Spookychild’s writings

 The food was gone all too quickly and she held her tongue not asking for more.  The first star was just beginning to come out she looked straight up at it.  Once more, she felt a lump in her throat at the beauty of it, but her grandmother would never see another star

 She sighed then a deep long sigh.  The worst part was it hadn’t even been 24 hours.  Already they’d walked so many miles and covered so much ground and they had found out that her grandmother was dead now she was alone in the world with Devon and Sasha

 She told herself she was lucky she told herself that she could have gone with them the day before and been dead in the warehouse too or wherever they had sent her uncle.  In that case Sasha would have been dead as well because she would have had nobody to take care of her

 But to the girl alone with a man and a dog under the darkening sky watching the stars come out it was little comfort to think of it that way. It didn’t matter how lucky she was what was making her so sad was the fact that she had no family left

her mom her grandmother’s grandfather father we’re all gone.  Not only that the world had fallen apart so any further distant relatives were unreachable a few tears trickled down her face as she remembered her cousins great aunt and her mother’s cousins

She wondered where in the great wide world they were. Were they alive, or had they been taken to by the strangers in the bus, two similar warehouses, and met identical fates to her grandmother or uncle

 She realized there was no way of knowing, and even if she did, there was nothing she could do about it. It was gone over. She sighed and closed her eyes, dropping them down onto her lap. The water dripped off her cheeks and into her clothes from her chin

It hadn’t even been 24 hours since the buses came. she remembered she had woken up sometime around midnight. It was barely dark now; another few hours to go yet for that 24-hour mark, but it seemed like it had been a lifetime.