For English Learners, Something to Read Advance English. I'm not good at writing and there are a lot of broken sentences, but I hope you don't mind. :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: The World Ends I'm scared. I'm scared. BOOM! I'm scared! SHATTER! Everything is dark. So very dark. I'm short on breath, panting. Windows shattering, the earth is rumbling, the skies are black. Black, with no sun nor moon, pitch black. I run to my basement and shut the double door, and go down the stairs. My eyes were coated in darkness. I lay by the cement wall, dust from the ceiling falls. I weep, "Mom...dad...Amy...." Gone within a blink of an eye, taken away by the earth. I waited for what seemed like hours, when it was simply a mere five minutes. Yes, it only took a simple 5 minutes for the earth to cause scarring damage. Everything stopped. Time stopped. Nothing moved. I closed my eyes, my breathing became stable. Slowly, I got on my knees and crawled my way to the stairs, feeling my way through the thick black. I reached the door, held its handles, and pushed. It didn't open. "What the..." I tried again with more force. I started using my shoulder, trying to force my way through, no luck. It felt like a huge weight force was against me. I backed away from the door and down the stairs. Fear engulfs me again. I'm going to die by starving! I lean against the cold cement wall again and curl up into a ball and lay my head on my knees with my arms around me in a defensive position. I cried. I'm stuck in a dark basement with no light and unable to see anything around me. Everything is quiet and knowledge of outside is close to none. I don't know if anyone is alive anymore, or if I'm the last living person on Earth. I'll most likely starve of hunger. Alone. In here. No sound or comfort. It's cold, too. Slowly, I fall into sleep with one thought: "Will I die like this?"