Ok its finally time to start taking off, hopefully I got this... :3

Alice brought the pup upstairs and put out all of his necessities in the corner. She put down a small wooden basket with some blanket inside for a bed and noticed she was being stared at. The trip up the stairs must of woke him up since he was sitting up wide eyed and. After a few moments of staring she finally decided to say something.

"Come here!" She said in her best excited voice, bending over and patting her hands on her knees. The dog instantly hoped to its feet, vibrating with energy, and yipped the cutest little bark she had ever heard as It ran back and forth on the corners of the bed looking for a way down, and after a couple of hesitant tries he finally jumped off the bed and excitedly ran over to her, slipping around on the hard wood floor. She smiled as he stood up against her leg and looked up with the cutest face she had ever seen, tail wagging and eyes wide.

"Awww you are just the cutest little thing..." She cooed as she picked him up and put him back on the bed, and suddenly the sound of her cell phone was heard coming from the living room. After making sure to close her bedroom door she rushed downstairs and got to it just in time to see it was Ash.

"Whats up?" Alice asked, heading to the kitchen for some sweet tea.

"Hey Alice, the store is keeping me here until six, so I'm just calling to let you know I won't be home for quite awhile." She heard Ashley say with a tired voice. Ever since she got this part-time job as a cashier she was getting these outrageous hours. Its good thing tomorrow was Saturday, or she would be a wreck.

"Wow that really sucks." Alice muttered as she took out some sweet tea. She vaguely heard the dog whining upstairs as she poured her drink, and made a mental note to get some toys to occupy him if she wasn't around.

"Yea, anyways did you name him yet?" Ashley asked curiously. Funny, Alice never about naming the pup, and she didn't really have the slightest idea what to would suite him.

"No I haven't really really thought of it yet. What do you think fits?" She asked, open to suggestions.

"I don't know, I was thinking something along the lines of Frederick..." She said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Psh, yea right." Alice retorted with a laugh as she put the tea away, hearing a slight chuckle on the other end. The mood was suddenly killed when the lights flickered and went out.

"uh oh..." Alice said, walking over to the wall to try the light switch.

"Whats wrong?" Ashley asked with concern in her voice.

"The powers out." Alice said after a moment. She groaned and pulled out a flash light from one of the cabinets.

"Do you know how to work the circuit breaker?" She asked.

"Yea, I'll call you back." Alice said heading for the front door.

"Okay then, call me back." She said hesitantly.

"Don't worry Ash, something probably blew a fuse. Good luck." she said ending there short conversation.

"You to, be careful." She said before hanging up.

It was still slightly windy outside, the skies were covered by clouds that shone with a slight pinkish grey color. She made her way to the side of the house, opened the circuit breaker, and flipped a few switches. She watched the kitchen through the window and saw that no lights came on. 'Great, a line probably went down.' Before she even latched the cover, a ferocious boom suddenly exploded in the sky above her.

"What the-" She couldn't help but say aloud as she looked up into the sky trying to find out where it came from. Shocked and shaken she noticed the sky had grown immensely dark. Already acting on adrenaline, she ran to the front yard, watching and listening on the edge of her yard.

'What the hell was that? Was it a plane? Thunder?' Alice always had an irrational fear of planes, and the thought of one crashing was terrifying to her, even if the odds were a thousand to one. Questions where tripping over themselves in her mind as she heard another boom and although this one wasn't as loud, she felt it run through her. Wisps of gold caught her eye suddenly, and she studied the sky where it had came from. 'Lightning?' Her curiosity and fear drove her to the middle of the street, making her feel slightly exposed in the light sprinkles of rain starting to fall.

'Is no one else hearing this?' She thought looking over at the houses down the street, all of whom were quiet and eerie. It was so dark now she could hardly see the outlines of them. Her house was located on the corner of Farrows road, a lonely little corner that had short green patches of field separating her house from the others on every side, except the back where there was an older empty house. The fields were owned by some grumpy old man that had never mowed them and had a distaste for cats.

A sudden gust of wind pushed her and made her step back and cover herself. There it was again, that glow, brighter than before. This time it looked like a shooting star...no... a fallingstar. Not in control of her own actions anymore she took off running into the field of grass across from her, almost tripping over dirt clods and weeds 'What am I doing? Am I going to catch it?" It was all happening so fast, she couldn't even answer her own questions. The wind was loud in her ears as she ran, and the gap between it and the ground was closing fast. The tension she felt grew as she got so close, but realized there was no way she could get there in time. With one last push, she sprang froward with her arms outstretched and fingers extended.

:O Whats wrong with you Alice? Are you crazy? Anyways, how did I do? I know it was a little short, but I'm pretty happy with it, good ol' cliffhanger. Anyways stay tuned! :3 I actually know someone that works at wal-mart, and she has the work outrages hours like that. Really though thats just all kinds of crazy. :I