Title: Mixed Up
Author:
deird1Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Prompt: 146 (Apocalypse Nowish)
Character: Connor
Mixed Up
There was fire falling from the sky in Los Angeles.
They watched the news report together, and wondered what it meant.
“I want you to have something real,”
Then they drank hot cocoa, and played monopoly.
with eyes round and serious, and fire falling three feet away…
He bankrupted Jess, but then he landed on his Dad’s hotel, and it was all
over. The end of the world. The end of everything.
And nothing really mattered any more.
“It doesn’t matter. I’ll win the next game.”
Cheeky smile, ruffled hair,
betrayal, death, destruction…
And on tv there was fire falling.