My eyes slowly open as the numbers on my clock blink 2:46 am. At first my brain doesn't react, as I try to process what the loud booming sound had been. The whole room had shook. I look around and feel my hairs stand on end.
My first reaction is to go check on Italy, who is sound asleep in his bed. The second thing I do is go to Kleff's room. I peek inside to see him sitting at the edge of his bed, lacing up his work boots. To his left lies a rifle and a knife. That loud noise… it had to have been.
"Morning sleeping beauty, the bombs finally wake you up?" He says with a sarcastic edge to his voice. He zips up the coat of his gray and maroon uniform, brushes his hair back to put on his cap.
"There's a smaller one in the closet. Use it, it'll come in handy. If you need anything just call. If I'm not back in two hours, don't wait here any longer. Get outside the city."
"Wait… what? How did you…"
He smiles and leaves through the back door that went through a tunnel other than outside. Just like that, I'm alone.
I wait around for awhile, pacing back and forth between Italy's room and the living room. After an hour passes, I decide there's no point in wasting anymore time. I go back into Kleff's room and rummage through his closet until I find two backpacks. I fill them with food and water, and one extra change of clothes for each of us. A flashlight, two first aid kits, two rolls of duct tape, a knife, and a box of matches. This should be good for a little while.
I might be over reacting, but it just might save us.
I sort through his closet again to find the extra military suit we own. I quickly pull on the pants, then the zip up the jacket. I strap my boots on and look in the mirror. This is the future that's waiting for me. A soldier amongst millions of others.
I tie my hair up and out of my face. I don't know where I'm going to go, but I'm going to save Kleff and Italy if it kills me.
I grab a simple handgun given to me by my dad. It was the only gun left in the house since Kleff took the others. I take the last two bandoliers as well, and lay them across from each other.
Going back into my room, I enter the pin into my safe and open it carefully. Inside was my stash of treasures I've collected over the years from outside the walls. My favorite being the weapon I found along a winding path. It's long, like a staff, and resembles a scythe. It has a blade on one end and a hammer on the other. With the push of a button, it recedes into itself, making it about a foot long.
Lastly, out of the safe I take a folded piece of cloth. It seems pretty ordinary at first sight, just like a regular cape. It was indeed a cape like piece of clothing, but it used old fashioned technology to render the user invisible. I bring the cape into Italy's room, and carefully wake him.
"Wake up sleepy head. You're eyes may be tired but your mind is wide awake." I sign the same saying I use every morning. He smiles at me, I smile back and pick him up, hugging him tightly and setting him on the ground.
He asks me why the sun is not up, and I answer that the sun decided to sleep in this morning. He giggles and chooses to ignore it. I dress him in a t-shirt and sturdy pants with good boots. Then I wrap the cloak around him. By now it is 4:57 am. Two hours have already passed. Time to leave.
I leave a message on the counter for Kleff, and just in case I send the same message to his phone. I grab the backpack, each with equal amounts of equipment, only I had Italy's clothes in mine.
I'm about to open the door to the tunnels but remember that everyone will be running back and forth through them right now. It'll be impossible to get anywhere through them so much as not be seen. I suck it up, grab two of our five gas masks, place one on Italy and the other on myself, and enter the outside world.
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