The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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Started reading April 28, 2022
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Okay, I admit that was stupid. I might as well have erected a billboard with a big arrow pointing at my head and the words YOO-HOO, HERE I AM!
tiassa
This POV is kinda unbearable idk. girl tell us what happened.
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Still, I considered the M16 my bestest of besties.
tiassa
Enough.
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In the 4th Wave, you can’t trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun.
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That’s friggin’ diabolical.
tiassa
😐
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I followed the sobbing coughs or coughing sobs or whatever you want to call them
tiassa
So wordy
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He lost it. “Then you’re just going to have to shoot me, bitch! Just shoot me and get it over with!”
tiassa
Now huh? Shoot him
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It was a crucifix.
tiassa
Damn... he called you a bitch tho
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Gloves. Two pairs of socks, underwear, travel-size box of Tide, deodorant, and shampoo. (Gonna go out clean. See above.)
tiassa
What??? lmao. i can't take her serious.
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Only around half a million, Dad guessed.
tiassa
Not many people.
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There were no messages from our galactic party crashers during those first ten days.
tiassa
lol language like this makes me take it way less seriously idk.
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The government had a plan for everything, so we assumed they had a plan for E.T. showing up uninvited and unannounced, like the weird cousin nobody in the family likes to talk about.
tiassa
Once again..
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Mom and Dad went to work, Sammy went to day care, and I went to school and soccer practice. It was so normal, it was damn weird.
tiassa
Kinda unrealistic?
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and he definitely wasn’t Ben Parish. Nobody was—except Ben Parish—and that was the whole problem.
tiassa
Guessing we’re gonna run into this douche soon idk i don’t think he’s dead. She thinks about him too much.
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He sipped his latte through the little hole in the plastic lid.
tiassa
Well duh lmao huh
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That night with Mitchell was only the beginning of my evolution.
tiassa
Ugh pls stop getting lame
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It was about killing us. All of us.
tiassa
Something about the doom gloom foreboding past knows future thing is turning me off.
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Wild dogs, coyotes, bears, and wolves coming down from Canada, maybe even an escaped lion or tiger from a zoo. I know, I know, there’s a Wizard of Oz joke buried in there. Shoot me.
tiassa
I promise there isn’t.
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No showdowns. No more Crucifix Soldiers!
tiassa
Do she have to make everything a joke?
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Hey, Earthlings! Let’s get this party started!
tiassa
This is scary and you’re joking.
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“I’m talking about our lives, Cassie! Jesus, this could be the end of the freakin’ world, and all you want to do is talk about sex!”
tiassa
LMFAOOOOOO
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It was totally unrealistic. Both scenarios, an alien invasion of the Earth and a Ben Parish invasion of me.
tiassa
Oh God. Please stop.
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That was the last time I saw Ben Parish, sitting in that dark, stuffy gymnasium (Home of the Hawks!) two rows down from me, and only the back part of him. He probably died in the 3rd Wave like almost everybody else,
tiassa
Like I said…
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Just to torment me with his perfection, he also insisted on being one of the smartest. And have I mentioned he was kind to small animals and children?
tiassa
Oh my god this little shit can’t be that perfect
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“And how does pulling our plug fit into their plan to help us along in the next stage of our evolution, Dad?”
tiassa
Literally what?
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Hello, Cassie. My name is Mr. Drone. Nice to meet you!
tiassa
Oh my god shut the fuck up
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Nice to know you. Hope you enjoyed your stay!
tiassa
What the fuck lol
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You couldn’t invent a more efficient delivery system for a virus that has a 97 percent kill rate.
tiassa
That’s so uninteresting to me. Aliens who just want to kill everyone on earth and basically succeed?