Star-Crossed

Analog

 'December 3rd. 2028. 3:45 am.

There is no choice now. Too many bombs are dropping. Too many of the people are dying. Everyone is boarding the ships now. I'll be taking residence on Xien, with my husband and children. There is no more time left, and Teddy is getting sick... This is not what I wanted for my people. This isn't what was supposed to happen. As we speak, I am driving to the boarding docks. The kids are asleep. My husband is asleep. They're so tired... I'm... So tired. But I can sleep when I get there. I have to think of my children... Life will be better. The air is toxic, everything is dying fast... God the ships take off in just a few hours...'

I wake my husband up, and we get Teddy out of his high chair. We wake Allie up and my husband carries her on his back. I held Teddy close to my chest, we all had face masks to help with the air until we can get to the clean air. We stand in line for about an hour, everyone is either crying or talking. Everyone was scared. And nobody blamed one another. The ships Xien and Sire... the sisters ships taking orbit. Of course, we were going to be stationed on each side of the moon. A base sat on the moon, it was where the higher families were taking place. They had been building it for years. And it was finally livable. But everyone would fear the worse. I held my husband's hand as we waited.

It seemed like hours as we finally got to the front. "Henry, Elisabeth, Allison, and Theodore Harris." He said, the male who was checking, he shook his head.

"We only have the children and your wife on the list sir." He said.

I looked to my husband in worry, his eyes only smiled as he gave Allie's hand to me. He kissed me a moment, I started to cry during the kiss, I wasn't going to leave him on here... I couldn't. Allie looked up to me, then to her father. The man looked at us, he had a wedding ring, he had a family. After a moment of looking around, the man sighed softly, and then wrote something on the paper. "Family of four, please take this and board. And hurry." He said, looking around again.

My husband took the paper and looked to him. "Thank you, thank you so much sir... You have no idea how happy I am." He said before shaking his hand, then gave a kind smile. "I hope we meet again." He was always such a kind man, my husband... Henry picked up Allie and we rushed on. The air grew thicker now as we got on. It was hot and it was full of people. We all had to sit down once directed. Teddy was big enough to be strapped into a special seat and we all got strapped in.

An hour later. Only an hour, the engines started up, we saw the kind man who let us on, he came and quickly strapped onto the chairs. The doors started to close, but there was still so many people out there. We had four million people on this ship. But little did we know Four million would die off quickly, most of them anyway, due to them having complications adjusting... Adapting...

Soon the lights shut off and the ship started to shake. Children started to cry and then suddenly... We took off.