"Looks like this is the end" Gracie said as the car stopped
"The end of the world" Bumlets muttered as he looked at the city, "I hate to tell you but I told you so"
It was the end of the freeway, the city was near and in eyesight…They couldn't believe what they saw. There was smoke in the air and even from there they could hear yelling and screaming
"Maybe we should turn back—"
"No! We've gone this far, we can't turn back…never judge a book by it's cover" Gracie said holding back tears, it really was true, there really are no adults
"I'm not judging the book it's cover, I'm judging it by it's premise" Bumlets then looked at her and softened "I know, we all had our hopes up" He embraced her "It's going to be alright"
"What are we going to do?" she sighed
"My god" Jack said under his breath
Everybody got out of the cars stunned at the sight ahead
"Is there any hope for us?" Reverie moaned
"Last time we were here was five months ago, remember the field trip to the Metropolitan, Revi?" Ty said
"Yeah, it was like yesterday, we ditched our tour group to go wonder, remember how scared we were, scared about getting caught"
"Things were so different then…we were so innocent then, our everyday problems were nothing"
"We're so screwed" Race stated
It was that statement that sparked an idea to Jack
"We not screwed!" he yelled back, he got on the roof of the car "Listen! I know what you all are thinking, you think that since there's no adults left that there's no hope for us! Well there isn't if we keep thinking that way. We have to be the adults, nobody's there for us anymore, we have to fend for ourselves and others!"
"You mean like have a big war?"
"No! Those people in the city are alone, confused, and fighting to survive, like us. We have to stick together, we have to go to the city, we have to bring order to this chaos"
"There's just eleven of us, we can't save the world" David protested
"But we can save a city"
"How?"
"I don't know yet, but we got to try!"
"They'll kill us, I mean theses are traumatized kids with weapons we're talking about" Bumlets stated
"What other choice to we have, we can't go back, what will we go back to, it's like this everywhere" Reverie stood up for Jack
"This world has no future unless we get organized"
"You're crazy, thinking we could do this"
"We're crazy to ignore this and try to escape" Gracie said looking at Bumlets, sometimes two halves can disagree
"I know this guy" Ty changed the subject randomly
"What?"
"I used to know this guy named Aaron, Mush, his mother was the head of security at some mall in Brooklyn on Pier 17. The guy practically acted as if his family owned the thing and something tells me that he might be there, might have the whole mall to himself since his mother owned all the keys"
"So?"
"So the guy owes me, I saved his sorry ass from drowning. If he's there, we'll have shelter and supplies"
"How could you be so sure?"
"Trust me, he has to be there"
"Okay, all of you heard that, there's possible shelter. If you want to turn back and go forever finding a 'safe' place feel free to, but if want to take your chances and go to the city with a possible shelter them follow me"
…Nobody turned back, not even Bumlets(then again he would never leave Gracie) Jack couldn't help but smile… Maybe there's hope after all
AN: Okay I decided on the mall in which they'll live at, here's the link to the pictures of it so you guys can get an idea