Thread: All The Good It Does...: Horror_Show and Ser Issac

Alex ran up the stairs of her porch and opened the door to be greeted by the smell of dinner already on the stove. She shut the door and threw her backpack on the couch and sighed kicking off her shoes as if it was any other normal day. She walked into the kitchen rolling up the sleeves of her flannel and saw her mother over the stove stirring sauce, pasta was boiling and another pan had meat being sauted. Her mother smiled and handed her the wooden spoon to have a test bite and Alex licked it nodding and smiling. I wanted to start dinner early so we could get a head start on locking up the house. everyone get home from school all right? she asked and Alex pulled her iphone from her jeans texting. I think sothey let school out an hour early to give everybody extra time to get home.I gave Susan a ride. While her mother finished cooking and setting the table Alex locked the doors, the windows and started barricading the front and back entrances. They lived in a nice medium class one level three-bedroom house with a basement but they didnt have enough for a security system for the purge. There mother worked a full time job at a doctors office as a secretary and a part time job at a local retail shop on the weekends. They were in the process of saving up for it and hopefully would be able to purchase one and have it installed within the next few years. For now they blocked all houses and pretty much locked them selves in the basement. They had fixed the basement up so it was livable for a night. One side was carpeted with a long couch that pulled into a bed and there was a TV set with cable and they filled a cooler with beverages and snacks. They kind of pretended it was like a camping out. They didnt have any real enemies and did there best not to make any. Two Hours Later 659 P.M. Both Ale and her mother were downstairs in the basement with the television on both sitting on the couch. Alex was curled on her side holding up her head with her elbow propped on the armrest. They had no reason to be too fearful because it had been years since anything dangerous had happened to them. But Alex wouldnt remember when the purge had taken her fathers life when she was only five. They had lived down town in a small shitty apartment and someone had decided to target him. This is not a test This is your Emergency Broadcast System announcing the commencement of The Annual Purge, sanctioned by the U.S. Government. Weapons of Class 4 and lower have been authorized for use during the Purge. All other weapons are restricted. Government officials of ranking 10 have been granted immunity from the Purge and shall not be harmed. Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Police, fire and emergency medical services will be unavailable until tomorrow morning at 7 am, when the Purge concludes. Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn. May god be with you all. Alex checked her phone to see it was exactly 7 pm, and looked up at a small window that was now boarded up with a metal plank. They couldnt see outside. The Sirens sounded, she hated that sound. She sometimes had nightmares about them randomly starting. There was exactly seven cycles of it and she gulped closing her eyes.