Chapter 20
Problems
The four of us were very cheery when we walked towards the house. The thought of Mario being saved was just delightful. I couldn't hold my excitement for much longer so I ran all the way back to the house.
When we go there everyone was sitting in the bunker with nervous faces. "D..Did you get the supplies", Giovanna asked nervously. I nodded and she walked towards the medical room.
Mario was asleep and it was the perfect timing. She used the supplies to numb his arm and had several prescriptions to help the pain afterward. She patched his arm and it was a success. However, Giovanna's face remained the same, nervous. We all walked back into the bunker to have a rather horrid discussion.
"We have to leave", Kylee looked up at us.
"WHAT?" I said rather confused and angry.
"We found something in the silo".
"What do you mean?"
She sighed deeply, "Deep in the silo two tanks, filled with deadly gas".
"Deadly gas?"
"Yes", she answered, "We found a note that read something like this: To whoever currently lives here. I apologize in advance for what I am about to say. This house was only meant to last long enough for everybody to say their last goodbyes. Only one week. This gas makes death slow and painless. Outside I have little machines that detect odd air particles. If one of them detects radioactive activity, zombies, it will make the clock on these gas tanks explode in one week. I apologize to anyone who planned on living here, but it is no use. It is irreversible. However, if someone reads this note and there isn't some sort of apocalypse then please leave this note here and get out of my house. Thank you- The owner."
I let down a slow gulp because I couldn't utter any words. I was really scared. More scared than ever and worst of all, it was my fault. We buried Kristina and Makayla here, thinking it would be okay. If only we had that note earlier. Kylee must've read my mind when she said, "No Eddie, It isn't your fault or any of ours. The timer is only giving us three days so it must take advantage of the time we have."
"Right", I said, "Let's get packing."
That night we slept like babies. We all knew this would be our final days here so why not enjoy them.
The next morning we packed and Mario was already feeling like himself. He was very jumpy and hyper, but we thought he might need another day to recuperate. He wasn't very happy to hear he would spend the last day here in bed.
"What?!" He said.
"Sorry Mario", Giovanna said, "Look, you might think you're good enough to stand up, and run and other stuff but you just came out of surgery so your body can't really handle any stress".
"Awwwwwwww".
"Now please, I really hate what I'm doing but you need your rest so good-day".
Giovanna walked out of the room slowly, turning off the light and closing the door behind her. She sighed deeply and walked to the supply room next door to see how Asia was doing.
"Hey Asia", She said.
"Oh hey". She was checking shelves and writing numbers on a clipboard.
"What are you doing?"
"Eddie asked me to do an inventory check so we can pack the proper amount of supplies."
"What are we leaving behind?"
"Enough."
"That's great, but umm there was something I wanted to talk to you about."
"Hmm."
"I heard about the phone call."
"What about it?" She turned from a shelf and looked directly at Giovanna.
"Umm, well, I'm really sorry for you and I mean I'm confused."
"Oh, thanks I guess, what uh, what were you confused about".
"Where do we go from here? The whole world is… gone… Soon enough we won't have a home or parents to tell us it's going to be okay."
"It will turn out fine, at least, I think it will".
"For our sake I hope so too."