Dinolution Prologue

Dinolution

Prologue

Roaming through the streets, sleeping under bridges, eating whatever you can eat. That's my life, I live on the streets with my friend Asa. It was quite strange how we met, I never knew if she liked me, or even if she was my friend but our parents where great friends apparently. Coworkers in the same business.
I used to have a great life, we lived in a huge house, my dad, my mom, and I lived in it happily. Dad would provide the money, mom would care for me and I would make sure I got good grades. That was... until dad... he was coming back from a party, his friend was driving, my dad was too drunk to even see straight, then again his friend was probably just as bad. They drove off a cliff, their bodies never found, only a wrecked car. Many think it was a wild animal, I think it was something else.
My mom went into a huge depression, and with all of the healthcare money gone it was up to my mom to go and get a job. She never did. All she did was sit in her room, drinking, crying, it was horrible. She didn't do anything to help me, my grades dropped from A's and B's to all F's. The teachers wouldn't help, no all they did was say what a failure I was.
Eventually my mom lost the house, we lost the car, we lost everything. I would wear the same clothes for days, mom would only... she would just keep drinking. It was only then that my parents friends got us plane tickets so we could go live with them. Mom was great on the flight, it was the most we talked since dad had died... or had gone missing that is.
We ended up in San Diego, getting picked up my mom was well received by her friends, but there was a girl and what seemed to be her little brother. That was when I met Asa, I could remember her cold gaze staring at me as if I was... something other then a human. Asa's parents took mom and I to their house, it was about the same size as our old house. I started school there and my grades did better, not all A's but better. Asa started to warm up to me, we started talking, doing homework together. Everything was going great again, and then disaster struck again.
I was just sitting in the garden, I had just gotten news that my left eye was going blind, it explained why I was bumping into stuff and failing at high fives. The news had gone on about a murder, that was when I went outside to take a break. 30 minuets or so passed before I head screams. I raced to the door and kicked it open, breaking the door was not the problem, I ran to where the screaming was coming from. Kicking another door open I was in the kitchen, the screaming got louder as I heard gun fires.
Heart beating louder then anything I ran through the kitchen and into the living room where horror struck me. Asa was crouched down, her rapid, uneven breathing was the only thing I heard. There was a man under her, she had stabbed a knife in the man's chest killing it. I looked around the room, the T.V. was broken, a hole went though the screen where cracks extended to the other edges of the screen, a bullet hole. My mom laid on the couch, half of her body was off of the couch, her head laid on the couch, blood seeping from it onto the couch and carpet.
Asa's parents where huddled together, both unmoving, both dead. I also saw Asa's brother, he laid under the table, stab wounds in his back. He wasn't breathing, he was dead as well. My body trembled as I went over to Asa, crouching down I gently rested a hand on her shoulder, examining her state a little more I saw that her leg was bleeding including her head making it seem like she had been shot as well, her breathing suggested otherwise. Her hands went off of the knife, her hands went over to me as she reached over for a hug. I didn't deny her that, we where both trembling, silent tears came from both of us as we hugged each other.
Without talking we let go of each other, I wiped the tears from my cheeks. Standing up I kept looking at Asa I saw she was trying to get up, cringing when one of her legs tried to support her. I put my arm around her and lifted her up. Supporting Asa we went though the building, all I wanted was to get away, what if there was another one? We just left the house, not knowing where to go, we prowled the streets. Asa's eye had been cut in the process, I didn't know if she was now blind in that eye but it didn't matter, we where homeless now, living on the streets of San Diego.