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I disconnected from life after that, I guess many years passed... I lost track of time, I no longer knew if months or years had passed, I stopped talking to everyone I knew, including Eric, the times we exchanged words ,It was when he brought some food to my room, Eric really tried, but I didn't want to do it. Whenever I listen to him and look at him, his expression always reflected things that I didn't want to remember, my mind didn't want to know anything about it, I didn't want to see or talk to anyone.

At some point I forgot the reasons that kept me alive, the idea of going with my family became stronger and stronger in my head. Before my mind gave up and I finished giving up, I saw a half-full bottle of liquor that Eric had left there a long time ago. I took it and drank it all at once, I needed… just a moment… I just needed to think clearly for a moment…

Why am I still alive? While I was trying to think, I walked over to my window, grabbed a slightly worn chair and looked at the sky through my window, I wanted to find the reason why I'm here...what's stopping me?

In the starry sky I saw what looked like a comet passing by, I didn't know if it was real, but at one point something crossed my mind when I saw it.

a memory... Ah... how could I have forgotten... if I saw this sky with you... Erika.

(Flashback)

A woman was about to reach a small hill when she slipped and screamed. When she was about to fall on her back, someone grabbed her to prevent her from falling.

Robert: You have to be careful love, the baby doesn't like it when you do strange maneuvers.

Erika: Our little one will understand what these involuntary movements are.

Saying this she sighed with relief that nothing bad had happened.

I took advantage of that moment, pulled her a little and carried her in my arms.

Erika: Hey!... Be careful Robert, we're on a hill and I'm too heavy...

Robert: i love you with your flaws.

Erika: idiot...(whisper)

Roberto: Did you say something?

Erika blushed and responded.

Erika: Nothing!

After carrying it while climbing the hill we finally made it to the top.

It was night and the sky looked very beautiful. I carefully placed her on the floor and then sat next to her.

Erika: Wow, it really is a very beautiful sky, look how romantic you are for bringing me here hahaha.

With some embarrassment I responded.

Robert: Don't underestimate my feelings.

After a while looking at the sky, Erika changed her expression a little and spoke to me.

Erika: There is something I have wanted to tell you for a long time.

I looked at her carefully.

Erika: I know it doesn't make sense to say this now. But I'm sorry for ruining your career as an athlete... I know...

Before she finished speaking I hugged her.

Robert: I've told you several times that it's not your fault, things just happened.

Erika: But if only I had eaten the pasta that day I...

Robert: Shh... don't worry, don't think about it anymore, I love you and our son.

While saying this I touched his stomach.

Robert: I'm happy just the way I am, so don't think about it anymore.

Erika started crying in my arms.

Erika: Sorry for tying you up like that... I...

While I was saying this I saw a kind of comet pass by.

Robert: Look.

We both watched the comet pass by, the sky looked much more beautiful as the comet passed.

Erika: I hope one day you can choose your own path, love...

out of nowhere Erika kissed me, this surprised me a little.

(Flashback end)

Now I understand what she wanted to tell me that day... Erika...

Our son also told me that before he left... did you agree?

After the comet passed, the path became a little clearer for me.

They wanted me to move forward with my own decisions and desires without something to tie me down.

Why would they think they were a burden? Yes, I loved them both regardless of how things happened.

Well, I guess I can fulfill your little wishes right? Michael ? Erika?

That's why I'm still here.

That day at night I made determination to be able to take a step forward, towards the future.

One day I was sitting in a chair in my room looking at a wall, lost in my thoughts, in the middle of the darkness, my hand began to shine, it was a somewhat dim light... a crimson color, it was beautiful in the middle of all the darkness, while I was somewhat surprised by the butterfly symbol that was shining on my hand, someone knocked on the door, it was Eric.

Robert: you can pass...

While I was saying that the light stopped shining, how strange, I was confused, I didn't understand what had just happened, but I don't know, one thing at a time first, I think I'll try to talk to Eric a little more, other than just exchanging words, then I'll look at that mark on my hand, it was really difficult to look him in the eyes and try to talk to him.

Eric: Hey... brother, how are you feeling? I brought you some food.

He put the food on a table nearby.

Eric: Ehmm... Well... I'll retire...

