Chapter 5
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On Sunday morning Eve and her parents ate breakfast with the news on in the background. Schools and businesses were expected to re-open the next day. This might've been why Mason made his announcement on friday evening. After initial panic people would calm down enough by monday for normalcy to resume. Eve's school had called and said school would still be open on monday. The news networks mentioned a few people dying, in part, because of president Mason's announcement. A man, one month away from his 101st birthday, sufferred a heart attack and died. This man had helped collect paper for world war II as a child, served in the army for the Korean and Vietnam wars, and taught at West Point during the war on terror. He'd helped defeat nazism, communism, and alqueda, but could not survive America's latest threat. A young teen couple heard Mason's announcement on his car radio, and gotten into an accident that killed them both. While these and similar incidents were tragic, they were small, isolated incidents. The question became, was this as bad a things woud get, with normalcy returning soon? Or would things get much worse within the next few years. Only time would tell.