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I wandered through the back door of the department store. Dumb aliens, they didn't even bother to lock the door, they never did. Of course, who would need to if you lived in a perfect world? But it wasn't perfect for my twin brothers Alex and Dan or my best friend, Sandra or I. Why? Because our planet has been invaded. I never imagined the world coming to an end the way it had.

Aliens had taken over our planet, inserted themselves in our bodies, and erased our minds. For all I knew, the four of us might be the last of humanity and we all knew it. We always had hope that there were others like us, hiding somewhere, but if seekers couldn't find them, how could we? Hope, prayer, luck, good fortune and determination, was the only way we survived now.

I went to the clothes section. I grabbed six shirts for Alex and Dan and three for Sandra and three for me. We all needed new underwear so I picked out packages of those. I stuffed all of this in my large hikers pack. Two pairs of shorts for each of us. Dan needed some more sunglasses; I had grown out of my last pair of boots…. I got a baseball cap for us. We needed to hide our eyes from the aliens.

I gave a sigh of relief that Alex was still outside with his stolen motorcycle.

"Gee Amy what took you so long?" Alex asked as I climbed onto the back of the bike.

"I was only in there a few minutes" I retorted, my voice muffled by the helmet that I had slid onto my head.

"Yeah, I know. Come on let's go. I hope Sandra and Dan brought back something good this time." Alex and Dan were sixteen, Sandra was fifteen and I was fourteen. Tonight Sandra and Dan had gone and got us food, they had raided on the other side of Phoenix and they had taken our other motorcycle. We were silent as Alex drove back to our camp area on the outskirts of the city. It was in the desert; we hid our motorcycles in some bushes and waited for Dan and Sandra to come back.

Twenty minutes had gone by. Where were they? I looked to Alex, but he had his masked expression on his face. I knew he was worried. What if they had gotten caught? What if they were pinned down somewhere by the seekers? I shuddered at the thought. Seekers were relentless. They sought out surviving humans and then used those humans' memories to lead them to more humans. I remembered a time when we were not so fortunate.

Our mom had died in a car accident a few months before the invasion. Our dad had taken to drinking. He beat Alex one night while he was drunk and that set us all up for adoption. I was eight at the time, Dan and Alex were ten. Then Maria found us.

Maria was a thirty year old Hispanic mother. She had married an American when she moved to the states. She spoke mostly broken English. Originally she had wanted to adopt me to play with her daughter Sandra who was a year older than me. I wouldn't go unless Dan and Alex went with me as well. She fell in love with them and ended up getting us all. I remembered my joy when I found out I would get a sister.

For a few months we lived with Maria and her husband, John. Then the aliens came. We left in the dead of night. John had not come home that night. Maria was nervous as she drove out in her car on the back roads. We drove from California to Mexico that night. She said not to talk, we fell asleep. We had stayed the night in a secluded spot in the middle of no where.

The next day Maria told us that there were dangerous people everywhere, that they had silver eyes and scars on the back of their necks. We should never go near anyone ever again. She said she we were in Mexico because they would take the powerful countries first and the large cities. She said it didn't matter if we knew the person or not we shouldn't talk to them. Sandra asked tearfully where her father was and all Maria could say is that he was gone.

Maria went to her family's poor farm in the country and told them to hide. Later we understood that the alien in John's body would come looking for her here as well as her family. I remembered the tearful goodbyes in Spanish and the cries of everyone knowing they would probably never see each other again.

For the next few years we drove into cities at night and raided stores. Very rarely were the back doors ever locked. She would park the van right outside and walk in. She would reappear with food for us among other things.

Then walking around in cities became more and more risky. We had each been given a knife for protection and Maria had a small revolver. Thankfully we had never had to use them. It had been four years since we had been on the run and lately we had been having some close calls with the seekers. One night while raiding a large grocery store in Las Esperanzas, Mexico, our luck ran out.

A/N I know this was kinda short and nothing really happens. I was just trying to get down some background info on the characters. review please, it might get updated quicker. thanks for reading. thank you sooo much

Leah