Hey everyone. Finally updating this story. I would like to thank Markrod10 and WeR3 for reviewing and sending in characters for the story. So thank you guys so much it really means a lot to me. I hope I do your characters justice. And to anyone else out there that want to send in a character please feel free to.
It had been a pretty normal day the day the world went to hell. Or at least it had been in Sofia Rosa's opinion. She had been over at her brother's place watching her younger sisters Juliet and Katherine and her nephew Lucas who everyone called Luke.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary that is until her sister in law Rose called ten minutes after leaving for work. "Wow Rose," said Sofia, "you can't go ten minutes without checking in to see if anythings wrong. Nothings happened yet. The kids are looking at me like I'm crazy now."
"Sofia close the doors," said Rose panic stricken. This was strange thing in itself. Rose was never one to panic. She was a doctor and had told Sofia once that doctors never panic or show fear. But both were now evident in Rose's voice. "Block the doors if you can and don't go near the windows. Something weird is going on out here. Don't let anyone in until you hear from me."
"Ok," said Sofia. "What's up? Is something wrong?"
"Don't worry about Fia. Just don't let anything in. Do you hear me? Don't let anything in."
The next thing Sofia heard over the phone was bunch of men yelling at people. "I have to go. Tell my baby I love him." That was the last thing Sofia heard from anyone in her family besides her sisters and nephew. She could remember hearing gun fire before Rose's phone hung up and hoping she was all right. She now knew that none of her family was all right.
"Come on you guys," said Sofia getting up off the dingy floor she had slept on the night before. "We have to go. We have to look for another safe place to stay now."
Katherine whined as she was still asleep.
Juliet turned over and cried. "Do we have to Fia?" in a voice that almost broke Sofia's heart in two.
She knelt down next to the girls and nodded. "Yes we have too," she told them. "It's not safe to stay in one place for to long. You don't want to the bad things that got mom and dad and the others to get us. Do you?"
"No."
"Then we have to go now when the car isn't be blocked by them."
After that there was no complaint. The children dressed and brushed their hair and headed out to the car. With Sofia bringing what little she could scavenge from the house they had stayed in for a while. It had been a comfortable stay but all good things had to come to an end sometimes. And that was the way it happened there too.
Sofia climbed into the drivers seat of her car and started the engine pulling out of the driveway. "Good bye safe warm house," she whispered in her mind. "Hello cold hard world." She drove for a while until she came upon a figure down the street a good 30 minutes. She hoped to god it wasn't another one of those things as they drove closer to the figure. It was kid. He looked no older than her second youngest sister Juliet. Sofia pulled the car over to the side of the road and climbed out.
"Hey kid," she called out softly hoping catch the boy's attention. "Hey kid." This time it was a little louder. She saw the boy look around after pulling out what looked like a sword. "It's ok kid. I'm not going to hurt you. My name is Sofia Rosa. These are my sisters Juliet and Katherine." She pointed towards both girls. "And this is my nephew Luke." She pointed to the toddler. "What's your name?"
The black haired brown eyed boy looked up at Sofia. "Maxumus Navvaro," he said. "You can call me Max."
"What are you doing out here by yourself Max?" Juliet asked the boy. Didn't he know it was dangerous to be out here by himself.
"Those things killed my family. I just came down from the roof of that house over there gather some things I was running low on."
Sofia looked at Max. "Why don't you join us? We've lost our family too. We'll take care of you. What do you think about that?" She smiled at the boy in a friendly manner.
Max thought about it for a while. "I guess that could work."
"Why don't you gather your things? We were just heading to this safe house I scouted out the other day."
Sofia waited for Max to gather his things and then they were under way. To the safe house. Little did Sofia know that someone else had already scouted out the safe house for themselves.
Sorry for the cliffhanger guys. But I have to leave you with a little suspence. Don't I? So please read, and review. And remember reviews are like cookies you can never have enough of them. Until next time.
