A crowd of people began to pour in to the casino. A family, a couple of men in suits, and more girls who looked to be on a night out. However different they all may have looked from one another, Jane noticed they were all on their phones.The family approached the bar and asked to borrow the phone behind the counter and a phone number to reach a cab service. The bar tender raised and eyebrow," Having trouble flagging one down outside?" he questioned.
The woman who seemed to be the mother and wife covered the speaker of the phone and replied ." The sidewalks are filled of people flagging them down, soon they will all be taken."
Jane looked back down at her phone she held in the palm of her hand. It began to buzz wildly, Weather Alert: Major Duststorm in Your Area
She cursed to herself and got up to find her friends. Jane looked at every face in the casino and didn't recognize a single one.
Well, except the creepy,winking man from earlier. She made a bee line toward him , "Have you seen any of the girls I was with?" Jane demanded.
The man yawned ,taking his time to reply which only began to make Jane irritated. She preferred to gain information more quickly than his drunken state could manage.
"Oh yeah," he began " They got on the sidewalks and started flagging down cabs. I saw one start walking actually."
Unsatisfied,Jane spun on her heel and wen't out the front door of the small casino.
The people she heard were not kidding. The streets were so crowded even for Vegas. People were in the roads walking between cars and flooding the sidewalks. Something began gnawing at Jane's mind as she watched the small panic of people. It wasn't' the crowd, and it wasn't even that her friends left her and were no where to be seen... No, it was the fact that Jane knew the streets were also about to become, very,very, empty. Emptier than Vegas has been in a long time.
Jane had no choice but to move with the rush of people on the sidewalks. Just as she came up on a small store near The Hard Rock, a strong gust of wind knocked her off balance and sent dust whirling in to her face and lungs. She stumbled in to the stores front door and leaned against it as she hid her face and couched in to her the inside of her elbow. She heard people crying out, cars beeping their horns, and a loud siren. Her eyes stung and her chest burned. She leaned off the door as the wind let up and through the slits of her eyes she saw a boy and a few others in the shop. Jane wiped her eyes once more and put a hand out to search for a way to open the shops door.