• It was 14 years ago…. I will never forget those 14 years of rage, fear, and LOVE.



    It all started on the outskirts of town. They appered in a fasion as if they were from space. People ran, they hide, they turned on their loved ones to get away. In two days my town was emety. I was the only one left. It seemed that they tracked by heat. Surly everyone I knew was dead. At least I thought.

    I was polishing my guns and blades early that morning because I like to keep them shinning. I heard something that made me bring up my .22 cal. Walther at a girls head. It looked like she ran in thinking the same as me. NO ONE WAS LEFT. I then looked at her eyes a cool milky blue with gold around them. She had red hair with gold highlights, it was coverd with twigs and dust. At that moment I lowerd the gun and asked her why she was running. She said that they had found her while she was running that she had been running ever since. I welcomed her into my home showed her that I had protection and we grew close. Too close. As I found out the following night.

    I woke in my sleep, I dared to move for fear that it was THEM. No it was the girl who’s name I later found out was Trisha. She was laying next to me. Noticing the covers from the bed above leaning over the edge I concluded that she was lonely and cold. I pulled down the other blanket and laid it over us. She pulled the covers closer. I laid back down and put my arm around her. It was then like that for the next week. Soon thing were looking up in this glum filled town. I finally thought that things were going great. I had everything I ever wanted and MORE. That didn’t madder for long.

    Soon people saw that the aliens left the planet, but I knew better. They were still up there. That’s not what the people thought though. Soon they started to return to the town. One by one at first then in groups. I knew this town wouldn’t hold out. I packed up our stuff, Trisha kept asking why. I told her I could never lose her not like how everyone left me when I was 11 never. We left later that day. We walked untill I got a desent car to work. On the 8th day gone from our town of cinders an explosion rang out. A flash of light from the heavons is all I saw with my mirror. Trisha and I stood in horror. They never saw it coming.

    At that momment I knew I couldn’t leave Trisha out on INFO. I told her everything thing I knew. From their heat sensers to how they run. Just like the ABC’s. I told her when u spend 14 years alone in a small hut with no one else you look back on times you didn’t like. She hugged me and said then don’t remember just remember the times we had. Maybe we need a little place out there on the parie with the sun high the asteroid belt shininng in its gleam as we sit under an apple tree. I told her it sounded great. I knew it could never happen though. To even eat we got to hunt down markets. Find food that’s solor heated. Because THEY can sense heat we cant make fires.

    We sat there heads togeather eating our moldy bread sticks and sitting on old car seats and I asked her was this the feeling she had? It was the two of us on a cliff with a cherry tree above us, The moon as big as ever and stars gleaming like gemstones. She didn’t answer she just scooted closer to me. I knew she wouldn’t answer so I welcomed her into my arms. We slept there that night on those two car seats in the middle of nowhere.

    Suddenly above me two stars went out then a few more. I thought of THEM killing other worlds like this and leaving it survivors to fend for themselves and if we grew to be a large group they’d take us out. I discided I wouldn’t tell Trisha about the stars. Why should I worry her any more than I have to? It pretty much went like that for the rest of the years family’s got togeather and spread out so they could live not in a group but in colony’s. No more than 5 people to a colony. And of me and Trisha we grew even closer. Years later we had 2 kids a boy named Mike and a girl named Seleana. Turns out that everyone looked up to us for surviving so long without a problem. Likewise though I could still feel that THEY had never left and I told everyone so a group of testers formed at the junction under the cliff. Over 30 of them. A beam of light fell and they died. Everyone took heed of my warnings and made me chief.




    And so this is me. My legacy. My LIFE.



    -Jake S.