I wake up with the sound of birds chirping and the bright sun shining into the tent. I roll over on to my back and snuggle into the blankets and I suddenly remember where I was. I sit up and look round the room making sure I knew where I was. I scan the room and stop at the chair in the corner of the tent, Bellamy was sitting in it but sleeping, he looks freezing. My shoes were cold in the inside as I slipped them on before making my way to Bellamy with the thickest blanket. His breath was soft and light, he looked so peaceful. I left him asleep in the chair and went outside to get some breakfast.
"hey Clarke!" someone runs up to me from behind, I turn around and Jasper looks stressed
"Jasper you okay?"
"no" he is panting and he cant get his words out "the food" he pants a couple more times "its all gone"
"what do you mean its all gone" I start to raise my voice
"I mean its all gone, like nothing left"
"show me" I quickly say not really taking in what Jasper just said
when we get to the storage house where we store the meat and rations of nuts and berries. it was gone the whole lot. the place was bare. two other people were down there too searching for anything left, I started to help, there was 3 bags of nuts left and 2 small bags of berries but no meat. I leave them to search for anything else that we missed and run to get Bellamy up. When I get to the tent I shoot straight the through the doors and Bellamy jumps awake in his chair and looks puzzled.
"woah, you okay?" he says getting up and putting his hands on my shoulders and I start to shake
"the food, its all gone" I look into his eyes and you could see his heart drop, without another word he runs out the tent picking up his coat on the way and I try keep up. When we get the store everyone is gathered in a crowd round it with people crying and asking questions . We both push through the crowd and Bellamy stops quickly at the entrance as he looks in. He turns to me and looks at me in a way I have never seen him look at anybody. he walks off without saying anything once again and I don't know weather to follow or not so I stay
"right come on guys!" I shout to the crowd "get back to your posts and we will have a meeting later today" everyone starts to split off to their different stations "can I have a word with the hunters!" I shout again a the hunters quickly make their way over to me.
In the hunters there is 15 people including Bellamy and Jasper, and to be honest the hunters are the people that i trust most.
"right guys you know we have a problem so keep your eyes out for anything suspicious and see who in the camp is missing, and if you have time try go get some meat today, and I want people to go out in fours no less, got me?"
they all nod and walk off. I go look for Bellamy who is pacing back and forward in his tent
"Bel listen to me" I say trying to stop him from pacing but he shrugs me off
"Bellamy" I shout and he stops and looks at me
"what do you want me to do? huh? you want me to pull out enough food to keep us going over winter out of a hat?" he is right up in my face right now and pretty angry. I stay quiet and he starts to calm down "please tell me what to do, I am so fucking lost" he sits on the bed and looks at his feet
"well you cant sulk in here" I sit next to him on the bed "we will figure something out" I put my arm round him and give him a hug "we always do"
he doesn't say anything and we sit in silent. I can hear people walk back and forward out side the tents grabbing what they need from one side of the camp and then walk back to their post. There are 10 posts all together;
- The hunters / 15 of them, They go out and hunt for food and bring it back to camp.
- The technicians / 4 of them, They are trying to fix the radios and make lamps and all that jazz.
- The cleaners / 7 of them, They help clean the main tents and after people have eaten and make sure everything is neat and tidy.
- The first aiders / 9 of them, They are like nurses and Doctors they look after anyone who is injured or ill
- The weapon keepers / 5 of them, They make sure the weapons are ready to take out and take note on who is using them at what time.
- The food keepers / 5 of them, They put the food into the storage and make sure it is organised and cleaned of all dirt.
- The guards / 10 of them, They guard the camp day and night and take shifts so they camp is guarded 24/7.
- The builders / 7 of them, They help make things like beds and tents and if anything like that breaks they fix it back up.
- The cookers / 7 of them, they cook all the meals and food and prepare lunches for the hunters to take out with them.
- The gardeners / 5 of them, They make sure the graves are well kept and that the camp doesn't over grow in weeds.
