Vuyisile_Sibeko

Hundreds of people across the planet disappeared for a week before returning with no recollection of the phenomena.
The media, government response was nonexistent, life carried on quickly.
A month later inside the Japanese apartment home of Paige Stevens, an old friend considered long dead, appears.
He remembers everything, even seeing Paige there too. She’s a big a part of it too.
With what he has seen lies a warning.
There's war brewing and it's about to boil over. Only, there's more to Paige than she ever imagined.

Jin's War

Paige Stevens

Finding Drake was easier said than done with the bus stop so crowded. There were thirty to forty students split into cliques by civilians, she recognized four, the worst of the last years.

Paige Stevens, the American born, her pale skin a vast contrast. Her locks a light in a starless sky.

They noticed her, daggers digging into her core, whittling. But it didn't last, they gawked at Jin.

His eyes widened, chest expanding. The wind up for a big breath, the pulling on his collar like suspenders, defeated her.

"Jin! I can't believe it. You're alive!"

The giants around him added a bellow to his voice, fuelling it.

Jin looked disorientated. A feather could have knocked him over.

"I haven't met anyone capable of killing me. Only slow me." Jin laughed, arms crossed.

He's humbler than that. Maybe it isn't Jin at all.

The thought was laughable, she wasn't laughing.

The other three zoomed in. Both Hirano Nabatame and Ohba Rie tearing themselves from their phones.

Nabatame flicked neatly cut bangs out her face and eyed Paige behind Jin before dismissing her, not worth the effort.

Unlike Paige's skirt, hers rose high boasting flawless legs. She lacked curvature but made up for it with height and legs long enough to need GPS. She was the second tallest there.

Rie was different. Her skirt was rolled up thinner than a Band-Aid, leaving an oversized shirt to do the work of legal defence. Rie's hair was a dark tea brown, almost a full head shorter than Paige but made up for it looking like she'd stuffed her bra with every sock ever while smuggling watermelons in her ass.

She looked happier to see Jin alive than Nabatane.

"Where have you been?" Asked the actual tallest person.

He was a little taller than Nabatane but it was enough to make him tower.

Jin took his blatant tone with a smile. Paige took silent offence.

"Well Kazuki, I've no idea, but I'm glad to be back. I missed you though."

Everyone 'not listening' were listening now. Noaki coughed choking down a laugh.

If his eyebrows could've risen any higher they'd break off his face.

Paige's, cheeks flushed when heads turned to her.

"People all over the planet disappeared." Rie said, not one to be a spectator.

"Disappeared?" Jin asked, astounded.

"Yes Jin. Disappeared… for… a week. You were gone for a month." Nabatame said.

Jin shrugged just as the bus came.

"All I know is that I was gone. Can't say where or why. I'm back now. Alive and I just want to be with my friends and family."

Someone had just shoved an oil drill into her stomach.

Looking for motives, reasons and explanations, not once showing how ecstatic she was her best friend was back. That he was alive.

She accused him of breaking an entering.

The Arrival Part 3