Six months ago it was announced that a meteor would hit the earth and end all life . However it missed the earth after humanity had prepared for the end .

When the papers announced the meteor, I called her. I'm sure she knew I was thinking about her. We're like that. 
 
 `` Do you want to watch the fireworks with me?'' 
 
 There was a long pause. ``... No. I'll either be with Dan or my family.'' 
 
 `` We're going to have a party at my place, with a wide open view of the sky. They're all invited.'' 
 
 `` I'll think about it.'' 
 
 When you meet your Christina, you never forget it. You fall madly in love. She's always somewhere else. Friends tell you that distance will cure things. It does n't. You try to get closer to see if you're just making it up. You fall harder. She knows and she feels something is important about you. She lets you tell her your heart and listens with a smile. I would have spent every waking moment until the end with her. 
 
 I did n't expect her to come, but there she was. Dan went downstate to family. At some point during the night, hundreds of points of light, nuclear fireflies filled the night sky. Our last chance on the backs of every ICBM we could get in the air. 
 
 Christina walked over to me and picked up my hand. She whispered, `` I'm so sorry. I know this is where I should be. I do n't know why I could n't find my way here before.'' Then we laid down in the grass, holding hands. We drank whiskey and made plans to run away to the coast after this was over. We imagined who our children would have been. We named them and told their story. She started crying, so I drew her in. I smelled her hair and sang her a song I'd written about her some months ago. She nuzzled closer and I let myself cry. 
 
 My brother shot all the fireworks he had left and my heart jumped at the beauty. We waited as the clouds rolled in and the air grew crisp. At some point, the alcohol and the crying was more than we could handle. She fell asleep first. 
 
 Some time later, my brother woke me up with tears in his eyes. I asked him what time it was and he just pointed at the rose color in the east. The sun was rising and we were still alive. 
 
 It was a few days before it was safe to go back into the outside world. When cell reception returned, Dan called her and they talked for the better part of an hour. She did n't talk to me all that much afterward. Just before she left, she threw her arms around me. 
 
 `` Thank you.'' 
 
 And then she was gone. 
 
 EDIT: Tightening up some language.
