Fiction: Group 3
“Wherr are mom and dad?” Delsin asked.
“Disappeared like everybody else. I’ll explain later,” Elliot looked down as he said that,”
We woke everybody else on the floor. Now there are five of us. Elliot, Delsin, a grumpy girl called Alice,
and a 5-year-old called Annie. I invited everyone to stay at my home, just because they did not have
anywhere else to stay in for the night. As we started chatting we noticed we had something in common.
Elliot and Delsin are from Shenzhen, Alice and Annie were from Guangzhou. We were all from the Pearl
River Delta. It was clear to us that we might be the only ones left in Hong Kong, if not the whole world.
“Britt! “Britt! Help!” I was woken up the next morning by the cries of Alice. I was shocked the moment I
saw what was happening. Alice’s arms were transparent. I could still see them very faintly, but the colour of
her arms was getting lighter and lighter by each second.
“Oh my god,” I said, rushing towards her trying to grab her arm, but my hand went straight through hers.
Within seconds her arms disappeared completely, and her body dissolved into the air bit by bit.
“What’s happening to me?” Alice said as she panted.
“It’s going to be okay,” I tried to comfort her, although I knew this whole situation was far from ‘okay’.
Delsin and Elliot rushed over trying to help, while Annie just sat in the corner of the room looking at us. As
we picked up Alice she was weightless.
“The cells in her body must be decomposing...um...because of...matter…” Elliot said trying to provide an
explanation.
“English!” I shouted, desperate to know what he was trying to say.
“Sorry, I like science, but I have no clue,” replied Elliot, sounding concerned.
She faded away, all of her. We froze, not knowing what to do about it. We were too afraid to even talk
about it afterwards.
Weeks passed by and my family was still missing. I was lucky to have spent these weeks with friends, rather
than spending it alone. We were alive because of a supermarket nearby, which provided us with all the food
and water we needed. The main objective for us was to stay alive, instead of finding the people who we
thought to have existed.
A month later, we went into the apartment. The moment I closed the door, random holes appeared on the
floor one by one. They were not small holes, holes more than big enough to fit a human. They looked very
deep, I couldn’t see the bottom of the hole, it was engulfed by darkness. “Elliot! Britt! Get me out of here!”
I heard Delsin screaming for help. We looked and saw his fingers gripping on the edge of the hole. We tried
to get to him, but I tripped and slowed us down. Elliot helped me up and as he did I looked over and saw
Delsin’s fingers slip one by one. We ran, but not fast enough. He fell. I heard the echoes of his screams as he
fell deeper and deeper.
“Delsin!” Elliot yelled down the hole with tears running down his face. He was enraged. Elliot sat on the
edge of the hole, with his feet dangling down the hole, planning to jump down. I immediately pulled him
back. I couldn’t lose anymore of my friends.
“Are you crazy?” I shouted at Elliot. He stood up and walked away from the hole.
“Britt! Elliot! Get me out!” I heard Annie’s high-pitched voice in the background. I looked up to see
Annie standing on a spot with a huge gap in front of her. I wasn’t sure if she could get out alive.
