The NightTime Show

1. By sunset today

TW: terror? Suggested death of main character

1:15

This is it.

The end of life as we know it.

The people on tv are saying that the sun's going down and it's not gonna come back up.

I've seen the videos, people are going insane.
I guess they're trying to make their mark before we all..
Y'know I don't know if we die after this.
Maybe we do, maybe we don't.

I think we all just want something that proves we were here.

God

Look at me being all dramatic and philosophical.

You know those apocalypse movies where people are breaking shit and stealing things since it's the end of the world and they're all gonna die anyway?
Of course you do.

Well that's kinda happening right now.
My favorite coffee shop is being robbed as I write.

Guess I was lucky I didn't go in.

You'd think that I would know how I want to spend my last day on earth.

Usually people turn to sex, crime, or even making the world just a little bit better before it all turns to ash, but not me.

Hell I'm sitting here wasting time just writing in this stupid therapy journal.
Even getting wasted would be more productive than this. It's not like anyone's gonna be alive to read it.

1:45

seven hours until sunset.

I never picked up milk or coffee.
Seems kinda useless now though.

I could pick up a cake.
But I don't think any smart bakery owner would be wasting their last day slaving away in retail.

I could go somewhere.

I'm gonna go somewhere.

2:00

I picked up my favorite movie from a store.
The clerk just gave it to me.

Though it makes sense since getting any money from a minimum wage salary wouldn't be worth anything once we're gone but still, having someone just give you things for free is strange.

The streets are absolute chaos.
A saw a couple waltzing, a group of people running around stark naked, and someone breaking things with a bat, all within a few feet of each other.

I guess we all have different definitions of the perfect last day.

3:15

it was just as good as I remember.

I wish I could go back to when I was a kid.
Rewind the clock even if only for a little while.

Maybe that would give us all just a little more time.

4:30

I checked social media just out of curiosity.
God, I wish I didn't.

Banning people for spam or explicit content doesn't mean anything when you're gonna be toast in a few hours.

Where do you even find pictures like that?

5:50

I texted a few of my friends but they aren't responding.
They're probably spending today with their families.

Hell I even tried texting my therapist.
I think we all have different ways of going about our final day.

I wonder what happens to us.
Are we just reduced to ash instantly?
Do we all die our own lonely deaths?

Where do we go after this?
Are we just reduced to nothing?
Our consciousness just suddenly.. gone?

Wonder if this is what happened before.
Thousands of years for a civilization to grow and then watch as they get erased

It's not like we don't deserve it though.

7:34

I'd sit around and watch movie or videos online but I feel like that'd be a pretty pathetic way to die.

I think I'm gonna go up to the roof and watch the sunset.

There's not many people in the apartment building.
And those that are here are probably too occupied with themselves to care about someone else.

I grabbed a bottle of strawberry soda and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

It was my favorite growing up.

The sky's beautiful.

I don't know how I should feel for the people who don't know what's happening.
On one hand they're going to die and not even have known what happened, and on the other, they get to live out today like they're going to wake up tomorrow.
Hell, maybe they will wake up tomorrow.
Maybe they'll go about their lives not knowing what happened today.

I feel sorry for the poor suckers who were supposed to wake up tomorrow, all the people sleeping soundly in their beds expecting to see a sunrise.

8:05, GOD the sky's gorgeous.

Maybe this was all just a test to see how society'd react to death.
I doubt it, but the possibility is still there.

To whatever sorry sucker reads this.

Hell, IF anyone reads this,

I hope you know who we were.

We lived, we loved, we cared, we hated, we killed, and we created.

God help u-

Originally written by AngelicJack in 2022 on Wattpad.
Posted on Wattpad 6/20/2022
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