So I just looked over the first chapter, and I was so ashamed with how many errors there were! I'm so sorry! I wrote it from midnight to 3:00 a.m. and looked it over around 3:30 am. I first was going to make it in third person but thought I could explain more in first, so I changed it all around really fast and left a few subjects kept in there. I'm so sorry again. I'm writing this one at 12:43 pm, so I should be a little more sane. ;)

Again, sorry for any errors! Enjoy!

May 19

"Alex," someone whispered to me.

I was alseep, so of course I wasn't going to answer.

That same person shook my shoulder and whispered my name more urgently.

I groaned and turned to my side. What is it? Like 8:00 a.m.? No living person should be forced to be woken up at this early in the morning.

"Alex, wake up!" the person yelled.

I gathered the strength to open my mouth and mumble, "Go away!"

The person sighed and cried, "Why do you make this so difficult?"

I turned over and winked one eye open. Justin was waiting impatiently. "What do you want?"

He sighed and stated, "Mom and dad never came home last night." He sat down at the edge of my bed.

All of last night's events came back to me. The moon, our powers, mom and dad. I pushed myself up a bit and smoothed my hair. "Did they call? Did they send an E-mail? Did they do anything?" I asked.

He rubbed his eyes. "No. I don't know where they are. I tried to call them, but no one answered." He thought for a moment. It looked like he'd been thinking about it for awhile. "But we need to get food. A lot of it."

I crossed my arms. "I'm not hungry."

He breathed in slowly. "No. We need to go to the store and stock up on it. I have money; a few hundred plus mom's coupons. It won't be enough, but it's the best we can do. Max is already down stairs waiting."

I held up my hand and asked, "What are you talking about? We own a sub shop. We have plenty of food."

He ran his fingers through his hair. "That won't be sufficient. Now, can you please not ask a lot of questions right now? We'll go out to get some breakfast an go grocery shopping."

"What about mom and dad? Don't you think they need some say in this?" I asked.

"Just get dressed. We're leaving in five minutes," he said edgily. He got up from the bed and left the room.

I glared my eyes. He is so not going to boss me around like that. Sure, I got ready, but that's all he was going to order me to do.

I walked down stairs to see Max (just like Justin said) waiting by the door. He was carrying butter and syrup in his hands.

Right behind me, Justin had walked down the stairs. He was carrying a white envelope in his hand and car keys in another.

I pointed to the envelope. "What's that?"

"Money," he stated.

"How much?" He was probably getting irritated with the questions. I didn't care.

"Enough." He walked to the door by Max. "Now, come on."

We had left the sub shop closed for the day and had driven over to Nuthin' but Flapjacks. Since this was me and my dad's Father-Daughter place, I didn't feel comfortable eating here without him.

Justin had made me order some pancakes, but I wasn't eating them.

"Alex, you need to eat," he had stated. He had said that over five times now. And I had the same response.

"I'm not hungry."

Max had devoured his in a matter of minutes and was staring at mine hungrily.

I scrunched my nose and pushed my plate over to him. "Max, here; you seem hungry enough."

Max grabbed his knife and fork, but Justin had grabbed it from him and placed it back in front of me.

I rolled my eyes annoyed. "You can't force me, Justin. I'm not going to eat it."

Looking at his plate, he seemed to not be hungry either but had still eaten most of it. "Fine, we'll take it home then and save it. You'll probably want it in a few days."

I looked outside through the window and noticed it had started to rain.

Just then, the waiter came over. She looked at Justin with her lips perked flirtily. "Can I get you anything else?"

I rolled my eyes.

He answered solemnly, "Nothing else. Just the check."

She placed her hand on the side of the table where I was sitting. She looked at him and asked, "Did you see the moon last night? Or I should still say as of today. It's humongous!"

She was right, the moon was still the biggest thing in the sky right now.

Justin said, "Yeah. It was crazy. Can I have the check please?" He was not in the mood.

The waitress smiled. She flipped her blonde hair and asked again, "Are you sure you don't want anything? Some more water? We have a hidden supply of syrup in the back if you need it." She winked. "I'd get it just for you."

His jaw clenched.

"Excuse me, -" I looked at her name card. "Rhonda? Is that it?"

She turned her glance painfully away from my brother to me. "Yes, do you need something?"

I smiled sarcastically. "Yes, could we have the check please? Maybe you could do your job instead of drooling over my older brother."

She smiled nervously and looked back between the two of us. "I wasn't flirting with him. I was just trying to do my job."

I kept the smile stuck on my face. "Well, why don't you try harder and go get us our check," I suggested.

She turned around and walked away. I could subtly hear her mumble, bitch as she left through the crowded and noist restaurant.

"You're welcome," I stated.

He looked up from across the table at me. "Thank you."

A few more mintues passed until Rhonda came back with the check without saying a word. We paid it and left to go grocery shopping.

We got out of the car and started walking towards the front of the store. The rain had come down a little harder.

I shook my head and stated to Justin, "Why do we need to do this? We have a sub shop for crying out loud!"

He pinched the bridge of his nose. "Alex, please don't. Can you just do what I'm asking you for once?"

I rolled my eyes. "No! This is stupid! The world is not going to end, and we're not not going to run out of freaking food!" I screamed.

He grabbed my wrist to try and pull me to the side.

I yanked out of his grip. "Justin, let go of me!" There were a few stares.

Max cut in. "Uhh, guys?"

We ignored him. "Why are you making such a big deal?"

He grabbed my shoulders and peered down at me. "Alex, this is a big deal. A very, big deal. You have no idea how much can happen in a little amount of time. If you don't believe me, then don't. But can you just do this one thing for me?"

