Black Sky

Here I am standing in the midst of everything, a thin string holding me up. An itching taste arises in my mouth, sending a small reaction up through my spine. And right here I will tell my story.
It all started in the year 1995, the year of my birth, and now extended into 2010. I don't exactly know what happened, but now I am in the year 1770. But in 2010, the states are collapsing into the government of debt. The seas pile over with an endless rage of oil running through my body. The world is coming fast paced though the shinging gold of America. And yet... when all this is going on, we are all like the boiling frog, cooked through, and through. This is the beginning of the end. And here is where it all starts.

"Nicole," I shrugged. "Where are you taking me?"
"Just wait Millie." She said smiling, stopping at the high school football field.
"Ah, so why are we here?"
"You know why, you weirdo." She said pointing out to one of the football players.
"Oh, I see. Devin Chandler."
Right now there's me, Millie Burge, and my crazy boy obsessed best friend Nicole Freeman, who probably doesn't realize that I'm here right now because of Devin. You see, Nicole is like a rollercoaster of fun, and I'm a book filled with words.
She looked at him running around throwing the ball back and forth. She stood up and yelled, "Devin! Devin! Hey it's me Nicole!"
"Ugh, get down you crazy girl." I said annoyed.
"Hey, what are you doing?" She said as if nothing was wrong. I rolled my eyes ignoring her.
"Nicole, let's go now! We've spent enough time already just watching a boy run around a field. Now let's go back to the books."
"No!" She yelled, slipping her arm away from me.
"Nicole!" She ignored me.
"Hey Devin!" She shouted another time. She finally got his attention. He looked up and saw us. He smiled. As if to impress Nicole, he threw the football farther, and higher.
"He is so cute when he smiles." She said, a smile spreading across her face.
"Like all gullible fish," I said. "When they see you, you reel them in."
"Whatever." She said. Devin threw the ball one more time, it flew across the field turning and turning across an endless flight. She watched him, I watched the ball. The rush of it flew, as a timeless sequence went across the sky, getting hotter, and hotter. There was a flash... and we were gone. It was like I was slipping into thin air, nothing pulling me.
"Nicole? Nicole? Where are you?" I yelled in a shrill voice. "Nicole, I'm scared."
"Millie, where are you? I can't see anything."
"I dont' know where we are. It's like everything dissappeared."
"Nicole?" A voice said low and strong.
"Who was that?" I said.
"It's me, Devin. Well does anyone know what to do?"
"Talk about manly." I mumbled to myself.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Well think of something." He said shrilly.
"Okay, okay." I said. "How about we close our eyes and see if this will go away when we open them."
"Okay." They both replied.
"One, two, three, open!" I shouted, but still nothing appeared.
"Again!" Nicole shouted.
"One, two, three, open." Still nothing.
"One more time!" Devin yelled. I was so scared I whispered the words. "One, two, three..." And we vanished. Voices rang, people yelled, and I couldn't tell where I was now. I felt a strong weight topple over me. I opened my eyes slowly. A man with a sweaty face and red beady eyes looked down at me, growling, pulling me closer to his face. Then his gip fell, and his head landed by mine. I screamed. Then I saw people wearing long red coats, standing near a tall building, shooting four to five people. I looked at the area I was in. There were long houses and a tall building, where the scene was taking place. I think I had seen a picture of this in history one time. I put it all together. And either this was a reenactment of a war, or I went back in time to the year 1770, and this is the Boston Massacre.
I looked down at the ground. It was crumbling under me. I tried running away, and yet the earth took me down. I fell down. It was almost like it would never end. Then it stopped... I felt ground under me. Hard sturdy ground. I looked up and there was the bright blue sky that was almost like heaven.
"Millie?" A voice said. "Millie, are you alright?" I soon saw that Devin and Nicole were standing over me with wondering eyes.
"What happened?" I asked, holding my head.
"You fell off of the stands." Nicole said.
"Huh, so it was all a dream."
"Well I wouldn't be so sure of that."
"What?"
"Look." Said Devin, pointing across the football field.
There was something that appeared to be a black hole. Well more then that. A dark face that was laughing at us, as it streatched across the football field, getting closer to us.
"We have to leave." Devin said. "It's getting bigger. It's going to swallow us whole."
"First things first." I said. "What is it?"
"I'm not exactly sure, but I guess when I through that last ball it did something to cause this, and I'm guessing hit an alternate demention." Nicole and I just stared, surprised at him sounding so smart. "What?" He said. "I can have smarts. Don't look so surprised. Well anyways, I don't know how we got back, but we better make sure that we don't get back in again. Because who knows if we'll get out a second time."
"Okay, I'm up." I said, ignoring the sudden headache. I stopped though, for the immediate dizziness.
"Are you okay?" Nicole asked.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine."
"Well you better be fine, because this thing is heading towards us pretty fast." Devin said.
"Yes, I realize that. Now run!"
We started running, the thing like a wind trying to topple us over. My hair blowing everywhere, but the trees weren't srirring.
We ran faster. Then suddenly the earth ended and was cliff like. We screeched to a halt like a car.
Devin turned to us and yelled, "Do you trust me?"
"What?" We yelled back.
"Do you trust me?"
I replied, "Yes."
"Then jump!"
"What? Are you crazy?" Nicole yelled.
