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Kimberly Pitt Mrs.Riddle Period 7 September 28, 2012 __The After Math__ Inside a dark forest overrun with vines and weeds, she finds herself standing on some run-down railroad tracks. About a hundred feet in front of her sits a tunnel. The hard decision now is whether or not to enter the dark tunnel and keep searching for her little brother or to let her fear overcome her and never see her brother again. Then, out of nowhere comes a little ball of light leading into the tunnel. She says to herself, “I think it wants me to follow it…” This place could be very dangerous, if she went in she might never come out. After debating for a while, she makes up her mind. She slowly starts walking up to the start on the tunnel and closes her eyes. She breathes in deeply and says, “I am Lisa Vanco, and I am going to find my little brother.” “Mom! Where is my raincoat?!?! I have to go to school!” Lisa shouted up the stairs of their little town house. Ms.Vanco replied in a soft voice, “Darling, you’re fourteen; you can keep track of your own things.” Lisa is thrown off track by this reply and simply says, “Okay…” She runs out the front door and into her father’s 2014 little Toyota, screaming for her little brother Danny to hurry up. Ms.Vanco is putting on her jacket as Danny swiftly zips past her and into the back seat of the van, eating a toaster strudel and playing his Gameboy. Lisa yells, “Dad! Can you please go?! IM GOING TO BE LATE!” her dad starts the car, buckles his seat belt and takes off. Mr.Vanco says, “Honey, since your mother and I are leaving for our business trip today, we need you to look after Danny.” Lisa replies with a short nod and a sigh. As they approach the school, Lisa jumps out of the van and runs up the stairs and through the main office, at risk of losing her perfect attendance title. After lunch, she gets called to the front office. As she approaches, the power goes out. Everything goes dark. The principle yells out for everybody to rush outside, she feels for the door and follows the light shining through the window. Everyone is gathered outside and scrambled in panic, she over hears someone saying, “Its finally happening, the power is gone.” At this comment, she starts to feel a sense of panic also. She sees Danny running towards her with tears in his eyes, something terrible has happened. She says in the calmest voice she can, “Danny, what’s wrong? What do you know?” tears approach his eyes and he replies, “M..mom and dad… the plane crashed…they’re dead!” At this, Lisa crashes to the floor. When she wakes up, everything is different. She looks up at the strange woman in front of her, “Where are we? Who are you…? W..where’s Danny?!?” The woman looks at her with deep, sorrowful eyes and leaves the room. When she returns, Danny is by her side. He looks different, older; his hair has become this dark brown flow of curls. “How long has it been?” she says to her brother, he replies saying, “Almost a year and a half. Everything is different now Lisa; this military group called the militia has taken over and dominated half of the country. This is Emily Roulten, our new advisor.” Lisa stared at him with a new look in her eye. She says, “Advisor?” Emily understands why she is so confused, she explains, “Before you passed out, everything shut down. Everything electrical cut off…including planes. Your parent’s plane perished in the ocean, everyone was killed. The militia took over everything and set laws stating that they are they only form of power. I was selected to be your advisor, or babysitter.” At this, Lisa immediately considered running away. She said, “Danny, can I talk to you for an minute in the other room?” Danny nodded gently and started to walk into the other room. “Let’s run away, just you and me. We could go into the woods and live out there off the land.” Danny shacked his head and said, “There is no way we could do it. They would catch us before we even got a chance to leave.” Lisa said that all they could do is try, so they did. They left the next morning, heading off into the woods. Before they could get very far, Danny disappeared. “DANNY?!? DANNY WHERE ARE YOU??” Lisa said as she was running through the forest frantically searching for her lost brother. Inside a dark forest overrun with vines and weeds, she finds herself standing on some run-down railroad tracks. About a hundred feet in front of her sits a tunnel. The hard decision now is whether or not to enter the dark tunnel and keep searching for her little brother or to let her fear overcome her and never see her brother again. Then, out of nowhere comes a little ball of light leading into the tunnel. She says to herself, “I think it wants me to follow it…” This place could be very dangerous, if she went in she might never come out. After debating for a while, she makes up her mind. She slowly starts walking up to the start on the tunnel and closes her eyes. She breathes in deeply and says, “I am Lisa Vanco, and I am going to find my little brother.” The ball of light lead her through the dark tunnel, straight to her brother. She found him lying on the side of the tracks, unconscious. When he finally awoke her said, “Im sorry Lisa, I heard a noise behind me that frightened me, so I took off running. I didn’t realize that I had ran so far away from you! I looked around and couldn’t see you anywhere, so I walked through the tunnel. As I looked behind me, I walked into a tree branch and hit my head. I don’t remember what happened after that.” Lisa replied by giving him a large hug and saying, “I was so worried about you! I thought that the militia had taken you and I would never see you again. Let’s make a home here under this tunnel. We will be safe from the weather and the militia will never find us this far out. We’ve made it Danny; we are free.”
 * Five years earlier… **