Prologue

It was sudden, the loud boom

erupting in the air, indicating an end. The end of my struggles to achieve a perfect life, of following my passion to go to Paris and become a recognized fashion designer, make a name for myself. There would be no more care for exams, college and career. There would be no more friends, no family, and possibly no

more life.

It was the end of many things, but it was also the beginning.

It was the beginning of a war that would last longer than anyone could have predicted, it was the beginning of an

incredible amount of destruction and death no one had ever witnessed before, and it was the beginning of our new life, filled with terror and lost hope.

It was also the beginning of something I had never saw coming, something I could have never have foreseen,

something I might have wished had happened under better circumstances, but something I did not regret.

It was something that brought me hope in the midst of all the misery, it was a light that shone between all that

darkness, guiding me to safety, protecting me from harm and showing me happiness in a situation that was anything but.

I had lost everything I had loved, everyone that I loved, everything I had owned, but I found him among all that.

 …

The war had been predicted to happen for the past three months, when the relations between the super-power countries worsened.The world was about to face another World War. The World War III. All countries had been preparing to deal with its consequences. However, no one was prepared for the destruction that was about to take place.

My family was fortunate enough to be one of the ten-thousand families to be selected to enter the underground facilities, which were built for the purpose of protection from the war. My father, fatefully, was extremely

close to the Army General of Blaunx, General Shah, who, as one of the prestigious and well-respected members of the society had been given a pass. However, General Shah did not plan on accepting the offer. He had lost his wife to cancer and had no children or any close family living in the country. Therefore, he believed he should maintain his responsibility to protect his country and decided to give his pass to my father, his closest friend since they were children. After all, my father needed the pass more than he did, since he had a wife and three young children: two girls and a six year old boy.

My father accepted the offer without any hesitation. And, I am glad he did, because otherwise our plan would have been to hide out in the basement of our house, which might have led us to our deaths in a day or two, either due

to the bomb, nuclear radiations, or most likely, a break-in by some rowdy people, for whom money was the goal regardless of the situation. Unfortunately for us (in that situation), we lived in a big house, in the good part of town.

I guess the people would like to, at least, get a taste of luxury before they eventually died. And, under circumstances where law was no longer in power, we were particularly vulnerable.

Hence, I was happy we did not need to stick with our former plan. However, getting to the containment area was not an easy either, and involved hours of travelling, and through a war zone.

There were four facilities and in four different cities, but not in ours, therefore we had to travel by an army truck to go the nearest city where one of the facilities was located. The trucks were supposed to pick up a few people in our area where the rich lived. The 1% of the society that had the money to buy their way into the protection facilities, while the poor and most of the middle class people like us, who could not afford the cost, were left out to die. That is right, though we lived in a good part of town, we not exactly rich rich, and we definitely could not afford to get into the protection facility even if we gave out all our wealth and sold all our organs. That was how expensive it was! Which explained the small number of people who were not selected by the government themselves, to actually get in.

Therefore, I was extremely grateful and thanked the lord to give us the opportunity to escape, but dreaded what was to come at the same time.

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