The Rain (Vanished Book 1)

Day One

Dear diary-
I am not thrilled. Mom says i have to write in you. She grabbed this at the store. Her exact words were:
"After i croak, someone has got to have a record of this family!"
Smart, i guess.
Shopping day was yesterday. This is the second day we have had rain.
Today mom looked in the pantry. She was counting food. I was sitting at the kitchen bar doing geometry.
"We have enough to last for at least two years." She smiled.
"Whats gunna happen after that?" I asked.
"The scientists will have figured out a way to keep people from vanishing by then." She said.
She turned on the battery powered radio.
"Another thousand dead today from the vanishing rain. Stay inside folks! Local school Chapman Middle is closed. " mom turned off the radio.
"Mom, will i ever go back to school?" I asked.
"I dont know sweetie." She frowned.
"How long are we going to have radio?" I asked.
"Till the batteries die." She replied.
"But how long will they last?" I asked.
"I dont know." She admitted.
"Whats for dinner?" I asked.
"We still have gas in the stove. How about pasta?" She asked.
I shrugged.
"Sure."
Charlie came down the stairs. He was five. Red curly hair like mom, moms hazel eyes, a button nose, that dumb five year old smile with the teeth missing. He was wearing a onesie that was blue with a star on it.
He looked nothing like me. I had dads ugly, brown hair, his stupid freckles, his brown eyes. I was a monster. So i thought. I was skinny like a string bean, and tall like one too. I hated that i looked like him. Sometimes, i thought mom did too.
Charlie came over to me, and gave me a hug.
"How was your nap?" I asked.
"Good." He smiled.
Two days it had been raining. I could hear the pitter patter of the driblets falling on the house.
"Whens the rain going to stop?" My brother asked. My mother walked up to my brother, and led him into the living room game cabinet.
"Charlie. Go get a board game. How about we play some monopoly?" My mother asked. He sighed.
"Okay. As long as i can be the car."
"You can be whatever you want." She promised.
We played monopoly for about an hour. It started getting darker, the rain was still falling. My mom looked scared as she sat on the floor with us staring into the rain.
"Mommy are you okay?" Charlie asked.
"Sweetie, mommys going to lie down." She said.
"So do you forfeit?" Charlie asked excited.
She nodded her head. "Can i have all your properties?" He asked. She nodded, again.
"Aw no fair." I complained as the stupid kid won.
"Sore loser." My brother said sticking out his tongue.
"So what do we do now?" He asked. I stared at the TV, i stared at my mother, i saw she was sleeping. I ran to the radio, and turned it on. The radio was announcing the list of people reported dead. My brother finally understood.
"Sis?" He asked. "Are we going to die?"
I couldn't answer him.