"How big of a deal is it?" I asked.

He closed his eyes for a second and stated, "I don't know if everything I'm thinking is going to happen, but a lot people could get hurt. I don't want to scare you or Max -" He looked at both of us, "-but something is going to happen. I'm just trying to take necessary precautions." He let go of shoulders.

I looked away. I finally answered, "Fine. I'll whatever you want me to do. But you better not boss me around, though."

His morale seemed to be lifted. "Thanks. A lot. I'll try not to order you around too much."

I licked my lips. "Wanna shop now?"

He smiled. "Let's go."

We each grabbed two carts and entered the store.

Justin stalled as we walked in and started to say, "Remember, you need to buy necesary items. No sweets at all unless it's fruit. Okay, so maybe a little sweets, but no less than 3 per cart. If we need cookies, get cookies. Also get pretzels; those don't expire that quickly. They might go stale, but it's better than nothing. Buy items that do not expire for awhile. Foods including canned, mixed vegetables, canned fruits, condensed milk. Don't buy any bananas unless you plan to eat them straight away. Oh, and no fresh produce, because they expire in less than a couple of weeks. Also soup!" He continued on. "Get Progresso! They don't need water. Speaking of water..." He thought for a moment. "I should specify this more clearly."

He grabbed the envelope from his back pocket and gave Max three one hundred dollar bills.

My eyes bulged. "Holy crap! Where'd you get that much money?"

Justin gave me the same amount. "Chores."

He looked at Max. "Max, go fill your two carts with as much water as you can and keep on getting more until your money runs out."

I interjected, "Don't get Arrowhead. Arrowhead's gross. Mmm, get Dasani. Or Aquafina!" I stopped due to Justin's glare. I whispered to Max, "Just don't get Arrowhead."

"Alex, get essential health and beauty aids. Icluding -"

"We need make-up if the world's going to end?" Max asked.

"The world's not going to end, and health and beauty aids are vitamins, band-aids, peroxide, asprin... Get my drift?" He added, "Get laxatives, also."

I groaned in disgust. "Really?"

He nodded and took a deep breathe. "You guys got that? I'll get all of the food and some other stuff. If you guys can't decided between two or more items, grab 'em both."

I looked at Max who looked like he would pass out with all of the information passing through his brain.

"We're good. At least, I think so."

"I'll meet you guys back here in about an hour, okay? Good luck." Justin left in one direction and so did Max.

I started walking towards the medicine aisle and began plucking things off the shelves as if there were no tomorrow. Kind of ironic. I grabbed water-proof band-aids, regular band-aids, Dora band-aids; every single vitamin in the alphabeti; peroxide; Tylenol, Aleve, Advil; ice packs; hair ties; toilet paper (lot's of it); tissues; Tampax for me; soap; razors. I even grabbed SlimFast for no apparent reason. The two carts were filled to the top.

After I was done with those, I realized there was forty minutes left. I felt like I had everything but too much time left.

I walked over the front of the store to check out, but I noticed that everyone checking out was going ballistic. I surveyed every cash register and saw that nobody was actually "checking out". They were just throwing random bills to the frightened chashiers. I walked - more runned - and threw a fifty onto the belt just as everyone else was doing.

I ran out of the store into the pouring rain and loaded the items into the car. By the time that was done, I had around a half hour left.

Deciding to not waste my time, I ran over to a random store across the street. I couldn't see which store it was due to the rain, but once I entered, I could tell it was Hallmark. The smell of scented wax coated the air. I walked through the store and just looked around for a bit. There were little key chains with names on it, there were the custom heart-felt cards that were bursting with artificial happiness. There were picture frames and random movies stocked up on one side of the store. I bought a key chain customized with the name "Max" on it and a couple of movies.

A sudden epiphany invaded my mind when I realized that we might need light! Candles and flashlights! Justin hadn't thought about that when he talked to us. So I bought three bag fulls of differently scented candles and a bunch of oil lamps.

I then walked next door to a hardware store. I bought four bags full of different batteries and flashlights. I also bought a radio.

My arms were getting tired, so I unloaded the bags back into the car and walked back into the store where we were supposed to meet at the end of the hour.

"Excuse me! These are my items! Go get your own, jerk-off!" I heard a lady yell.

I looked behind me and saw a man trying to grab an item from the lady's cart. The lady whacked the man with her purse and he treaded away as she walked off triumphantly.

The lady didn't notice she dropped what looked like a Rubik's Cube. I shrugged and bought it for any occasion.

Soon the hour passed and Justin and Max both arrived at the same place.

"Did you guys get it all?" I asked.

They both agreed and we set off to the car.

We finished packing and trying to fit everything and got into the car. Even though the radio had a lot of static and wasn't really cooperating, we could still get one segment in.

"There have been unevitable floods all over the eastern seaboard. As you all know about the breaking news on the moon, some of you may know that the moon controls the tides. It was uncomfirmed to the news that all of Cape Cod was completely covered, but it is and has been confirmed..." Static paused the reports.

"... It seems to be the same with the barrier islands off the Carolina coast. Just completely submerged. As of today, massive tidal waves 20 feets and higher are beginning to flood New York City. All of the power has been out since an hour ago, and until further..." The static filled the radio again.

"...Statue of Liberty has been washed out to sea as many people are taking action against -"

The car screeched to a halt. "What?" we all screamed.

I opened the door and fell onto the ground. I held my head between my knees and began to breathe in deeply. I felt like I was going to throw up.

Uhh... Yeah... Don't you just love how optimistic this story's becoming? ;)

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