A/N: Thanks for those readers. And definately Xanthofile for reveiwing glomps See I'm updating almost everyday...I really have no idea where this is going really...I have some ideas and some directions...but not much. Well anyways, I think this chapter was interesting enough, please reveiw and tell me what you think!

"You don't have to go you know," I said.

"Yes I do. People are getting desperate. They'll do stuff you won't expect. I should protect you since I have no one else," Shrugging simply.

Chapter Four

For a while we talked about the events that occured and what we thought it was. He talked alot about how it was aliens who wanted our world, they came down in capsuls through the lightening. I had snorted at that point, that seemed too unbeleivable. But he continued and said they had robot-things under ground and came up. They had lazers and would cremate people alive with it and would bomb areas. They would destroy areas then come back to kill the survivors.

Aren't you glad you left?

By the time he finished I was shaking in fear. "Is this the only place?"

"I think it's everywhere. Many places had been hit with the storm"

"Did your parents die in the storm? My Mom and brother did" I said, actually thinking about it for the first time. I would never see them again, my whole family gone.

Your dad...

"Nah, I woke up and found them gone. It turns out they left me and ran off. The storm hadn't hit where I lived, but I wasn't going to stick around."

"Oh..."

"Look, we're almost there" he said pointing ahead. I squinted and was able to see a town, with the buildings and stores. I smiled with releif as I could see people walking down the streets.

As we walked into town, we could tell nobody was going through everyday life. Their were boards with millions of posters for lost and missing people. Their was a place to donate blood and almost a hospital for injured people. People were crying hysterically calling out to anybody for help. I stepped closer to Bryan, who led us quickly down a street and into a resturant. We sat at a booth and amazingly we were served by a waitress. Bryan ordered us both water and a cheeseburger.

"When's the last time you had a real meal?" Bryan asked, as the waitress came back to hand us our drinks.

Mom had fell asleep before dinner so my brother and I just snacked. For lunch mum didn't make anything so I had had a peanut butter sandwhich...did that count as a meal? For breakfast I had slept in and therfore skipped it.

"Too long" Bryan answered.

The waitress brought out the cheeseburgers and set it down, "That will be twenty dollars"

"What!" I exclaimed, "It was only two burgers."

The waitress sighed, "Yeah, well food is hard to come by now."

I looked at Bryan who seemed to have remained calm.

"Well I got enough" I said, bringing out my bag, but Bryan stopped me.

"I got it. Gentlemen always pay," he smiled at me, and handed the waitress a twenty. She walked away and we began to eat in silence.

After Bryan had finished he watched me, then finally said, "It'll be dark soon. It's almost seven."

We won't be safe here for long. We should go.

"We should go then," I replied, "I don't think we'll be safe for long, ya know."

"Yeah," he nodded, "Well we should rest for a bit, we've walked quite a bit"

We sat and talked a bit about our lives. It turned out his family owned a farm, but were going bankrupt. He didn't have any sibblings nor a girlfriend. He did okay in school, and it seemed like we would make pretty good friends.

We saw a car go by and he looked shocked, "But the cars aren't supposed to work, they all died."

"They did?"

"Yeah, wonder if he'll give us a ride to the ferry"

Not with that crowd.

"Looks like everybody has that idea," I said as the people in the street began to crowd around the car.

The car was forced to slow down, and eventually stopped as it was overwhelmed. The crowd began to murmer angrily, and busted the windows in an attempt to remove the driver and passengers.

I looked horrified at the desparation of the crowd. The driver was screaming as the older passenger, the were getting punched and kicked.

"We should go," I whispered, crawling out of the booth. Suddenly I heard a gun shot and turned quicly to the source. The driver had brought out a gun and had it pointed in the sky. Bryan grabbed me and pulled me into his booth. "Not yet" he breathed in my ear. He held me close to him, my head hiding, covered by his body. I looked outside once more to see that another guy had brought out his gun and had it pointed at the drivers head. I whimpered at the fear of see his head get blown off.

