DISCLOSURE:
CHAPTER THREE
The rain had finally stopped.
The clouds were just starting to clear and the morning's first rays of sunlight peaked through.
Sitting on the front passenger seat, I brought my legs up and hugged them.
We'd traveled all night up to San Fran, the closest SAFE POINT.
Complete silence had permeated the whole three hour ride from Fresno, since my brother left.
In the end, Aunt Fiona let him go. We both understood he wouldn't change his mind at this point.
He had always been stubborn. Especially when a challenge was nearby and it was definitely the case this time. There was no way he wasn't enlisting, when humanity as he perceived it, was in peril.
Aunt Fiona interrupted my thoughts,
"Are you hungry kiddo?" She inquired, pulling a white grocery bag from the back.
I lowered my legs to sit back up. I was surprised she had been able to bring anything. We had left three days earlier than expected, I didn't know she had been able to grab any of our belongings.
"Yes! When did you go back to the house?" I asked.
Fiona sighted.
"I didn't. I only had some unopened snacks at the office. So I brought those when I heard the Governor had called for the full evacuation ahead of schedule."
She dug in the bag and brought out two marinated tuna cans, handing me one.
"Why do you think he called it earlier? I though the enlisting wasn't even over yet." I said as I pulled back the can's lid.
"Well according to Amy, there were reports that their forces in LA were growing faster than expected. They seemed to have received an increase in numbers from Texas." she said, opening the crackers and offering me some.
I took a handful. That didn't make sense at all, how could their forces have moved through so fast?
"Wait, but wasn't there already a military blockage somewhere in Arizona?" I said, taking a cracker with tuna.
"There was, but these things got through, somehow. Undetected. No fighting. They weren't even detected until some of them were spotted crossing from Mexicali, obviously trying to join the main force." She said furrowing her brow as her voice rose.
I guessed she had continued receiving updates from Mike from the CIA.
Michael Greenfield had once been a shy, skinny, squinty eyed undergrad with Aunt Fiona during her time at Stanford University They'd had on and off romances during that time. Although today, she just played it off as nothing more than a friendship.
I knew her feelings were still there…somewhere under the thick layers of feminism and 'I kick butt in the court house' skin. She didn't want to accept it.
Anyways, he kept my Aunt and her secretary, Amy, informed of this whole dilemma. Not without my Aunt's constant pestering, though.
So far the evacuation of the West Coast to SAFE points from San Francisco to Tacoma, Washington had proceeded smoothly.
California's evacuation had started from the lower south cities two weeks ago. Fresno had had one previous evacuation a week ago. But along with the military who was enlisting, some city officials, firemen and the police force had remained. My aunt, brother and I had stayed to assist in last packaging of supplies and foods to be moved on our final evacuation day. Our evacuation wasn't set for two more days.
"There's more in Mexico? Not just the US?" I asked incredulous.
"Of course there's more! Don't you remember their declaration some months ago? Our forces will rise, kneel down humans?" she barked.
I did remember. I guess I had just hoped their threat was just some scare tactic or something…
"But how come we've never heard of them before? Nothing in history books, scientific studies! Nothing! " I exclaimed, slamming my fist on the seat. "How could they have been hidden for so long, interspersed in society!"
Aunt Fiona lowered the cracker she'd been about to eat. The corners of her mouth turned downward, and I thought she was about to cry.
"Because although they look human, " she said staring off into the street, "they are only monsters in sheep skin."
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Lex