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I don't anything Walking Dead related, only my OCs and their stories.
Scribbling out a quick note to my mom if she ever came back to the house became the last thing I did in my house. I walked out without looking back and saw my family and Nathaniel waiting in the car, from here I could see Nathaniel trying to reassure the girls. He looked over my way and pointed over at me for the girls, their faces light up when I came into their vision. I raised a hand to acknowledge them and to also keep them in the car.
"You ready?" I looked over at Nathaniel and nodded my head. We pulled out of the driveway and proceeded to drive on the road and go further into the city. "Wait Alex. Try to find a news station to find the camp."
"On it." When I turned up the radio I thought it would be playing the usual modern music of today, but it wasn't. "Hey I think it already is. I guess all the stations are going to be doing the emergency broadcast because this is 107.9, they only play music." We all listened and waited for them to announce where the camp was. That's when we came across the ugly traffic.
"Even when the world is ending we have horrific traffic." Nathaniel let out an annoyed sigh and I could hear one of the girls giggle in the back. Nathaniel looked in the rear view mirror and smile at Riley, 'Oh so that's who it was'. I could see Riley's olive skinned cheeks slightly turn red. In turn I let out a little chuckle which focused Nathaniel's eyes onto me. I gave him a smile and looked back onto the road. Then we heard it.
"Alert! We have just been informed that the illness is getting worse and that an evacuation order has been established. All those who aren't infected need to go the current camps the military has step up for refugees." Nathaniel looked over at me in joy.
"This is the same-"
"Shhh! We need to listen to the broadcast."
" it's your only chance of survival! Now the camp is at 3950 Maple Street in the park! Repeat, camp is at 950 Maple Street in the park. Stay safe! We will continue to broadcast on what is happening in the city-" I looked over at Nathaniel in confusion on why he turned the radio back down.
"They don't need to hear about that." He nodded over at the girls who were coloring. 'Who snuck that in their bag? Oh well, if it distracts them.'
"Thanks for looking out for them." Nathaniel was silent for a few minutes after my comment. Was he embarrassed or?
"It's fine. I don't have anyone else to look after so I'll help you with them." In the corner of my eyes I could see him gripping the wheel a little tighter. I nodded "We'll make sure their safe." Tears started to prick in the back of my eyes from his words. I looked over at him in gratification to which he gave me a reassuring smile.
It has been hours since we had been in the line of traffic because it seemed that almost everyone in the city was going to the camp. People were getting out of their cars and started to talk to the citizens around them in the same dilemma, but not us. Nathaniel and I didn't want to risk anything if a surprise happened, so we stayed in the car with the windows down and engine off. Apparently the camp had filled up so much that they needed more military to come and help with the traffic and help out at the camp, because those things that were attacking seem to becoming more active. I'm becoming concerned if we couldn't get into the camp.
In the distance I could see the traffic finally continuing which made everyone start going back to their cars and continue the journey to the camp. This time around we were about 5 minutes from the park but with the traffic it was looking to be about 15 to 20 minutes. The radio was lightly playing for just incase if they announced anything. I looked back at the girls and smiled when I saw both of them asleep, Riley's head leaning on Abby's shoulder and a blanket covering both of their legs. "Those girls are going to be fine especially with someone as protective as you Alexandria." I looked over at Nathaniel and smiled at him.
"Thank you." The car once again filled with a seemingly peaceful silence this time. Neither of us wanting to ruin the peaceful moment, one that we hadn't had since that morning.
We had finally made it to the gate enclosed area and when we pulled up a military man clad in his uniform came up to Nathaniel's window.
"How many?"
"2 children, 2 adults." The soldier nodded his head and told the man beside him the information and waited for him as he went to the pile next to him. He picked up 2 boxes and a bag and handed it to the soldier who was talking to Nathaniel.
"In these boxes are a weeks full of rations and in the other box are blankets and in the bag is a tent for you and your family. Just pull up where the cars are and park there, then you can set up camp in the park. It's about a 5 minute walk, just follow the path and you should see the other civilians."
"Thank you." Nathaniel nodded his head to the soldier and pulled the car into the parking lot. I looked over at all the cars that were parked all along the curb, there were so many. They were all packed together reminding me of a game of tetris.' Wait are they going to deny people soon?' I looked over at Nathaniel and his face was scrunched in thought, it seemed that he was thinking the same thing as me. He then looked over at me "I guess we'll know later if they do cut off on people coming in."
Nathaniel parked the car and I looked over at the girls. "Abby. Riley. Come on girls, it's time to get up." We could see both of them stirring as they rubbed the sleep out of their eyes and they looked at us. "We're here at the camp now." Both of their eyes lit up and they fumbled with their seatbelts. We all got out of the car and put our backpacks on. Nathaniel grabbed the box with the rations and I grabbed the box with the blankets.
"Wait Alexandria. What about the box of canned food?" I thought about it. Then I remembered the blanket that the girls used in the car.
"Hey girls can you get me the blanket from the car?" They nodded at me and crawled in the car. Nathaniel then realized what I was up to and popped the trunk open as the girls ran back to me with the blanket. "Thanks." I put the down the box with the blankets and grabbed the one from the girls and proceeded to wrap the crate with the canned goods in the blanket. "There that should be good enough. A just in case if we ever need it." I picked up the box again and Nathaniel locked the doors.
"Okay let's go guys." The walk over was filled with talking and some laughter from the kids. As we got closer and closer we could hear people talking and could hear children playing. We sped up our pacing a little and finally made it to the hill that was able to look over the area. My eyes started to tear up a little as I saw the kids happiness.
'We had finally made it….. We were going to survive.'
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