Chapter 13: The Young Couple
The young couple walked through their new home as if they were walking on air. They still couldn’t believe that they had actually qualified for the loan to build their home, and then the home was actually built. Now hours after closing on their first home, they lay snuggling in their bedroom talking into the small hours of the morning. They were so wrapped up in their plans for the future they didn’t hear the evacuation announcement when it was first broadcasted. They went back to their apartment noticing that there were police officers everywhere, not only police but there was militia men everywhere. They had been listening to music still high from closing on their home, so Sophia seeing all the cops, and militia men around she had the expert system in the car find a news station as they pulled into their apartment complex. They sat in their car listening to a replay of the Queen’s announcement. They walked dejectedly into their apartment their bright future suddenly anything but bright.
Brendon tried calling the bank hoping to maybe get out of the loan in effect returning the home to the builder. The bank’s call center was so overwhelmed that voice and data lines had shut down. Brendon’s next call was to his builder. The builder wouldn’t take his call. As Brendon was trying to get a hold of the bank and builder, Sophia was trying to get a hold of McGrath’s Furniture to see if she could cancel her furniture, they wouldn’t let her when she finally got through to them.
They moved their possessions into their new home. Their family and friends helped them move into their new home. Complementing them on their choices of colors and how the small home was perfect for the young couple especially since they were expecting their first. The cook out that was to celebrate their new home with their family and friends was greatly subdued and broke up early. The young couple shut the door to their home and went to bed.
The next day their new furniture arrived including the furniture to the nursery. Sophie just had the delivery men put everything in the garage. She saw no reason to remove the packaging from the furniture.
A week after the landscaping arrived. The neighbors noticed that the plants had not been planet having wilted and died. With the sod still on its pallets it hadn’t been installed; now it couldn’t as the sod had also died. It had not and could be not installed.
When the neighbors had not seen either of the couple for a couple of days, a couple of the neighbors went to check up on them. When they opened the front door they knew something was amiss as the odor made one of the men sick. They found Sophia in the bath tub with her wrist slashed. They found Brendon hanging from a rafter in the attic. He had to climb up to the scuttle tie a rope on one of the rafters above scuttle and then to his neck. He had then thrown himself through the scuttle breaking his neck. That was when the other neighbors had to leave in a hurry.
The asteroid had claimed three more souls. They wouldn’t be the last.
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