As Eric walked away, I found the strength to call him, the words didn't want to come out of my mouth, but I really didn't want to let him go like that once again.

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Robert: Eric...

Just a small whisper came out, but I don't know how, he managed to hear it, his eyes were a little surprised but at the same time they reflected some happiness.

Eric: Ah... Tell me brother, do you need something?

I'll try to tell you what I really feel.

Robert: I... I'm sorry...

I didn't even know what I was referring to, that was the only thing I managed to say, I wanted to say more but, my voice got stuck, it didn't come out, instead tears started coming out, I didn't understand why I couldn't say something, my mind was blank, I didn't understand exactly why my tears came, or I simply didn't want to admit it.

Eric ran and gave me a hug, he never said anything, but his hug conveyed too many things to me, at that moment I started crying, I couldn't stop crying, I wasn't able to process anything in my mind, I just wanted to vent with someone by my side.

After a while I finally calmed down, I was able to think clearly.

Robert: Eric... I'm really sorry, I didn't want to ignore you like that for so long, but I didn't want to talk to anyone...

Eric: Relax, I never blame you for anything, but... I feel like I could have done more at that time...

I understood what he meant, I don't want to blame him for anything, no one is prepared for something like that, did we do the best we could at that time? Maybe if he had been faster he would be here... Maybe if he still kept my old speed I could have saved him...

While I was lost in my thoughts, Eric shook me and brought me back to the real world.

Eric: It wasn't your fault, so stop beating yourself up like that, And if you're going to blame yourself, So I'm to blame too.

He was right, but no reasoning is going to take away the guilt of not having been able to protect my own son, I don't know if I was a good father, I don't know if he was happy at all. I know nothing.

Eric: Why don't you get distracted for a while, let's go for a walk or eat something, or watch a movie or something...

He approached the television in my room and turned it on. I hadn't watched television in a while. When he turned it on we saw that the channel was blue with a sign. How strange. Eric changed to the other channels. They were all with the same message and blue. In the background, we read the message and it said, state of emergency.

State of emergency? Is there a terrorist attack or a disease that has spread? Out of nowhere the television started transmitting something.

"Attention to everyone who hears this message, do not leave your homes, take all your food and provisions, everything necessary for an emergency and take shelter, I repeat do not leave your homes, we are in a state of emergency..."

Apparently something was happening but they didn't say that, I looked out the window of my room which was on the second floor to see if I could see something, in the distance I could see the city, I began to see many lights in the sky, there were too many, only see lights in the entire sky.

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Out of nowhere I started seeing explosions in the distance in the city. Were they aliens? What the hell was that, they were invading us, in the distance I could hear fighter planes coming, although they couldn't be seen clearly in the darkness of the night, I could see how one of the fighter planes deployed a missile towards one of the lights , there were many explosions in the sky.

Out of nowhere, in the sky, at an exact point, many more lights came out, they began to disperse everywhere, the planes began to be destroyed.

The lights were getting closer to our residence, even though we were somewhat far from the city those lights were getting closer, I could see that as they got closer something bright came out of them and headed towards the houses or streets.

Out of nowhere one of those lights threw one of those bright things towards us, as it approached in the distance, I could see that it was coming fast and that it was going to hit us, Eric knocked me to the floor and out of nowhere the wall of my room exploded , had left a big hole in my room that faced the street.

What the hell is that? Eric told me to get up and we went down to the first floor, he started taking canned food and other things, I was a little disoriented because I hadn't moved in a long time, but I started taking other things like clothes and other things.

It didn't take a genius to know and recognize that they were invading us, we took everything we could and entered the basement of the house.

We spent a long time in the basement, we heard explosions everywhere but we never even jokingly went out to see what was happening, weeks passed, we stopped hearing combat for a long time, but at night sometimes explosions could be heard.

Reality was catching up with us, and it was that we no longer had food, meaning that we had to go out, we waited for daylight, to be able to go out and see the situation above better, If we see something strange, we will go in quickly.

When the time came, we got ready with the weapons we had, a bat, and Eric's gun, I carefully opened the door, I went out carefully and the first thing I saw was that half of my house was destroyed, it gave me something. Of sadness since I built this house with effort and sweat, I quickly stopped thinking about it, and told Eric to go out.

