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Before The Supernova

Leaving, Or Not

November 27th, year 2962. We're leaving Earth. I would never think that I would leave my planet to go in Cypris galaxy. Just because the stupid sun is exploding. Why do we have to leave now? We could stay here for another three days! Three days and the sun will get destroyed by a black hole. I just can't believe that I am actually standing in front of this spaceship. I know that if I don't leave, I'll die anyways. Knowing I would die anyways, couldn't I just die at birth? I hate this feeling. We're just never coming back here but we had to let everything we had in our houses. Just so that everybody on the new planet starts 'Equal'... What to do after? It will just restart like on Earth. We will get on this planet, not knowing what to do for food, most people will die, then when we bring all our technologies in the place, we will destroy the planet again. It's just a vicious circle. I don't want to leave. I don't need to leave. I just hoped those things were fakes and we were going to come back in three days, seeing the sun was still there, we wouldn't have to leave again. But it's practically sure it's not a fake. If it wasn't from all the bodyguards around the ship, I'd run back home and enjoy my last three days alive. So many people to evacuate the country. I don't feel like we need to do this. Soon, it'll be our turn to get in that flying polluting thing I don't even want to take. It's better to die then to live fifty years in a stupid spaceship to end my life on a planet I can't even find the name anywhere. I don't know why, but I have the feeling that the worse could happen to me if I get in the spaceship. Suddenly, I feel something weird happening. I can't go on the new planet. No! I can't do it! I ran out of the line, knowing we were the last people in it. The bodyguards already got in also. I'm alone on this empty continent. I see fire getting out of the reactor of the spaceship. It's leaving without me. I don't regret my decision. My parents didn't even see me. Too worried about my know-it-all brother that left yesterday. I'm the only person left on this American continent. I'm alone. Three days to live, then just nothing. As the spaceship disappears in the blue sky, I feel good, relieved and I just need to say it's fine and deny everything else around me. I can live long even if the sun doesn't explode.

"It will." I tell myself.

It's fine anyways. I go in my house, sit on the couch and just eat what's in my fridge and my dog's still there. I have no idea why would the government refuse we leave our pets here. Ridiculous. I just want to go walk outside with him, marching on the highway. The weirdest feeling ever. I do that. I go with my dog, not leashed, and it's perfectly fine. No cars, no people and the coolest thing of all, not a single sound. That's weird. Shouldn't people have let their electricity on, knowing it didn't matter anymore. I just ignore it. I don't want to think about it anymore. I'm the last person that will be on Earth in two days. Evacuations finish tomorrow afternoon. It's currently eight in the morning. With everything left here, even flying cars some people didn't hide, in case they were fakes. I hear my phone tell me: "Energy time Sam. Energy time Sam." I shut it up, but instead of walking, I run. I don't even have overweight. My parents bought this because I love sports. I still can't figure out the name of the planet. Then I realise that Milo, my dog, is no more behind me. I call him two times, then stop, I don't care anymore. I'm happy I didn't leave. I pass by a house, just beside the highway, with all its lights opened. It's my friend's house. Then I see something incredible. Everyone on the continent was supposed to leave today, but she's there! I can't believe it! Felicia! I run over to her house and ring the bell

Witnesses

I run down the hill and try to go to her house without falling in the many bushes on my way. I ring the doorbell, but there's no answer. I go by the window to see if it was her I saw. Just before she could possibly see me, she closes her room's door. I don't know what's happening.

"Felicia! It's me!" I scream by her window.

She comes and open it up so I could come in.

"Hurry! How did you get here?" Felicia answers, worried.

"What's happening? Where's your family?" I ask.

"They took them! I hid in my closet and before I knew, my parents and brother were gone. They take every survivor. Everyone that doesn't want to go in that stupid ship." Felicia falls in tears in front of me.

"Who's they?" I question.

"Don't you know? The witnesses! Their jobs are to take anybody left on the planet. If they see you, they will report to the authorities and they will send you to that stupid ship." she said.

"How do you know all that?" I ask still looking at Felicia cry.

"My parents were friends with people who were turned into witnesses. During a short lucidity time, they told my mother their superiors could do anything with them as soon as they were converted to witnesses." Felicia informed me, a last tear falling on her cheek.

"So you don't choose to be a witness?" I asked before hearing a weird thudding against the door.

"Come!" Felicia pulled my arm in her closet, where was a red button to activate the closet, like every closet today.

"Follow my orders, well, my father told me to follow them, so follow them with me." Felicia ordered.

I agreed.

"The red button doesn't activate the closet, as you probably thought. It opens a tunnel to Asia. As you know, in Asia, the evacuation was due two days ago, so we should be okay." Felicia explained.

"Are you sure about this?" I try to ask.

But before she could answer, the witnesses banged the door opened. Before she could even think, Felicia pressed the button. The ground disappeared under their feet and the were in a tunnel gallery. I found a message, handwrote. I never learned to write with my hands but Felicia did. She read the message.

"Dear daughter,

This is an old tunnel gallery standing here since 2361. It might seem long, but it's our ancestors' work. If you're here, it's because, somehow, you're in danger. You should know that my long away grandfather wasn't only to build this thing. 2361 is the year our family started building those tunnels. We finished in 2890. We reinforced everything. From ceilings to passage openers, almost everything's new from this cycle. I even told you those rails were for a high speed train to Asia, but once in the train, you'll have to choose your destination. In the rock you'll find a big box, with laser guns, sniper guns and just revolvers. I wish you luck, whatever your going away for.

Kisses,

Your father." Felicia read.

She thought she was going to cry, but took her madness as courage. We found shovels near where the paper had been left. We started to dig in the wall's door until we hit something hard. It was the box. We got it out of the wall and opened it. Felicia's father promised many guns, but there were only three. In the box, I found another paper.

"What did you think? I would never give you so many weapons. These are transforming guns. One for each of your possible friends accompanying you." Felicia restarted reading after I gave her the paper. Couldn't he write on a computer?

We took two guns and put the box in the wall to hide them from possible enemies. We turned around and saw the dark tunnels. The train arrived without a single sound. It wasn't touching the rails. It was floating by magnetic forces in the rails. I thought it was the minimum, but not just that, it's very quiet for a train. We went in and commanded Asia as destination. He train left slowly, but took speed very fast. Soon, they would be safe. As they hoped.

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