The Worlds End

Sitting by her bedroom window staring out at yet another lazy summer day, Sal sighs to herself willing something to happen, anything to take the boredom from closing her eyes waiting... still nothing happens before she can further persue trying to will something. Mom calls, "Sal, Breakfast; come down," she quickily runs down the stairs figuring that this is most likely going to be the only fun she gets out of the day.

As she brings a spoonful of her lucky charms up to her mouth, the whole house starts to shake. The cereal falls off the table and into her lap but that is the least of her concerns. At the moment, her mother is clutching the door handle to the fridge. The rumbling stopped; but trying to stand up, Sal found it very hard. Like trying to stand while riding on top of a car, she finally got enough balance to stand and take a few uneven steps toward her mother. "Mom, what's going on," she wails.

"I do not know," replys her Mother.

Suddenly, the whole room goes completely black; and for a moment, it stops that feeling of rolling. Sal and her Mother rush to the window, but what they see is amazing, the Earth only a few miles away from the moon. Their gravity gave way that instant; not all of it, just enough to give them the feeling that they cold fall off the earth into the unknown but they did not, however. The two walked out the door of their house seeing all their neighbors out on their lawns gazing at what lay before them. "What do we do," yelled a man in a panic.

Sal recalled a comic book of a super hero and how he rotated the earth backwards. "That's it," she exclamed, "The earth is a ball, and we have to roll it back into its place!"

Once the words came out of her mouth, people looked at her as if she where crazy; but just then, the world started that slow roll towards the Moon threating to crash at any moment. Being scared, they go with the only idea they have, Sal's. "Okay," she says, "Everone in the whole world needs to run in the same direction at the same time so everone go inside and call everyone you know and tell them to run north at 2:00."

Soon, after while, with family calling family, friends calling each other, all of the media reporting and people watching, the whole world knew. 2:00 hit, and everyone started running and running. The world actually went with Sal's idea and soon the darkness retreated. The world was back where it was supose to be. Sal walks in her door, sits down at her table, pours herself another bowl of cereal, and tells her mom she will never ask for another exciting day again. Just then, a bang and Sal wakes up slumped over her window sill trying to figure out if what just happened was a dream or reality.