These Final Hours Page #2

I need to be with my dad

when it happens.

Wait!

I'm Rose.

James.

This is VK6DF checking in

for the sixth time today.

My mother, she said that, uh,

science always had it

over religion,

and right up to this point,

I always believed that.

But I don't know.

Funny how you can

turn to God

when you got no real faith

in him.

Stace! It's Jimmy!

Stace!

It's not Christmas.

Why don't you go

for a swim in the pool?

- I'm gonna look upstairs.

- But I don't have my bathers.

- Just go in your dress.

- Really?

So where's your sister?

She's not here.

Where are you going?

Party.

Big party-

Maybe someone at the party

can take me to Aunty Janice's.

How'd you find this place

anyway?

We used to come here

when I was little.

I feel safe here.

Listen, Zo,

I know you're for keeping

your wits about you when it happens,

but, f***, you sure

you won't take something?

Like, something to take

the edge off a little?

Hey, come on, Zoe.

You said...

Hey. You said

you wouldn't do that.

Come on.

It was... I just...

- Oh...

- Please.

I just, um...

What?

I'm pregnant, James.

You took a test

or something?

I wanted to know.

I needed to be sure.

I mean, what difference

does it make?

Ohh!

What do you think, huh?

A little boy

or a little girl?

Hey?

I don't know.

Boy.

He would have been handsome,

just like his dad.

This is bullshit. F***.

This is bullshit.

You shouldn't have told me.

- Where the f*** are my keys?

- Stay here with me, James.

Why? And stare out into

the f***ing ocean waiting for it?

There's still time!

What f***ing difference

does it make?

We're already f***ing dead!

We're already f***ing dead.

It's gonna hurt a lot.

And I don't want

to feel it.

I don't want to

feel a thing.

Hey.

Life is stronger

than death, James.

I can't.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I just want to

get f***ed up.

You know,

Dad says when it happens,

the earth's gonna

peel like an orange

but the peel

is made out of fire.

Didn't sugar-coat it

for you, did he?

This'll stop the bleeding.

You ever think you might end up in hell

instead of heaven?

That'd be awful.

Sometimes I worry, though,

I'm going to hell instead.

Why do you think

you might end up in hell?

There was this girl

in my class.

She used to tease me

all the time.

One day last year, I prayed

to God that she would die.

She died just before

this year's sports carnival.

She'd gotten leukaemia.

I don't think her getting cancer

had anything to do with you.

Or you praying to God.

It just happens.

Some people get sick

and some people don't.

But Dad always said that God

has a perfect plan for everyone

and that plan never fails.

Well, if this was

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