The Fall of 2081

The Beginning

Sidney walks down the school hallway. Finally the last month of high school is here, she thinks to herself. Today she would be looking through her scholarship letters and picking her favorite school. She had always wanted to become a director, so she had looked up the top 10 film schools and registered into a couple and she was hoping to get the one in Colorado, But she would have to wait till 4th hour before she could figure out which ones she qualified for. She went to her locker to grab her American History text book and she walked to Mrs. Luttrel's classroom.

She sat in the front of the class, next to the teacher's desk. She pulled out her folders and organized them, like she does every day at morning free time. The bell soon sounded and kids rushed in, sitting in their assigned seats that they had gotten at the beginning of the school year. The teacher soon followed in a few minutes later, and she passed out our new assignments for the class period. Then she pulled up the Today website, so we could go through current news. (The idea was suggested to her when she began teaching history by the elementary school history teacher) Mrs. Luttrel sits down and we all watch a few news reports before opening our books and working on the packet.

By the time the bell rings, she has already finished her packet and was working on an essay that was due that afternoon in English class. She walks out of the door and stops at the corner of the hall to wait for her two best friends. They soon come bouncing around the doorway of the nearest classroom, which happens to be Geometry, and Sidney walks over to them.

(Accidental change to 1st person, I was writing this all in one setting and somehow I had changed to 1pov along the way...I'm way to lazy to change it so I hope you all wont mind! You may now continue^^)

"Hey Syd!" Bree says happy to see that I had waited for them.

"Hey Bree, Hey Hunter!" I say looking over at Hunter who was taking a drink of his coffee.

"Hey bro, want a drink?" He says looking at me.

"No thanks, I don't understand how you can drink that with so much sugar and creamer!" I say laughing

"Says the one who likes their coffee on the Black Death setting" Bree says giggling

We all walk into our next class which is Science and get seated in our assigned seats. Mrs. Law soon walks in. She sits down at her desk and does attendance. There are about four people gone on vacation already and people who don't care about the last month and have left to do their own thing. As a class we do a vote on which movie to watch at the end of the year. We end up picking Pixels. Mrs. Law had a surprise meeting after that, so we had a free day. Bree and Hunter come over to my table and my seat partner, Isaac, left to go sit by Braedon, the school jock. Kayla, Braedon's girlfriend was sitting next to him as well and was applying some kind of lip-gloss.

"So you coming to my place after school?" Bree asked "I'm going to be going out to the cave out back."

"Yeah, Sure." I reply not registering what she was saying.

"Dude, are you even listening?" Hunter asks waving a hand in front of my face.

"Yeah, I'm here." I say turning my head to my friends.

We talk for the rest of the hour, planning when we should get together again. As soon as the bell rings I race down the hall towards the band room, and grab my flute and music out of my band locker. I set up my stuff, getting a stand, connecting my flute, and putting my music on the stand. I ask my teacher, Mr. Brewer, if I could go get a drink from the water fountain in the hall. He agreed and told me to take the hall pass. The hall pass is a metal clarinet. That's all it is. It is really disgusting though. I take a paper towel off of the shelf by the door and I take the clarinet down the hall with me.

(A/N: The hall pass, or tinkle tube as some kids call it, actually exists in my band class. Oh and we actually call my director Brewer instead of Mr.Brewer)

When I return to the classroom, All of my stuff is put away and Brewer looks at me and says:

"The office called and said that they wanted to see you immediately."

"K?" I grab my flute and music and walk out of the door, grabbing my clarinet along the way. I walk up to the office, and open the door. Hunter and Bree are standing in the small room. "Whats going on?"

"Syd, grab all of your stuff, we are going up to Maine." Hunter says quickly.

"2081" Bree whispers as she walked by, out of the door.

2081 is code for our bunker in Flagstaff, Maine. We had it built so that if anything were to go wrong with my fathers job, as a scientist, we would have a place to go. What went wrong this time? Is it that urgent?

"Where are Lee, John, Kimberly, and Lane?" I ask Bree once we are outside the school.

"They are going to meet us there. They had a few erunds to run." She said turning around to get into the vehicle.

"Is someone going to tell me what happened this time? Why are we going back to 2081?" I ask getting into the passenger seat of the old pickup.

"We will explain in a bit, but right now, we need to leave!" Hunter latches his door in the back of the truck, and Bree hits the gas.