If The World Was Ending

For a moment, she could pretend that it was just a storm outside, but this was no normal storm. The sky had long since clouded red, and it was only a matter of time before they were both dead too. She pushed away those thoughts. There was no point panicing when there was nothing they could do. Well, maybe not nothing...

Next to the fire, she drew herself closer to their body. They were just drifting off to sleep, when doubts started to creep into her mind. They had been given the choice to escape earth, why hadn't they taken it? To stay with her? Why?

Before the thoughts could go any further, she jostled them awake.

"Do you regret not leaving when you had the chance?" Her voice came out weaker than she had hoped for.

They just smiled and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Even if I had to start all over again, I would still choose you."

No-one was around - or alive - the next morning. But if they were, they would have seen the bodies of two people cuddling beside the remains of a fire, together even in death.