Snippet #2545564

Nathan McAvanui



The alarm clock woke Nathan. A tired groan could be heard from behind blonde tousled hair on the pillow. An arm came hurtling towards the clock and his hand fiddled until he found the 'off' button. Straight backed like a mummy he sat up and all the cells in his brain uploaded while he gazed around his room. It was a fairly bright room containing only what needed, plus some posters. Getting up he stepped on the history book he'd read the night before. Not wanting to forget it he threw it on his back pack before heading out to the kitchen in the one floor house. It was too silent for Nathan so he turned on the radio before opening the fridge to chunk down the last apple juice. He looked around the empty and dead apartment thinking his father in another state and his mother either in someone else's bed or drunk in her own. He was comforted as a catchy pop song started playing on the radio. He sighed while slamming the fridge shut.

All prepped and ready for school he left his worries in the house. Seeing the school building in the distance he smiled and looked forward seeing people; friend or foe. Somehow everyone made to entertain him, and forget about his life at home. He wore skating shoes matching his jeans in style, and even though he owned nice garments, he sometimes put on the worn ones: this time a comfy dark beige sweater. The static fabric somehow made him feel better.

Getting through the day there had been people acting weird all of a sudden and he'd pull them out of it with a joke. Some he'd have to poke or push to get them back to earth. He wouldn't admit he'd felt it too.

In one of the last classes, he leaned uneasily on his elbow until it happened; the class room he'd seen as normal seconds ago looked like a project from the prehistorical time.

The terribly strong vertigo and the sudden darkness had made Nathan jump up from his chair. After stumbling on a branch he called out to the few who mysteriously hadn't disappeared as everyone else seemed to have done, "What the fuck just happened? If this is some technology the school has been keeping from us, it's not cool!" the skeleton by the desk got his full attention and he froze staring at it.