Jamie's POV:

They've been here for a year. Kyle had accepted Andrew, Mike, and Eli, and they had become permanent fixtures in the soccer games. Grey and Aubrey wasted no time winning over the hearts of Maggie and Sharon with their cute faces. Juno and Lily had become best friends, so did Jeb and Luce. Evie was wonderful edition to the group and spent most days helping Wanda take care of the kids in the "day care" we made in the new caves. Then there was Anthony who was the only kid my age and my best friend, we spent all of our time together, eating lunch together working in the fields, you'd think we'd get sick of each other but neither of us seemed to mind.

One day Jared, Mike, Kyle, Eli, and Sonny were going to be going out for a week to get supplies; because there were more people raids were longer. They were even going to be getting a new car on this raid to haul more stuff. It was odd for Wanda and Ian to not be going on the raid, but they just had a baby so they needed to stay home with baby Pacey. So Ian and I helped them load up the cars and then wished them luck as they drove away. I could see in Ian's eyes that he wished he could go with them but we both knew he wouldn't be able to be away from Pacey that long. I knew that as I headed back to my room he would be going back to the nursery to check on his girls.

I shared a room with Anthony in the new wing of the cave, we had the smallest room but we didn't mind that much; Anthony called it our "Man Cave". When I walked in Anthony was making our beds, he always kept things neat, he said if we only have 8 square feet there is no excuse not to clean it.

"Why are you doing that?" I asked with a laugh, "I'm about to get back in and mess it up again."

"Because we aren't pigs" Anthony huffed, but I saw a smile play across his face.

"Well," I said jumping onto my bed with an oink, "Speak for yourself!"

"God!" Anthony said with and exaggerated sigh, "Why do I put up with you?"

"My charming personality, and sense of humor."

"Ohh no defiantly not that." Anthony said and flopped onto the bed next to me.

"Well then, I guess I'll just have to find a new place for you to stay." I sighed pushing him off the bed.

"Love you!" He laughed crawling up onto his own bed.

"Come on time to go help Wanda and Evie." I said after a few minutes of comfortable silence.

"Fine," Anthony sighed, "Do we really have to go, I just cleaned this whole room?"

"Yes," I said pulling him off the bed, "Come on lazy, I'm going to leave without you!"

Anthony quickly got up and ran out of the room, "Who's the lazy one now?" He called.

Not wanting to be 'the lazy one', I ran past him shouting 'still you'. I always won our races, but I had a problem slowing down and nearly ran into Evie as I reached our daycare/nursery/school.

"Watch it there the speedy!" Evie laughed "You're late!"

"I'm sorry!" I said, "but has anyone told, you that you have a wonderful laugh, Luce is one lucky girl to have you."

"Flattery will get you nowhere!" Evie said attempting to sound firm but I knew I was forgiven, Evie was just about the nicest woman in the world and she never really got mad at anyone.

"It was Anthony's fault!" I said as he finally arrived.

"Don't blame me!" He panted out; he was never much of a runner.

"I wanted to leave earlier but you had just made my bed and it was so comfortable that I struggled to get out of the bed"

"Jamie what happened to you?" Jeb's laugh rumbled from the corner, and my eyes turned to see him sitting in the corner holding Pacey "When you first got here you would barely speak to anyone, but Jared and Mel. Now you're all kinds of trouble."

"Sorry." I mumbled and pushed Anthony who was trying, unsuccessfully, not to laugh.

"Don't be," Jeb chuckled, "It's nice to see that you're more confidant, and a little trouble never hurt anyone." He patted my back on his way out of the room after placing Pacey back in her crib, "Seems as if everyone's a little happier now. I think life in these old caves is 'bout to get a lot more interestin'"


*so its 2018 me again! All of the chapters have been updated now and I have a couple ideas for this story so I might be posting new chapters to this soonish. The original authors note on this chapter said I had a plan to sum this up in 6 chapters but that obviously didnt happen and I have no idea what that plan was. Sorry to anyone who was waiting on those six chapters!