Chapter 2: End of the old
Driving down the road i feel the cold wind on Harlo's face from out the window. Its mid January most people are warring jackets on the streets but i didn't need one the cold never bothered me much. It was a slow drive, passing by all these run down houses made me reminiscent about life back in my old neighborhood. It was a crappy life never really had much no one ever wanted to give me anything. If i Couldn't afford it sometimes i would just take it. Never really got caught if i did i always managed get away. Wasn't the best way to go about doing things but, its what i needed because my parents well there both a certain type of special. I'm just the outcome of that cluster fuck they call parenting.
You know i guess it wasn't all completely bad i did get to meet Dante living there. He was trying to scam a few people out of there money with a few slide of hand tricks he learned online at our school in the spill out area were the middle school i went to keeps the students till first period. He was fairly good at it, no one could tell he was ripping them all of i couldn't even tell when i was watching them. I didn't have any friends didn't need the anyway other people always rubbed me the wrong way. I can't stay next to them for to long or i get jittery so, i just keep them at a distance. Kept to myself mostly sate in a corner of the room away from others doing my work in silence. Only reason I'm friends with Dante is because he sate next to me and was terrible in anything academic related usually which was a bit shocking to me always thought people who sucked as bad as he did we just actors on TV. Sometimes i think the school system pushed that no child left behind motto of There's a bit to hard.
I let him copy off of me when he needed i didn't mind some people just needed the help. We got a bit familiar through that and accidental ran into each other wile i was getting my usual five finger discount from the corner store i was at. We got to talking and i split some of my loot with him even showed him how to do it right. He turned out to be better at it than me, that hurt a little finding that out. He was just always good with his hands that's probably why he can fool people so easily with those magic tricks of his.
Overtime we both got fairly good lifting things off people. Taking cash mostly because credit cards and any good jewelry can be traced and get a person caught. During high school Dante joined a gang he robbed a few places with a fake gun course if he got caught with a real one his sentence would be longer. Only time he had a real gun was when he was selling drugs mostly weed and acid because the chances of being attacked were fairly high. I only helped keep watch when he was robbing some place didn't do more than that.
He eventually wanted to leave the gang he got out but not in not such a pleasant way. I can't go into the details of how he got out since I'm not even sure . All i know is he wanted to leave because when almost got killed by a fake junkie during a drug deal. He got shot and stabbed, man couldn't even go to doctor because of bullet wound had to call someone to do it for him. Life wasn't easy for ether of us, to bring change we both work for it and were still working to see that change.
My past sucks i don't like thinking about it, its just that driving down this neighborhood reminds me so much of my old place. Whether its the abandoned buildings or the three liquor stores on every block its all grind into a person no matter how much they leave it all behind.
While reminiscing over his past troubles Harlo was jolted out of his memorise by a faint rumbling in the air. He looked around thinking it to be a big cargo truck passing by Yet, was getting a little agitated because the rumbling was getting loud much louder then it should be. At that point the car started to shake a little like we were driving on a bumpy road. It eventually got to the point the car could no longer be controlled. Dante started to swerve on the road, so did other cars. Some narrowly avoided collision while others rammed full speed into each other. We were luck and stopped the car before it could hit anything parking safely on the sidewalk while other cars could still be seen colliding. People were screaming everywhere it was chaos. Both me and Dante hoped out of the car because we saw a car headed straight for us. We both managed to avoid it in time but, the car wasn't in good shape anymore neither was the person who drove the other car. She had he face smash through the wind shield as he body laid in an awkward position.
She was very unlucky to day little did i know so was the rest of the world. The same thing was happening at every country in the world. The Entire planet was shaking, waves were crashing against beaches sweeping people out to sea grinding them against cars, pavement and other people. Entire boats were flipped over in the middle of the ocean with people on board having little hope of rescue. Entire buildings collapsed including towers, national monuments, and ancient structures like the Egyptian pyramids.
"Dante what he hells going on is this an earthquake? "
"I think so, we cant stay here we gotta get to a park or something its to dangerous next to buildings and roads"
Dante and Harlo started to running in search of an open field to bide there time during the earthquake the closest one they knew of was 10 blocks away it was going to take a while to get there and it was really dangerous trying to get there during this time. They both only made it a block when they saw a building fall down in front of them. The dust from the building filled the air which prompted them to look up that's when they saw it. Everyone on the planet could see it you would have to be blind to miss it.
It was massive incomparably so, appearing wider then the moon it was floating by. It filled everyone with awe, stupifying them as they continued to stair at it. I mean why wouldn't they? Man kind had played with the idea for years, what they were seeing now couldn't be replicated with humans current technology. Not many could pull to gether the words to describe such a moment, untill some guy standing next to me gasping in awe, like a prophet describe our situation so beautifully no one could possibly deny it "were fucked".
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