Solitude has never been so bad. I remember that it was at night when the moon stopped shining, when all you could see was this small white object, just bit illuminated like it normally would.

Then the outside lights turned off, almost instantly. Then the world was plunged into darkness. It was a power outage I originally thought, probably from a storm or the unexpectedly high winds that night. 

I went to go outside, to see what had happened. The sky was bright as it could ever be, and you could finally see the Milky Way in its fullest. The cosmic rays twisted and distorted throughout the night, but there were no stars in the celestial body. Like it had been wiped away. I asked everyone if they knew what had happened but they were all half awake and clueless, some still drunk from the earlier night. It was new years, and it was 12:00 when it all happened. 2045 was finally here. 

“What happened?” Some whispered still in pajamas. 

“The gods have come to destroy us!” Someone screeched.

Some people started to laugh and bicker among the almost sarcastic comment, but some were shocked. The world was starting to feel cold and bitter. The still humid air had become frigid and cold. The water in the lakes were quickly freezing, and the moon was enveloped in darkness. 

“What is happening?!” Demanded someone. “If I want to sleep tonight, I better have an answer.” 

I went to bed, but even then the lights inside were all burnt out. I went into the breaker room and flicked on all the lights, and a blinking red light came on from the breaker. 

“Low battery life. Low sunlight,” the robotic voice repeated.

Low sunlight? I scrambled back upstairs in the darkness and tried to look in my phone. I barely had any service, and my battery was draining unusually fast. 

A news broadcast popped up, in low resolution and a very grainy video, the news reporter repeated the same thing.

“The sun has been swallowed by a black hole, and so has every other star. We’re next!” They screamed before it all glitched out of existence.

I stared back into the sky, shivering and holding myself to stay warm. Their was no warmth anymore, it had been almost 15 minutes at that poking, and everyone in the town was still huddled together bickering and crying.

I stared into the dark sky; which had no more milky way gapaxy anymore. It was all gone. Everything. I was staring at a black, blank hole, and in it, in small microscopic circles, was the entire universe. We were already inside it…