Ellie Dennis's Story

"Ellie, Ellie, Wake up!"
Ellie opened her eyes to see her mother looming over her. "Get up, you'll be late for school," her mother told her. "I don't wanna' go to school, I wanna' sleep," Ellie mumbled, rolling over. Her mother sighed and yanked the blanket off the bed. "Hey!" Ellie protested. "Get Up. Now," her mother ordered. "Fine, fine," she muttered as her mother left the room. She got dressed and brushed and straightened her hair.

She headed down to the kitchen and made herself some pancakes. She placed on some strawberries and drizzled on some whipped cream, before adding a dollop of ice cream. Her father walked into the kitchen. "You shouldn't be eating such unhealthy things at breakfast," he said. "It's got strawberries," Ellie protested, mouth full of whipped cream. Just then her mother entered. She walked over to her father and wrapped her arms around his neck and began kissing him lightly on the lips. "Ugh," Ellie grumbled, pushing her plate away from her. "I'm outta' here." She swung her bag over one of her shoulders and rushed out to her car. She looked at her phone, checking the time. "Shit," she muttered, quickly slipping her phone back into her bag. She turned the keys, and the car came to life.

She parked her car in the school parking lot and hopped out. "Hey, Laura! Xavier!" she called, jogging over to them, waving her hands like a maniac. She stopped beside them and pushed her brown hair from her face absentmindedly. "I'm not late for once," she joked. "So, what did I miss?"

"Just one more lap!" His sister, Katherine, called out to Brendon, a happy smirk on her face. He groaned. He had already been training for an hour and a half, and his body was starting to get tired. He rolled his eyes, pushing his goggles back down over them and pushing fiercely off the wall into the pool. His arms moved quickly, his legs kicking with muscle as he swam quickly in one more lap. As he reached the wall again, he hoped out of the pool, breathing heavily.

"Remind me never to take you training with me again." He said to his sister, catching the towel she threw him. Katherine laughed. "It's not my fault that you brought me. Oh and by the way, you have fifteen minutes to get to school." She said, checking her watch. Brendon groaned loudly and stood up. "Thanks for the warning." He sarcastically yelled over his shoulder, running into the boys changing room. His sister waited outside the door as he changed. "How are you going to get to school?" Brendon called, nearly done changing. "I can walk. It's not too far." Katherine replied.

Brendon sighed, exiting the changing room and grabbing her arm as he started towards the door. "Call Kelly to come pick you up okay?" He asked, seriousness pastered on his face. Katherine gave a slight nod, ushering him out the door. "I'll be fine. Now go! You have ten minutes." Brendon gave her a quick hug and nodded his head, going over to his motor cycle. "Wait!" Katherine called, running over to him. She signalled to the bag she was holding and Brendon reached in, pulling something small and furry out of his bag. He unzipped part of his jacket and slipped it in, giving it enough space to breathe. He turned around and hoped on his harley, reaving the engine and taking off.

He smiled as the wind whipped through his hair, literally. Time wouldn't be an issue at the speed he was going at, and anyways the school wasn't too far from the pool. In a few minutes, he was there. Brendon rode into the parking lot, parking his motorcycle and getting off. His hands were on the front of his jacket, keeping most of it closed and a little open. He looked around for his friends, and saw them. Laura, Xavier and Ellie. He walked over to them, looking into his jacket every few second. "Hello," he said, giving everyone a warm smile.

Ally groans as the alarm clock wakes her up, she'd had a great dream that now was a distant memory. she hits her alarm clock for it to shut up and for once it does as she wants. she glimps at the time, noticing that she has a full hour to get ready until she has to get in the car and drive to school. She gets up and walks towards the bath room, taking a quick shower to wake up. When she gets back into her bedroom she looks at the time and notices that that "quick shower" hadn't been so quick after all. "SHIT!" she rushes to her desk, getting the blowdryer and drying her hair, then almost running to the big pile of clothes by the wardrobe that she hadn't had energy to put away yesterday. she gets a pair of high waisted jeans shorts and a white top with some funny print on it, the sun is shining out and there isn't a cloud in the sky so it seems to be warm, and rushes out of the room and down the stairs, skipping breakfast cause there really isn't any time. " bye mum! bye dad!" she yells as she picks up the large converse bag from the hallway. She hears them mutter something as a goodbye before she's out the door and in the car, speeding down it to be in time for school. She reaches it only minutes before they start and goes to her friends she sees a little further ahead, "hey guys what's up?"

"Don't be such a little girl!" A voice suddenly said behind her. It was no other than Jagger and it made her frown, he always picks on her and never saw her more than a friend while she kept her admiration for him a secret. Sometimes she questions herself whether it was right to continue liking him eventhough he saw her as a friend.

"Whatever," She adjusted her backpack and gave him a glare. And then he focused his attention towards her best friend, Laura, and said, "Is it possible for you not to look pretty?"

OUCH! Her heart felt a grip of jealousy as he openly admired her best friend. It made her look down at her shoes as she played with her balance and bit her lower lip. Of course Laura always got the attention- she's taller, prettier, and has a better lifestyle than her. Who would want to date a girl who's living with two old people and a farm at their backyard?

Then suddenly Jagger changed the topic and asked, "Has anyone else had any problems with their radios?"

Come to think of it, Grandpa wasn't listening to his favorite radio station this morning like he always does.

