I'm back!

My holiday was wonderful and relaxing, I didn't even freak out on the plane. Dee: 1, Panic Attacks: 0!

Thanks to all of you for being very patient and for supporting this story. I hope this chapter's worth the small wait.

Special thanks to jansails, "Guest", elliefrog, VioletDream13, madkins & frostedglaze for your continued reviews, Shelley421 & TwIfAn33 for putting this story on alert, & to Frankielvz for adding it to you favourite list. You're all inspiring and there's absolutely no way I could keep writing without you!

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EPOV

Apparently Jasper really does hate keeping secrets from Alice, which is probably a good thing considering how much he sucks at it.

He barely made it to the end of the block before he caved and confessed everything.

Alice then took even less time spilling the beans to Bella, leaving me to answer her questions while the others walk on oblivious.

It's not that I don't love talking and walking with Bella, because I do, but I don't have any answers for her and the more we talk, the more nervous she seems to get.

"So where do you think all the people went?" she asks. We only speak of the population as a whole and never about any of our families or what may have happened to them specifically. The date on the sign says enough.

"I don't know," I sigh. "Maybe they were evacuated."

"Why?" she asks nervously.

"I don't know," I repeat. I don't want to scare her with my long list of theories. War? Disease? Alien abduction? Or maybe this is all part of some secret government experiment...

Yeah, that's my personal favourite.

Though I can't imagine what information the government could gain from a confused group of teenagers or how they managed to make all this happen. I've heard conspiracy theories about mind control and time travel technology but I had never really believed them. Until now. Maybe we all have secret abilities and the government wants to use us to create a new race of superhumans.

I mean, my mother always told me I was special.

I glance over at Bella nervously chewing her lip. I wonder what her super ability is, and more importantly, is it compatible with mine? My cock twitches at the very thought of Bella and I helping to repopulate the earth.

Strictly for scientific purposes of course...

"Well this is just fucking brilliant," Mike shouts, stopping in front of me. My eyes nearly pop out of my head when I realise what he's talking about.

Before us sits the town hall...or what's left of it anyway. Unlike the buildings surrounding it that, despite showing signs of age, are still standing, the hall itself is nothing but a pile of rubble.

A burnt, charred pile of rubble.

I carefully step onto the pile, gingerly moving bricks and burnt timber aside hoping to find a filing cabinet, a safe or something that might have survived the fire. Something that could help us.

Slowly the others begin to help but as we pick our way through the mess, we continue to come up empty handed.

"You won't find anything," an unfamiliar voice calls. I slowly turn towards the sound.

Standing in the middle of the street is a man. We all stand frozen in place. After days without seeing another human, his sudden appearance is almost too good to be true.

But something about him doesn't seem right...

His jet black hair and caramel skin shimmer in the sun as though the light is not reflecting off it but instead passing through it. Through him.

He almost looks like a hologram.

I look around, trying to figure out where his image is being projected from but I don't see anything. They must be using some really advanced technology, because there is no was that this guy is real.

His mouth is set in a hard line as he stares us down but his eyes look surprised to see us here. He shakes his head slowly before he speaks again.

"You shouldn't be here," he says firmly. "You don't belong here."

Before I can ask who he is, why he's here or what he means, he closes his eyes, takes a deep breath...

And vanishes...

New character?! WTF?! I'd love to hear your theories, thoughts, anger at me for constantly confusing you, anything!

Also, I'm going to do a different POV next chapter, so if you want to hear from someone else, let me know (sorry but it can't be the new guy though). Most popular choice wins!

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