The driver dropped his gun and talked slowly, then quickly reached in the car to grab a passenger. It was a little girl who looked frightened. He, and two passengers quickly walked into the resturant we were in and sat the closest booth to the door. I turned to see them sit and the driver hold the little girl who was sobbing. But then my head turned back to the car as I heard gunshots and screams, the car was moving, then stopped, then more gunshots sounded, with more screams and it moved once more.

I gasped and hit my face in Bryan's shirt.

Once the car was out of sight, Bryan gently pushed me out of the booth and led us outside. "Now we should go."

As we walked past the people in the car, I saw that the driver, a older man was crying in his hands while the younger one held his sister. I wanted to stop, but with Bryan's hand on my shoulder he steered us by the door.

"Before we leave you don't have go or anything right?" he was smirking slightly. I shook my head and he nodded then walked outside. I followed him and we walked through the crowd, still buzzing about the car that moved.

We walked to where some of the crowd was already heading, "The ferry is a mile from here" Bryan said, sounding happy and excited.j

"That's good," I said smiling and motioning to my feet.

We walked close together and were relatively silent, much rather listening to the conversations around us.

"I heard Europe got it the worst-"

"The looked like a squid with three legs, they came up from the ground, they destroyed everything. It seems they planned this for a while, they had those robots under the ground for thousands, millions of years."

"They want earth, they're jealous at how we prospered."

"There's no way to stop them, they know us inside and out. They have been said to have been studying all these years."

I was so entranced in all this information that I didn't hear Bryan until he nudged me.

"Yeah?"

"Well I was thinking about earlier. You said that your Mum and brother were dead, but what about your dad?"

"He's in the army. He was in Korea, but then he got a plane to New York, I was supposed to see him tomorrow. But I don't know, what if he died?"

"We shouldn't give up hope." He said smiling gently at me.

"What about you?" I asked, I wanted to make him feel better like he did for me.

But he smiled saddly at me, "I don't think my parents would care much. They never did like me that much,"

"I'm sorry," I muttered looking down at my feet while we walked. I was about to step on the railroad, but Bryan stopped me.

I looked up to see that the crossing light had began blinking and the crosses came down. Several people climbed under it and ran across...

If cars don't work how do trains?

"I should've tooken the train" I said, saddening at how there was a station close to my house, then I wouldn't have had to walk as far as I did. But I was tooken back as the train came by in a loud roar. It sped by fast and furious, the carriages set aflame. Fire gushing and hanging out all the windows. It came as it went and soon the flashing lights stopped and still in shock we crossed the railroad. My mouth had fallen open and I had yet to close it until Bryan took two fingers and shut my jaw.

"Didn't your Mum warn you of the danger of flies going into your mouth?"

I shook my head and he smiled at me, "Well they can, so better watch out." We were quiet again as we neared the ferry. "Where does it go to?" I asked.

Where we need to be.

"Where we need to be" he answered.

Smart boy!

Suddenly I heard the same low-pitched moan I heard near my house. I gasped and looked around, as did everybody else to see what they had been talking about. It was a robot, with three tentacles.

Bryan pulled me forward, running, the military operating the ferry began to yell for the ferry to go.

"We have to get on, before they go. Or we'll die" The crowd had the same idea as they rushed and pushed to get close to it before it left.

We were nearing it as the top went up, as it began to pull away we go to the dock and we still crowded around towards it. It seemed as we would barely make it, but the military was pulling us back, making a blockade. Bryan pushed past them and I heard shouts of ones calling out others. The gate was going up just above reach.

We won't make it.

I was pushed from behind and I toppled over the gate and into the ferry.

Bryan had got me on the ferry, but at a price. He wouldn't be able to get on. He had jumped on the moving gate and tried desparately to climb up.

"Bryan!" I yelled climbing the other side to give him my hand. He reached for it, but slid off the gate and into the water, "BRYAN!" I screamed almost going over to get to him. But he waved goodbye to me as someone pulled me back down the gate.

I watched as he swam back onto land and onto a hillside trying to hide from the nearing robot. And suddenly I felt very alone.

To be continued...reveiw! I might be able to update...might not. Because I'm leaving tomorrow for my granny's, but since I have a laptop I might be able to take it with me.