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Turns out that all the friends' stomachs have been hurting,Dani said it could be from stress and they shouldn't worry about it Elijah agreed,his mom told him about stuff like this since she was. A. nurse and she got calls from people who have nothing to worry about.But,after some time Albert got insanely sick.He has been vomiting,sleeping more,walking slower and getting a little pale.
"Elijah,are you sure he's okay?" Jake asked one day,he was extremely concerned for him."Uhm.." Elijah hesitated,glancing over at Albert who was sitting on the bed. "Yea..He's fine,trust me." Elijah mumbled out,Jake scoffed in return. "You can't be serious,he's obviously unwell!" "He's fine!"
"NO HE'S NOT ELIJAH!" Jake yelled,clearly frustrated,he didn't want his precious friend of 9 years to be violently ill or worse,dead. "HEY!" Dani yelled from across the room. "What's wrong with you two,why are you guys yelling!?". The room fell in silence,Dani looking both at the two boys.Paige was out to grab basic stuff to survive.
"It's nothing.." Jake mumbled,giving Elijah a glare before going to sit beside Albert who was currently sleeping on the bed.Jake stared at him for a while before brushing a strand of his hair out his face. "Are you checking up on your boyfriend?" Dani teased in a fake sympathetic tone.. "He's not my boyfriend." He remarked.Dani just giggled in response "If you say so." She snickered.
It's been 5 days since Paige left the house for stuff but she never came back,the whole group was panicking.And to make matters worse,Dani also started getting sick.The energy in the group was dropping rapidly.Jake went out to get stuff,like food,clothes,medkits and more.He remembered Albert begging him not to go since he didn't want Jake to end up like Paige but he told Albert there wasn't much food left and he'll be fine.
He was walking to the town square,where most of the plants and trees were dying.It was like the weather also decided to go silent since it hadn't rained in a week.
He was currently holding a duffle bag he found in someone else's house,Jake went to the supermarket and got loads of stuff out the freezers since they would last longer.On the way out he noticed a group of people with trucks and guns.He ducked under bench in front of the supermarket and slowly crawled towards the people.
There was a man in dark clothing on the phone with somebody,he couldn't hear the conversation from the other end but he could hear the man
"Yep, the town is wiped out clean."
"No, we got rid of everybody. I know that some people could survive that but we just shot them. It's fine, but we put it in everything, food, dog food, drinks, snacks whatever we could find that people consume so there was barely any people left."
Jake moved closer slower, careful not to grab anyone's attention."Yea, yea, I'm sure the poison worked, It made the bodies rot." Jake paused upon hearing such a thing.
Rotting?
"We just told the news broadcast that the place exploded and it's radioactive.""Yes, they believed us, there is a huge science lab in the town."
Jake felt his knees give out, from either being on his knees so long or from hearing that his beloved friend, Albert and everyone was slowly rotting from the inside. Tears prickled from the corner of his eyes. He was also rotting from the inside, that's why he felt so sick and tired. He felt sick to his stomach, they were killing everyone in the town just to use it?
He was shaking violently, one hand holding stomach to stop himself from vomiting and crying and the other on the rough cement pathwalk. Hot, warm tears trickled down his face, he made a small sound which made him frantically put his hand over his mouth.
"Yeah, the place is ready to use."
Is the last thing he heard before he felt a hand clamp over his mouth, he struggled, protesting against the hand, grasping it, trying to pry it off. But it was no use, he felt the world go black, tears still fresh on his cheek.
Sigh
"Yea we just found another kid."
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