Chapter 11
Chuckey's POV
My head hurts, I can't feel my leg or my hip. I hungry and thirsty but apart from that I am ok.
We had been hiding at the car for 3 days now. We have cleared away all the snow and formed a hiding place for the car behind a few trees and covered in branches and leaves. Also Kimi was able to make a fire and Tommy has been constructing beds in the trees with fill. All in all, it isn't too bad apart from the constant cold. Dill hasn't talked once all the time I have been awake, he has either remained in the car or wandered along the road. I can tell he isn't the only one that is upset about Stue. He was like an uncle to all of us but no one not even Dill was taking it as bad as Tommy. I have known him for long enough to tell that Tommy is only just holding it all together. He hasn't made a joke or really taken control of the situation. He is angry at himself, even though Stue had hurt his head we were going to stay and ski with us but Tommy wanted him to go back and get some help.
All in all, the days were getting shorter and colder and so were we. We all felt thin and tired and cold towards each other.
Lil's POV
I stood at the road. Smoke rose from far away, but not in the direction of the hotel, in the opposite, the way the cars went.
"Is the car ready?" I called out
Just after I said it the police car emerged from the forest. I jumped in and we drove down the hill. The drive only took about half an hour for us to reach the remains of a town. There were bricks and rubble and concreate spread around, shopping carts, blackened cars, collapsed houses, trampled gardens. This was the remains of Hallberg, we got out of the car, the destruction was too difficult to move around in the car. Nothing was left that hadn't been damaged. Everything was either rubble or burnt. After a few minutes of walking we came across one of the only mostly standing building. A shop called "Murth And Lurth"
"What happened here" Phil murmured
"I am going to guess those army guys had something to do with it." Tommy replied
We entered the shop to find cloths and food and everything we could ever hope for.
"Ok, Dill you need to find a big trailer we can use, and as much petral as you can, Kimi we need cloths, Blankets and fire lighting stuff. Phil and Lil we need food and water." Tommy ordered
We all set out on our jobs.
Tommy's POV
I started to look around. I found an archery isle. Grabbing a few bows and as many arrows as I could find I dumped them in a shopping cart, I continued searching and I found a fake gun that looked very realistic. Binoculars, notebooks, a few kitchen and pocket knives and flash lights. I continued my search for a while before we all met back up at the car.
"Look what I found!" Kimi pointed out
She was holding a stilt.
"Now Chuckey can come with us rather than just leaving him in the car." She added
Chuckey got out, Kimi gave it to him and he propped it up under his arm and lent against it.
"thank you Kimi" He smiled at her "Now I can go and try to find a walking stick for when this gets better"
We had fashioned a brace for his leg using rope and sticks to keep it strake so that it hurt less but he still couldn't walk with it. Our worse thoughts were realized. His leg was broken.