Day 55 -Mike's Diary "Lost of another"

         I wake up to the chirping of birds, the hissing of the wind, and the warmth of the sunlight. This is the moment when I actually get to relax without thinking about craze who are trying to gut me, and savages who are trying to raid and kill me, but once again the thought of the others came to my head. What if they won't make it? What if Lexi, Jack, and the others get killed? What if Rider betrays them? These unpleasant thoughts revolve around me, like planets orbiting the sun, and trapped in its orbital motion. I looked down the tree which I slept on to make sure there is no craze, or no one is around. I untie the rope from my body which later I used to climb myself down. The forest was quite after a while, and all I can hear is the sound the bugs buzzing around me. I look at the sky, while the dark cloud is approaching. I better hurry. I thought to myself. I pack my stuff and try to find my way back through the forest. ThanKS to the 6 months police academy camp, I was able to practice my sense of directions, so finding my way back to the lake wasn't a hard task.
          I walk through the bushes to reach the lake shore when I suddennly see Rider on the canoe. I approached her,and she told me to get in. I get in the canoe and say

          "Thanks. What happened to your face?" I asked

          "I fell. I want to leave. the group."

          "Why?"

          "I feel better alone."

          "Okay, and you're here because?"

          "Jack told me to find you."

Then we get on the shore, and we get off of the canoe. We continue to walk to thee group when we hear Sam's bark, followed by the appearance of Jack, Ann, Julie, and others. 

          "Thank's guys, I'm leaving."

          "Why?Julie asked

          "We all have our reasons" Rider says

          "We're going treat you first. until you feel better." I say

          "Follow Ann." Jack said

Rider follows inside the tent where she is being treated. Sam runs towards the tent and disappears. I don't what Jack is thinking right now, he's probably happy and sad at the same time to watch another comer goes. After Rider is being treated, she packs up and says her last good bye. Sam runs towards Julie as if he says his good bye to her, then runs back to Rider. All we do is just watch as Rider and Sam's appearances disappear behind the bushes, and the night goes quite. Jack is right beside the campfire along with the others. I look at Jack from a distance, and he looks back and waves as if it's a signal for me to go over there. Then I look at Ann, the mysterious figure who doesn't know anything, then Victor, Jess, and lastly Julie. I don't want her to go. I'm starting to get used to her personality considering she's similar to Lexi, but with the vulgar level over 9000.

           I walk towards the campfire, and sit right beside Jack. I look at the fire in front of me. How abstract, free but trapped. It's just like us living in a world like this. I turn my head to others who look at me weird, and I say

           "What?"

           "You need some rest." Jess says

           "Damned right you do." Jack adds

I smiled to thegroup, get up, and proceed my way into the tent where I'm right now writting this journal. Tomorrow is going to be a long day, plus we still have to deliverJulie. I have plan, if the valors' base which they said for kids doesn't turn up to be so, I'm taking Julie with me. I know there's going to be a war but... I just can't... I'm done writting.

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Mike's Diary - Day 53 "Tis' not a Murder, More Like a Game."

     I've been sleeping for who knows how long. Sweat I thought, good, I'm feeling a bit better now. I don't know what I should do now, I don't want any trouble with the valors, yet I want Julie to stay with us.

     "Good morning Mike!" Julie said. She has been there in the tent, I didn't even know that she was there the whole time.

     "We have a new comer, name is Evelyn Rider." She adds. Wow, one day I gone unconscious, we have another new comer, Evelyn Rider? Cool name. I thought to myself

     "Huh?" I said. Just before Julie opened her mouth, this "Ms. Rider" came in.

     "So you're the leader of the group?" She said while reaching for my hand.

     "Don't, I'm sick." I responded.

     "Okay then so where are you guys heading next?"

     "First of all who let you join this group?"

     "Victor, I believe."

     "Who else is with you?" I interrogated her

     "Sam, my dog." she said.

I didn't say anything and just signaled Julie and Rider to go outside.

     "I'm Mike. Nice to meet you too." I said just before Rider exited my tent.

I gathered my thought, changed clothes, and drank some more water before I actually to go out of my tent. Man the smell. We really need to get out of this man hole as soon as possible. When I went outside my tent, I saw Jack running towards the group.

     "There... uh.. mmhmm... there are.. two guys near by. What do you guys want to do about it? Mike?" He asked.

     "Everybody pack up." I said, and they did. 

     "I'll go see them. Jack follow me, but don't let them see you. Keep a safe distance. Rider, you think you're useful?" I said

     "We'll see."

     "Okay I need you to signal the others once we confirm that these guys aren't bad." I said.

Off Jack and I went to approach these groups.

     "Who's there?" One of them asked

     "Friendly, don't shoot." I yelled

     "How many?"

     "A group. Let us pass? We want no trouble."

     "You have guns? or food?"

     "Yeah. Look we can only give you some food." I said

     "Yeah that's fine." One of them answered.

I signaled Rider to give the signal to others and we started walking towards them.

     "Hey, you didn't say you had some girls." One of them said

     "I forgot to mention that. They were talking about girls." Jack whispered to me

     "We're not letting you. They're our friends."

     "I mean we can always share." Said the other.

     "Here's your food." I said while handing them some of the food.We continued walking when BANG! They opened fire. I didn't know how to react, but the first thing that I did was turn back facing them, hid behind a tree (everyone did this), and Jack opened fire. 

     "Right in the head!" Jack yelled

     "Nice, the other one is mind." I yelled back. I don't know why but Jack and I think this as a game now, we're merciless, and then BANG, I shot the other one in the torso, then BANG-BANG, twice more, and he's dead. We took the food back, and we just casually walked pass those dead bodies. Oh, we also took the guns from them which is a bonus in our part I'd say. 

     "What.. Whatt was that?" Rider asked

     "That's how we do things around here if there's someone threatening our friends." Jack said

     "You're going to get used to it." Julie added

Rider stood there in shock, but we continued to walk. After 10 yards away, I looked back and yelled

     "You stay with us, you survive. You stay still you're dead."

Then all I could see was Rider trying to catch up with us while breathing heavily. Well I guess this is her first time witnessing this. After thirty minutes walk, my fever relapsed, I collapsed, sitting down, using a tree as my support.

     "We.. I can't. Set the tents here. I'm sorry guys." I said to the others, but they did it anyways. See I just don't want you guys to know that I have a bullet in my shoulder, and I cover it with a sling bag so you guys are not worrying about me. I thought to myself. The pain became unbearable, I tried my best to stay conscious, and not make the pain so obvious. I think this is why I have fever, infection, plus I fell into that shit hole made it worse. Just sleep it off I thought, it'd be better. The only thing I remember is my diary is opened on my lap, and I'm sleeping against a tree without anyone in the group noticing.

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