Hey Guys! How's everyone's week? How are you holding up in this hurricane hitting the east cost?

Chapter 2

Two more days went by. As I became able to get up and walk around, I see that we are in a room with four full sized beds, a coffee table, a desk, and some chairs. I met the motel owners and learned their names are Kent and Mary. We had a few conversations. Josh and Maya were still in comas at the time while Riley and I spent most of the time talking or sitting with our friends. During one of our conversations, there was a knock at the door. Kent was at the door and said he needed to talk to us about something.

"We are leaving for the west in the morning and can drive you anywhere on the way but it's not safe to be here anymore. There are more and more soldiers coming and we are running out of supplies. I'll give you kids some time to talk about it but we are leaving tomorrow morning at 10am sharp, whether it's with or without y'all." Kent said.

"Ok thanks, we'll talk about it" Riley replied.

As he closed the door my mind started buzzing with thoughts. We sat in silence thinking for a minute before I said,

"We can go home see if everyone's there, head west with Mary and Kent, or go where Josh wanted. What do you think we should do?"

"I think we should go to my uncle's house. It's about three weeks from here if we take the safest route, in Kansas. It's where Josh was planning to take us." Riley said confidently.

"Alright. Then we'll do it!" I said.

"Yay!" Riley said as she hugged me tight. We start packing up some of our stuff and it takes us a little while to gather our clothes, food, etc. we pack for a little while and as I look over to Riley I see her yawn. I then suggest we end it for the night and go to sleep, but she wanted to keep going. I told her that we should rest for a few moments, and she agreed. I sat on the bed and pat for her to sit beside me. She comes over with a tired smile and leans her head on my shoulder and falls asleep.

With everything running through my mind I can't sleep so I gently lay Riley down on my bed and continue packing till I can barely stand anymore, and I go lay down on Riley's bed and fell asleep.

The next morning, we got up and finished packing. Riley wasn't happy that I stayed up but thankful I made her sleep.

After we finished everything we got Josh and Maya ready to leave. When we went outside to load up there was a small four-seater car packed with stuff.

"What is this?" I asked

"What do you mean?" Kent said as he closed the trunk.

"Where are Maya and Josh going to ride?"

"Oh, well they can't come, there's no room" said Mary.

Outraged, before I could even think, Riley replied, "What do you mean they can't come?! If you think I'm leaving them behind, then you are very mistaken."

As Kent made his way to the front of the car, I turned to him and said, "If they don't go then we don't go."

"If you think we're leaving without them then you should just go ahead and leave." Riley said angrily.

Kent looks at Mary and back at us. Then hopped in the driver's seat closed his door and said, "Y'all have one more chance. You can get in now and head to wherever or not."

Neither of us said a word, I just stared at him angrily muttering some not nice things under my breath as he started the car and looked back us. I turn to look at Riley's angry face and when I turn back I see the car start to move.

Enraged I kick and break the tail light as it goes by while yelling at the car as I watch it drive off without us and without our friends. I turn around to see Riley fall to the ground sobbing, shaking her head and I turn back to yell at the car driving away in the distance. Once I mostly calmed myself down I turn back around to find Riley on her knees, eyes closed, sobbing for what we had just lost. I soften my eyes and walk over to her and try to urge her to come inside.

She looked up at me, looked back down, and stayed there. Heartbroken, I scooped her up in my arms as she started to cry more, and I walked back to the room with her in my arms. I put her on the bed and sat down next to her rubbing her back as she curled up next to me putting her head on my side still crying. I sat there thinking about what we were going to do next. After a little while she stopped crying and fell back asleep and I did the same. Sometime after that a deep loud voice I know that very much woke me up with a start.

"HELLO! Where are we?" the voice yelled while I continued to lay there thinking it was a dream. So, I ignored it until I was pushed off the bed and not knowing if it was one a soldier, I jumped up ready to beat whoever dared disturb my sleep. Once I stood up I saw Josh standing there with a huge smirk on his face. I hurried to my feet and embraced him in a huge hug, grinning like an idiot. As I looked over I saw Riley was still asleep, so I motioned for us to go outside to talk until she woke up. Once we moved outside and sat on the curb of the road I was bombarded with questions

"What's going on? Where are we? Why were you and my sister sleeping together? I mean i know you like each other but..." Josh said

"No! It's not like that Josh!" I said defending myself

"Why won't Maya wake up?"

"There was an explosion and we all got hurt except Riley, I had grabbed her and threw her next to a wall behind me. You, Maya, and I had slipped into comas and the owners of the motel were the ones that threw the grenade. We all were going to leave this morning to go west to your uncles but didn't because they said that we would have had to leave you and Maya behind. We stayed up all morning and when the others left we had to discuss what to do next but we both ended up falling asleep. Oh, and I was in coma for a few days and you and Maya have been in one for a little less than a week." I told him, which explained everything. Afterwards we sat there in silence as he processed everything.

"What are we going to do?" Josh asked

"There's an RV out back, I was thinking that we could take that, and any food or stuff left then head to your uncle's place in Kansas."

"Sounds like a plan, does Riley know yet?" Josh asked.

"No, not yet. Let's go see if the RV works and see if we can grab some supplies first. If we can't find anything than we can stop somewhere on the way."

"Ok, let's do it" Josh said.

"You go check the RV and I'll check for supplies." I said as I stood up and started walking back to the motel.

"Ok, where's the keys?" he asked.

"Here, I grabbed them this morning." I said as I pulled the keys from my pocket.

"Cool, why?" he asked.

I stopped in the doorway, turned to him and said, "I didn't really trust the owners."

I hope you guys like where this is going? I'm going to go ahead and do comment replies and I think I will Post Chapter Three as well!

Guest: great start

Thanks!

Guest: Please continue, This sounds really interesting

I Will! Thx for the encouragement!