We started to see the house and it was more destroyed than I thought, we started looking for food that I may not be able to save and other things, I was curious and looked out the window, almost all the houses had received damage from explosions. , and the streets also suffered serious damage.

I looked at the sky and I couldn't see anything, thank goodness, while we continued searching we heard something approaching, it sounded like a truck or something similar, we hid and looked carefully, it was apparently the exercise, it came with several soldiers escorting the truck.

Eric: It's exercise, should we go out?

I was thinking the same way as Eric, but I didn't know if it was a good idea or a bad idea, obviously we are not in a movie or things like that where the exercise will use us as an experiment or mistreat us, but I still doubted how good they would be. .

We could see that an army soldier had some kind of sign with a message, "We will give you shelter and food at the base."

We waited to see what would happen, immediately some neighbors began to go out into the street, the soldiers helped them get into the truck, they were not hitting them or attacking them in any way, we do not know if they were pretending. but the reality is that they were not aggressive. We didn't a lot of food in this house and going out seemed really worrying without many weapons and with flying things setting off explosions.

So we decided to go out too, we took some old briefcases and put some things in, after we were ready, we went out, a soldier saw us and guided us to the second truck, apparently there was more than one truck picking up the people who were hiding, we went inside. a truck where there were only men, the trucks were apparently divided into several groups of people.

In one they carried children, women and the elderly, in the other only men. I wanted to ask the soldiers a question, but I felt that it was not the right time. After finishing touring our block full of houses, the truck left far from the city. i imagine that they would take us some shelter created by them.

However, my beliefs were erroneous, the truck carrying the women, children and elderly people deviated and we lost sight of it, we instead went towards the military base, some began to complain since their children or relatives were in the other. but one of the soldiers told them to keep quiet, that they were going to a secret shelter.

Secret refuge?, And because they are taking us to the military base., after a while we arrived, we got off the truck, we were quite people, many of us were young, others were somewhat mature, they assigned us a place where there were many beds, they told us that we could leave our things on the beds we wanted, Eric and I took the two beds in the corner and left our things.

Afterwards they ordered us to go out to the patio of the base, when we were all in the patio a high-ranking soldier began to speak through a megaphone.

"First of all, I congratulate you all for surviving until now. You can't imagine the countless deaths that occurred and continue to occur right now. I'm going to be honest and clear, this is supposed to be confidential information, but there's no point in hiding Something Obvious Several weeks ago something appeared in the sky in the middle of the night, a kind of hole, from there people began to come out who could fly and attack everything they could and had in sight".

what? Did he say people? Aren't they aliens?

"At first we believed that they were beings from another planet but at the time we managed to shoot down a few and verify it, and they were people like us, they had nothing that we didn't have, our appearance and physiological functions, they have exactly the same things as us"

This was leaving me surprised, it was unreal to believe that we were being attacked by people who can fly

"We discovered that they can fly because of something they have, but we have not discovered what it is, we also know that they use a special suit among other things, we have brought them to this base because we have suffered too many casualties and we have little more than half of our force left. their families are safe in a secret shelter, later they will be able to see them, but now we have to recruit them all by force, however I am going to offer you two options, those who do not want to fight have to help in the laboratory and research to find out more about these people from another world or whatever, and the second option is to enlist in the new training program against these beings, obviously at some point they are going to have to fight if they choose the second option, so think carefully"

God... It was too much information to assimilate, I could notice the tension, confusion and surprise of the others, the truth was it wasn't that difficult to choose a decision if you didn't want to die. but the leader of the soldiers said something that really shocked me.

"Apparently there were signs that this strange gap was going to open and that they were going to invade us, several years before there were many tremors everywhere in the country."

As soon as that information entered my ears, I made a decision, I was going to go to special training to kill those flying beings, they were the ones who caused the tremors, they took him away from me, they have to pay.

After hearing a few other things, he told us we could go rest.

I looked for the last time at the sky that I once knew was beautiful... I heard in my mind the voice of a distant memory... "Dad! Look, the sky is incredible today... Come on..."

The voice went away forever, it was never going to return.