Hruday's heart raced as he sprinted down the hallway, the image of the small mushroom cloud still fresh in his mind. Was it real? Was I hallucinating? he wondered his thoughts in disarray. He reached his apartment, slammed the door shut, and immediately began barricading it with furniture.

"Roy! Michael! Troy!" Hruday shouted, his voice tinged with urgency. "Get over here, now!"

Roy, always practical and composed, looked puzzled as he entered the room. "What's going on, Hruday?"

Michael, wide-eyed and already anxious, sensed the panic. "Did you see something? What happened?"

Troy, more cautious and scared asked, are there zombie

Hruday, sweating and he felt frantic as he felt goosebumps and he was shaking how in a few minutes they would burn or worse burry them alive, pointed out the window. "I saw a mushroom cloud its nuke! We need to prepare, NOW!"

Michael immediately believed him, his face draining of color. "Oh God, you mean...like a nuclear explosion?"

Roy: are you sure you can't be serious can you hruday shouted

"I am fu*king serious"

Michael turned to the others, "Guys, let's close the fr*king door now

Roy wanted to ask but they couldn't as hruday stopped them and said the bedsheet and mattress bring it to the storage room now go go go he pushed them

hruday started to clear waste items moving them out and closing all the windows in the entire house his heart was running so was his brain he assumed that he wouldn't be burned because the cloud was far away and smaller than his thumb so his urgency was right and his decision to go out and bring bed sheet from his house

they all brought and Tory asked why beds?.

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"Turn one of the rooms into a makeshift bunker," Hruday said, his voice steadying. "We need to cover the walls with bedsheets and completely seal the room. Use foil and anything else that can protect us from radiation."

Troy, still skeptical but knowing the stakes, sighed. "Alright, let's do it. Better safe than sorry."

They worked through the night, covering the walls with bedsheets and sealing every gap with the first layer being thick cloths and then the bedsheet and mattress using nails and furniture to keep them together then the last layer being foil.

Michael meticulously lined the room with foil, ensuring no part was left exposed. Roy organized the supplies, making sure they had enough food and water. Troy, despite his doubts, helped reinforce the barricades.

they had done the same for all the windows By dawn, the room was transformed into a makeshift bunker, shiny with foil and tightly sealed. Exhausted but determined, and skeptical, Tory and Roy were more skeptical and hoped that this was all a misunderstanding they huddled inside because if this was right everyone outside was either dead or had been exposed to radiation so much that they were basically dead, ready to face whatever came next and slept

A knock on the door startled them but this wasn't the first one they had ignored all kinds of calls because hruday told them to.

They exchanged nervous glances but stayed silent. The knocking continued sporadically throughout the morning, growing more insistent by midday.

Finally, a familiar barely audible muffled voice broke the tension. "Hruday? Are you guys alright in there?" It's Sophia Micheal whispered.

Roy hesitated taking over a minute but finally opened the door a crack. "Sophia, is everything okay?"

Sophia's eyes widened with concern. "I should be asking you that! What's going on in there?"

Hruday, trying to appear nonchalant, dragged Roy back not wanting to open the door even an inch wider. "Oh, uh, it's nothing. Just a little project. You know, experimenting with ways to store food longer."

Sophia peeked inside, her mouth falling open at the sight of the foil-covered room. " ahh, that looks so much layered"

Michael quickly added not wanting to sound dishonest, "Yeah, we thought we'd try making a cooling chamber. Just in case, you know?"

Sophia shook her head, half-amused, half-concerned. "You guys are something else. Anyway, everyone else is fine. just everyone keeps having nightmares."

hruday asked "is everything ok is the weather good does it look like its going to rain"

Hruday, feeling a mix of relief and embarrassment, smiled awkwardly. "Well, better safe than sorry, right?"

Sophia laughed. "I suppose so. Just don't scare everyone with your 'projects.'"

The group shared a laugh, tension easing. Hruday glanced back at the foil-covered room, his mind still racing. Was it really just a nightmare? He resolved to keep an eye out, just in case. For now, they were safe, and that was enough.