"Yes, so jump!" We jumped. I was screaming at the top of my lungs. It was the most exilerating feeling ever. It also seemed that the fall would go on forever. We went down miles, but nothing changed. It felt like we were falling into blackness, but I could still see the sky and the trees, and the water right beneath us.
We looked down, and then got ready to hold our breaths as gravity pushed us down into the depths of the lake.
Once we were underneath I could feel my heart pounding (for the sudden force of it was extreme to my body) and it felt like my lounges collapsed. I tried swimming to the surface but it seemed like the water would never end and that I would be stuck there. My arms were getting tired trying to cut through to the top. Just as I was about to give up, and hand grabbed me by the wrist and I was lifted up. As the air hit me I felt cold and still couldn't breathe. Then a mouth was on mine, and I could feel air being pushed into my lungs, then hands were pushing at my ribs and I could feel water coming up. I coughed it out, my throte burning from the salt of the water.
When I opened my eyes Devin was over me looking down at me, Nicole standing right next to him. Now that I looked at his eyes though, and his wet ruffled hair, I could see why Nicole liked him so much.
"You okay?" He whispered.
"Yeah, I think so. Thanks."
"Oh, I am so happy that you're okay!" Nicole said, breaking the contact between me and Devin. "I was so worried about you! I thought that we wouldn't be able to make it! I'm glad we're not dead!"
"Yeah," I replied. "I'm glad that we're not dead, either." I said a little jokingly. I then directed my attention to the sky. It was getting dark, the black thing stretching across the expanse of the earth. "Okay," I said getting up walking away from the beach. "Time to go." Devin and Nicole looked up and then I heard Nicole take in a sharp breath, and then start to follow.
As our walk turned into a jog, and our jog into a run on the road next to the beach, I noticed that no one was there. When we approched the city no one was there either. I walked up to a house and knocked on the door. No one replied. I knocked again and then the door creaked open a little. I started to push it open even more. Then Devin's hand stopped me.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm checking if anyone is here."
"You know that's breaking and entering."
"No it's not when the door is open. It's just entering."
"Still it's not right."
"Well have you noticed that nothing's been right for this whole day? And that no one is here? Huh? No one in the city. Don't worry, I'll be in and out in a minute. Not going to take anything, just checking."
"Okay, but be quick." He replied.
"Okay. I'll be back." I said in the terminator voice.
I quietly entered the house, walked a few feet. No one was there, as I could see yet anyways. As I went further in towards the living room I could see that pictures that were hung up were now turned askew. There were papers thrown all over the floor and furniture. There was a piano by the kitchen turned on it's side. The kitchen windows were broken, a faint light breaking through them. It looked like a tornado tore through this place. I slowly walked towards a room. I noticed as I got closer to the door, that the doors hinges had broken, and it was standing on a corner leaning against the doorframe. As I looked through the wide crack that was there I saw that the bed, with the sheets and blanket on top, were messed up. Again there was no one in this room either. Just desolet and empty.
As I was turning back a hand came on top of my shoulder. I jumped at the shock of it and turned the rest of the way, and saw a woman standing right in front of me with crazy eyes, her hair a big mess sticking up at odd ends.
"I'm sorry," I said slowly and awkwardly going through the living room towards the door. But for some reason I just kept on talking. "I was just wondering though, where you came from. Because the real reason that I came here was to check if any other person was here in this city, but I guess there is. So I should be going now." I said pointing my thumb at the door, and started to turn around again.
Right before I was all the way out the door, and saw Devin and Nicole still there waiting for me, I barely heard the woman from the house say something. I turned back around. "Sorry, what was that?"
"The bathroom, I was in the bathroom. That's where you're supposed to go when there is a tornado."
"Oh, okay." I replied. So my little simile in my head was right. A tornado had torn though this place. But how is it that Devin, Nicole, and I didn't feel it? All we saw was the black thing, and we only felt a little bit of wind. Wait.
"K, that's enough standing around." Nicole said. "We better start moving." She said now moving up the street. She now all of the sudden seemed more mature. I guess that life and death situations need to happen for that side of her to come out.
Devin and I started to follow behind her. Devin getting closer to my body as we were walking up the street. I now thought that this was the perfect opportunity to tell him what the lady told me.
"Devin," I said, turning to him. "I have to tell you something that the woman told me as I was walking out."
"What?" Devin replied turning his face towards me now too. I could now see all of the amaizing features of him up close, but dry now.
"Well-" I said, but was cut off by the sudden whirring sound of the (what I like to think of as the dark face) thing. We turned around, and there it was. staring us right in the face, laughing at our stupidity of walking and not runnig. But before I was even able to think all of that, we were all sucked in like a vacuum. But befor it even pulled us in Devin grabbed my hand and held on tight. We were then taken off, the thing carrying us like we were weightless. As we waited in the darkness again, Devin grabbed my other hand. And just to make sure I called out Nicole's name. She replied.
"Yes?"
"Okay, good. I was worried for a second." I said. "Now Nicole take my hand." I said taking one hand out of Devin's.
"Where is it? I can't find you hand."
"Don't worry, I'm holding it out to you right now. Devin try to find her hand too."
"Millie, Millie. I can't find your hand anywhere."
"Nicole, don't worry," I said trying to comfort her. "Nicole I'm right here. You have nothing to worry about."
"Millie, yes I do." And that's when light appeared again.