Walking down the street, headphones in my ears, jamming away to my favorite tunes, not paying any attention to what's going on around me. I let out a little scream as a cat jumps down from a fence landing right in front of me, ripping the headphones out of my ears, I tell, "Dumb cat!" And make shoo-ing motions at it.

That's when I finally clue into the world around me, people have stopped walking, cars are stopped in the middle of the road, sirens blare, radios are turned up full blast, everyone is looking at the sky behind me.

"Further reports have now indicated, the meteor will indeed hit the earth. Scientists at NASA are predicting it will strike within the next 2 hours. NASA is saying it's trajectory makes it landing just offshore of New York City. " Plays a radio, on repeat. 2 hours? If it's on repeat, how much longer do we have? Wait, New York City? Here?

Realization dawning on me, about what everyone is starting at behind me, a sick feeling rises in my stomach and a feeling of impending doom sweeps the breath from my lungs. Not wanting to but seeming to have no other choice, I slowly turn around, looking into the sky, at the Texas-sized object in the sky, only getting bigger as it gets closer. "I should have slept in," I think to myself.