if it's the Fayz," I was trying to keep my hopes up that it wasn't the Fayz but it was so hard, because I knew it was.
"Then we need to go and fine some more people if we all get together it will be much easier to live. It is freezing outside so we will all need to dress up as warm as possible."
Luke knew about the Fayz in the Gone books because ,after I had spent weeks after reading them, I talked for hours on end about how good the books where and by the end of around three weeks I think everyone in my family ( apart from Ruby ) knew every characters name! Ruby didn't know because every time anyone starts talking about a book she walks out, don't ask me why.