Microfiction: Everyone in the classroom turned and stared.

Everyone in the classroom turned and stared. Of course, what should I have expected? They all thought that I was dead anyway. It was 2359. The world changed after the disease-orfog- started to spread around the world. Scientists had created a vitamin which could supposedly cure anything. But all it did was start a catastrophe. The leaders of our world took the top specialists in everything with them to a safety bunker. I was one out of three doctors chosen to go with them. When we emerged from our bunker, no one had expected to see what they saw. All was gone. Few trees were in sight.

This had been five years ago and now our new village is stable. We go to class everyday to learn from the other specialists. But recently people have noticed people have gone missing.  I overheard the leader of Romania anxiously telling the leader of Serbia that there was only on doctor left… me. As I walk to my biology class in the school of medicine, an odd person pulled me aside. We walked down a long silver hallway going deeper into the school than I have ever gone before. When we reach the door I notice it was made of glass, which is funny because we’ve been running low on it. When we entered there was a circular table with the elite leaders of the world. They told me to sit and listen with urgency. They started to tell me that I was chosen. I was doing phenomenal in school. My job they say was to go out of town to look for resources that will help make our life simple and ordinary again. They chose me because I had excelled in hunting, gathering and electricity. I knew this is was no easy task. Everyone who had gone before me never returned. This I now realize is why all of my fellow doctors are gone.

Before I know it I return to the gates which only a month ago I had left. I found the one thing that we needed the most…electricity. I had entered a department store and saw a rack of light bulbs and batteries. That’s why I was back so quickly. I ran passed everyone in the village, I see them stare with amazement at me because I am the only one ever to return. I run down that long hallway which I so long ago had entered. I had so much information to tell the leaders- I saw the dead bodies of the others sent out to do the quest, I had electricity, and I counted 534 new trees. But just as I entered the classroom I heard the leaders whispering “… Good, another one to cross of the list. We need to have the intelligent ones go out so they can die and so that they don’t find out we were the ones that started orfog.” The door shut and everyone in the classroom turned and stared.