All that together is around 75 people, In a month we have lost over 20 people due to all kinds of stuff and if we don't hurry we are going to loose more from starvation this winter.
Myself and Bellamy walk out the tent to face the food keepers who are standing outside our tent
"right guys follow me to the meeting tent" Bellamy says with a harsh tone, he obviously asked them all to meet here
they all scurry behind him trying to catch up with Bellamy's long fast strides. we enter the tent and Bellamy gestures for them to have a seat and he stands and the head of the table with myself beside him.
"how the fuck did you loose all the food" Bellamy says trying to keep calm and his arms are crossed
not one person even dares to breath let alone speak
"answer me!" Bellamy shouts this time even getting more frustrated
someone at the back speaks up
"I-I don't know" she says slowly
"well that's not the right answer, how could you all leave your post in enough time for someone else to get every last bit of food" he sighs and leans on the table "its not possible"
a guy stands up and holds his hat in his hands
"well, I think some one drugged us"
"you think someone drugged you?!" Bellamy says laughing cause he does not believe it at all
"you got to believe us" he continues" we all blacked out at some point during the day yesterday evening, I was doing the last check on the food last night in the store and the next thing I know I am outside by my own tent so was everyone"
"so your saying you were all in store doing the check and next thing you know your all outside your own tents" I say trying to comprehend what he just said all 5 of them nod
"so this person knows where everyone lives and want tent is theirs and I doubt it was just one person" Bellamy says almost like he was talking to himself "right I want all 5 of you to go and search everywhere, everyone's tents, all stores just make sure no one in camp is hiding it somewhere " they all start to stand up and leave "and if I find out that one of you is responsible for this you are all going to be punished" they all had terrified looks on their faces before the continued to leave
"right Clarke, come with me" he says again and leaves the tent
I follow him not quite sure what he is up to, we head to the weapon stores "right max, can we please have two weapons and after this do not give any weapons out and make sure they are all there and if they aren't tell me when I get back"
Max hands us two weapons and gets the rest of the team to count them as we head off outside camp
"where we going" I say after about 5 minutes after we left camp
"we need to make sure there isn't any more hiding spots like what you and Finn found"
I stay silent and look under bushes and around the bottom of tree trunks but we find nothing. I walk in front of Bellamy and I come across this amazing pond, its not really a pond cause it is so much bigger, a lake maybe? you can see the pebbles at the bottom its that clear
"Bel!" I shout behind him "look what I found"
he runs over to me looking like I found the food and when its not his face drops
"come on, we cant get distracted" he says still looking at the nice cool water below
"well I'm going in" I say and started to take all my clothes off "come on bel we need a break" and i walk into the water with my pants and vest top on
"oh okay fine but not for long" he says quickly and gets undressed and joins me in the water
the water is warm and wraps round you, I stand up and face the sun with my eyes closed and for a minute I forgot everything. Bellamy comes and stands next to me
"we should bring everyone out here one day" he says and I can feel his eyes on my face so I stop and look at him.
"agreed" i say slowly looking into Bellamys eyes, they are a light shade of blue, almost like the water. He has freckles across his face which i had never noticed before. I quickly broke away the gaze and splashed him with water
"oi, what was that for" he says laughing splashing more back at me. he comes and picks me up and throws me over him and I scream then laugh. I stand up from beneath the water and wipe the water out my eyes and Bellamy is close to me i can feel the heat from his body. He takes another step forward and i don't think we can get much closer. he puts one of his hands on my waist which makes me nervous but also excited. his hands are so soft as he moves a bit of my hair away from my face with the other hand. he starts to lean forward so I do too, I then feel his lips press so very gently against mine. He then pulls away and looks at me for my reaction and I then put my hands around him and press my lips harder against his. when we break the kiss he looks right at me which causes me to laugh and then so does he
"couldn't have been that bad surely" he laughs as we both walk out the water