SLADE
Watching Saffy when we went to Kayla's farm made me realise a whole bunch of stuff.
Yesterday was the only time we have been out of the house and no-one has Judged us or stared in pity or disgust.
She sits in that goddamn chair staring out of the window like a prisoner watching life carry on without being able to join in.
The kids from next door play ball in the street or ride on their skates and bikes, today they are playing under the sprinklers on their lawn. It makes me realise that the accident robbed us both of our childhood and when I watch her watching the children I think of not how we used to be but how I stole the chance of those children ever belonging to Saffy and me.
Elt stays to basketball or soccer practice after school and most days I play rugby or go to the track on the dirt bike. Saffy used to go swimming at the beach or ride that crazy horse of her mothers who costs more in livery fees than a new Porsche. Now she is trapped inside a useless body forever because of me.
SLADE
Today we buried my mum under her favourite tree in our garden, she'd only been sick for about a week, I tried to ring dad, but there was a recording on the line telling me that international connections are down.
There is no TV, no radio, no internet, no phones, nothing, no connections to the outside world what so ever, this is like something that happened in a horror movies or the plot of some SciFi novel, it is not real, it is not happening, it can't be…
SAFFY
It is strange to think how close we are to the end of the world. It is almost certainly the end of the world as we know it.
All of the adults are gone, buried in mass graves or littering buildings and streets like rubbish. The kids we once knew they're gone too shipped out to camps for their own safety by the government. The ones who are left, who escaped the round up have formed gangs and spend their time smashing things up and fighting one another, they are destroying everything that is left of the life we know.
Last night our house was broken into, we came so close to losing everything we have left, each other and our lives.
SAFFY
Today we left our home for the last time, forever.
Before it got light Slade and Elton bandaged each others wounds the best they could. The wounds they sustained trying to protect our processions, our home and me.
Elton packed up our belongings, everything we needed to take with us, food, tools, medicines, cleaning supplies, clothes, cutlery and all of the things I need. Slade disappeared. He arrived back at the house just after dark roaring in reverse up the driveway. He and Elt threw all of our stuff into the back, of the van I don't know where he got it from and I know better than to ask even through he returned more battered and bruised than when he left.
Eventually we were ready and Slade lifted me into the van and fastened my seatbelt before leaping in beside me and slamming the door shut and with Elton behind the wheel we speed off into the future leaving the past, our old lives, the chaos and the decay behind us.