Sofia wakes up from her sleep by the alarm on her phone, and she heads downstairs and toward the kitchen to see Gwen eating a full plate of pancakes at the kitchen tabel.

"I guess last night wasn't a fever dream," said Sofia

"I was thinking that exact same thing ," said Gwen after taking a bite of her pancakes

"Did you make those pancakes?"

"No, your mom did before she left thirty minutes ago had an emergency at her work,"

"Hm, so any pancakes left for me?"

"Yeah in the microwave,"

Sofia goes to the microwave and opens the microwave, and sees another plate of pancakes. She took them out of the microwave and sat down at the table next to Gwen.

"So what's life like in the wasteland?" said Sofia

"It was brutal and unforgiven. The wasteland has things that would make your stomach turn or makes you feel dread," said Gwen

"Wow it must have been rough living in that place,"

"It was," Gwen takes a bite out of her pancake.

"I'm sorry I ask,"

"Don't apologize your just curious that's all,"

"What are you going to do now? Are you going back to the wasteland,"

"No idea since I need to look into the gun that brought me here and see what's the problem,"

"Did you make the gun?"

"Nope some inventor that was high on chems made the gun I didn't think that gun would actually work,"

"And what if you can't fix the gun?"

"Then I'm stuck here,"

"But at least I can help you out,"

"That's true,"

Sofia gets up and goes to the fridge and opens it to grab an OJ carton "now you can't stay here because mom would figure out that something is up,"

"And where do you think I should stay at,"

Sofia thinks a moment as she grabs a glass cup from the cabinet and pours the OJ into it, and she comes up with an idea " I got it there is a rental house a few houses down from mine that isn't being use at the moment,"

"Hm you think it's going to be alright if I stay there?"

"I mean the landlord is never really around so you won't get caught and I'm sure you can handle yourself if that happens,"

"Okay fine by me,"

"Good I'll just get myself ready and do you have clothes that won't freak people out in the neighborhood?"

"Not really,"

Sofia sighs. "I guess you have to borrow more of my clothes then,"

Twenty minutes later, Sofia is wearing a red hoodie, blue jeans, white socks, and black shoes, while Gwen is wearing a plain white shirt, tan pants, black socks, and purple shoes. The two walk out of Sofia's house and walk toward the rental house. Gwen looks at the neighborhood and makes a small smile.

"So this is like what life like before the bombs drop," Gwen thought.

Sofia looks at Gwen's smile. "What are you smiling about Gwen?"

"Oh nothing,"

Gwen and Sofia arrive at the rental house; it was a one-story house. Sofia looks around to see no one watching and finds a key under the doormat, and unlocks the front door. The two walk inside to see a small amount of furniture in the house.

"What do you think Gwen?" said Sofia

"I've been in worse places than this," said Gwen

"I'll just give you my sleeping bag and you come over to my house whenever you want,"

"Thanks, Sofia,"

"No problem,"

"Now time to learn about this world,"