Seven Day To End

Sweat beading from my brow. Lights flashing, darkness, confusion. Where am I? Who are you? "The end is near." I hear a voice echo in my ear. The sun rises and sets seven times and all is quite.

I am quickly brought back to this moment, laying in bed staring at the ceiling. A lawn motor wirling loudly outside. My ears are numb to all other sounds in the world. I am paralized to the spot. My words are lost, my mind in termoil. I blink. I blink again. I blink a third time and harder. My conscious mind comes to and I throw myself into action.

Fighting my imprisonment of tangled covers, I finally free myself. Before I can make it to my desired destination beyond my bedroom, I am thrown suddenly to the floor as a rouge sheet catches my foot. Running around the house, I find my children watching their favorite television shows and oblivious to anything else. My husband, I find, in the kitchen, standing at the counter snacking on his breakfast and watching his special movies. He catches sight of me. Seeing my distress, he puts down his food slowly and turns off his movie, giving me his full attention.

I take a deep breath and tell him, "We have seven days before the world ends." He looks confused, not sure how to respond to me. The words are comical to him, and a hint of a smile lifts the corner of his mouth, yet my delivery suggests an emergency.

Seeing his confusion, I explain what happened and how I know. Weird things are always happening to me. He ponders my message while scratching at his backside. After several minutes, he decides to take me serious.

"Is there anything we can do?" he asks

"I don't know. All I know is we have seven days until humanity ends."

We ponder this for awhile. We collectively agreed, we will take the children and go to the other relm. The elders told me I can leave this world anytime. It was not death they spoke of, but a way of leaving this world before death occured. However, I was warned once we leave and enter the other relm, there was no returning to this reality.