Youth; the chased deer running despite its limp, faithfully thinking it is never the apocalypse to be chased by hunters, from mankind and wolves, but contrarily embracing the nature, and absorbing as much adrenaline as possible to gain more experience and evolve. People underestimate youth, dodge its concepts and display them in a quite unfair depiction. Simply, youth can´t be combated because the more injuries they get, the more fragile this world becomes, the world dies alongside youth.
Lizzie is a dreaming young lady who is dedicatedly studying to go to veterinary school since she´s fond of animals, specifically because they´re silent creatures, the ones in which agonize in silence, isolate themselves and take their last breath looking at the hustle in the streets escalating a case of stress and violence… hence, leave this world endlessly and happily.
Buzzed the alarm on the bedside commode, waking the lady, Lizzie up to school, she drank her cup of coffee with her parents, wore her shoes and ate the remained bread loaves layered with peanut-butter and apricot jam on her way to the bus station, where precisely she takes the public transportation to a destination nearby the school…. People nowadays look so bored, untidied, out of life, they looked like empty vessels, shrouded with pale sweaty skin, and frowned appearances. Once you breathe at their faces they start fighting and showcasing the worst behaviors could ever be witnessed.
Therefore, the young lady couldn´t handle their frustrating spirits and turned her favorite atmospheric music on, letting the sun come through the bus window, shining her glassy smiley face, and sinking into her lucid dreams until the trip approaches her destination…
Lizzie opened her eyes regretting a high phone volume that caused her not to hear the announce of her destination´s arrival, but she wasn´t so far away… she ran for 12 minutes witnessing kids still also arriving the same way as her, which isn´t late.
She entered the school walking its corridor and feeling nostalgic, she was there for her entire educational phases, she grew among each corner and she´s almost leaving it all behind when she goes to college… her close mate “Diana" was absent, she oddly felt abandoned, how come she can endure the classes without her talkative friend that never narrates things that fail to entertain her?! She muted her phone, and sent her friend a message to check on her, maybe if she´s allowed, she can pass by her place and spend sometime.
Half of the day passed and the dusk is coming along with its dark entities, people have their third meal, watch political news, or soccer while acting unnerved with their family members who tend mostly to justify this interactions as reasons or side effects of working all day, and Lizzie finished her classes willing to see her friend finer, as she was told that Diana caught cold and she can be visited anytime, also demanded a pumpkin pie.
She stopped by a food cart giggling at her goofy friend´s messages and paid for the pumpkin pie, meanwhile she was putting her purse inside the bag a weird looking man with a definite diviner´s aura had hit across her guts accidentally, but instead of walking away he whispered to her “you have no much time”and looked at her with disgust, “you´re a bad fortune to who you surround”. Lizzie was consoled by the merchant who told her to neglect that old man with dementia.
Indeed, Lizzie ignored him and thought he just exaggerated because of the hit, maybe at his age it´s normal to have short temper and weaker body… Little does she know that the world is as cruel as it looks and there´s no reason of acting bad to each other, the less repercussions or sanctions those people encounter, the more they transgress. Little does she know that old people are jealous of youth, of their fresh perceptions and physical privileges, indeed, some of them hate to see others happy, rather, they envy.
Lizzie was so cautious about the pumpkin pie, fearing another sudden hit that gets the fluffy dessert all dropped on the floor, but she made it to her friend´s house, Diana opened with dazzling eyes and runny red nose, hosting Lizzie and inviting her to a family dinner, the aroma of each recipe was raising in the house provoking the stomach of each member indoors occurred to be hungry, maybe starving due to a long busy day, Lizzie didn´t reject the invitation as Diana is also considered a non-biological sister who she feels comfortable around.
After dinner the girls went to Diana´s room, chitchatted, studied and overwhelmingly took plenty of pictures they kept for memories. Lizzie contacted her mother for the third time to let her know she´s talking a cab home.
The cab had a country music on, while the driver was smoking his lungs with the cigarette ignited in his hand, obviously arguing with his wife about the latest expenses which he can´t afford regularly but affords another woman who works as a prostitute sitting beside him, flirting and giving dirty gestures without shame in front of an underage girl sitting behind them.
Gladly Lizzie arrived home safely after the dirty drama going on in that taxi… She went home finding the water taps in all sinks heavy, the lights fluctuate, and a mild earthquake takes place causing few objects to fall on the floor… Madam Joanna and Mr. Ulcer, Lizzie´s parents rushed themselves distributively to each sink to stop the mud from coming down with this earthquake, a short span passed and the toilet pipes flooded the bathrooms with mud causing the family to panic and exert too much efforts to clean up the mess while seriously craving a rest.
The county groups started talking about the event and the priests went crazy repeating an eerie phrase in which they claim it´s God´s wrath causing people to become more overloaded and aggressive… they all emailed the governor complaining about the issue, reckoning it´s simple, nevertheless, those priests might be impostors, but prophecy can choose its path indiscriminately to mortals to warn everyone from a becoming danger they can´t endure.
Lizzie directed a message to her school group asking if tomorrow will be a normal day or they can stay home, the school didn´t decide anything and will inform the students and their parents with the updates when possible as they declared. Diana checked on Lizzie and vice versa, Diana was so stressed repeating the same words as the priests but Lizzie only said “God´s wrath doesn´t include the innocents, we didn´t do anything wrong to become scared of God´s wrath, Diana”.
All family members were collapsed, and slept deeply due to exhaustion…
Next day, Lizzie woke up not from the alarm, but because of the outdoors noises, everyone is cursing, making calls and unable to fathom what´s happening the same as Lizzie who kept watching without a feedback, she went outside her room, finding her parents crying silently, putting their hands over their mouths and the presence of Lizzie in the living room itself caused them to burst, whine and shake… The TV news updates as following: “Last night, the world had witnessed a drastic change in their utilities functioning, letting alone the mild earthquake that was a sign of a great becoming natural disaster, that hadn´t happened in centuries, since the ancient eras, even before the first human generation on earth, the scientific researches launched a bomb over us all, calling on emergency to take the quickest procedures since the indications of the life losses are high, the possible damage of earth caused soon is estimated by 99.9%, a giant flood from the oceans is raising in all continents, the tunnels prepared by the governments have been filled completely within an hour, since there´s no capacity for more population, the helicopters will be observing over different regions in all places to rescue you, gather all in the same place, don´t be alone, and we did our best as human beings in this life, farewell folks in case we will never see each other again, call your beloveds already, it´s time to utter what lurked within.”
Lizzie shoke to the core, knelled and sobs everywhere initiated, even the little 8 year old brother cried seeing everyone crying and not fully accommodating the apocalyptic moment everyone is encountering, the earth has 24 hours to vanish from existence even with the precautions, all the dreams are bashed, all the ill will find their salvation in the worst way, all the priests and diviners who were giving an unworthy platform were correct, it´s doomsday! Will we meet again? Will at least we be compensated for the losses and ache we had in this mundane world? Is the afterlife a better place? Or it´s empty?
A lot of inquiries were wandering the brains of humans before they all shut their eyes hugging their beloveds, and Lizzie has hugged her little brother and their puppy right beside her parents, wondering if they´re going to suffer the pain of the ending or it will pass softly! Will they become a shrine for the next generation, or this was the last one forever!
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