Alli looks at Ginger, trying to see how she was after Jagger's not so subtle flirting with Laura. That has gotta hurt but Ginger only looked down on the ground and bit her lip, no freaking out. It seemed like Jagger didn't even know that Ginger liked him or he was just playing dumb, which made the whole thing even worse than if he just didn't know.

When the subject gets changed to the radio problem she flinches, so she hadn't been the only one with statics instead of music."so it wasn't just me? thought it was something wrong with my car or something." she looks around their small group, apparantly she hadn't been the only one with radio problems, which didn't seem right, what was going on?

She reaches in to her bag to call her mum and ask her to put some money on her bank card so she could buy lunch. she find the phone and looks at it, no signal. "damnit what is wrong now then? this is the third time this month! hey can I borrow anyones phone mine doesn't have any signal. she dumps her phone back into the bag and feels her stomach rumbling, " and maybe something to eat? I forgot to eat breakfast"

Ellie checked her phone. "Mine's not working either," she muttered. "Hey, is it just me, or is that clock not working? What time is it?" Ally asked. Ellie followed her gaze to the school clock, and then to her phone. "The times are all wrong," Xavier noted. Ellie rolled her eyes. "No shit," she teased. "But...why?" She glanced around at the group. She had a bad feeling...

"We should probably head to class," she added. "Hey, where is everyone else?" Strange...she was sure everyone else had been there just a few minutes ago. They were definitely there when she had arrived, at least, she though they were. "We're late, aren't we?" Brendon said. "I didn't think I was late today but..." Ellie shrugged. "Brendan looked over at Ally, who was approaching Xaviers car, going to get the doughnuts. "Grab me one, eh?" he asked, smile forming on his face. "And me!" Ellie grinned.

Laura listened patiently to her friends conversation, looking at the clocks she gave a slight shrug "Maybe there's been a power cut" she rationalized "i'm sure it's nothing to worry about" she smiled "But your right we should head to class, besides I have History with Jackass Jones" she groaned in frustration walking into the building "And I don't need another tardy on my record" she stated with a small laugh.

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Danny Parker sped to school that morning, after waking up a mere twenty minutes ago, it was a miracle that he was only running five minutes late. He munched on his toast as he drove, washing it down with a bottle of water, pulling out his phone he tried to send a text to his cousin Laura, telling her that he would be late but upon trying to send it he noticed he had no signal "god damn it" he cursed dropping his phone onto the passengers seat. Hitting a red light at the intersection he groaned in frustration, hitting his steering wheel with some force, when the light turned to green moments later her sped off towards the school. Luckily when he arrived he soon found a car parking space, getting out he spotted Ally over Xavier's car, at least he wasn't going to be the only late one this morning "Hey Al!" he called walking over to his friend "What ya doin?" he asked "Dude are they donuts!?" he asked, his stomach rumbling.

Ellie heard a bang in the distance, like the sound of a gun, and knew something was wrong. She ran out of the bathroom and looked around the deserted hall-way frantically. Where were everyone?

"Children! Children, over here!" she heard someone yell distantly. She skidded around the corner and looked for the voice. She saw Mr.Cannon, the Carpentry Teacher, usher her friends into a small hatch. A basement? Ellie didn't stop to think, she just ran to the hatch and jumped in before her escape was closed, not even bothering with stairs. She landed on the side of her feet, and even though it wasn't very far down, a searing pain shot through her leg. She winced and leaned on the cold, damp walls. "Guys, what's going on?" she whispered. She had a feeling they should probably keep quiet.


((Sorry I haven't posted in a while! DX))

Ellie nodded her agreement. She wanted to find out about her family as much as anyone else. She felt her eyes water as she thought of her parents. "And, I don't have any weapons," she added, turning to Jagger. She started down the tunnel and turned to the rest of the 'group.' "So, are we going to get going or what?" she asked. She couldn't stand waiting around here, when her house could be under attack right now.

She turned her head away from her friends as the tears began falling down her face. She clenched her hands into fists in grim determination. She was going to get her and her friends out of here if it was the last thing she did -- which it very well might be.

"Do you think Grandma and Pa are okay?" she heard Ginger ask Danny. "I'm sure they're fine," Ellie said reassuringly, not exactly a lie, but not the truth either. She had no idea of knowing this, and Ginger probably knew that too, but Ellie figured she needed to here those words. She had never really been good at comforting though.

"Next!" Jagger yelled. Ellie rolled her eyes and headed towards Jagger, placing her foot on his hands without any comment. She reached up for the hole, her hands narrowly missing. "Push me up," she said to Jagger, reaching out further for hole, her fingers missing by millimetres.

"Uhm, one question, how is the last person going to get up the hole?"
Shit.
"Someone could pull them up?" Ellie suggested as she slipped through to the other side. It was a weak suggestion, but a suggetsion none the less. She tried to keep her mind off her parents, but the more she tried not to think about them, the more she -oof
Ellie landed with a slight thump painfully on her back. "I'm okay," she said to no-on in particukar. "In case anyone was wondering." As soon as she was up on her feet again, though, her mind wandered back to the scary subject of her parents lives. Were they dead? No, she refused to believe that. She sat down on the stone ground, and gave a small sigh.

(Kind of a small post, but I really need to get to bed now :L)