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Wanda's P.O.V.
It was hard to hear myself think over the amount of noise that was consuming the small space called the game room. Almost everyone had gathered here and the meeting would begin in another few minutes. I was starting to get a little anxious and antsy about how this news release was going to go. I knew I had a part in what was about to happen, and hoped I wouldn't become the person to blame, although that would be perfectly reasonable from their standing points.
I stood up at the front of the room, with Jeb, Ian, Melanie and Jared by my sides. we were all waiting patiently for Jeb to start the meeting. As I looked out on all the people waiting patiently for us to begin, I saw all the young lives that would soon be non existent. I looked to my side to see Ian looking down at me.
"Wanda, there's no need to be scared. I will protect you no matter what," Ian said sternly towards me. He took me into his arms and smiled when my face went from worried, to awestricken at how much I loved him.
"Alright y'all. Its time we get this meeting a running," Jeb shouted over the now quiet room. "We have a few matters to attend to and I hope y'all will be quiet and patient enough to listen. My one request is that you all stay calm over the matters. Jared, would you like to start?"
Everyone look hesitantly from Jeb to Jared and back again. I could see the confusion and concern start to set in on most people's faces, while others just looked annoyed at the thought of being in the same room as me yet again.
"Well, it all kinda started like this. When we had gone out to the raid, the guys and I had no idea what was happening. The girls on the other hand knew this was happening all along, so they requested the raid." Jared began.
Melanie looked uncomfortable and spoke up. "Wanda and I noticed the sun setting earlier everyday and went to Doc for answers. That's when we found out about what we call the darkness…"
Mel continued explaining until everyone's inputs were included into how the story played out. We all stood in silence, staring into the scared, terrorized eyes of our families and friends. Then everything happen so quickly.
People began screaming and running about the small room. Kids stood on the edges of the room, staying out of the way of the adults. People ran for their rooms, thinking that they could do something to prepare for the darkness creeping in within the next two days. It was our only option, to tell everyone, and that decision clearly didn't work out.
"Well," Jeb began, "I guess we should continue on with the days chores. I am guessing we will all have extra work since everyone else will be cowering in their caves."
The boys and Jeb travelled off to the fields and began farming, on what might be the last crops, well, ever. Mel and I watched the last few stragglers make their way to other areas of the caves.
"Wow, wasn't that a huge success," Mel sarcastically stated. "What should we do now? I don't feel like working. I'm too stressed." She wondered towards the equipment storage area of the room and pulled out a soccer ball, releasing all stress on the unsuspecting object.
"I guess it could have gone a bit better than it did. I might have handled it like that if I knew this darkness was coming in a few days. Its scary…" I stammered off. I sat on the floor across the room from Mel's strong kicks and stretched out along the wall. I closed my eyes and thought when I felt a body slide down next to me.
"Man, this kind of stress can make you grow old quickly. Just look at you, Wanda. Almost a elderly folk," a mocking voice rang. I opened one eye and saw the slight grin from Kyle's lit up face.
"Thank you Kyle. That makes me feel oh so special. And, by the way, I am not old," I stated half jokingly back towards the now smug boy.
"Of course you aren't old," he winked.
"Yeah, Yeah. Kyle, why isn't this making you stressed out like the rest of us?" I asked, partly hesitant of the normal obnoxious responses he gave.
"Well, I guess I just kind of got rid of the worrying in my life. What's the good for anyways?" He said, more serious than I thought he would.
"See ya later, Wanda. I'm heading of to work before Jeb takes my head instead," he said. He left as abruptly as he came in and Mel was no longer in sight. I slowly got up, not wanting to risk falling back down, this time on my face. I started heading towards the kitchen but was stopped in my tracks.
Lily sat, crying on the cold dark floor all by herself. She was more dishevelled than I remembered this morning. Her hair was tasselled and face blotchy from crying. I held my hand out to her and she looked up.
"Oh, hi Wanda. I'm sorry, I must be in your way. I'll move now," she said, slowly raising her weeping body.
"No, it's all right Lily. I know this news must be hard on you. But it won't be that bad. I promise we will get threw this together." I said, mostly sure of the words that came form my quivering mouth.
She gave me a strong smile and we headed to the kitchen, with all the other worrying adults. I found my food and helped Lily with hers. and together found a table, were I found the rest of my family and friends.
Jared's P.O.V.
Its was all chaos after the meeting ended. People were making mountains out of anthills, in my opinion. The boys and I headed out to the field, with parting glances towards our girls. I knew I acted strong but to be truthful, I was a teensy bit scared too.
"Alright boys, we are starting to harvest the rest of our crops from now on." Jeb said, interrupting my thoughts. Mumbles went from the mouths of Ian and Kyle, as picking was one of the hardest parts of farming.
Jeb gave a few more instructions, and left us in the heat of mid day. I took out one of the wheelbarrows and follow Ian and Kyle as they pulled out the corn and wheat. Following in that pattern, it would take us an hour or two to finish. That was fine, we didn't really have anywhere else to be anyways.
I brought my wheelbarrow back to the start, and dropped it next to the wall. Grapping my water battled, I drank every last drop of the cool liquid like it was my final one. In peripheral view, I saw Ian and Kyle do the same.
"Well, I decide we are done for the day," Kyle said, exhausted from the measly hour of work. Ian chuckled and nodded his head in agreement.
"Who made you king of the crop field?' I said, raising an eyebrow towards his way.
"I did," he responded mockingly, "Now, peasant Jared, get me more water."
Ian doubled over in laughter as I hurled another water bottle towards the head of Kyle. It's lucky that guy has good reflexes, cause that hit would have hurt.
"See you guys later," I said, hurriedly getting up. "I'm in dire need of a shower and some alone time with Mel." I left with mocking comments, and teasing glares towards my back.
Doc's P.O.V.
There was lots of research to be done following the news received this afternoon. I had taken out my large telescope and fixated my gaze towards the now setting sun. The clock rang 3 o'clock.
"Darn, I was hoping to have a little more time to figure this out," I mumbled to myself. It was going to hard to try to figure out what to do without many days to do it. It also didn't help that I was the only one that actually knew anything about science or anything remotely important. I missed the days where I could work with other scientists to find a solution.
"Maybe this is just a phase…" I sighed to myself. I didn't want any harm to come to any of my family or friends. In fact, I wouldn't wish this on my darkest enemies or even the souls. Darkness is a horrible way to die, and I could only hope that this would just go away.
"Doc, what are we going to do?" I heard a small voice from behind me say. I turned around to see Sunny, all by herself, scared and doe-like. I felt bad for her, having to worry about this when she was as frail as she was.
"Well, I don't know Sunny. I guess all we can do is wait." I responded, slightly sadden when I heard the words out loud. I guess I had always known I couldn't do anything to fix this from my current position under the earth, I just hoped someone would. I guess I was wrong.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" I heard a voice come from the main hall. Me and Sunny ran off towards the noise and saw little Isaac, crying as he woke up from his nap. Others were trying to console him, and the rest of us sat there awe struck.
"It was… and then mommy… she ran away… and darkness… it ate her…" he tried to say. It was then clear to everyone that it was another dream sent from the darkness. I knew it was bad then, because no darkness dream had ever hit a child's mind before. It was almost here.
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